Podcasting in Ireland

Press Releases and Camera Tossers

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:53:20 +0000

We went from discussing a framework for press releases to camera tossing to cover music that fell into our delicious account–all during a typical day in the creative multimedia degree programme at Tipperary Institute. The “framework for press release” lecture is part of the Media Writing programme. Today’s in-class tasking asked students to reverse engineer from a published article (e.g., write the press release that generated the front page item just like they may face in a final examination). We also spent some time discussing the role played by headline editors and that spun out Avril Lavigne’s “Alone” as a sample sound selection in this 29-minute [21 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] podcast. Don’t miss the camera tossing moment, a few minutes of audio from CC Chapman, Mitch Joel, and Neville Hobson along with shout-outs to Joe Garde and Mike Kiely. Educast 114 ends with a cover by Jenny Owen Young that began with Nelly and both songs play back-to-back to round out this podcast.

What is Twitter?

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:34:00 +0000

ALTHOUGH THE POOR BLOG is creaking at the seams (its comments are broken badly) we have a 24-minute [17 MB MP3 file] Educast 113 podcast recorded during the creative multimedia degree programme at Tipperary Institute that’s worth sharing. A lot of the podcast dips in and out of Twitter with the whines and the wisdom of the connected community. But most of the podcast tries to connect into the third level multimedia college modules that stretch across four years of the curriculum, including photos like the lovely sock at left. We shoot shoes and phones during a Media Writing module and then prepare storyboards that help us create one-minute shorts about personal content. We’ll talk more about this deliverable in a subsequent podcast. Thanks for listening!

Stuff we referenced:Neville Hobson’s tweets as RSS.

Anberlin, dedicated to Jackie Danicki.

Mahara, an Open Source ePortfolio programme that we’re curious to discuss with Ewan McIntosh.

Podcamp Ireland, in Kilkenny on Saturday 27 September 2008.

Building the social media release and creating the first draft of the rich media CV.

Monitoring the communicators room on FriendFeed and the classroom channel on Jaiku.

“La Mana Mia” from Cecile and Bloody Beetroots takes us home.

Creativity in Studio Six

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:59:01 +0000

We’re looking at creativity through different perspectives today on Educast 112, starting first with an acoustical cover of “With or Without You” and then listening to students who have read what Ed Catmull says about nurturing creativity in Pixar. It’s all part of a 26-minute [19 MB 96 kbps file] MP3 that we created today in County Tipperary. We continue working on the “Faces of Podcamp” video clip while also tuning into the stream of information from Jaiku and Twitter.

Back After a Break

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:52:34 +0000

IT’S THE START of another academic year and well past the time for revising our online presence at podcasting.ie and at Educasting.ie because we’re just so out of date. And even though we have bit our tongue while eating a too-hot pizza, we’re stumbling through this 22-minute [11 MB 96 kbps] podcast because there are important educational tasks that lie ahead, some to be noted and achieved through the help of audio snippets like this. We’re a little rusty around the mic and we don’t have a pathway cleared to our recording gear, so what you’re getting may sound like a Transition Year exercise. Thanks for listening to how we slot in four different creative multimedia courses to podcasting, what second year public relations students think about the role of unions in national pay talks, what first year students find most surprising, and how fourth year students have engineered a very first take at a “Faces of Podcamp” track for Podcamp Ireland. We’re headed into Kilkenny on Saturday 27 Sep for that big event and plan to catch up with Dean Whitbread, a voice that features on this episode. The boot made for calling was snapped during the first session in Media Writing and it forms part of the composite portfolio assembled by students enrolled in the creative multimedia degree programme at Tipperary Institute. We’re planning to incorporate several live recording sessions, made while podcasting from the classroom, to people who want to join the conversation by using Online Meeting Rooms. If you’re interested in this undertaking, please subscribe to our podcast or read the Educasting in Ireland blog.

Explore Day Podcast

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:40:11 +0000

When 25 Leaving Cert students descend into the middle of a third level creative multimedia programme you might expect something interesting would unfold. And that’s what happened today during a short 55-minute classroom session that explained podcasting while teenagers hearing about the idea–some for the first time–snapped together a short 24-minute [21 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] podcast that includes comments about CreativeCamp in Kilkenny, perfect jobs around the corner and tips on how to avoid getting into trouble online. They also lined in two of their favourite tracks to this podcast. After they were finished, some of the students asked about dropping back again for longer sessions in the afternoon and we’re looking into that now. One thing for sure, any additional training will involve writing the shownotes because they seem to be the last thing accomplished whenever we produce our shows.

Science Week Ireland Podcast

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:04:12 +0000

We recorded students with an aptitude in mathematics as they discovered science and engineering during a hands-on special event held in Tipperary Institute during Science Week Ireland. The 35-minute [25 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] podcast gives listeners an insight about the role science plays in the production of computer games. Second level students learned the basics from programme specialists who explained audio, visual and programmatic elements found inside a computer games company. The skillsets form part of newly-launched Computer Games and Creative Multimedia degrees. The degree programmes will appeal to many of the 500 students who attended the half-day “Science of Computer Games” sessions in the Thurles Thunderdome on the campus of Tipperary Institute.

00:25 Kings of Leon — “Ragoo” was playing on one of the students’ MP3 players.

03:30 Introducing the science of computer gaming as part of the “discover science and engineering” initiative.

05:10 Phil Bourke explains Space Invaders in terms of history and technology. A modified Space Invaders game ran on an XBox 360 during the three days this event ran in County Tipperary.

