‘Technology’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 12

Is your mouse giving you grief from too many hours spent pointing, clicking, and dragging your way across a desktop? If you’re a mental health practitioner working extensively with clients online, you probably cannot avoid the pointing, clicking, or dragging — but you can avoid the mouse. Just turn it upside down, cut off the cord, and call it a trackball instead. Or, like Kensington, call it the Expert Mouse Wireless.

BBEdit complements the more usual site-building tools with powerful text transformation capabilities that far exceed any available within the leading packages from Macromedia and Adobe. Our review has been updated to reflect some important feature enhancements and bug fixes in the latest version of the software.

The long-awaited US Supreme Court decision about online direct wine sales to consumers in other states is in. What impact — if any — will the judgement about state authority to restrict interstate online commerce have on mental health practitioners who provide online services to clients in other states, or who operate from other countries?

Websites in China have long been required to be officially registered, but state authorities are now determined to bring blogs — plus forums, chat rooms, and other community type sites — under their direct control. Having just passed the annniversary of Tiananmen Square, this move acts as a stark reminder of the freedoms that remain unavailable in the world’s most populous country.

Competition for traffic, status, and keeping up appearances in the blogosphere is increasing the temptation for bloggers to engage in ‘blog-lifting’: recycling news and stories produced by other people, but without citation, and without adding original content. Judging by blog comments and Technorati searches, many blog readers are unaware that they are being duped.