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Re: Now: YOURadio… Next: OURadio

hawaii — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:00:29 -0000

You know, I've twisted my brain in knots wrestling with the "what to call all this" issue - text, audio and video together, generated by individuals. (Of course, I've blogged and podcast about it, too!) Despite the baggage of the word 'media,' at least it's understood - so I figure we just need a good modifier. "Masses media" (versus mass) is a favorite of mine, but a bit too clever to be clear. I agree with the "speech" angle... so I'm pushing "voxmedia" (vox for voice, though it might imply audio).

Re: Big radio on small radio

hawaii — Tue, 24 May 2005 00:42:11 -0000

Aired way out here in Honolulu, too. Even my mom asked me about it! My favorite part? When Renee asked about newspapers getting into the act, and you rolled right over her with, "I'm not interested in that." Viva la voxmedia!

Re: Zooomr Doubles Flickr's Monthly Photo Upload Limits

hawaii — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:43:09 -0000

After all the breathless Zooomr coverage here, I finally went to check it out, and even signed up. Then I couldn't get something to work. No problem, user error I'm sure. But wouldn't you know, there's not a single way to request help, submit feedback or bug reports, or otherwise engage the people behind the curtain. That's not very social of them, is it

I probably broke all manner of protocol posting a comment to the head honcho's blog, but exactly where else are users supposed to go?

Say what you will about Flickr, they seem to "get" community.

Re: The Social Bookmarking Showdown: OnlyWire

hawaii — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:21:13 -0000

Wow, l.m.orchard, good catch. I was just thinking OnlyWire was hacked, after some linkspam was posted to my Ma.gnolia and other accounts. Turns out they're selling access to your accounts. Evil, evil, evil. And look, they quote this write-up on their homepage, as if it's an endorsement.

I think it'd be a disservice for MonkeyBites to not comment publicly and loudly on the now apparent OnlyWire business model. They're making everyone spammers and SEO scammers.

Re: The Social Bookmarking Showdown: OnlyWire

hawaii — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:21:13 -0000

I think it'd be a disservice for MonkeyBites to not comment publicly and loudly on the now apparent OnlyWire business model. They're making everyone spammers and SEO scammers.

Re: Niall sends Microsoft team a porn message

hawaii — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:32:59 -0000

I'm with Diego (way the hell up there). Caterina Fake might've pulled this on Om, but Niall pranking Microsoft is much more memorable. To "Niall" someone seems like the perfect shorthand to describe swapping an image to sabotage an inline linker. Better than to "Caterina," anyway.

Re: Mac TiVoToGo Is Here… By Roxio?!

hawaii — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:06:36 -0000

Be still my beating heart! But... has TiVo pulled the link, were they slashdotted, was it just a dream? Because the "roxio" URL at Tivo.com is dead. Gizmodo also linked there mere moments ago, but nothing. Waah!

Re: Justin.tv Drinkup at Zeitgeist (Sunday, March 25th) | Laughing Squid

hawaii — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:50:16 -0000

Justin got bumped from Zeitgeist. They're at Lucky 13.

Zeitgeist was playing it safe, but in "Web 2.0" saturated San Fran, I'd figure most places would love to have the Camera Hat in the house.

It's surreal to be sitting in on a friendly bar chat from the suburbs in Honolulu.

Re: Could TwitThis be the Twitter killer app?

hawaii — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:11:55 -0000

But doesn't this push Twitter toward being a Tumblelog? Something Tumblr (among others) does well already? Useless "lunch" posts notwithstanding, I still think the presence aspect of Twitter is what's most interesting.

Re: Taking the week off

hawaii — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:10:53 -0000

Robert: I'm just a z-list blogger, but I'm wondering if taking the week off is really the best way to "do something."

On some level, it's opting out of the conversation you want to start. It sounds like "going on strike," in which case your readers are the target when instead it should be the a****les. And finally, your comment about this post remaining "on top" of your blog for a week is counterproductive.

If you want to keep a topic "on top," the answer is writing more often, not less. Otherwise your feeds disappear from aggregators everywhere, buried under a million other topics.

Still, it's your call. Taking time to get your thoughts together makes sense as well. I was just unsure of your justification.

Re: Mexico City Earthquake, reported on Twitter first

hawaii — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:34:50 -0000

Video of Chris Pirillo getting rolling tonight. Another video clip of his live video link with a blogger in Mexico City is still coming:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

The geekfest overshadowed the earthquake, frankly, but it was a good dry run for the next, perhaps more local, emergency.

Re: Mexico City Earthquake, reported on Twitter first

hawaii — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:42:18 -0000

As requested, Robert, here's part two of the video, documenting the frantic, geeky build up to Pirillo as he makes "internet history."

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

It was a trip "being there" as it happened!

Re: Mexico City Earthquake, reported on Twitter first

hawaii — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:29:24 -0000

Vexed by YouTube... a longer, larger, less flickery version of video up at Google Video:

http://video.google.com/vid...

forsalebylocals makes excellent points. I'm curious... When cellular networks are overwhelmed during a crisis, does that include SMS? Are text messages somehow less a strain than voice, or is 20,000 near simultaneous Twitter updates just as overwhelming as 20,000 phone calls?

