We’re using twitter to collect and share links, thoughts, opinions etc relating to the Bugs research interests. Follow us @follybugs.

We will also add links to some of the longer reports, articles, blog posts and projects we find and share via twitter in one place here [list last updated 19/07/2011, most recent items first]:

Art has the power to create communities, Guardian article
via @AIR_artists

TED’s Chris Anderson: the man who made YouTube clever, Guardian article
via @marcusromer

Free and Open For All: Interview with Jake Harries by Marc Garrett
via @furtherfield

Internet’s memory effects quantified in computer study - BBC News

Google+: One Hell of a Trojan Horse, Tech Crunch article

A List of Completely Wrong Assumptions About Technology Use in Emerging Economies
via @digitaylor

Two relevant blogs posts from 2010 by Jennie Stoddart: Response to ACE’s Digital audiences: engagement with arts and culture online report and notes from Inspiring Digital Engagement Festival at Sheffield Hallam University.

Where’s our Cultural Revolution? Article on Mailout.co

The AHRC and the ‘Big Society’: reflections on the neo-liberal takeover of the academy by Bob Brecher
via @jennifermjones

The battle for arts and minds article by Alistair Smith on the Lost Arts campaign
via @ArtsPro

Information about the Culture Effects: Culture and the Impact Agenda event at Manchester University
via @MUAMPP

Angry Young Academics: The Uncut Version by Jennifer Jones

The Facebook Mirror by Lisa Lebduska on Inside Higher Ed website

People power: It’s the taking part that counts article on participation and 21st century political art by Ekow Eshun in the Independent

Why Twitter’s Oral Culture Irritates Bill Keller (and why this is an important issue) by Zeynep Tufekci
via @glinner

On The Network Manifesto
via @fraying

Blog post by Claire Welsby on the Council Of Digital Arts media art ecology discussion
via @FuturEverything & @claire_w

Arts Council NPO Funding region by region statistics on the participatory arts
via @mailout

Blog post by Jennie Stoddart on Socially Engaged Practice & New Model Visual Arts Organisations Event

“Listening to Firefox” event report
via @fresh_squeezed & @MadLabUK