Virtual Audio Cable. Virtual Audio Cable is a Windows multimedia driver allowing you to transfer audio (wave) streams from one application to another.
User-friendly feeds. Mark Pilgrim is doing interesting things with Atom feeds and XSL to make feeds look good in a browser…
Suw Charman writes a long article on the benefits (and also the drawbacks) of being a generalist. I can empathise with what she says – I too have a “grasshopper” mind – this I think is why I find blogging and wikis useful – by allowing the grasshopper to leave a track as it jumps where it may these tools help the more reflective parts of mind to see progress within each area.
How many Google machines. Tristan Louis has worked out how many computers Google has by reverse-engineering their IPO
XP on a Large Project Keith Ray points to document by Thoughtworks
Situated Software. Commentary by MonkeyX on Clay Shirky’s Situated Software essay
One of the things that has kept me away from this blog for so long was a week-long business trip to Las Vegas to visit the NAB trade show Several Americans I know have said “please don’t judge our country on Vegas” – so I won’t. It’s a city based on flesh and money, but so are parts of many others across the world… Two things that I will comment on though…
The Emergence of CI. George Por offers an online experiment to explore the factors contributing to the growth of collective intelligence
…is not a phrase you would normally associate with a gathering of bloggers but as anyone who has sampled “Garlic and Shots”:https://www.fluidfoundation.com/venueDetails.asp?BarRef=372′ penchant for putting the allium into every item of food and a good sampling of the drinks will know it is not a venue in which the undead would remain comfortable for long. So, another one of “those blogger meetup things” graced by (amongst others) “Doc”:https://doc.weblogs.com/, “Cory”:https://www.craphound.com/, “Danah”:https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/, “Suw”:https://chocnvodka.