08:00 Triona Croke explains the tasks involved in drawing characters for the computer game.

09:00 Interviewing students about their artwork and the ideas they had when developing their individual characters for the game. Students drew aliens, spaceships, weapons, missiles, guns and explosions.

11:00 Modifying the program code to make the game play better.

12:20 An idea for a very valuable invention. It helps drivers.

14:40 Mike Kiely explains how the sound effects were developed.

16:10 Details on Explore Days at Tipperary Institute on 24 Nov and 1 Dec. Day-long sessions involving audio, visual and programming for computer games.

16:45 Talking to students in the crowd about how to find information online about Science Week Ireland, including the photos on Flickr, the text comments on Jaiku, Inside View blog posts and information directly available from Tipperary Institute.

17:10 Explained how jobs in the computer games industry are viewable at IrishDev.com.

19:00 Competition questions thrown at the audience.

20:50 Bringing all the collateral into the computer gaming system by using XNA. Sound effects, graphics and game logic all combined to make the computer game better.

23:40 The value of Science Week for second level students, as expressed by a science teacher.

26:15 Some students are headed to the Young Scientist Exhibition in January 2008.

27:05 Kings of Leon — “My Party”

32:15 Credits. Thanks to Kings of Leon, Tanja Ryan, Steffen Coonan, Ann Wallace, Phil Bourke, James Greenslade, Ruth Goldbach, Yvonne Doyle, Tracy Browne, Mike Kiely, Simon Curran, Mike Cox, Mike Bulfin, Paula Briody and nearly 500 students.

34:38 Educast 110 ends.

The Story Behind the Sounds

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:00:55 +0000

The Media Writing class in Tipperary Institute spent a tutorial session digging into the story behind the sounds in various clips we analysed from the big screen. The clips form part of Educast 105 [17.6 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] and are complemented by a Media Writing worksheet on “writing the soundscapes“. As a bonus, we hear everything you need to know about writing successfully from the perspective of Stephen King.

Inside the Open Meeting Rooms

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:00:18 +0000

We continue our exploration of Online Meeting Rooms, very efficient technology that we have occasionally called the “open meeting rooms” because we have brought people to Limerick OpenCoffee through virtual meeting rooms. Today’s conversation recorded comments from Bernie Goldbach, Joe Garde, Gabriela Avram, Ken McGuire, James Corbett, John Jennings and Brendan Lally. This podcast, recorded in the Brainbox of the Absolute Hotel (at left), continues our experimentation with the internet video conference capabilities of OnlineMeetingRooms and we have to improve our methods because at the moment, we still have an audio cable that produces unwelcome hum while recording. Nonetheless, this 42-minute [30.1 MB 96 kbps MP3] file gives an accurate taste of another Limerick OpenCoffee meet-up, facilitated by free broadband and excellent coffee.

Sculpture at Kells

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:51:54 +0000

We are heading off across the ridgelines separating Tipperary from Kilkenny, then into an area along the King’s River where large pieces of visual art are installed in the ruins of Kells Priory. It’s a short 9-minute [6.6 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] drive with two tracks laid in behind some talk that prefaces a videocast next week. Enjoy! Eimear McKeith liked the installations as much as we did.

Inside Ebay Ecosystem

bgoldbach@yahoo.com (Bernard Goldbach and friends) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:32:52 +0000

WE LEARNED ABOUT eBay’s ecosystem yesterday in a conversation we recorded with the lads behind Auctomatic and their unedited commentary runs alongside questions from those attending Limerick OpenCoffee, people listening to the live video on Ustream.tv and others following Twitter texts and Jaiku IrishOpenCoffee channel items. The 56-minute [47.3 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] podcast also includes two tracks that were at the top of our playlist on our SonyEricsson P1i mobile phone. It beat the visiting iPhone hands-down in a track listing shoot-out, mainly because you can drag and drop your tracks to the P1i but you’re stuck with an iTunes sync with the iPhone.

00:20 We recorded this podcast in the AbsoluteHotel, Sir Harry’s Quay, Limerick, Ireland, during a regularly scheduled meeting of Limerick OpenCoffee. Twrecksbeats was playing “Get It Shawty” at the top of our SonyEricsson P1i tracks and this remix opens this podcast.

03:00 The lads, the audience, the knowledge workers, and the venue.

11:55 Advice for Paddy’s Valley contacting venture capitalists like Paul Graham.

13:28 How did you get started?

16:40 On getting hugged by eBay power sellers after showcasing a viable software application that manages inventory and margins.

20:30 Power sellers on eBay often hate their software.

21:30 Auctomatic can make two million calls to the eBay API every month.

23:45 The importance of being on the right street in Silicon Valley. Being in the right location makes it easier to bump into the right person and meet friends of friends.

24:50 Setting up individual meetings. Some come through yCombinator’s Demo Days. It always pays to have someone else introduce you to a potential angel investor.

40:30 James Corbett relays questions from the Back Channel. You can see the archived video on Conn O Muineachain’s site.

46:30 The credit card work-around for those who don’t have American credentials. Flexibility varies, from angel to angel. But the Collisons made no cold calls while raising more than a quarter million US dollars.

46:45 Making pre-launch valuations. It’s not an exact science.

47:45 Computing valuations. It isn’t smart to get a high valuation.

50:10 Strategies on exiting a venture. How to monetise a business.

52:15 Spoon — “The Underdog”

56:04 Inside View 63 ends.