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Time travel through Bristol on the iPhone: The Time Traveller's Guide to Bristol project will launch a website later this week and an iPhone app at on July 28, allowing users to browse archive material and upload their own images of contemporary Bristol. It features 100 years of film and photography focused on six areas of Bristol, and invites users to superimpose archive material on a 3D model of contemporary shots - some of which were badly damaged during WW2, like Castle Park.

When Jonathan Ross is helping with the kids' homework, when Jamie Oliver bakes, when any of my 75 closest pals have coffee, I know about it - instantly. Why? Because, like at least 100,000 Brits, I Twitter. I Twitter from bed before I get up; when I arrive at work; when something happens; when nothing happens. Once I chain-smoked, now I chain-Twitter.

Eine Reflektion über Populärkultur und die Rolle der Kritik in Zeiten sozialer Medien...: "The point is that authority has migrated from critics to ordinary folks, and there is nothing - not collusion or singleness of purpose or torrents of publicity - that the traditional critics can do about it. They have seen their monopoly usurped by what amounts to a vast technological word-of-mouth of hundreds of millions of people."

As part of a series focusing on national identity and the future of the United Kingdom, we'd like to know what you think about the idea of being British and part of the UK. What sort of terms would you use to describe your nationality and how you fit into the UK as a whole? ("Liverpudlian, Welsh, Welsh-Irish, Black-british" - what words do you use if any?).

I read with interest this week an article by Ruth Jamieson in The Guardian extolling the virtues of Twitter for us visual arts types. It largely confirmed what I've known for nearly a year now: Twitter is a great way to stay virtually connected with friends and professional contacts. It's fast, painless and has a Zen-like 140-character limit that disallows users from overwhelming other users with lengthy monologues.

Storytelling: digital technology allows us to tell tales in innovative new ways. As the tools available to publishers grow more sophisticated, it's up to us to experiment and see what sticks. [...]Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses. When enlisted by charismatic leaders and turned into manifestos, dogmas and social policy, they've been the foundations for religions and political systems. When a storyteller has held an audience captive around a campfire, a cinema screen or on the page of a bestseller, they've reinforced local and universal norms about where we've been and where we're going. And when they've been shared in the corner shop, at the pub or over dinner they've helped us define who we are and how we fit in. Human experience is a series of never-ending, overlapping stories bumping into one another in expected and unexpected ways.[...]

Um es kurz zu machen: ich bin an einem Beitrag mit dem Titel "The Death of the Curator" hängengeblieben, den Pete (sorry, ich war zu blöd, den Nachnamen irgendwo im Blog zu finden) vor ein paar Tagen auf seinem New Curator Blog veröffentlicht hat. Er fragt sich darin, ob die Idee einer von ZeitungsleserInnen kuratierten Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Kunst, wie sie The Guardian und die Saatchi Gallery gerade realisieren, das Ende der Kuratorentätigkeit einläutet?