I’ve been following Dave Winer‘s experiments in TwitterGrams with some interest for the past week. He put a web interface on the service which allows people to post small (under 200k) MP3 files, and have them delivered as “Tweets”. Just for fun I made a short sample from Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole’s What A Wonderful World and posted it. It immediately showed up in my podcast area in iTunes, and a tweet showed up in Twitterific. It occurred to me what a great tool this could potentially be for music promotion. It’s the new “push”. Fans of a musician become their Twitter…
Thinking Ahead…
We’re still over two months away from relocating to Ireland for the next two semesters, and I’m already planning my first rendezvous with the Irish blogging/podcasting community. I’m very much looking forward to meeting some of these folks who I have been following for years. Still getting very confusing signals from the folks at UCC. The latest communication from immigration to the Int’l Student Office is that my wife and daughter cannot stay for the duration of my school. Bernie says this is wrong, and I hope he’s right. I put a call into the Irish Consulate in S.F. this…
N? H?k? Hanohano 2007
Kenneth and I did not win any awards for Makuak?ne, but had a great time anyway. He did win Compilation Album of the Year (with several co-producers). Here are some pics from the event.
PodCampIreland in September
I’ve optimistically added my name to the list of attendees at PodCampIreland Wiki. Still awaiting word on my daughter’s status while there, but thinking positively! This could be her school.
N? H?k? Pio ‘Ole Online
At the request of the HARA Board of Governors, I’ve posted the audio file for “N? H?k? Pio ‘Ole” on the HARA welcome page. The original plan was to have it played going into and coming back from commercial breaks at the N? H?k? Hanohano Awards this year, but it looks like it may not be used in that way because of how tight the schedule is. Please keep in mind that this was originally intended to be a demo, and re-recorded if it won, however, there was not enough time to do so. My deepest mahalo nui to the…
Cork Schools
I called a number of secondary schools in Cork last evening (Friday morning in Ireland – 11 hour difference) and have information and applications coming for my daughter. All of them were very pleasant and helpful, and seemed excited at the prospect of having a student from Hawai‘i there. None of them had previously heard about the “dependent of student” policy that had been related to me by the UCC International Student Office. One of the school is fee-paying, though the cost is not exorbitant. If Immigration requires us to put her in that kind of school, we will definitely…
Mass Confusion
I’ve been in contact with many helpful people in Ireland trying to determine what we can do with our 16 year old daughter. Thank you all for the kindness. UC-Cork’s International Student Office informed me about two weeks ago that we would have to find a fee-paying school for her attend. The Southern Regional office of the Department of Education and Sciences says no, we can put her in any school. “Please note that you may apply to any school in the area you will be living (fee paying or not) to enrol your daughter. I enclose a link to…
Twittering Your Life Away
I final got around to exploring Twitter recently, wondering what all the fuss was about. While it seemed interesting, I didn’t care much for the web interface and was much happier with it when I discovered Twitterrific. I thought it would be much ado about nothing, but I guess it depends on the quality of the people you follow, and how much you value their random synaptic discharges. You can follow my tweets here. I’ll try not to be too boring.
Apple’s iPhone Coming… On My Birthday
Do I want one? No, thanks. I still don’t care for cell phones; they’re wireless umbilical cords. Besides, I doubt if they will work in Cork for a while. 😉
What would you do with a 16 year old for a year in Cork?
The chances of our family relocating to Cork in September increases every day. I’m awaiting answers to a few important questions, but they should be settled soon. One nagging question is what to do with my 16 year old daughter while we’re there. I’ve been told that we would need to pay for her secondary level education while we are there (as I’ll be there on a student visa and the government doesn’t want to pay for her education), but no one seems to know what it will cost us. Bernie suggests that we leave her out of school for…