Category: Miscellaneous

Podcasting is cool. Social networking is cool. Why not combine the two? It seems everything on the web today is all about “the social” (to crib Microsoft’s Zune catchphrase), but podcasting is often an...

Alex Salkever, founder of Hawaiirama, is looking for a few good bloggers. Local bloggers, that is. Hawaiirama is a slick new blog that “covers the Islands like a giant beach blanket,” with an emphasis...

The top gripe podcasters and even podcast listeners have is the misconception that you need an iPod to listen to them. Podcasts can be played from almost any portable media player, as well as...

Perfect timing. On the heels of my post on mapping tools for politics, a fellow podcaster wrote to let me know that he’s assembled a special “Voter and Election Information” edition of his “Searching...

Prominent island blogger Ian Lind, a must-read for any Hawaii media or political wonk, got a tip from Honolulu Weekly editor Chris Haire that trouble-prone Board of Education candidate Kris DeRego was blogging. The...

Earlier this year, Matthew Kane at Indiana University came up with “Following the Dollars,” a project for informatics professor Markus Jakobsson’s “Issues in Security and Privacy” class. He mixed Google Maps and public campaign...

Yet another social network slash music recommendation service launched yesterday, named — almost too predictably — iLike. Like other similar sites, it collects information on the music you like (via an iTunes-specific plug-in for both Windows...

A location shoot for “LOST” doesn’t usually merit an article in the local paper, but I guess when they take over a brand new, multi-million dollar University of Hawaii facility, someone’s gotta notice. Spoilers...

My total infatuation with Google Reader continues. I’ve spread the word at Bytemarks and at HawaiiThreads.com, and have converted a few skeptics as well as total newbies to newsreaders. Having shared how I now...

The 6.6 magnitude earthquake that shook Hawaii on Sunday didn’t cause a tsunami, but the island-wide Honolulu blackout that followed has prompted a wave of questions and criticisms for Hawaiian Electric. The utility has...

I love it. If you haven’t tried it, or if you’ve never really thought about feed readers (or even know what a feed is!), you really should check it out. If you love to...

Oh, blessed day! The excellent public radio program “This American Life” — out of Chicago’s WBEZ and carried nationwide through Public Radio International (not National Public Radio, thank you!) — will now be available as a...

Kris and Betsy of Croncast are great examples of the simple, personal, wonderful side of podcasting. A husband and wife with a kid, a house on a cul-de-sac, and a microphone. While many podcasters...

Once again, there will be a special session on “LOST” as part of this year’s fall Hawaii International Film Festival: Television as the New Cinema With diminishing returns at the U.S. box-office for past...

As the Mark Foley scandal (a.k.a. “PageGate”) continues to suck Republicans into its hungry maw, party leaders and their conservative backers have been scrambling for a scapegoat that isn’t one of their own. The...

Honolulu’s acclaimed bus system, TheBus, is about to get even better. The sharp minds at Google Labs have chosen Honolulu as one of five metro areas to test its new Google Transit system. Take...

The podcasting community, tech community, and ever reliable Apple-hating community is up in arms over a recent legal challenge the Cupertino firm sent to Podcast Ready. To hear the blogosphere tell it, Apple is...

I barely keep up with the podcasts I subscribe to, so I didn’t notice that Adam Christianson’s excellent MacCast had gone missing. Douglas over at My Word let it be known on the podcasters...

Fascinating. I’ve been getting calls on my cell phone from (512) 336-9113, usually at odd hours. I finally got one this morning that I could answer, and there was a fellow speaking in stilted...

Speaking of local news… we wound up at the city’s centennial celebration at Honolulu Hale on Sunday. After riding the rides and collecting some swag, we went to check out the giant cake. “Serves...