I've started cycling in the mornings and have a simple goal ofsustaining 20 km/hr on a kilometer long segment without sweating. For me, that is progress. Continue reading

IMAGINING THAT one of my descendants in the late 2090s might be interested in what I was thinking near the start of the 21st century, I wonder what my great great grandparents, like Elizabeth Anders McKelvey (above), might have told me about living in 18th century Ireland. Continue reading

AFTER ONE WEEK looking to Twitter to spread the word about "Ideas in Education" and getting over 2500 impressions that generated more than 1000 media plays, we have achieved only two percent conversion. But I have learned that short videos that show stories about people doing things perform much better. Continue reading

I'VE DISCOVERED fascinating cross-talk beyond the 448 page Mueller Report. Local radio host Fran Curry counted on me to digest the large document so I printed it for him and then went on air to localise its content for Tipperary listeners. Continue reading

SEVERAL INEVITABLE FORCES weave in and out of our lives. Kevin Kelly writes about them in his book The Inevitable and game art designers Neil, Adam, and Rafal explain how specific trends affect the gaming industry. Continue reading

AS PART OF A CLOUD COMPUTING meet-up in the Questum Centre, videographer Jack Allen will attempt to fly the Clonmel Digital Campus drone on a survey mission along the proposed route of the Clonmel outer ring road. If high winds scrub the flight, we will be inside a Zoom Conference room that you're welcome to join between 1115 and 1145 Irish time on Saturday, April 13, 2019. Continue reading

ALONG WITH JACK ALLEN, our first class videographer, I'm learning to trust Litchi as the pilot of our campus DJI drone. Continue reading

I ENJOYED A CLASSROOM conversation with Jess McNamara about cognification, an inevitable trend described by Kevin Kelly. We're diving into The Inevitable with 35 students as they examine how changing technology may affect their lives and livelihood in the decades ahead. Continue reading

BLAISE WALSH EXPLAINS how cognification is happening already. After all, it's inevitable, says Kevin Kelly. Continue reading

WE HAVE BEEN diving into The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly for the past three years and if you're interested in following the conversations, you can simply ask your podcatcher for "Emerging Trends Kun Keen" or have the recordings drop directly by subscribing to the podcast. In today's episode, Amie O'Mahony got a little help from Otter.ai around 8:12 into Episode 22. Continue reading

Listen to "We Live With Our Filters E19" on Spreaker. Continue reading

AFTER 25 YEARS watching St Patrick's Day unfold in Ireland, I believe I have a refined perspective of what makes a Paddy's Day Parade authentic. It depends upon the place where the parade unfolds. Continue reading

ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING modules I teach in the Limerick Institute of Technology invites students to dive into The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly and then emerge with thoughts concerning the effects technology has on our daily lives. We break down the exercise with a series of deep dives and structured discussion Continue reading

I'M CURRENTLY EXPERIMENTING with an educasting channel called "Emerging Trends" that I want to offer as a mini-MOOC through iTunes U, YouTube, and Spreaker. At the moment, everything revolves around creative multimedia workflow. Continue reading

I HAVE STARTED talking about major news items with my 11 yo daughter. This week, 10 items from the Sunday Times and Sunday Business Post caught my attention. Continue reading

I REALISED I HAD MADE 100 reviews on TripAdvisor after I wrote about the best lunch I ever had in Ireland. It was at the Corner House Bistro in Athlone on a cold, rain-swept Saturday. Continue reading

ONE OF THE MOST ENDEARING memories I have on my third level campus came through the eyes of my 6yo son who remembers fondly how he won a rocket race during a Maker Meet. Today, Chris Reina from MakerMeet.ie visits the Clonmel Digital Campus to share how he has evolved his making and sharing from evening events into day-long classroom activities. Continue reading

I'M WATCHING Jack Allen's creative multimedia project take a streaming twist as he sets up the DJI Phantom 3 with Wowza Live Streaming services. Continue reading

TEN YEARS AGO, in February 2009, the final edition of Adam Curry's Daily Source Code dropped into my iTunes account. There's been nothing like Adam's vibe since. Continue reading

LIMERICK PRINTMAKERS AT 20 (LP at 20) is an exhibition of new prints in The Hunt Museum in Limerick on Thursday, February 14, 2019. The exhibition continues through Monday, April 22, 2019. Continue reading

>I HAVE WORKING NOTES from conferences I've attended during the past 20 years (like the one pictured in this blog post) that depict Ireland as a country with two separate nodes of productivity. There's productivity in the indigenous sector and there's productivity in the multinational sector. Continue reading

BASED ON AVIATION WEATHER forecasts and on a WhatsApp message that described rough flying conditions, it's possible the light aircraft carrying Emiliano Sala encountered in-flight icing conditions before entering an aerodynamic stall. My thoughts are with the families of the pilot Ibbotson and passenger Sala as the accident investigation commences. Continue reading

AMAZON OFFERED REDUCED pricing for the Kindle Paperwhite and I jumped at the opportunity to buy a 32 GB model with its Bluetooth service for the Audible collection I have amassed. Continue reading

UPDATED: This works! I AM EXPLORING a way to connect our DJI Phantom 3 drone to RMTP services offered by Wowza Streaming Cloud. In a previous test, we could not get a good digital video signal to encode on the drone before transcoding on Wowza. Continue reading

I LIKE STARTING MY MORNING with A-List journalism and that's why I tap into the Washington Post, New York Times, and The Irish Times. It's part of my workflow now as I use a combination of my Kindle Paperwhite, my Day One Journal, my Brydge keyboard, and my blog. Continue reading