techno-culture

I’ve just uploaded a new podcast which features four student teams from last year’s national Imagine Cup third level technology competition, chosen as part of Microsoft’s student Innovation Accelerator to pitch their projects to a den of dragons at this year’s Irish Imagine Cup final, held last week in the Science Gallery in Dublin. All [...]

Tags: Imagine Cup, podcast

Sorry for the delay in getting this one up this morning! I had to wait to get the validation key for the software I use to create the feed items but it is finally done. You can download the podcast here and also subscribe to the feed.What’s this one about? Anyone who is interested in [...]

Tags: Pixar, podcast, Rhythm & Hues

I’ve just put the new podcast up, a recording of a talk and Q&A session with Joe Rospars, the man behind Barack Obama’s phenomenally successful use of Web 2.0 technologies in his presidential  campaign and in particular, on his campaign website, barackobama.com. Rospars was in Dublin on Wednesday for the launch of Fianna Fail’s new [...]

Tags: podcast

Today’s Technoculture podcast is available here and is also archived along with the previous programmes at the podcast page (link at the top right of the site here). This week I kick off what I intend to be a regular feature — The Geek Bookshelf — in which a technologist selects a favourite book and [...]

Tags: Chris Horn, podcast, Soul of a New Machine

Here’s this week’s podcast, featuring an interview with HP Ireland managing director Martin Murphy, on technology and innovating during a downturn. Available in MP3 format here. You can also download last week’s podcast, with interviews with Irish TImes colleague John Collins and Science Gallery director Michael John Gorman, here. And check back in next Friday [...]

Tags: podcast, technoculture

Sheesh, finally got this sorted for the friday 16 January episode; the latest version of iTunes has completely changed the menu system for creating an mp3 and it took me forever to find a way of redoing the first podcast as a (considerably larger) mp3 file. At any rate it is downloadable here, andthe new [...]

Tags: podcast, technoculture

Much talk back and forth about getting these off the ground, but the first should go up at the end of next week I believe (all the planets aligning correctly, my central interview taking place glitchless, and assuming no collisions with asteroids). The intention is for this to be a Techno-culture podcast and not a [...]

Tags: podcast