YouTube hosts New Year’s Eve Bash | News.blog | CNET News.com: this my friends, are my NYE plans. See you there!

digg - PHOTO: Stack of (7) PS3’s at BestBuy not being sold: OK, this is like the fifth PS3/Wii story to make the homepage of Digg today. Can someone tell me if there is a way to generate a custom Digg feed with all feed EXCEPT the fucking crap-tacular-social-life-less-populated Gaming category? Please. This is getting out of control. You’d think Kevin took money from Nintendo.

Is ‘Web 2.0′ Another Bubble? - WSJ.com: why is this always a binary argument? Of course it is a bubble, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. The net effect of the Collaborative/Social/Whatever web that emerged after the first collapse of one-to-many consumerism driven Internet sites has been to show what people like Howard Rheingold, Sherry Turkle, et al knew all along: its the people! People power the best and worst movements historically. The Internet democratizes the representation of people so that avatars of “people” can exist in the same ontological space as data, media, objects, commerce and community. This is amazing. This is awesome. Does it necessarily make a sound business? Not at first. But it can if the metrics are tapped into at just the right place (see Google for this).

10 Reasons Why Blip.tv is Better Than Youtube for Uploading & Sharing Videos on the Web » Digital Inspiration © Amit Agarwal: and I wonder if point 11 is that they overcame the economics of bandwidth vs. advertising?

O’Reilly Radar > Mechanical Turk is a Community Substitute: this is one of those things where you think “my god” when you should have been thinking “of course.” Brilliant. I can think of…. 50,000 uses for this in terms of my daily job and my side stuff.

In our office, we have a set of sound-sticks. I wanted to be able to use those speakers for both the Sonos ZonePlayer in the office, and the iMac. The ZonePlayer in the office formerly was just an “extender” as it was the required ZP that needed to be on a hard-ethernet line.

I wanted to be able to use it for audio in sync with the audio in the rest of the house. This was also important because it could act as the announcement system for the home-automation MacMini for the two upstairs rooms. One option of course is to get a mixer for multiple input sources to one output. However, at Radioshack, I spent 24 bucks on a better way:

Headphone splitter

1/8th” stereo coupler

1/8th inch to RCA

Plug the speakers into the coupler, and the coupler into the speaker.

Then plug the computer into one splitter input, and the RCA/1/8th adapter into the other. The stereo RCA go to the Sonos and the other to the iMac.

Adjust volume and just like magic, it works.

rebooting murmurs - I think its time I drank my own koolaid and rebooted Murmurs. Bulletin boards are dead. Long live agnostic community content engines. Stay tuned.