Inside View from Ireland

An Excellent TippFood Evening

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I SPENT THE BEST PART of Wednesday evening along Lough Derg at Brocka on the Water, a lovely country home with sumptuous meals. You can get a flavour for the place by listening to my TippFood Audioboo or by looking at a Qik clip I shot while walking around the patio area. There's a joy in knowing that everything on your fork might have arrived in the kitchen with just two feet carrying the crate. In Brocka on the Water, most of the herbs come from just around the corner from the kitchen or up a pebbled path where a 20m tunnel of polyethylene surrounds a naturally productive plot of composted soil. The tunnel is a hand-fashioned glasshouse, minus the glass. It's remarkable on its own and critically important in achieving the signature taste of the chef's creations in the dining room of Brocka on the Water.

 

 

Tippfoodboo

 

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Audioboo -- "Tippfoodboo" (4:16) [Direct link to MP3]

Bonus Link: Photos of County Tipperary, Ireland.

Brocka on the Water by day.

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Long Table Harvest

THE LONG TABLE DINNER happens across four special Tipperary venues next week and I'm watching several food producers prepare their checklists for next Wednesday evening's big meal. As a member of a video documentary team, I'm capturing some footage at each of the four venues. Along the way, I'm also getting a lot of local colour, such as the dramatic sweeps of farmland that's now ready for harvest. The Long Table dinner slots into National Heritage Week. In keeping with custom, only food from Tipperary will be served at the traditional long table feast. Fresh, seasonal produce from over 30 food producers-–all members of the Tipperary Food Producers Network-–will be used. The creative menus combined the very best artisan food from throughout north and south County Tipperary. As part of our pre-event coverage, I've sample some delectable samples. Only a few seats remain unreserved for the evening. I feel bad that most of the A-Listed Food Porn Bloggers won't be able to attend. Not to worry--we'll have video footage that will vividly show the five-star Long Table dinners prepared at each of the four venues.

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Full details from the Tipperary Food Producers Network. Direct Line to tickets: +353 52 6182477.

 

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Honeymoon Memories

THE SUMMER OF 1957 was a scorcher in Ireland. That's what I heard from Tony and Kitty Woodhouse as they recalled their honeymoon journey from Dublin to County Kerry just after they got married. My family in Pennsylvania was labouring through a typical humid summer season too. I enjoy flicking through wedding albums from family members as much as the Woodhouses did in the Parknasilla video (above). In the Big Smoke, working horses pulled milk drays every morning through South County Dublin through the 1950s. The roundsmen raced from house to house, arms laden with milk bottles, while the horses ambled steadily forwards. When they were replaced by electric vans, deliveries slowed down, as the vans could not keep up as the horses had done. Nor did they know which houses to stop at. And on the radio, Little Walter played Juke.

Juke

I'm thinking about all these things as my mom and aunt are well into their 80s, with fewer than 30 minutes of digital audio memories between them.

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Previously on Irish Typepad: "Melting Ice Cream Memories," August 20, 2003.

Little Walter -- "Juke"

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Limerick OpenCoffee Proves Constructivism Works

AS YOUTUBE PROVES, Ovi Maps knows the fastest way to get to Limerick OpenCoffee. The August meeting proved that the Limerick group has achieved a rather sophisticated way of networking with a soft touch. As a third level educator interested in constructivism, Limerick OpenCoffee remains a set piece in the theory. You don't have to be an academic to appreciate how disparate pieces can bind closely together. That's happening on the first Thursday of every month in the Absolute Hotel, Sir Harry's Mall, Limerick, Ireland. Next month, we should have stickers or buttons.

 

Opencoffeeboo

 

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Direct link to http://www.insideview.ie/files/opencoffeeboo.mp3 and to the 2:38 video

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Deep Dive Boo from Dotconf

I USED A BIG TABLE aboard Citygold service on Irish Rail to reduce an hour of a Deep Dive into Audioboo into a short six-minute session. In the clip (play it above or below), Mark Rock talks about both the origins and evolution of the social audio service, Peter Donegan talks about brooding hens, and I offer some segues to introduce questions from the audience. The Deep Dive sessions (workshops) were better value than the speaker sessions at the dotconf. The 90-minute beer and cake networking after the day's proceedings was exceptional.

