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February 2nd, 2007 Podcast by Peter Kay
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VoteHawaii-2005-07-29-Audio Commentary
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Show Notes:
Podcasting changing the face of politics
”I’m pretty sure whether it’s 2006 or 2008, we’re going to be hearing as much about podcasting and video blogging as we heard about blogs helping (former New Hampshire Gov. Howard) Dean in 2003,” Joe Trippi, former presidential candidate Howard Dean’s campaign manager, told United Press International.
Schofield will gain 3,700 troops by 2011
We better be ready with better education. Military is a fantastic opportunity for Hawaii’s economy. Can we make this their #1 choice for the troops too?
Regents give top grades to McClain
Nice recovery. Keep it up.
Nice, but isn’t this another Robin Hood manuever? How about reducing the size of government and giving us all a tax break?
Plan is to keep Windward water on windward side
"Hawaiians on the Windward side are thirsting to grow their crops while their water gets diverted to a park on the West for people to play and splash in."
Mass-transit vote of critical importance
We need rail but we’ve never researched any alternatives nor its effectiveness
Lawmakers will address graffiti
One way to stop it is to cover it up right away on a consistent basis. Aina Haina Library and Niu Valley overall are great examples
Invasive grass spreads on O’ahu
My favorite grass is Nutgrass!
I’m in! Today’s extreme sports ain’t got nuthin on Ancient Hawaiians.
Bullish at developers conference
The time to buy is right now! The median price of a home on Oahu is predicted to reach $750,000 — maybe even $800,000 — in the next two years, depending on interest rates, Hawaii economists have told local developers.
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August 1st, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
Use the Google SpellChecker
Listen to this TipWhen you need to spell a word, don’t reach for the dictionary. Just go to Google and type in the word you want. If it’s not spelled right, Google will come back with “Did you Mean” followed by the proper spelling. This is the fastest, easiest way outside your word processor to get your computer to spell for you.
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July 22nd, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
VoteHawaii-2005-07-22-Audio Commentary
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The topics we cover today are:
- What would Lincoln do?
- Lingle for senator?
- Continued fallout for Lingle.
- Reopening an old wound: Haunani Trask & Ward Churchill.
- Akaka Bill not looking good and is about to get very, very public.
- Congrats on winning Pearl! Now what?
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CyberPizza presentation on Podcasting
Listen to this PodcastThis is the perfect podcast for someone interested in creating a podcast, sponsoring a podcast, or using a podcast for their business as well as people that want to know about podcasting.
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:28 Start of live presentation
- 2:15 What is podcasting and how does it work?
- 6:22 Audio examples of audio podcasts
- 8:50 Who is podcasting and how? Link to Todd Cochrane’s book "Podcasting: A Do it Yourself Guide" .
- 9:30 Who is listening to podcasts?
- 10:50 Why is podcasting so different and new? How will podcasting revolutionize the way you listen to radio?
- 12:00 How will podcasting change the nature of radio advertisements?
- 14:05 Why is podcasting going to be huge?
- 14:55 What is the business model for podcasting? How is money being made?
- 15:54 Can you attach visuals, videos, pictures to podcasts? What is RSS?
- 18:00 How do you subscribe to podcasts? What does it cost? What kind of personal information do you have to give out?
- 19:20 What was podcasting called before downloading mp3 files came along? What open standards are used in the podcasting community?
- 21:45 What’s the difference between just an audio recording for a corporate meeting versus a corporate podcast?
- 23:00 Can podcasts be used to transmit viruses?
- 23:40 What kind of server-side software is required to send out podcasts? Use WordPress to produce blogs & podcasts.
- 25:45 What kind of online software is available so that you can podcast for free? What process do you go through to publish your podcast? Use Bloggger to create the blog, Feedburner to make your RSS feed podcast-compatible, and Ourmedia.org to host your mp3 file at no charge.
- 28:40 How do you find good podcasts? Visit PodcastAlley.com or Ipodder.org
- 30:30 What other, newer technology is forseen to come out that might improve on the current mp3 technology? We talk about how the AAC3 format may allow chapters to be used within Podcasts.
- 32:00 How big are the podcast files to download?
- 33:00 Why is podcasting a great application for broadband and why will RoadRunner love it?
- 33:45 How do you protect yourself against copyright violation? Go to creativecommons.org to get license information to decide how you can protect your content in varying degrees.
- 36:35 How to properly tagging your mp3 files with AudioShell.
- 37:20 How can government help podcasting?
- 37:52 How can parents protect their teenagers from improper podcast content?
- 38:35 How come podcasters are not getting sued for creating inappropriate content like Dawn and Drew?
- 41:22 Review of townpodcast.com, a new business model for podcasting in local communities.
