My buddy Scott invited me to check out a Yahoo group that includes a number of Hawai’i podcasters, and participate in a discussion of issues involving the use of Hawaiian music in podcasts. A few of them have inquiried with labels and artists, and have largely come away empty-handed. I offer a few thoughts for both artists and podcasters to consider.
Star-Bulletin article on podcasting mentions a few Hawai’i-produced podcasts, including MacHelpMaui.
When I saw the graphic and link on the S-B homepage I was expecting a syndicated piece, but it was done by one of their own writers. Adam Curry gets a lot of love and credit, but Dave is not mentioned anywhere, again. The article also mentioned that Wave Waikiki (a popular nightspot) has introduced “iPod Night” on Sundays. You can plug your iPod into the club’s system to play any four songs you want. Bring your iPod and your friends and get in free. Everyone else must pay $5 to get in.
Disgruntled Napster Customer.
Mike Torres is a Microsoft employee (on the Microsoft “Places” team) who has given up on Napster’s music rental service. When you make your DRM (digital rights management) so unmanageable that the legitimate purchaser has to be connected to the Internet to verify legitimate ownership and still can’t listen to the music, it’s time to switch. Mike did – back to buying used CDs.
Cheaper iPod Mini.
The iPod mini has finally reached the pricepoint that I’ve been waiting for. I sense one appearing in my mailbox shortly.
High Tech Hawai’i Appearance In Real Video.
Our ITS division is on the ball – my appearance with Bob Stauffer on David Lassner’s “High Tech Hawai’i” TV program is online and streaming already.
High Tech Hawai’i TV Appearance Next Tuesday.
I’ll be appearing on David Lassner’s “High Tech Hawai’i” TV program next Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005 at 8PM, along with my colleague Robert Stauffer from Alu Like, Inc. The show will highlight Ulukau, the electronic library for the Hawaiian language. Ulukau currently features an extensive collection of Hawaiian language source materials including searchable and downloadable Hawaiian language books, newspapers from the 1800 and 1900s, historic and contemporary Hawaiian dictionaries, the Hawaiian Bible, and a database of place names. And that’s just the beginning. It will be broadcast through Hawai’i on the UH channel available through most cable providers, and also…
Dave asks how many weblogs there were in 1997, and lists a few.
I had NahenaheNet running well before then, but converted it to a blog-like format mimicing Dave’s “Scripting News” in late-October of 1997. Here are the archive pages from 1997 and 1998. It was Frontier managed, and it remained this way until Userland shipped “Manila”. I got one of the first EditThisPage.com sites on Dec. 4, 1999, and still use it for Nahenahe. I many not be a pioneer, but I know one when I see one.
USB Pen Drives Eat Files.
My favorite Mac bigot, er, evangelist, Scott Waters goes on one of his patented rants about those USB pen drives, memory sticks or whatever you want to call them, and how Mac users can minimize possible problems. Our campus’ academic computing specialist recently advised our faculty and staff on their use as well. I don’t use one myself, opting to use my iDisk or my own OS X server, but I have witnessed the death of our camera’s flash card, along with the pics that it contained.
Baby Name Wizard.
This is one of the coolest front ends to a database I’ve ever seen. I can think of some cool applications for our Hawaiian digital library project, Ulukau.
Inventor preserves self to witness immortality.
I remember Ray Kurzweil for his work on a machine that could read any text to the blind and for the musical instrument manufacturer that bears his name. He thinks that human immortality via technology will be a reality within 20 years, and is doing his best to assure that he lives long to see it.