Re: Mexico City Earthquake, reported on Twitter first

hawaii — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:05:49 -0000

Jeremy #46: A user posted to Twitter “a few minutes” before the web site was updated? That user could have also blogged about it and that would have had the same impact.

A blog post takes more time to compose than a Tweet. Ten seconds vs. two minutes doesn't sound like much, but it can make a difference. And Tweets are more "pushy" than blogs: There's the RSS lag Robert notes, plus the SMS component (though few folks get Twitter updates on their phone). Twitter feeds seem to be pinged more frequently with tools like Twitteriffic, though that could be a downside from the server end.

Rather than getting one Tweet for help, though, which does rely on a rich contact network, I think the power of Twitter can be in the numbers. The big numbers. A thousand canaries in the coal mine, to adapt a cliche.

If one guy Tweets his house is rocking, it could get lost and ignored in the stream of "drinking coffee" and "reading Scoble" posts. But I can see some map and mass mashups that could pick up on a sudden flurry of Tweets in a given region to detect a major event. Fifty mentions of an earthquake would escalate things and catch more attention.

Re: PodTech’s Scoble and Jeremiah to Test UStream Technology at Web 2.0 Expo

hawaii — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:09:36 -0000

Jeremiah, do the Ustream.tv guys have a recommended setup for doing this without a laptop? That is, straight from the phone? I know folks are already doing it with Nokia phones, but what works the best with what they've set up?

Re: PodTech’s Scoble and Jeremiah to Test UStream Technology at Web 2.0 Expo

hawaii — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:16:40 -0000

Jeremiah, thanks for sharing the Web 2.0 Expo today. I posted a couple of videos from your stream:

Jeremiah and Mario Arrive
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Anil Dash on Community Evangelism
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Flickr down, so is Zooomr

hawaii — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:24:52 -0000

Flickr's downtime was scheduled, announced, and explained. Zooomr... ugh.

Thomas Hawk gets points for generating buzz out of nothing (apart from well-timed Flickr hit pieces, often flogged on his own Flickr account). Coverage massively disproportionate to its user base, let alone basic merit. How many times has the new and improved Zooomr been announced, again?

Re: Flash IRC Script

hawaii — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:45:18 -0000

So, where can one find this TFlash?

Re: Why I'm so excited about Spock

hawaii — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:01:14 -0000

Beware! In signing up, Spock asks for access to your email address book (Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail), insisting -- like most respectable social networks do -- that it's only going to check for people you know who have already opted in and registered for their site. I did this a week ago, and of course didn't find many contacts on Spock at the time.

Earlier today, Spock went ahead and spammed all my contacts with Spock invites... and in Gmail, that's a lot of people, many of whom were only one-off correspondents. I even got invites sent to my other e-mail accounts, telling me I've invited myself.

This is bad, bad form for a site like this, and doesn't help it fight the ominous cloud many sense over what it's trying to do.

Re: When should I give a company a second chance?

hawaii — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:56:56 -0000

I'd be interested in some comparative observations versus LinkedIn.

Re: Live Video Streaming goes crazy, meet one of Asia’s top Video Streamers: Kevin Lim

hawaii — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:39:52 -0000

Mahalo for the mention, Jeremiah! I still look to you and particularly your own experimenting with live video to keep up with it all. By the end of the year, the world (and the web) will be crawling with "geek mounted cameras."

Re: How to never forget: The story behind Kevin’s wearable cameras

hawaii — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:45:05 -0000

Aloha, Kevin. Hawaii lifecaster here. Great stuff. I haven't worked half as hard on my setup, but I'm still having lots of fun.

On the 'soundtrack' question, how are you handling commercial music (i.e. from your iPod) and licensing requirements and restrictions (as what we're doing is essentially broadcasting)? I got ribbed while driving around listening to the radio early on, so I've made it a point to keep a playlist of Creative Commons and other "safe" music when lifecasting.

Fortunately, I'm also a podcaster, and also play the music of some of the indie artists I personally know and who've also given permission to play their stuff.

It's hard to control ambient audio, from a restaurant jukebox to the MLB game on a nearby pub's TV, and stuff like watching TV or going to the movies is already pretty complicated. It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.

Keep up the great work!

Re: Another Twitter competitor — want an invite?

hawaii — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:27:36 -0000

You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

Re: Tribal Shout brings podcasts to your phone — which iPhone case should we get?

hawaii — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:29:00 -0000

I have the same Speck case. It makes the iPhone look a little Batman-ey, I admit, but I owe the thing my life after saving my iPhone from a parking lot tumble the day after I bought it. And I only discovered the 'kickstand' feature of the belt clip today by accident. Maybe later I'll get classy and get a leather case, but this tough guy works for me for now.

Re: Don’t try to use your iPhone inside an Apple store

hawaii — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:02:32 -0000

That's surprising. Store policy or corporate policy? Because I've taken lots of pictures inside Apple Stores here in Honolulu.

And for both the iPhone, and for a recent store grand opening, not only did I take plenty of video inside the store, but the videos I posted online were apparently passed around the internal network. I got comments from several Apple folks, most working behind the scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

In both cases, it seemed the management of the malls in which the stores were located were more nervous about all the cameras than the Apple Store folks.