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A visit to Princess Royal Gardens

by Woodsy 05/12/2006 in Bristol

It’s the last Tuesday in November and it’s before 10.00 am – not a sensible time for a nightbird like your scribe. I’m ringing the bell to gain access to Princess Royal Gardens in Redfield. I’m here to meet Heather Barham of Bristol City Council and Ronnie Corbett, scheme manager for PRG. Heather’s come to [...]

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Bristol – Wireless City

by Stephen Hilton 03/12/2006 in Bristol

Picking up on Jane’s post here – my take on of the story is as follows;
Bristol City Council issued an open expressions of interest document in which we invited suppliers of wireless networks to invest in Bristol, to help make it Europe’s most connected city. We didn’t offer money (as I don’t have any) [...]

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Volunteers needed for fashion experiment

by Clare 24/11/2006 in Bristol

Communication-Wear returns to Watershed in December, a research project which integrates mobile phone technology into clothing. Watershed is looking for volunteers to spend an hour trying out the futuristic jackets and the new forms of communication they enable. .

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A family tale

by Woodsy 21/11/2006 in Bristol

At a previous Momentum Group meeting, Dick Penny mentioned the difference Bristol Wireless‘ work at Princess Royal Gardens had made to the lives of elderly residents (including saving legwork going to the bookie!). To reinforce further the difference that IT can make to the lives of older people, I’d like to introduce you to a [...]

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Knowle West Media Centre meets Chris Pickering

by Roz 21/11/2006 in Bristol

26 October 2006
I travelled to KWMC where I met with Chris Pickering, Director of Future Learning, a social enterprise providing training opportunities in Knowle West. Chris told me about his involvement with Knowle West Web and how he has worked closely with Kevin and Diane Jeffries to support them in putting local people on line.
Chris [...]

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Wireless mapping

by Clare 03/11/2006 in Bristol

Ever wondered where in Bristol you can wirelessly access the web for free? Cityspace runs a large free to access Wi Fi network in the city centre. They have used Google Earth to create a map of their coverage. You can look at a full size screengrab of their Streetnet coverage [...]

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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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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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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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