Alongside the main Shift-Time Festival we're running a project to get Shrewsbury and the surrounding area blogging. We want people to use the festival to experiment with all sorts of "social media" services be they weblogs, photo and video sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube or Twitter. The end result, we hope, is to give Shrewsbury the tools to talk to itself about things that matter, whatever they may be.

This blog will act as a hub, collecting and linking to online activity that is either relevant to the festival or Shrewsbury in general, and posting things to to help and inspire you to blog about Shift-Time.

So get involved by setting up a blog or sharing your photos and videos online and let us know what you're up to so we can mention it on the blog.

Send us your photos

by Pete Ashton

If you’ve been taking photos during Shift-Time we’d love to see them and so would everyone else.

If you’re using Flickr, please add them to the Shift-Time Flickr Group. Here’s a slideshow of the most recent photos in the group:

If you’re not a Flickr user you can email them to:

public06word@photos.flickr.com

Put the name your photo in the Subject of the email and a description in the email body. You might also want to put your name in here so we know who took the photo!

These will go into This account and we’ll add the best to the Flickr group.

But to be honest the best thing to do is sign up for Flickr and get your own account. Then you really own your photos.