Sunday, March 19, 2006

RESEARCH : treasuremytext.com



To begin my research I have looked into what projects are already on the internet that contain voyeuristic content. Obviously, if I was to look at voyeurism as it is defined I would be shown a vast amount of adult material [porn!].

This I have already decided is not what I want to show from with my final outcome. I wish to show the more acceptable forms of Everyday Voyeurism [hence the name of the blog!] as I feel that this has more scope in terms of the range of visual alnguages that I can explore - where as the seedy definition of voyeurism dictates a different style altogether.

I found my first website via Google.

TreasureMyText is a website which allows its' users to send text messages to mobile phones directly from the website.

The content of these message [if the user agrees] are then archived by the website and are displayed for all to see. This allows site visitors to listen in on one half of a text based conversation - in the same way as one may listen to someone else talking on the phone.

In this kind of situation we only ever hear one side of the story and our minds are forced to either accept it as nonsense or to create a possible other side to the story. I personally usually speak as if the person on the phone is talking to me [which has proven to be very annoying and distracting for the caller!].

Having signed up to this service I am now in the position to Send messages [which contain some advertising for either treasuremytext or one of their affiliates], save messages I have recieved [by forwarding them to a specified number - costing my standard message rate], Create an online address book and I can also re-publish my messages as an RSS feed.

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