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HuffPost goes with the snow

HuffPost goes with the snow

Looks like The Huffington Post decided to publish my snow in Hawaii video. Florida is the only state that doesn’t have snow on the ground today, though they did a few days back I guess. So 49 states with snow. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/12/snow-in-hawaii-it-is-poss_n_808226.html

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HDSLR workshop coming to Honolulu

I helped to put together his website and his workshop launched to great success in Seattle last week. Now it’s coming to Honolulu, and Los Angeles if you’re on the West Coast. My buddy PF is bringing his workshop to Hawaii in December. A great time to be in Hawaii and learn some mad skillz [...]

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Pau Hana

The Honolulu Advertiser is put to bed and it won’t wake-up. Update: What’s left is like a sad ghost town, see here

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Hawaii 24/7 | Hawaii247.com

Moving day was this week. We moved Hawaii 24/7 back to our .com domain for the website. We did this because we are no longer a non-profit and became a commercial corporation earlier this year. So update your bookmarks folks and change those .org extensions to .com aloha, Baron

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Newspaper Musical Chairs

This year the music will stop and the one left standing without a chair will be the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The announcement today is of Oahu Publications Inc. buying the Honolulu Advertiser and putting the Star-Bulletin up for sale in two weeks must be blow to my friends at both daily newspapers as they try to [...]

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Smoking grass in Puna, the things I do for photos

Video camera, iPhone shooting live video and a digital SLR and tripod to shoot a little grass fire in Puna today. The real video is here. I have to remember to clean my video camera lens.

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Waiting on royalty

You can see more photos of the visit here

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Transmitting via the iPhone without jailbreaking it

I put together a tutorial for my photojournalist friends who want to know how they can transmit images from the field to an FTP server via the iPhone when on assignment. This is a typical problem for photojournalists. They’re far from a WiFi hotspot, paying for a USB modem is expensive but they need to [...]

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What’s in a name? That which we call a journalist. By any other name would spell and tweet.

Bill is rolling over in his grave with that title. You can see a blog posting by Leslie Wilcox about an email I sent her here along with my comment. And I’ll have you note I never called journalism a ‘hobby.’ http://leslienotes.typepad.com/the_long_and_short_of_it_/2009/05/journalism-as-a-hobby.html The email I sent her was in response to her blog posting here: [...]

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