From the monthly archives:

August 2007

Community Champions Petition

by Kevin 30/08/2007 in People

The Community Champions Fund has supported literally thousands of individuals across the country to get exciting and creative new projects off the ground in their communities.
Supported by the Department for Education and Skills (now Deptartment for Children, Schools and Families), this fund will end in March 2008, and there are no plans to replace it.
The [...]

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Could things get any worse for the BBC iPlayer?

by Matt 17/08/2007 in Technology

 

After four years of troubled beta testing for the BBC iPlayer, the Beeb could be forgiven for thinking that the situation could not get any worse. It now has: the techies are grumbling at ever lengthening bug lists and the ISPs are wading in regarding the BBC iPlayer’s insatiable appetite for bandwidth. However, if the BBC keeps a [...]

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Free eInclusion Event, 4 & 5th October, London

by Kevin 17/08/2007 in Bristol

Techshare Expo 2007 is a new showcase for products and services helping people with disabilities participate fully in the information age.
From the internet to home computers, educational technologies, video games, digital TV and mobile phones – Techshare Expo 2007 will be a showcase for products, services, tips and techniques.
Entry to the event is free. For [...]

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Event: The Cult of The Amateur: is today’s internet killing our culture?

by Clare 13/08/2007 in Bristol

7 September 2007 | 1900hrs | Watershed, Bristol
Tickets £5.00 / £3.50 Tel: 0117 927 5100
Watershed opened its doors in 1982 to capture that shift in media at the point when satellite was beginning and Channel 4 was just starting up. Arguably, it is only really recently with the explosion of the web that we are [...]

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Offload: Systems for survival

by Clare 09/08/2007 in Bristol

OFFLOAD SYSTEMS FOR SURVIVAL – is the UK’s first interdisciplinary network media and systems arts event on nature, sustainability and ecology.OFFLOAD brings together international, national and local artists and practitioners interested in creating socially engaged work that use new and existing media, highlights include:
Futurefarmers (US) present their ‘Gardening Superfund Sites’, which looks at the influence [...]

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