Today, the Sony ICD MX-20 digital dictaphone goes inside an airport scanner, it records the sound track inside Jesper Just’s video installation and it proves that we have some DIY tasks underway in Ireland. We made this podcast in response to hesitations some listeners expressed through Twitter and Facebook. Some listeners also asked for suggestions [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Digital ExpressionTipperary Institute’s Digital Expression exhibition opens this evening in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. We made this short [08:23] introduction using only our handheld digital dictaphone and then distibuted this 6.5 MB 96 kbps MP3 file through a wireless jukebox throughout the evening. Anyone with a Bluetooth phone could receive the file over-the-air and listen to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
St Patricks Day in IrelandWith 12 years of experience, I offer my take on St Patrick’s Day in Ireland. Not to be trusted, I also ask some true Irish the meaning of the day. Plus, I shift some of my tracks from my SonyEricsson K800i cameraphone onto this [20 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] 28-minute podcast as a way [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Fitzgerald On Driving SafetyThe most contentious news item to emerge from southeast Ireland this year came on the heels of a short radio interview local councillor Michael Fitzgerald gave to TippFM. Previous Irish podcasts have discussed the comments spinning around the politician, his perspective and Irish road carnage. This podcast is the first public interview given by Cllr [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Raging About RoadsThe most authentic Irish accent you will ever find on the spoken web starts at the 23:30 point on Underway in Ireland #55, a media writing podcast from County Tipperary, Ireland. We’ll catch up with the shownotes soon but you need to know you’re going to hear the Wylde Bunch, Steffen Coonan, Jill Parr, Joboj, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
On Location with The Culture SlutsWe visit Dublin to join Steve McCormack and Jessie Ward around a table in Thomas Read’s pub in centre city Dublin. That’s a big change from carcasting in Tipperary. Our digital dictaphone caught some of the sounds of the Big Smoke, including the sound of the Luas, some genuine Irish accents and a few buskers. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
How Green Should Our Valley BeWe listen to the Impressions Debate, an annual event by the South Tipperary Arts Centre in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. This year, a panel of Dick Spicer, Mark Collins, Monika Rjtner (at left), and Bernard Goldbach engage an audience of 45 listeners in a discussion that asks, “How green should our valley be?” We snipped [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Damien Blake on Blogging
Damien Blake took the stage in front of a venue of Irish bloggers to explain why he’s blogging. He’s a councillor in Letterkenny and has made an enthusiastic entry into social media–unusual in Irish politics. He explains his perspective in a short snippet saved as a [10.1 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] 14-minute podcast. The [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ciaran Cuffe Blogging for Re-electionCiaran Cuffe knows the difference between a political party’s press release, a mail shot to constituents and a weblog. He explained his use of each of these channels of communications to an Irish audience interested in the way blogs might be used during the upcoming general election. His comments form part of a 21-minute [15.1 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
RagingRoad rage. Air rage. Remote rage. Raging which seems so much a part of 21st century living and such a recent development. Why are we so angry? Is it ever a good thing? What about anger management? Thumbing through Mike Fisher’s book Beating Anger (not available on Amazon) offers some hope. Then there are five [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website