I'm probably obliged to link to
Radar's profile of Josh Harris. I was once obsessed with
We Live In Public (dead link), Harris' long-ago-defunct attempt to do an online reality tv show, which predated other panopticon phenomena like
Justin.TV,
Ustream,
The Hills, and even
Big Brother. In the middle of the dot-com boom (and perhaps the most telling sign of that age), Harris, who also founded
Pseudo.com (
big press and
big bomb), famously wired his entire house with video cameras. (One of my most-recommended items of all time is Errol Morris'
First Person, which includes an absolutely fascinating episode about Harris and his girlfriend living 24 hours/day online.) Harris is now back with
Operator 11 and, more importantly, a movie called
We Live In Public,
the trailer of which actually puts the whole voyeurism/exhibitionism world under something of a microscope.