- 44:05 What kind of locally relevant podcasts can be created for Townpodcast.com?
- 44:54 How can you create or manage your own townpodcast.com franchise?
- 46:20 How will TownPodcast.com create demographically targeted advertisements and podcasts?
- 47:20 Can Neighborhood Board meetings be recorded and podcasted?
- 48:34 What kind of equipment do you need to record podcasts?
- 50:10 What’s the different between listening to streaming audio vs. podcasts?
- 52:10 Practical advice for those intimidated by podcasting for the very first time.
- 53:40 How blogs and podcast are integrated and people can leave comments about podcasts. We show VoteHawaii.com comments.
- 54:50 Getting just a few votes on podcast alley cranks up the ratings for a given Podcast.
- 54:41 What’s the ratio of blog readers to podcast listeners.
- 56:54 Get involved with Hawaii Podcasters if you’re in Hawaii and want to know more about podcasting.
- 57:00 More information if you’re interested in getting involved with TownPodcast.com
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July 13th, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
Want to make your next business meeting a smash hit?
Want to make your next business meeting a smash hit? I’ve got a red-hot tip. At your next meeting, bring a laptop and projector. Project the agenda document on the screen and use it to guide the meeting and to take notes as well. Make sure you take notes live, projected on the screen. This has a fantastic effect because everyone watches what you type and participates much more than usual. And since everyone is seeing the same thing at the same time any inaccuracies are corrected immediately. Now here’s the best part: when the meeting is over, all you do is simply email all this notes you took to everyone who’s there and you don’t have to writeup those tedious “meeting minutes” ever again. Try this at your next meeting and I guarantee you’ll never do it any other way ever again.
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July 13th, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
VoteHawaii-2005-07-08-Audio Commentary
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This show covers all the previous stories listed below.
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July 7th, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
Do quick Outlook Contact lookups
The next time you’re looking up a contact in Outlook, click somewhere on the right hand side window where your contacts are listed and slowly type the last name of the person you want find. Outlook will quickly start flipping through the contacts to match the letters you’re typing. This is the fastest way to search. Try it!
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July 6th, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
VoteHawaii-2005-07-01-Audio Commentary
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- Traffic on state highways
- Summary of the Great Tax and Rail Debate
- Mayor’s comments
- Another ERTF? Here’s the new article and here’s the original ERTF findings, 8 years ago. You decide!
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July 1st, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
Your Computer Minute: Let Google be your dictionary
Here’s a great Google tip. The next time someone throws a big word at you, like “stenosis”, you don’t have to reach for the dictionary or a gag towel. Just go to Google, type the word “define:” then follow it with the word you want to learn about and Google will pull up all the definitions on the Web. You’ll love it.
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June 29th, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
GE tax veto excerpts from Govenor’s press conference
We’ve edited out any non-GE tax content from the Governor’s press conference so you can hear her position on this issue straight from the primary source:
Listen to it here, about 10 minutes total
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June 29th, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
VoteHawaii.Com-2005-06-24 Audio Commentary
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A recap of this week’s news includes:
- If you own property: be afraid, be very afraid
- Lingle the Liberal-Democrat-in-Republican-clothing actions speak louder than words
- Q&A about Chamber’s Transportation Event
- How will a city that can’t manage a $14M pothole budget manage a $3BLN rail project?
- Are we coming to our senses on Tax Hike?
- Proof that HOT lanes are a better solution than Rail
- The Facts about Rail
- Advertising in Schools - Just don’t make TOO much money
- Are We Going to Learn From History?
June 24th, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
VoteHawaii.Com-2005-06-17 Audio Commentary
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- One man makes a difference in graffiti
- Psst! The governor is really a Democrat
- General Excise Tax presentation
- Honolulu City & County Budget - The Ins and Outs
- Airing our Dirty Laundry! First look at this post and comments, then this one.
- Aren’t we past the “Get out of Iraq” argument?
June 17th, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay
Blogging for Business
I had the great honor of leading a panel of bloggers in Hawaii including Roxanne Darling, Burt Lum, and Ryan Ozawa for the International Association of Business Communicators.
We were lucky to record nearly the entire 1 hour presentation. If you want to know more about corporate blogging or business blogging, this podcast is really worth your time. I know that 1 hour is a long time to listen so I broke out the timing below in case you want to jump around:
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- 00:00 Introduction
- 03:55: Survey (out of 40) of who uses blogs, rss news readers.
- 04:48: Context of blogging as part of the social revolutions in human history.
- 06:38: How powerful are blogs? Clinton, Rather, George Bush, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Moveon.org, all affected.
- 08:05: How blogging creates main stream media (MSM) reality .
- 10:20: How blogging affected the Hawaii Duke Bainum campaign.
