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A recently recorded video conference, discussing how the people will take over the mainstream media. (Yeah, so I fucked up the start, but I wasn’t going to reconvene the meeting was I…)
Privacy is dead, so get over it.
I came to this point in January 2005, and had written a scripted fictional video to drive the point home, but I never got around to producing it. No matter, its now October 2005, so I figured I better get the idea out there.
The way technology is heading, we will soon all be carrying around multipurpose handheld devices for phone, organising and audio/visual playback and recording. These devices will all be directly IP addressable on the Internet, meaning we will soon have the ability to broadcast 24 hour a day footage of our or other peoples’ lives. I could connect to your camera in real time, record, remix and make it available to someone else in real time.
With the digital age, electronic recording of personal details, and the countless surveillance cameras that film us every day of our lives, many of which are also now available on the Internet, governments started to put privacy legislation in place several years ago.
However the interesting thing is that governments realise that prevention isn’t the answer. These laws don’t hide and protect our personal information, they mostly only allow us to find out what people have already recorded about us.
Like was the case with DRM, the flexibility of the technology will eventually outweigh the right to privacy. Like region coding on DVDs, manufacturers will open up their device capability, because we want them to. There’s a market for small unrestricted cameras and audio recorders, and the market will certainly supply them.
So let us assume that privacy will inevitably be massively breached, and that we have no control over it. What happens next?
Well, because so much footage will be available on the Internet, people will begin to get used to it, and eventually not actually care that their lives are being recorded and made available to the public. With billions upon billions of personal videos available online, who will really care any more? And if that’s the case, then privacy is effectively dead.
The only reason we are precious about our privacy, is because we’ve always had it that way, and we’ve been brought up to think that way.
When I raised this at the Melbourne videoblogger meetup earlier this year, the response was that the public would eventually self regulate and stop privacy breaches. But as a pretty moral person myself, I have no qualms including other people in my videos without their permission, and I’m sure most videobloggers are the same. What happens when the immoral people start videoing? As video recorders become ubiquitous, the self regulating moral few will have no effect at all.
While current opinion is that a person’s privacy needs to be respected and protected, in the long run it won’t be, and we’ll just get over the preciousness of privacy. In the circles I’m in, I constantly meet people who no longer care about privacy and being filmed. When will you?
Privacy is dead. So get over it.
I’ve finally changed my domain name from my ISP URL to a real URL. Please change any URL you have pointing to my old site (www.zipworld.com.au/~kashum), to my new www.kashum.com site.
Or for reference:
Site/blog/vlog: http://www.kashum.com
RSS (2.0) feed: http://www.kashum.com/rss2.xml
I’ll leave the old domain around for two weeks, so please change them as soon as possible in your reader or whatever client you’re using.
Changing URLs is annoying for you and me, and I realise its easier to just delete me than change me, but please stick with it, I promise I’ll be good (or bad, whatever you’d usually expect).
Special thanks to Nathan, who kindly donated the domain a few months back. I’ve only just had time to do make it all happen.
Via David Maney, a meme.
RULES:
- Go into your archive.
- Find your 23rd post (or closest to it).
- Find the fifth sentence (or closest to it).
- Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
My 23rd post is about the Speech Accent Archive, the fifth sentence (or third, because there is no fifth) is:
Only one from Australia though, which is a shame.
Is it compelling, or just a fade of the new, like hypercolour tshirts?
Home movies are boring, I know because I grew up amongst families who used to shoot on Super 8 and have viewings at their houses. Apart from an exceptional few, most home movies are really boring. Wow, that’s Fred and Mary doing what they always do, but this time on a white screen in the dark! Why not turn the lights on and just ask them over?
So why aren’t videblogs boring? Well, the ones that are home videos are boring, and there’s more and more of them every day. In 2004 they weren’t, because they were a fad, and we got a kick out of seeing them online and in RSS feeds. But now you have to be something special or out of the ordinary if you want to keep an audience of anyone but your closest friends.
It’s the same with blogging. If you want to find out what your friends are doing, then become one of almost 9 million members of Live Journal. The popular blogs are the ones doing or saying innovative things, and not just diary entries or home movies.
Sure videoblogging is taking off, but after the “home movies on the Internet” buzz is over, hopefully we’ll be left with some really interesting, if not amazing DIY content.
I try to keep this in mind with each video I do. Is this a home video? Or is it something more worthy of using up my viewers’ valuable time?
I’m testing Google AdSense here. Not sure if that clashes with my morals. Let me know if it clashes with yours.
An Instant Vlog is a videoblog post which was not planned, and has no overdubs. It is instant, ad hoc and improvised.
You can add any kind of text after the fact, including text titles and credits. You can also add video and audio filters, but you cannot add any video or sound or animation (e.g. credits) that weren’t filmed by the camera at the time of the recording.
Down with planned narrative, and down with pretentious home videos and short films. Improvise, show me something from your life that you had no idea was going to happen, or just turn your camera on and shoot first, define your boundaries later.
Once uploaded, tag it in mefeedia as instantvlog
Instant Vlogging. Do it! Do it now!