Hal Niedzviecki:

Tue Mar 17,
2009,
2:16 GMT

About Hal

Posted by: Hal

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Hey, I’m Hal Niedzviecki. I’m a writer/thinker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with my wife and daughter. Up till now I’ve always considered myself a private person. But at the same time I’m fascinated by people who effortlessly open themselves up to the whole world. So I’ve started a blog to do two things: First, I’m exploring why so many people want to put so much personal information out into the world. Second, I’m going to try it too. In this blog I’m also going to tell the world about my private, everyday life.

But this blog isn’t just going to be a public diary. I’m going to set goals and challenges for myself like posing in my underwear in front of a webcam and trying out for reality tv. Some of this stuff I’ve already done, other things are in the works. Stick with this blog and you’ll read about my ongoing attempts to chronicle and become a part of what I’ve started to call ‘Peep culture’. Blogs, Reality TV, YouTube, Facebook – these are all part of a new culture of self exposure and mutual voyeurism that is unlike anything society has ever come up with before.

So I’m blogging about the new Peep culture. I’ve also written a book about it - The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors. And to help me really understand what it is to have your life turned into someone else’s voyeuristic entertainment, I’ve teamed up with a production company. They’re going to make a documentary about all my various attempts to experience ‘peep culture’. I’ll be blogging about them too.