Author: Ryan Kawailani Ozawa

A recent article in the New York Times calls attention to an odd trend: the low number of young families in the nation’s more “vibrant,” fast-growing neighborhoods. San Francisco, where the median house price...

We have nearly fifty schools struggling to meet federal guidelines. Hawaii teachers may be on the verge of a mass exodus. Substitute teachers are at once relied upon yet stymied. One lawmaker’s bright idea?...

I’m still processing the news that Yahoo! bought Flickr, the photo sharing/social networking site I fell in love with at first sight last year. It was rumored, of course, but they were also saying...

Too many feeds! A most thoughtful blogger recently asked — perhaps just to be polite — where she might find my “blog feed” so she could catch my updates in a news aggregator. It occurred to...

U.S. Report Lists Possibilities for Terrorist Attacks and Likely Toll, reports the New York Times, which notes: “The document, known simply as the National Planning Scenarios, reads more like a doomsday plan, offering estimates...

For those tolerant of such things, I figured I’d mention that I’ve added three sound clips to Zac’s website (two from 2003 that I’d forgotten about), and two videos to Alex’s site (one of...

Who’s On First? Man, my sides hurt. [via MeFi]

After this, I wanted to form the Hawaii Association of Podcasters (named in mock tribute to these guys). But in order to be a member, I’d have to, you know, podcast something. Welp. There...

I love Ask MetaFilter. As a “best of the web” community weblog, Metafilter can be hit-or-miss. But the “Ask MeFi” feature is turning out to be among the most reliably educational and entertaining corners...

Why subject yourself to hours of mindless drek on the tube, only catching a glimmer of titillating content here and there, when the helpful folks at the Parents Television Council are collecting all the...

The topic du jour at yesterday’s geek lunch was podcasting. If blogs brought publishing to the masses, rewriting the rules of journalism, podcasts are set to do the same thing to conventional radio. Where...

A guy named Scott Ozawa just dropped me a line, after poking around the fallow Ozawa.org domain. Turns out he’s a blogger, and has a blog set up specifically to track down and list...

Let’s see. Guy writes online as a woman, gains a decent readership, but gets found out. He comes clean, recapping his social experiment (beautiful women get more attention than men —alert the media!), and starts...

Fresh out of the wonderful workshop deep in the bowels of Google comes its latest toy: Google Maps. Taking a direct swipe at longstanding services Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps, Google starts with your basic...

Baby name statistics are interesting, even when you’re done having babies. (Hear that, universe? We’re done!) But the NameVoyager adds a compelling twist to the usual ranked lists. A smooth, Java-powered graph can show...

A chance encounter with Beth on IM led me to dotMoms, a group weblog for mothers where she’s a member. Turns out it was one of the sites mentioned in a recent New York...

Better late than never. (Though earlier would’ve been better.) Darling Alex finally has a website, to match his sister and brother. You know how they say you take fewer pictures with each successive child?...

At the risk of turning this blog into FlixFilter, I have to mention this bit of synchronicity: At an eGullet lunch at Helena’s Hawaiian Food earlier this week, we were talking about Netflix. I...

Promoting tolerance? Accepting diversity? Dirty cartoons? What is this country coming to? Seriously. What is this country coming to? Lately, I’m too disappointed to be disgusted. Meanwhile, I have an awful feeling that this...

Having not watched a movie since October, I went over to Netflix to cancel our much adored, but long neglected, account. Instead, I got sucked back in by a $9.99/month retention offer and distracted...