I knew about the A Dream Of A Life film (which I fear may not make it to the US, though I'd like to see it), but until Phil Gyford wrote this post about the @hidingseeking (and a cast of friends) side-project I had no idea it had a website. Something to look at later.

"The days before Christmas, friends were sharing photos of the build-up, putting up the tree, wrapping presents, sitting on trains getting to parents houses, cooking hams. To me there was a real sense of flow, connection, joining in of everyone’s experience, a bit like a pictorial version of twitter to some degree. Christmas morning was almost magical.
"The previous year on Flickr was almost as magical, once people had a chance to sort through the 100s of photos they’d taken with their dSLR, pick out the best ones, run them through lightroom and then get a chance to upload them. It was nice to look back on the Christmas mornings that people had, rather than having."