Don't be fooled: They may call it country, but the tech is cutting edge. A look inside the process of recording an album in Nashville, with MP3 examples.

A member of the Plasq programming collective muses, “What if computers talked out loud to each other? What if we could learn that language?”

ASK ME ANYTHING. OR TELL ME YOUR BEST STORY. Here is your chance as an O'Reilly reader to prove that you actually exist, and are not merely a programatically generated increase in the site hits that I am supposedly getting. And here is my chance to be sure that my blog is addressing your needs and various perverse curiosities.

Related link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/05/18/ds2.html I’ve been getting lots of mail about my enthusiastic review of the Olympus DS-2 stereo voice recorder. Several readers wondered what I thought of the WS-200S, a smaller, higher-capacity model that came out shortly after I finished the review. Well, because I really liked the DS-2 but found it a tad too big for my (admittedly overcrowded)...

Who doesn’t like a Top 10 list? Here’s a provocative one about groundbreaking music technology.

"Let's see; Fun...Reality. Fun...Reality. Hmmmmm" --Game Designer Patricia Pizer

Related link: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/arts/2005/03/11/ohbearme.jpg Dying might very well be like getting your first cel phone, I think. It seems like everybody's doing it, despite the fact that they were fine before. You put it off for as long as you can, but it's inevitable. You're going to do it. And you know what? Once you do it, it's probably going to...

...from a guy who has forgotten more about fashion than you--or even _he_-- ever knew.

The metal really hits the meat when you are picking out a watch.

This Thursday, “Sosumi” mastermind Jim Reekes will meet Deep Fried, Live! sound designer Dave O’Neal—and you can be there.