- 12:18: What do blogs look like?
- 14:00: How a blog is really just another Web site but it uses specialized tools and standards, like RSS, to publish its content.
- 14:33: (low volume) viewing a blogging Web site through the eyes of a news reader and how RSS plays an important role
- 16:19: Tracking different news sources with an RSS reader (Pluck)
- 16:53: Question: what’s the difference between going through an RSS newsreader or a Google News Alert
- 19:30: How your daily routine changes when you use news readers and blogging tools. You read blogs and write blogs.
- 20:15: What’s different about this model. How blogs reach a very targeted audience and RSS feeds continue to review your content.
- 21:26: Businessweek quote about 40,000 new blogs created per day and how even a small sliver of a targeted audience can make a blog worth it.
- 22:36: Will blogging take over MSM or will they co-exist? Story about Clear Channel creating a false blog to talk about their own radio stations.
- 24:20: Overview/ review of what a blog is.
- 25:52: Question (low volume) that talks about and RSS news reader (hard to make out)
- 26:20: Comments about copyrights and blogging. How bloggers can cut and paste, potentially violating copyright. Additional discussion of how the cut-and-pasting that bloggers do a lot of actually helps MSM.
- 31:10: the wrong reason to use corporate blogs is to create a press release. The purpose is to increase transparency.
- 33:10: The GM blog and Bob Lutz as a good corporate blogger
- 34:00: How corporate blogging gives you great free market research
- 35:20: The corporate cultural changes that one might need to be ready for. How the GM blog caught a lot of heat about bad cars, yet how they responded intelligently to the LA Times scandal.
- 36:35: If you’re going to get involved with blogging you need to be ready for the truth and be prepared that in the blogosphere, you’re not in control of the message, although you are in control of your message.
- 37:00: How blogging lets you create your own media so that you can respond instantly to events and not rely on MSM.
- 38:00: What is the voice behind your company’s blog? It’s important to understand who the company bloggers will be and what their tone will be.
- 40:00: How the blog can be just another good old fashioned tool to display information. It doesn’t have to be controversial.
- 41:00: What should corporate HR policy be with respect to blogging? Employees have been fired for blogging. Hawaii is home to one of the first bloggers who lost his job due to blogging, Ian Lind.
- 43:28: Question & Answer: Are there tools to find out how many subscribers you have to your RSS feed?
- 46:00: Reviewing Feedburner statistics that show subscribers and how Sitemeter can track statistics.
- 47:00: Using Google to track how many links are going to your site.
- 47:50: You need to have a commitment to regular content publication. There is a major cultural change required for your company.
- 48:20: How people will start linking more often to your site with good practices of publishing content on a regular basis.
- 49:00: Question: How often should we be posting to our blog? Simple guidelines on posting to blogs. At least once a week and about an hour for that time, perhaps 20 minutes if you get efficient.
- 51:00: Blogging is here to stay. Recognized by Business Week online means a lot. Blog now and get it or be left in the dust in 5 years.
- 52:30: Others will be blogging about your company so it’s important to counteract and balance the grass roots blogging that might take place.
- 53:00: You have to have information about your company going out, otherwise perhaps negative information about your company may be the published authority. How a scathing critique of a restaurant became the highest ranking page instead of the official company web site.
- 54:42: Question: how do you get corporate folks up to speed with what’s going on with blogging? One way is to create an blogging Intranet.
- 56:18: Another way is to get management that the blogosphere is part of the media that needs to be dealt with. Once that’s done, it’s easier to get corporate to pour resources. You should have google alerts working and be using newsreaders to get into the blogosphere.
- 57:30: The corporate blogging efforts should be part of a package.
- 58:00: What’s a good example of a corporate blog: besides the gm blog already mentioned, Microsoft has created a bunch of blogs at blogs.msdn.com
- 59:41: What are the demographics of blogging?
- 60:30: What’s the fastest way to get a blog started? Use blogger.com for free. Bizzycast.com is releasing a corporate blogging tool.
- 61:48: How do you find someone’s blog? Just add “blog” on your google searches.
- 62:30: What blogging software do you use? Wordpress is a free software and bizzycast is also creating a solution. It’s really not a technical cost but rather a corporate organizational cost.
- 64:10: What is podcasting? Here’s a video presentation on Podcasting you should look at.
- 67:22: Question: isn’t podcasting like blogging? HawaiiUp.com is a good example of a blog that does podcasting.
- 69:30: Why are hobbyists excited about blogging, podcasting, and video blogging?
The panelists also posted some of their own blogs on this:
Burt Lum
Roxanne Darling - Nice pictures!
Ryan Ozawa - contains video too!
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June 9th, 2005 Podcast by Peter Kay