May You Live in Interesting Times

This weekend Cardiff is playing host to a weekend celebrating creative technologies. May You Live in Interesting Times, as it's called, is being organised by Bloc (Creative Technology Wales) and Chapter. The weekend is split into two sections. There is a conference going on over the weekend, at which such things as gaming and loative media will be discussed. While this is going on out and about in Cardiff people will be demonstrating their creative arts be it in the means of film, practical displays or hands-on activities. Examples of such events include Blast Theory's Can You See Me Now? (image above). A game in which players virtually control runners in the real city of Cardiff. Players will be located outside the National Museum and using hand-held computer devices will direct their runners around the city.
"Well, that's really cool, you're thinking." But you live nowhere near Cardiff, or you do, but the weather's a bit nasty at the moment. You're not sure if you'll have time to go along, and even if you do, how are you going to watch a film up at Chapter whilst attending an event down in the Bay? In the spirt of the event, you do it virtually.
Reporters will be out on the streets attending the events, talking to the onlookers, and writing about what they see. They will (almost) instantly blog their reports on the event's own blog, so that you can find out what is going on, pretty much as it happens. This is instant journalism, and I am lucky enough to be co-reporterting the event alongside Sarah Chapman, a fellow student at Cardiff School of Journalism.