From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Correspondence with Ronnie Corbett

by Woodsy 31/10/2006 in Bristol

Bristol Wireless has recently received an email from Ronnie Corbett, warden of Princess Royal Gardens in Redfield, where they installed an LTSP suite of allegedly ‘redundant’ computers in the residents’ common room. Ronnie now wishes to reach out to the local community and invite them in, where the resident mentoring team of silver surfers will [...]

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KWMC visits Neighbourhood Arts

by Roz 31/10/2006 in Bristol

Dialogue 4: Roz Hall of Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) meets Annie Beardsley, Neighbourhood Arts, The Health Park on 11 October 2006
I travelled to Knowle West Health Park where I met with Annie Beardsley. Annie told me that digital photography is used a lot in her work for marketing and publicity but the equipment they [...]

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KWMC meets The Park

by Roz 31/10/2006 in Bristol

Dialogue 3: Roz Hall of Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) meets Louise Elliott, Clive Harry and Emma Hinton, The Park: 9 October 2006
I travelled to The Park to meet with Louise Elliott, Emma Hinton and Clive Harry. Clive told me that he is manager of The Park as a whole, and that Emma and Louise [...]

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BBC Innovation Labs come to Bristol

by Clare 30/10/2006 in Bristol

Following their success with pilots earlier this year, the BBC is extending its Innovation Labs programme for 2006/7 and will be visiting Bristol to launch the scheme on Friday 3 November.
Innovation Labs bring together BBC Commissioners and regional digital media companies to develop and commission innovative new products and services for the BBC. The launch [...]

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Green energy

by Clare 30/10/2006 in Green ICT
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Local Democracy Week

by carolhayward 27/10/2006 in Bristol

Last week was the national initiative, Local Democracy Week, which aims to improve understanding of local democracy, particularly with young people.
In Bristol, we’ve taken part in the 2-week online activity, I’m a councillor, get me out of here for the last two years and this year was a bumper year with 6 local councillors and about [...]

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Schools mediascape site launched today

by Clare 26/10/2006 in Bristol

Futurelab today launch the Create-A-Scape website, with the support of the DfES and HP Labs, to enable teachers and students to create mediascapes as easily as possible and to find all the resources they need to make them in one place.
A mediascape is composed of sounds and images placed virtually outside. The images and sounds [...]

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GreenBristol in Green Awards

by Clare 25/10/2006 in Bristol

GreenBristol has been shortlisted for the first Green Awards. The shortlisting is for the production of Bristol’s first green map under the category Best Direct Mail B2C. A low resolution version can be downloaded from http://www.sendspace.com/file/hekuad.
The map will be distributed to all 4,200 households in the Neighbourhood Solutions area of Bristol in the next few [...]

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A virtual chatterbox

by Woodsy 25/10/2006 in Technology

Recent visitors to Bristol Wireless’ chat channel will have noticed a new user – eggzy – in addition to the usual suspects. When you log in, eggzy’s there with a friendly greeting for you, but unlike everyone else on the channel, eggzy isn’t human.

In fact, eggzy is an IRC bot, originally developed by EggHEADS.org, and [...]

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