'The Network'
I think it is time to define ‘the network’ a little bit more and to do this I will briefly describe the history of my involvement with ‘the network’.
Before I begin I must warn you that I am definitely not correct with a lot of my terminology. I am going to skim off the top of my understanding here and hopefully you will get the picture. If you have anything that can help my understanding of all this it would be great if you could email me 
There are government intelligence agencies in this world that are used to monitor people. These agencies use a number of different techniques, many of which are not available to the general public, to gather information for the purpose of national security and defence. Some examples of information that could be of interest to these agencies is information on the building of weapons of mass destruction, terrorist activities or the trafficking of humans or drugs.
For some reason I fell under the spotlight of one of these agencies. Information that is collected by these agencies is normally held in secret however sometime in early 2007 information that had been collected about me started to be distributed to the public. The primary way that information about me was being distributed was via the ‘cheek buttons’ that I have talked about earlier in the blog.
These ‘cheek buttons’ are electronic receivers that fit inside people’s mouths. I am not sure of there exact workings but I believe that one must press the devices against their teeth or jaw and audio is then able to be heard to the person with the device in their mouth. As far as I am aware this was technology had not been available to the public before this. The number of people who have these devices has grown rapidly since then and a large listenership can now be found right across the globe.
As well as the development of this ‘cheek button’ phenomenon there has also been an online presence to all of this. The online side of this is a model of one of these agencies. It has a hierarchical structure to it allowing varying degrees of access to it’s viewers. One of the things this site has done is made it possible for people to get visual documentation of my private life.
As the popularity of the ‘cheek buttons’ and the online nature of this ‘network’ has progressed it has become less and less appropriate for it to be held under the light of a governmental agency. The commercial nature of it has grown and it has become something to be sold on as a free standing entity.
As time has progressed the functionality of the website relating to ‘the network’ has broadened and become more diverse. It has been opened up to a wider audience and is less involved with the information that is being distributed across the ‘cheek buttons’ than before.
Recently there has been interest in the purchase of the ‘cheek button’ side of the network. These people are actively working towards moving away from the governmental agencies and the online side of ‘the network’. On a more personal level they are working towards getting me privacy and initiating some dialogue so I can discuss my future involvement with ‘the network’.
Hopefully this brief history of my involvement with the network will help you understand the different forces at play here.
Please leave a comment if you are unclear on anything and I will try to elaborate where possible.
I will try to put something a bit more light hearted on the site later this week.
