fuck it, I'm just gonna look at porn anyway.

Large portions of our lives are automatically recorded, we leave long electronic scent trails everywhere we go. Google already knows all our sexual fetishes, but thankfully those we socialise with do not. That's the important difference, it's often far easier to tell secrets to strangers, you don't want to be shattering any carefully crafted perceptions now.

This must be the awkward, self-conscious stage of the experiment, cos according to the logs people are actually looking at my browser history, and it's a very weird place to be. Suddenly I feel like a dick. You know one of those horrible social situations where you lose all self confidence and think christ almighty! they're all staring.

Doing this maxwell thing has made me think about what I actually do on the net. Compulsively checking my facebook, looking at gmail again to see if anything new has turned up. I color coded everything on maxwell today so it's a lot easier to see where the time goes, My god! What kind of impression am I makin here? It's not something you usually have to consider, and now I find myself looking at the history myself and considering it. And yet, still, I can't help being indifferent for long periods, just doing what I normally do regardless, It's just too much effort to try and control that much information. Besides, I'm really no different than anybody else, a little more self-obsessed maybe, and then again maybe not. Who can say what other people do on the internet?

Terrible, deviant things I'll bet.

Then again, I am a little hesitant about going on a good solid porn binge. There's something about posting the porn I'm jerking off to on the internet in realtime that is both disturbing and arousing. Yeah, you probably feel the same way. In any case I'm quickly banging up against the glass walls of my “transparency”, finding all the jagged edges.

What would it be like if everyone did this? Imagine you were recorded each and every moment and that anyone, anybody at all could wind back and watch any point in your life. And that you could do the same to anyone else. We'd all have to be a lot more forgiving I'd guess. A lot more tolerant. Our public and private faces would have to be the same, the only privacy we would have would be in our heads. Cos... it might be a good thing. Just sayin'.

That said, there are definite portions of my time on earth I wouldn't want anybody seeing, certain sections that would make me shrivel up and die. In a funny way not only does this feed all kinds of crazy self-esteem deficits and malignant narcissistic supply issues but I kinda hope it will make me somewhat of a better person, or at least a more honest one, with myself and with others. Truth is I find everyone else endless fascinating—I regularly devour entire online lives and I'd be a pig in shit heaven if there were more browser histories available. I had this idea of making a firefox plugin & an associated wordpress plugin so no code necessary and anybody with basic computer skills could start putting their internet life online. Issue a challenge. Start a community based around radical self-revelation.

I'll add it to my “to-do” list.

Oh crap, every time I use google as a spell checker it ends up in there too.

What would happen if your browser history, instead of being an intensely personal and private thing, was made absolutely public? I guess I'm about to find out, because I've just put a rolling 24 hour list online here. The internet as performance art. I'm kinda wondering if this will change my behavior. It's a lot of information to give away, but perhaps nobody will care. All I know is, if somebody I found in anyway interesting had their browser history online I'd be sniffing through that shit like a professor through an undergraduates underwear pile.

Yeah. My awareness that someone might be watching could change things. You don't want to scratch your balls in public. On the other hand, on all those reality TV shows where the participants are filmed 24/7 eventually they just stop caring about the camera.

I don't think anyone has done this before, least-ways not voluntarily. Just like the idea of being as transparent as humanly possible.

Gonna upgrade features etc later, will write more about how this affects my day-to-day, if indeed it does.

ob-la-di, ob-la-da – life goes on.

VIOLATE YOUR OWN PRIVACY MOTHERFUCKERS, DO IT BEFORE SOMEBODY ELSE DOES!