We've all been there: the dull business conference. A half-empty room of half-asleep attendees answer their e-mail on laptops and BlackBerries, while some hapless speaker lumbers through a PowerPoint speech. That scenario is about to change, thanks to the growing ubiquity of social media.

Mitchell Dwyer, Honolulu high school English teacher, hopes to help the world (and its wide web) to improve the quality of its writing, one simple step at a time.

Hawaii's first unconference. A grassroots tech/Internet gathering to foster sharing and interaction amongst its participants.

Just how different can a trailer be without becoming false advertising?

Damon Lindelof: I’d once believed that the death of our beloved television would unify all those affected. We’d all be afraid together. Instead, we find ourselves so deeply divided.

Classical music hardly seems like a growth business. We're forever reading about how concert audiences are graying, and new artists must flounce around fiddling in tank tops and platform heels to get attention. In fact, classical music is doing a lot better than you might think. Although total sales in all music categories fell 5 percent last year, classical sales grew by a whopping 22 percent.

The Iwilei Costco - the largest among the company's three Oahu locations - posted $300 million in sales last year. Iwilei is so busy, in fact, that it turns its entire inventory every two-and-a-half to three weeks... a logistical wonder considering most everything comes in by water.

Even if you could say Abazab or Eefoof without snickering, would you want to do business with them? Would you feel OK owning Wakoopa shares in your 401(k)? Telling potential in-laws you met on Frengo? Relying on Ooma to call Grandma?

Fox's quickly canceled drama "Drive" has inadvertently made TV academy history on Thursday, becoming the first-ever Primetime Emmy broadband nominee. Twenty years from now, when Emmy only recognizes programming found on the Internet, historians will point to the mostly forgotten "Drive" as the show that started it all.