An article in tomorrow’s New York Times is titled ‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers.
If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer.
A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people zoom in on what is happening closest to them, often without involving traditional journalists.

It’s very much like what has sprung up over at FBI blogs, to which I belong. (And when I …

We woke up around 8 this morning, and turns out the Easter Bunny had left a fun basket for my five-year-old on the breakfast nook table. Lots of bunny pencils and erasers and the book “Grandpa Bunny” and Easter stickers and other little treats, and, oh yes, some candy.

When she woke up she worried that perhaps the Easter Bunny didn’t come, because she had trouble falling asleep last night. “I was awake late,” she said. “Maybe he didn’t come.” I think she has gotten Santa and the Easter Bunny a …

I want to be clear that the person in the video is not me. I know somebody will miss that! It’s not. This is a post about someone else whose name is Leslie Lang.
The other day I wrote about a standup comic who lives in San Jose and has the same name as me, and then she saw the post and emailed me! 
And she sent me a link to her comedy act on YouTube, which is, indeed, funny. I enjoyed it.
I like her and we’ve been emailing back and forth and it’s WEIRD. …

It’s almost Merrie Monarch week here on the Big Island. I love this week, when Hilo town shimmers and comes alive with people and flowers and hula everywhere.
Over at Big Island On The Cheap, we are going to be hitting Merrie Monarch hard. We’ll have a bunch of features — where to eat, half- and full-day trips to take around Hilo, all the exciting things going on with Merrie Monarch itself, some great local coupon deals that are exclusive to our readers (whether residents or visitors),  and some other surprises, …

Does anybody have extra Merrie Monarch tickets I could buy from them (at cost)?
One year my friend was on a mission to get Merrie Monarch tickets and asked a stranger in line at Starbucks, and said stranger indeed had extra tickets.
I haven’t asked at Starbucks yet, but how about you, online world? Surely you’re more effective than hitting up strangers at Starbucks!
I’d throw in a signed copy of my Exploring Historic Hilo book, if it helped.
Please ask around, tell your friends, all that. Let me know! I would really appreciate any help.

I have a Google Alert set up for my name (do you?) and today I got an alert about how great I was when I did my comedy improv act in San Jose recently. 
I, um, don’t do comedy improv (maybe some occasional, unintentional slapstick), nor do I frequent San Jose. But I’m glad to hear it was enjoyable.
Isn’t it strange to find other people with YOUR name? Maybe somebody named Steve Smith is used to it. But I don’t think my name is all that common, so when I occasionally …

I’m not 100 percent done yet, but here’s my new website design. What do you think?
As probably happens to many of us, I sprang up piecemeal over here in the online world. A website here, a blog there, some other projects scattered about. Nothing matched and it didn’t go together and the whole thing was getting to be a big mess, so I decided to clean house.

So here’s my new website, with blog front and center, and links to some of my various projects. There are still a couple things …