Watchers
So many bug eyes
pry, our privacy is lost —
what have we to hide?
Here’s a related video:
Haiku: Watchers
So many bug eyes
Rob's Surf Report
Where the closest ocean is all in my mind . . .
Rob's Surf Report 
This is my take on “reality” TV shows: it’s a take, turned inside out, on the old show formats.
The first kind involves “studio unknowns”. Producers attempt to emulate known formats like sitcom, game show, soap opera romance, and so on. We are meant to laugh at the awkward juxtaposition: “Oh ho ho, look at those Average Joes, pretending to be celebrities!”
The second kind involves celebrities, of course, and these shows take on more of a documentary style. Again, we’re meant to laugh at the awkward reversal: “Hahaha, look at these celebrities, pretending to be Average Joes!”
But I hadn’t thought of a connection to attitudes about surveillance. The PBS Idea Channel host makes a very good point, I think, that the Big Brother show format already is surveillance.
Yeah and I believe it does desensitize us to the surveillance too. That’s a good show, I subscribe to it on YouTube.
Yep, me too! My first thought was, “How did I miss this episode?”
Maybe it’s because we have a D-Link media box connected to the TV, and since my wife set up with her account, they are regularly watching other shows. I sometimes watch various YouTube stuff on my desktop, but really prefer having it on the tele (especially since blogging, gaming, and paying bills eats up most of my computing time).
It is convenient. We watch it more now that we have the PS3, and we can keep our daughter busy with Muppet videos and stuff when we need to get chores done.
But it would be nice if it supported multiple sign-on, like Netflix on PS3 does.
Yes, it would.
We should make that a criterion for being known as a ‘cutting-edge app’.