Enjoy the peepshow.

• Author: Flanigen, Bill
• Position: THE PEEP DIARIES - The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, by Hal Niedzviecki - Brief article - Book review

"We want to connect," writes Hal Niedzviecki. "We're willing to reveal ourselves ... if only that we might, for a moment or two, alleviate the loneliness we feel all around us."

Niedzviecki's new book, The Peep Diaries (City Lights), is a sympathetic profile of the geniuses, eccentrics, and normal folks in what he calls the world of "Peep"--revelation via electronic interconnectivity on a previously unimaginable scale. The desire to see and be seen isn't new, but it is newly tech-powered. Through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, reality TV, and YouTube, we're sharing more of our private lives and learning more...