The Shift-Time Blogging Project

We ran the first session at The Hive last week. The next one is tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm with another on the 16th and all are welcome.

Here’s some of the blog posts that were posts that were written after the event:

Shift Time…..Where it all starts - Photographer Steve Green who’s very active on the Shropshire Flickr Community writes his first ever blog post:

I have had an on line presence for a good while now, being a regular contributor to various forums, having my own Flickr account and more recently participating in the joys of both Facebook and Twitter. Flickr has been the most valuable to me and through it I have made some good friends who share the common interest of photography (and real ale, but that is a happy accident). I have seen various blogs in the past and know people who use them but they have never really inspired much interest, to me it seemed like a lot of bother to constantly update and diarise my life which I think that other people really wouldn’t be interested in, that was until yesterday.

After listening to Pete Ashton talk about his and various others blogs I realised that there is actually a lot of value in publishing regularly to a personal blog, particularly if you include lots of links to other peoples activities, and that there is a big opportunity being provided by the Arts Council who are funding this part of the Shift Time festival, so thanks to them for that!

Aw, shucks. Thanks Steve.

Martin Smith has been blogging on the Shropshire Visual Arts blog and asks “Does the fact that some people are asked to blog about something, stop an arts project being landed on an unsuspecting public?” That one of the reasons for doing this, although how effective that’ll be with this particular festival I wouldn’t like to say. Hopefully by setting a precedent with this sort of outreach program (for want of a better term) there’ll be more consultation and engagement in the future. We’ll see. He also shared the video of Theo Jansen’s TED talk on the site.

Sue Jones has started a brand new blog on discovering that her old website will be closed down by Geocities later this year and has posted Like The Weather about Opera North’s The Weather Man taking place at Theatre Severn on July 11th which “explores the relationship between FitzRoy and Darwin on the Beagle” with a review of This Thing of Darkness, a book about Admiral FitzRoy.

Those are blog posts specifically related to Shift-Time and this blogging project but it’s great to see they’re also blogging about other things. Lorna Rutter has been very prolific since starting her blog. Nothing about the festival yet but that’s fine. She’s obviously got plenty to write about already.

To check out the blogs of people involved in this project (and remember, it’s incredibly easy to get involved - you just have to start a blog or something similar) check the links on the right hand site of this site.