From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Knowle West Goes Green

by Clare 16/10/2006 in Bristol

Archimedia plans by architects White Design.
Awareness for Knowle West Media Centre’s Straw Bale Panel Initiative will be raised at the Knowle West environmental awareness event, taking place at the Health Park, Downton Road, Knowle West on Thursday 26 October from 2.15 pm– 5 pm. The first panel will be built by staff during the day [...]

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STMicroelectronics: 20 years in city

by Clare 13/10/2006 in Bristol

STMicroelectronics is this week celebrating 20 years of its design centre in Bristol. ST’s Advanced Research abd Development Centre houses 200 engineers and designers working on the latest processor and chip technology for HD DVD, Blu ray, DVD recorders and set-top box designs, as well as chips for GPS satellite navigation systems, printers and embedded [...]

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Knowle West Community Contribution

by Roz 13/10/2006 in Bristol

Introduction
I’m currently working in Knowle West, talking to local people and organisations to gather together their ideas about using digital media. The collation of this information will then:
o Inform the project plan and the contents of the bid
o Evidence the needs and aspirations of people in Knowle West regarding use of digital media
o Generate ideas [...]

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Innovation award for city company

by Clare 12/10/2006 in Bristol

BBC News today reports that a Bristol University-based company which uses microwaves to detect breast cancer has won an Innovation in Engineering award. Micrima won the electronics award for equipment which is said to be more effective than X-rays to detect potentially lethal breast tumours.
Using microwaves to detect the tumours results in [...]

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DepicT! goes live

by Clare 12/10/2006 in Bristol

Bristol animator Nick Mackie’s DepicT! short-listed film The Flimsies.
DepicT!, Watershed and Encounters‘ short film competition, has just published it’s shortlist online. Challenging filmmakers from around the world to make mini-masterpieces of under 90 seconds – it received a record number of 370 entries from filmmakers as far afield as Argentina, Iran, Sri Lanka, Australia, Italy, [...]

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A long half-day in the life of Bristol Wireless

by Woodsy 10/10/2006 in Bristol

It’s midday when I arrive at St Werburgh’s Community Centre and the Bristol Wireless lab is a hive of activity. All told, there are half a dozen volunteers in attendance before dispersing to various tasks.
After a while things quieten down a bit. Lloyd, our network engineer, has been joined by Matt Zero (we have several [...]

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Technology – an age thing? Some random thoughts

by Woodsy 09/10/2006 in People

Today The Register has a thought-provoking article about youth, age and technology. Its speculates how will the jobs market cope with accommodating both the less technically gifted older workers (presumably those in their 50s like yours truly) with the influx of younger workers who have grown up with the PC/web/instant messenging/blogging/mashing culture of the 21st [...]

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KWMC wins Queen’s Award

by Clare 09/10/2006 in Bristol

Congratulations to Knowle West Media Centre who have been awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2006.
Young people from Knowle West were delighted to accept the Queen’s Award for services in the community on behalf of the Knowle West Media Centre.
They were presented the award by H.M Lord Lieutenant at the centre’s celebratory Big British [...]

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Why UGC is C.R.A.P.

by Clare 06/10/2006 in People

Tim Burke, the community content editor for the BBC local TV pilot, used an editorial in Broadcast magazine last month to debate the issue of standards around UGC (or user generated content).
Having set themselves a target that 25% of the bulletins on the local TV pilot were to be made up of “community content”, they [...]

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