Monthly Archive: April 2005

One Down

One Down

After an eternity of debate, the state of Indiana appears poised to join 47 other states in observing Daylight Savings Time. This will leave only parts of Arizona and all of Hawaii as the...

Figures

Figures

Newsweek is reporting that Netflix (love ’em!) and TiVo (love ’em!) are about to ink a major deal. It’s a partnership that’s both revolutionary and a no-brainer, one folks have mused about for some...

Dog’s Law

Dog’s Law

Duane “Dog” Chapman. “Dog the Bounty Hunter” on A&E. I guess this is what they mean by “guilty pleasure.” So much about the show is ridiculous. And a lot of what comes out of...

Fifteen Bytes

Fifteen Bytes

Last week, I talked to a Reuters reporter based in Washington D.C. about podcasting and HawaiiUP. In addition to a long conversation, I sent him a four-page e-mail missive with more thoughts and background....

Mall of America

Mall of America

Forget “shopping centers.” Now it’s “lifestyle centers.” Private retail complexes designed to look like thriving, organic city spaces, but are in fact carefully engineered malls: There’s something a bit unhealthy about faux public places...

Hawaii Videoblogging?

Hawaii Videoblogging?

Since I had reasonable success finding other podcasters with my Hawaii Podcasting?” post in February, I figured I’d post some Google bait to see if anyone knows of any videobloggers (or vloggers or voggers)...

Katie Squared

Katie Squared

Even though it was almost six years ago, I still sometimes grin with pride when I remember that Katie was on the front page of the Star-Bulletin. She (and I) were captured at a...

Built

Built

Geeks have many obsessions… but building community sites? I think I need professional help. Voxmedia.org covers the triumvirate (trifecta?) of “masses media,” or media by the masses: text (blogging), audio (podcasting), and video (vlogging) —...