I just did my first official podcast on Nahenahe. I’m so happy that Manila now automatically handles the RSS and enclosure elements, and it showed up on audio.weblogs.com. Sweet! Let’s see if I have the energy and can find enough content to keep up to my desired goal of making the podcast a weekly feature.
Instant Immersion Hawaiian wins an Audie from the Audio Publishers Association.
This audio course features the voices of my friends and colleagues Kaliko Beamer-Trapp and Kiele Akana-Gooch. Bill Clinton’s memoir, “My Life,” won the coveted Audiobook of the Year award, and was narrated by Clinton himself. “Instant Immersion Hawaiian” won a special Judges’ Award for language learning titles. It is available as an Audio CD format, and a Deluxe version.
Taking the plunge into podcasting.
I’ve always prided myself on being fairly quick to adopt new technologies on the web, but have lagged behind when it comes to podcasting. While I had some doubts regarding it’s popularity and future, my main fear was that it would simply become time and resource strain. After a long period of reflection and discussion with some friends, I’ve decided to start producing a podcast covering the music and music industry of Hawai’i. The first show should hit the podosphere this Sunday.
The Intel is coming!
As always, Scott offers his unique insight into the impending violation of the Macintosh motherboard by Intel chips. I actually chatted with a buddy via iChat as he was using one of the Intel-powered Macs running at WWDC, and he was blown away by the performance. Actually, Scott’s right – it’s just a chip. All the end user cares about is cost and performance. Developers who do machine code might get religious about the chipset choice, but most who program in higher-level languages probably won’t care much one way or the other.
WWDC: Freedom of architecture
Like many Macintosh afficionados, I’ve been following the developments at Apple’s World-Wide Developer Conference as reported in the blogosphere. It’s funny that the most talked about development is Apple’s impending move away from Motorola’s PowerPC chips to Intel’s x86 chips. The possibility has been discussed for years, and for that reason many did not believe the rumors until they were actually confirmed by Steve Jobs. He finally acknowledged what had also been rumored for years – that Apple had been secretly running OS X on an x86 chipset since Mac OS X 10.0 shipped. My favorite quote is from my…
Dingle No More.
Under new rules to promote the Irish language, Dingle must now be known by the Gaelic name An Daingean, and local businesses seem to be less than thrilled by the development.
Gas prices drop? Not in Hilo.
Somewhere in America gas prices are dropping, down about 6 cents a gallon nationwide. Not in Hilo, however. This is fairly standard. Prices go up in Hawai’i when they do elsewhere, but when prices elsewhere go down, ours simply level off, and refineries and retailers give lame excuses why they can’t lower prices. Our gas is still around $2.51 a gallon.
Commercial sequencing?
I don’t know if they are intentional or not, but our family’s noticed some bizarre commercial sequences happening recently. For example, a Wendy’s commercial, featuring their new triple patty (“48 square inches of beef”) cheesburger, was followed by one of those diet pill commercials that claims your eating habits are not to blame if you are overweight – it’s that darn cortisol hormone. Later, a “pick up the phone and talk to us sexy babes” commercial was followed by one for an erectile disfunction aid. I guess if the first commercial didn’t kick your member into action, you do need…
Another year, another renewal.
I went through my annual ritual of debating whether or not to renew my Radio Userland license, and in the end opted to do so. I can’t remember the last time there was a major update or new feature that I had to have, but it’s still the coolest, geekiest blogging tool out there. It’s worth it just for the website hosting, comment and trackback features they provide – just a little over $3 a month. I just looked at the calendar and see how long it’s been since I’ve posted. Been really busy, end of the semester cleanup, and…
Happy Birthday, Dave!
I’d like to offer my best wishes for a Hau’oli L? Piha Makahiki Kanalima (Happy 50th Birthday) to Dave Winer. We’ve never met face-to-face but I can’t think of anyone who has been more influential in the work that I do from the technology standpoint. I’ve been using Frontier and its related tools for nearly 10 years now, and use them almost exclusively for all my websites, weblogs and related projects. One of these years I will make it to one of those geek/blogger dinners.