http://blinkmedia.org/blog Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:52:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blink are taking part in a consultation workshop tomorrow with a group of young carers from across Cumbria. We'll be exploring the possibility of making digital artworks about caring, connectivity, managed woodland and personal experience. This is a collaboration between Folly, Art Locates Me, The Forestry Commission and Grizedale Park.I ... http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=166 Blink are currently developing a brand new multi-nodal Bluetooth distribution system ( not decided on a name yet ) for The Lighthouse in Brighton's White Night film trail. Night time revellers will be able to pick up films on their on your mobile as they move from venue to venue. White ... http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=165 Three cheers for the Big Flipflop Witch. Andy bagged Blink a Yorkshire Digital Award for Best Application of Mobile Technology for Five Trees Forest a pervasive games using mobile phones developed with Ben Childs from Common Agency. The award was sponsored by all the lovely people at 4ip For more information on ... http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=164 Some coverage of the UK's Digital Future summit today. The Guardian's report on Gordon Brown's keynote speech. http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=163 Recognising your mother's face is one of the first things we learn to do.  The composition of a human face is so ingrained and familiar that some of us see faces everywhere we look. Hello Little Fella is great Flickr group sent to me today by Lucy - there are ... http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=162 Drive Fast, Avoid the Cops Application: Trapster Platforms: iPhone, BlackBerry Price: FREE! People like to go fast. Two-thirds of drivers frequently exceed the speed limit, according to a recent study, and we suspect the other third just filled out the survey too quickly. This means everyone can benefit from Trapster, a program that ... http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=160 Writers Anne Sansom and Shamshad Khan ran creative writing workshops at two Manchester schools, Abraham Moss and Cedar Mount, and Anne Sansom ran workshops for teachers and students at Lambra High School, Punjab, India. In both Manchester and India teachers and students were asked to write poems about the places ... http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=159 Anywhereblogs was an initiative for the whole of Manchester, one of the first public, citywide services of its kind in the world. Anywhereblogs enabled mobile phone users to discover and create the secret life of the places and events that mattered to them, while out and about around their city, ... http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=158 For about a year, from February 2007, we put up posters at bus stops in Manchester asking "Where were you happiest to arrive and why?" and inviting people to reply by text message, or read what someone else has written, again by text.About 2000 people read messages, and 400 sent ... http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=157 A packed programme of speakers share ideas on audio hacking, social technologies, generative music, pervasive gaming, Emo wells, satcoms, what to do with all the stuff and ties which double up as arousal indicators in Bates Mill, Huddersfield. Click wlthandout to see full programme. http://blinkmedia.org/blog/?p=155