I bought myself a USB headset at the weekend, to improve the quality of Skype and possible podcast recordings.
The thing is, with an old style headset as soon as you unplugged the headset, your main speakers would kick right in. And vice versa. Which is handy.
With the USB, that doesn’t happen. Which is not handy.
Any geeks out there know a work-around for this?
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
At the 100% Open meeting I attended, we asked the audience to come up with things they hated about innovation events (amongst other questions). I thought their responses, shown above
Just before leaving London I had a great dinner with the Macleod of Macleod and Jason Korman from Stormhoek. I was going to blog our conversation about “objects of sociability”
Ed Kilgore contrasts different takes on how US presidential elections are won and lost: As it happens, there are two new books just out that represent the extremes in this
James Cherkoff and I will be taking part in Reboot this June in Copenhagen. Here’s the heads up reboot is a community event focused on digital chance and culture. A
