The Peep Diaries is described as a “bracingly informal book” in a 5 book essay/review that appeared in the recent issue of the London Review of Books. Check out the whole piece here. The other books discussed are

The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future by Craig Watkins
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America by Julia Angwin
The Tyranny of Email: The Four Thousand Year Journey to your Inbox by John Freeman

Last week I was on a long panel discussion about the impact of Reality TV on culture and society. A lot of interesting points were made. You can watch the whole thing here.

…is now available. Apparently it is doing well and has been reviewed by 4 newspapers. If you read Turkish, you can read a review of the book in the newspaper Radikal here.

What follows are the first couple of sentences:

Gündelik hayatta yaşananların mutlaka kavramsal karşılığı vardır. Bu karşılık ya hazırdır yada olayların olgu derecesine yükselmesiyle oluşur. Dil zorlanır. Dil kımıldar. Tam da Deniz Baykal örneğinden hareket edildiğinde, nesnenin özne karşısındaki zaferinden söz edilebilir.

Enjoy!

Actually the headline should read: My reaction to the Reaction Videos article in the Washington Post that quotes my reaction to Reaction Videos. Got that?

Well, it doesn’t really matter. Check out the article, the piece does a nice job with the whole reaction video phenomenon. My take on it gets mocked (see the end of the piece), but I probably deserve it.

LasVegasNow.com recently did a special segment on Living in the Surveillance Society. I comment throughout. You can read the article and watch the two 4 minute videos here. It’s well done  and their conclusion is important, if slightly vague – “Users sacrifice privacy, getting the power of the Internet in return.” What I wonder is if “users” even see giving up privacy as a “sacrifice”? And what, exactly, do they (we) get in return?

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This piece released by wire service AP quotes me extensively about ChatRoulette and how it fits into the rise of Peep Culture.

Here’s a sample: ‘Chatroulette is stark because it feels like television. It’s like sitting in front of the TV flipping channels, except the people are real,’ says Hal Niedzviecki, author of ‘The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors.’

It appeared in the New York Times, The LA Times and a hundred or so other places!