Three posts courtesy of David:

• World Press Photo of the Year 2001
  

• The Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade vs. the Taliban
  

• The Company Therapist: this /. paean by Jon Katz describes a site whose premise is that you are reading the case files of a fictional therapist whose patients are employees of a fictional San Francisco tech company.
  

  …(A) company called Pipsqueak Productions devised this hyperfictional environment as the perfect vehicle for collaborative fictional storytelling in cyberspace. Very original move. A therapist’s office is a font of narrative, a great device for collecting different stories, honing different voices, full of interesting characters with evolving problems and case histories, able to draw on telephone calls and office transcripts, a place to discuss theories of treatment. Balis’s world — the pressured, constantly changing world of hi-tech – emerges vividly. Updated daily, The Company Therapist provides nearly two years of well-organized, easily accessible stories, doctor’s notes and other materials. Since it’s written by its collective audience rather than a single author or the site’s creators, the range of tales and voices is fascinating.

  Every contributor retains a recognizable style, yet is still able to move the collective narrative forward. In fact, many stories are moving forward at once, relating both to “work” and the personal lives of the patients, each told in an idiosyncratic voice and representing the challenges of a different life, yet collectively, painting a vivid portrait of a culture. This site is unique on the Web, both for its originality and quality of design, strong testimony to the notion online, technology and art are fusing to create things that are as new as they are exciting.
  

  The Company Therapist site is here; this might be a place I would explore if I had the time, but a totally irresponsible first impression after a cursory scan is that I might be annoyed at its focus on the stereotypical aspects of being a therapist…