- HI2059: @honadv @kgmb9 How do you remain relevant to an audience who's comfortable obtaining information from non-traditional channels? #hastatehood
- KGMB9: To be frank @hi2095, what we're doing now. The goal is to be in the environments that people are getting their information. #hastatehood
- HI2059: @kgmb9 Agreed, but twitter is not television, or radio, or print. That being said, what distinguishes you from @honadv or @star1019hawaii?
- HI2059: @kgmb9 ...aside from the fact that you're actually engaging in dialogue, which *is* refreshing & appreciated. #hastatehood
- SANTASGIFT73: @kgmb9 The internet is becoming the source for majority of news info.
- KGMB9: It sure is, that's why it's key to be a media company... Not just TV, radio or print. #hastatehood@santasgift73
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the statehood conference features a panel discussion on the future of Hawaii media. Tweet your questions with #hastatehood.
— Ok, I had my doubts, but apparently they’ve got it under control. Coverage begins in 20 minutes (11 a.m. HST), gonna point Firefox at the live webcast and have twhirl ready to fire at #hastatehood (um, why HA and not HI?).
This conference happens tomorrow, but I don’t know how much effort was put into letting people know about it. I read a “Breaking News” link on the Advertiser about it… today. I know I’m out of the traditional media loop, but c’mon.
I think it’s interesting how the Media in Hawai‘i – The Next 50 Years morning workshop panel consists entirely of “old” media, including KITV, KGMB, The Honolulu Advertiser, Clear Channel and Hawaii Public Radio.
I’d really like to hear this discussion. Maybe one of them will post a podcast online somewhere so people who have to work on state holidays can listen too. I mean, they are mainstream media in Hawaii. The idea of propagating engaging audio content on the web has got to be included in their “next-50-year” plan, right? They could even throw some huge Netflix pop-behinds on the page to monetize it… oh wait, the Star Bulletin isn’t on the panel. Nevermind.
Riding Www.TheBus.org to downtown Homolulu.Going to Hawaii theater to see Slava at 1:00pm
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via GayHawaiiTravel.
Been working on some experimental uses for the Twitter search API. Came up with Tweetlibs. It uses Twitter, along with certain trigger words, to recontextualize tweets from users located in Hawaii. The tweet above popped up during my testing. Couldn’t stop laughing at Homolulu, that’s some classic material right there.
Let the games begin! HI 2059 has started a Flickr group “to facilitate photo submissions for a series of projects,” the first of which is a photo-hunt entitled “Hummer vs. Hybrid”. It’s in conjunction with the first issue we’ll be exploring, Transportation. So bust out your cameras and start snapping away… the instant-winner-gold-medal-national-anthem is a photo of this thing.
How the Hawaiian culture will remain relevant as time marches forward is something we often discuss in the office. Would modern day kanaka maoli be drawing petroglyphs on rocks? No way. In fact, thanks to Keola Donaghy, they’ll be performing searches on Google in ‘olelo Hawai’i.
Te Taka Keegan says it best: “Google has become the primary source of the world’s information and being able to source this information through the medium of the Hawaiian language indicates that the Hawaiian language has purpose and relevance in today’s information society.”
We’re in the process of evaluating a number of tools to employ for our upcoming HI 2059 project, and Kickstarter is at the forefront. Recently caught this post on their blog, which compares recent project funding data to an essay by Kevin Kelly entitled 1,000 True Fans.
What the people at Kickstarter have found is this: To date, if a project manages to get to 25% of its funding goal, it has a 94% success rate. That is an amazing (and encouraging) statistic.
Dropped off some “Kapolioka’ehukai” vinyl this morning for Crystal, she’s got a Moloka’i adventure ahead of her, paddling from Halawa to Mo’omomi with 2 other women. Jeff Johnson was at the house, and he shared some screengrabs with me from Yvon Chouinard’s 1968 film Mountain of Storms.
Mountain of Storms documents “three men who set off from California in an old van to surf, ski and climb their way down to the southern end of Argentina.” Sounds pretty sick right? It was Jeff’s inspiration for 180 South.
Jeff also shared a story about some local guy spearfishing off Sunset, who overheard him mention he worked for Patagonia. The local guy yelled, “Eh, you work for Patagonia!?” and started paddling towards him. Instead of dishing cracks, the guy shook Jeff’s hand and said, “Tell your boss thanks.”
A generous gift from Chouinard enabled the purchase of the Halawa lo’i by the Trust for Public Land in 1998, protecting it from future development. It was sparked by the passing of Yvon’s friend Rell Sunn, who accompanied Chouinard and his wife to Halawa to show them the lo’i. It is Rell’s canoe that Crystal will be paddling.
A draft of the Oahu Bike Plan is now available online for download and comment (until August 31, 2009). It baffles me how accommodating our climate is for biking, and yet how difficult and dangerous it is to commute via bicycle. The plan contains maps of existing and proposed bike routes throughout Oahu. Sadly, the Pupukea-Kaimuki route has been omitted from the department’s initial draft.
The estimated cost of the future bikeway network is currently $217 million dollars. A one-cent gasoline tax could potentially generate an additional $3.3 million dollars annually for bicycle projects (based on 2007 rates of gasoline and diesel consumption). The draft goes on to add, “Creativity in identifying alternative funding sources and getting projects built will be required to realize the completed O’ahu network as proposed and outlined in the O’ahu Bike Plan.”
Given the archaic response form provided for comments, my suggestion is (a) use Get Satisfaction to wrangle feedback in a more effecient and effective manner and (b) sounds like a prime candidate for crowdsourced funding.
