Bytemarks

Every 6 months, 10 days in April and 10 days in October, Hawaii Public Radio will augment their normal programing with the all-important fundraising Pledge Drive called Celebration 2009. It’s an intense effort to raise $763K and that number keeps going up, back in April the goal was $741K. This is my third pledge drive [...]

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We invited Glen Nakafuji from Oceanit to talk about their newly awarded National Transportation Safety project. The project has a broad scope and requires the company to hire project managers and technical staff. If you are looking for a job at a very progressive technology company, you should check out Oceanit’s job postings.
Ray Kakuda from [...]

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People have actually stopped me at work asking about the online productivity tools talked about by Susan Jaworowski and Jonathan Wong on this edition of Bytemarks Cafe. They both did a great job of sharing their favorite collaboration and efficiency tools best suited for team activities. It was a full discussion and you can catch [...]

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Today’s Bytemarks Cafe was our #52 edition. Time sure goes by fast when you are having fun! Theoretically we made one year on the first week of August but since we did not do a show on Christmas and New Years Day this is our 52nd. Today’s show featured Jeff Mikulina and Gary Gill from [...]

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The semi-annual pledge drive is an interesting phenomenon. It’s Hawaii Public Radio’s major money making effort and occurs in April and October of each year. On one hand it is viewed as a necessary evil, something that needs to be done but not everyone likes it. Listeners want regular programming and staff feels apprehension going [...]

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I just got word of an upcoming show called Digital Imagery in Hawaii 2009 featuring local photographers. The show is juried by David Ulrich and Jerry Omo, Jr. and will be held at the Canon Gallery, 210 Ward Avenue, Suite 701. The exhibition is sponsored by Pacific New Media and is designed to provide a [...]

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Now you can stream your favorite Public Radio station where ever you go with your iPhone or iPod Touch. Of course with the iPod Touch you have to be within wifi access to use the Public Radio Tuner. This application just became available on iTunes as a free download. You can scroll through quite an [...]

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On Saturday, Sept. 20th Hawaii Public Radio fired up its new transmitter effectively boosting the power level of KIPO 89.3FM to a whooping 29,000 watts. This power increase has been something in the works since 2005 when the station applied for a power increase with the FCC. Three years later, a new transmitter is installed [...]

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I just got word this past week that I’ll be doing a weekly radio show on KIPO-FM 89.3, one of the Hawaii Public Radio stations here in Honolulu. Of course the show will be called Bytemarks Cafe and will be about tech and the Internet, mainly oriented around the people doing cool and interesting things [...]

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