Hawaii Blog

I’ll be joining Burt Lum, Roxanne Darling and Peter Kay on a panel discussion on “Blogs & Podcasts” for the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Hawaii Chapter. Ah, yet another opportunity to surround...

As I find myself spiraling ever deeper into videoblogging, I’ve started experimenting with the beta release of “Broadcast Machine,” a multimedia-focused, BitTorrent-enabled content management system developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation. “BM” (an unfortunate...

Take some quick-fingered kids who spend way too much time text messaging on their phones, and some HAM radio morse code enthusiasts, and match them against each other on The Tonight Show. Who can...

“Deep Throat” comes clean. How ’bout that. As the Post‘s own Joel Achenbach notes, “The revelation that Felt is Deep Throat is a rather boring answer to a fabulous riddle.” But at least now...

Jokes about airline food were flying fast and furious last week when the story broke about the “pink slimy substance” observed by FDA inspectors at the Gate Gourmet‘s Honolulu facility. And the FDA has...

Okay, all you hoopy froods, you’re probably all way ahead of me insofar as taking in that blockbuster movie, but don’t forget to do your own small part next Wednesday. [Thanks, O2!]

Nifty! San Francisco station KYCY, branded KYOURadio by owner Infinity Broadcasting Corp., came alive this week with the homegrown sounds of podcasts. And, as it turns out, one of the shows heard in rotation...

Eric Rice, who covers the triumvirate of “voxmedia” by blogging, podcasting, and videoblogging (just don’t call him a blogger, podcaster, or a videoblogger), has announced “The Podcast (and Videoblog) Roadshow.” And like all good...

I suppose minivans don’t rank too high on the “romantic” scale, but as early Mother’s Day presents go, I hope a Pontiac Montana still puts a smile on Jen’s face. More than enough room...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Ah, Hilo, Hilo, Hilo. Here we come!

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...

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)...

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...

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) —...

Jen had a tire blow out on the H-2 yesterday, coming home with Zac and Alex. Fortunately, a stranger soon stopped to help… even though Jen just happened to come to a stop right...

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...