Paddy’s Valley

Conor O’Neill was interviewed by Ryan Carson during the FOWA Road Trip in Dublin last Thursday and, after briefly talking about his own company, gave a great introduction to Paddy’s Valley and the Web 2.0 scene in Ireland. See below -

Earlier today Karlin Lillington left a comment here to let us now that either she or John Collins will be travelling with us on Paddy’s Valley to report on our activities.

This is absolutely wonderful news and if anyone doubted that this trip has a very serious core purpose, I think they can now rest easy.

Karlin’s comment in full:

Either John Collins or I will be covering this week with all of you for the Times, most likely me, as the Valley is my home turf and where I grew up.

I also have been approached about possibly setting up some contacts with some Valley folks of interest that I know on the blogging/social networking side. Amongst those mentioned are Dan Gillmor & Dave Winer. If this is of interest let me know. Also anyone with the most remote interest in computing will want to see the Computer History Museum in Mountain View — their collection in Visible Storage is amazing — I know the director there fairly well and can likely set up a special tour with a few extras. Also there is a separate museum, The Tech, in San Jose. It is more a hands on contextual and thematic sort of place but also interesting.

I was also suggesting you should do a group lunch at Buck’s in Woodside as, along with the old Wagon Wheel, that IS the heart of Valley deals and ideas.

If people have other interests let me know and I will see what I can do.

With help from Mike Kiely, Liam Noonan of IrishSilicon.com (appropriately) has now recorded a light hearted anthem for the Paddy’s Valley tour – “Money in the Jar” (mp3). Lyrics here.

Memorization is mandatory for all those traveling – before getting on the plane you will be required to perform a verse in the airport pub with pint in hand

BBC’s technology show Click is taking a new look at Silicon Valley. Part 1, which you can watch in Real Player includes interviews with the Twitter founders and Teqlo investor Peter Rip in South Park. South Park being the location around which companies like Six Apart, Adobe, Podshow, Technorati and Citizen Agency are based (see the Paddy’s Valley map).

We now have a full set of logos available for use in media coverage and as badges on your blog. Here’s a sample:

The full set is available on Flickr.

A BIG thank you to Jan, Conor and Wannita at Touristr for taking care of this.