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Thanks to Si Hill for this link. This is fascinating - if i had the right mobile phone, i would download this software. It describes itself as “A mobile phone application for visualizing our urban Familiar Strangers”. A few sound bites for you…
“Jabberwocky is a freely available mobile phone application designed to promote urban community connections and a sense of familiarity, anxiety, and play in public urban places.”
“The principle metaphors of Jabberwockies are “digital scents” and “digital tagging”. As individuals traverse an urban landscape, they simply infuse their path with a unique and detectable digital redolence.”
“One of the most powerful elements of Jabberwocky is that it is not driven by the bits of an online network, but by actual real-life daily ebb and flow within our actual urban landscapes – by the movement and interaction (or non-interaction) of others who’s path we encounter.”
I have been meaning to link to this tangential idea [but transferable, i think] on this website. It will be no surprise to you that i think this is great!!
March 24th, 2005 at 3:47 pm
Can’t hope to understand the Jabberwocky idea (I think the poem is easier to get to grips with!). It all sounds a bit “Big Brother”ish to me…..
However… the loveyourstreet sounds great and I will read it properly when I’ve got half an hour! I once worked out that every street/court (bar about 2) on the Arbours estate had a Christian living them.How’s that for trivia?!
March 24th, 2005 at 5:18 pm
yeah, i was thinking the same - dont understand the technology but love the ninsense poem that is jaberwocky… i remember studying it in year 6…..
March 24th, 2005 at 5:19 pm
*nonsense, sorry, cant type
March 26th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
don’t know the peom … i thought jabberwocky was a creature in star wars… whatever it is it is the opposite to big brother-ish cos it is not a heirarchical topdown monitoring, but an interactive low level thing that brings a bizarre interaction with people walking down a street. it a visual interpretaion of what is already actually happening. in that sense it is community building … maybe
amazing fact about the arbours - does it ever make you reflect on our theology when a fact like that still doesn’t mean that arbours is radically changed by that fact?
March 29th, 2005 at 9:46 am
How do you know that the Arbours ISN’T changed by having so many Christians living here?Children play out until quite late very safely and there’s quite a network of neighbours looking out for neighbours.Generally it’s a popular and pleasant place to live. I wonder what it would be like if there weren’t any Christians??
March 29th, 2005 at 9:48 am
PS. You’ll find the poem, by Lewis Carroll at jabberwocky.com
March 29th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
liz, fair point!!