Well, I'm happy to report that Hurricane Flossie, now Tropical Storm Flossie, is safely passing over Hawaii and not causing any severe weather conditions. From the looks of it, in the beginning you would have thought that we were in for a rough time, but it appears that Mother Nature has called off Flossie and told her to take it easy...
Podcast Awards 2007 - Monday, July 30, 2007
Aloha all, the 2007 Podcast Awards voting is underway and I am happy to say that 808Talk has been nominated for "Best Travel Podcast" for the second year in a row. I want to thank each and everyone that took the time to nominate 808Talk for the "Travel" category of the PodcastAwards...
Eco Hate Crimes? - Wednesday, July 18, 2007
So I was scanning the MSN news and ran across a story mentioned in their Live Earth "Green" section about a man in Washington D.C. who had his Hummer vandalized in the name of the Environment! Come on people, I too believe that protecting Mother Earth is an important topic that every human should contribute...
Mighty J Music Video Debut - Thursday, July 05, 2007
Mighty J just released their debut music video from their debut album "Calling Out". The title of the new video is "Girls Night Out" and lucky for you, it's making a World Wide Web debut on Beach Walks with Rox, 808Talk TV, DoctorTrey.com and of course MightyJMusic.com. Soon it will be everywhere and when that happens you...
TwitterGram And Twit O'Gram Player - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Dave Winer has merged podcasting and Twitter into what he calls TwitterGram. The whole concept is that you create an audio or short podcast snippet, upload it to TwitterGram and then post that URL to Twitter. Dave has setup an XML-RPC service that takes in your uploaded audio MP3 and then sends it as a post to your Twitter account. To add to that...
Day Of Silence? So Listen To A Podcast! - Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Day of Silence equals day of podcasts. Well today is the talked about "Day of Silence" for webcasters of Internet radio. Due to an announcement earlier this year of new royalty rates for webcasting traditionally licensed music by the United States Copyright Royalty Board, a unified effort to draw attention to this impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of this country's Internet radio industry, is underway today. The rate hike, to be effective from 2006 to 2010, could...
One Of My New Favorite Vids - Thursday, June 21, 2007
A recent episode of 808Talk TV features the "Elevator" at Sharks Cove on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. The elevator is a hole in the sea cliff which takes you out to the ocean from up top to down below. It is a truly tremendous experience, but please be cautioned...
FREE Hawaiian Wallpapers - Friday, June 15, 2007
If you thought sharing aloha through audio and video was enough for us over at 808Talk, then you thought wrong. Yesterday we officially launched our FREE Hawaiian Wallpapers section at 808Talk.com which features a handful of beautiful Hawaiian...
Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls - Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Great news! Great music discovered! Recently on a local radio station here in Hawaii (102.7 DaBomb), I heard a new song called "Beautiful Girls" and found out it was by Sean Kingston, a 17 year old native of Jamaica who now lives in Miami...
MAKENA Live June 2nd In Waikiki, Hawaii - Friday, May 11, 2007
MAKENA's gonna be live at the new Embassy Suites-Waikiki Beach Walk (Grand Lanai, 4th Floor) on Sat. June 2, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. It's a free performance and everyone's welcome.