Surveilling the surveillance

Returning from my Christmas shopping travels in Norwich yesterday, I passed a GATSO speed camera on Ipswich Road (the one by City College if you know it). Last few times I was in Norwich, it had been put out of use by local hooligans/vandals/vigilantes/heroes (depending on your viewpoint - my personal view is that mobile police speed controls are fairer and more effective at reducing casualties on the road, and that speed is just one of many variables affecting road safety. But I digress). Now it has been reinstated - but what caught my attention was a yellow sign on the base of the camera, stating that the camera was subject to "24hr CCTV surveillance" - the surveillance has its own surveillance!

Strange times indeed. But I wonder: just who or what's watching the camera that's watching the camera?

Viral marketing done properly...

This Australian TV advert has been pulled from the airwaves and removed from Toyota's website. Yet the fact it's made news in the papers shows the power of viral marketing. Is all publicity good publicity?

And sorry for the lack of posting recently - the usual story of work, illness and assignments I'm afraid. Hopefully normal service shall be resumed by the new year.