Deep Dive Workshop

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Direct link to http://www.insideview.ie/files/deepdiveboo.mp3 and to the video.

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Irish Boosters

WE'RE TAKING IRISH VOICES into a Deep Dive session at #dotconf in the National College of Ireland today and have included Anthony McGuinness (at left) as cover art for the session. The eight-minute audio snippet that runs from the embedded Audioboo player below is a quick cross-section of audio created and shared by different voices across Ireland. Audioboo is a simple and elegant first step into social audio for those who wish to leverage high-quality sound in local environments. Several people are using Audioboo for interesting things, including local reports from meetings, eureka moments, audio diaries and third level assessments. In Tipperary Institute, Audioboo has enabled me to increase the sophistication and frequency of student work. I'm looking forward to learning how others share their audio during an afternoon session in the dotconf.

If you want to hear voices from the venue, you should check out the dotconf tag in Audioboo.

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Getting Ready for Dotconf

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS about social audio that you'd like answered in a "deep dive" by myself, Peter Donegan and Mark Rock, please leave them as a comment to my blog, on Audioboo, or in the LinkedIn event discussion group. I'm going to show how I digest my own dog food (how I cache and carry audio from different sources), how podcasting has changed from a complex collection of cables, mics and mixers and how social audio is defining important emotive space in our connected world. This is an important revelation for me and the Guardian gives it credence by naming Audioboo's founder as one of the "Media 100" this week. As you might expect, several audio segments will emerge from #dotconf in Dubin on Thursday. It's a hashtag worth listening to.

Getting Ready for Dotconfboo

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The Guardian -- "Media 100 2010", 19 July 2010.

Audioboo -- "Getting ready for Dotconfboo", 20 July 2010.

Direct link to http://www.insideview.ie/files/getting-ready-for-dotconfboo.mp3

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SonyEricsson Pocket Notes

WHILE HANGING OUT in Dublin's Residence Club, watching demonstrators show nice things phones can do, I tapped into Opera Mini to see what I was thinking about five years ago--before the iPhone was carried around in pockets of many friends. I can see my thoughts from 10 years past because I normally jot them down online. Mid-July 2005 was a week after horrific bomb attacks in London--an event captured by pocket-sized mobile phones. It was a week when my thoughts were with Bob Moog as he lay in hospital. It was a week filled with cross-talk about how Google was indexing blogs, something I read on a mailing list on my phone. It would have taken me an hour's worth of reading to read all of those thoughts in 2005 because they would have arrived in staggered intervals. But while standing next to SonyEricsson demonstrators, I could see a stream of tweets on my Xpera X10 that was coursing with ten times the information flow that I got in 2005. I slipped off to a quiet corner to scribble some thoughts from the day in an old-fashioned Moleskine that I carry, then I made a short video clip of those two pages (above), knowing that as soon as I posted the clip and this paragraph online, another 1000 people would glance at the headline. Around 50 will read these words within two hours of their posting.

I wonder how these simple pocket notes will resonate five years from now. I'm setting a date with myself to look back and compare pocket notes.

Direct link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3wfcwPYLDA

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Best Conference Promo

THE DOTCONF MADE the best conference promo I've seen this year! I'm going to the day-long DotConf on Thursday 22 July 2010 in the National College of Ireland, Mayor Street, Dublin where I'm part of an afternoon session using social audio. I plan to show some of the mics I carry around with me during the session, along with fact sheets that show where I got the gear, the price points and online ordering points.

Dotconf

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Direct link to http://www.insideview.ie/files/dotconf.mp3

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Tricking Them to Read

MY PRESENTATION (14-minute video) to the e-learning summer school (#ELSS10) with the Dublin Higher Education Alliance sparked some questions that I will answer in a separate blog post. Below the break, I cite the primary resources that I use to create multimedia content as a third level lecturer in Tipperary Institute.

Tricking Them to Read