The Hawaii Traveler

If you know Twitter, you know that it’s a way that news and countless people’s communications are transmitted  around the world.  If you don’t know Twitter, it’s still that, and also a way to waste a fair amount of time reading little 140-character blurbs about the world and people’s lives. I love it.
Not long ago, the Twitterer CityMama wrote, “Mccain’s ‘obama discovery team’ has landed in honolulu… ‘Honolulu mayor is democratic, Harvard-educated, oh, and Samoan.’”
Stay tuned to Twitter for more breaking news, no matter how cryptic it may be.  

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Get ready for PodCamp plus Wordcamp in Hawaii this fall.

What (taken from http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/): “A PodCamp is a usually free BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media enthusiasts and professionals including bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, social networkers, and anyone curious about new media. The first PodCamp was held September 8-10, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. PodCamps are now being held worldwide.
Where: Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i
When: Friday, October 24, 2008 – Saturday, October 25, 2008
How: any way you can.

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If you’re new to the Internet–or not–you’ve probably wondered what’s with the propensity of some folks to post images of cats (aka, LOLcats) or similar animals accompanied by superimposed, slangy, misspelled captions. One of the cornerstone captions of this phenomenon, called LOLspeak, is I Can Has Cheezburger? (or ICHC for short).
ICHC is also a blog, created by Hawaiian blogger Eric Nakagawa (Cheezburger), and his partner, Kari Unebasami (Tofuburger). The blog features LOLcats and other animals, and receives a healthy amount of Web site traffic. Wikipedia notes that ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal based image macros …read more

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