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I'll follow Rob's lead, and say something about me, though I've been here since the beginning. Along with Mary Corcoran, also in Media and Cultural Studies here at John Moores University, I'm joint moderator of this list. We decided to set it up after an interdisciplinary conference on surveillance which we ran here in 1998. My own work focusses around practices of the self, and I'm particularly interested in self-surveillance and self-monitoring. I've done some writing recently on home video as broadcast on TV, and also on the BBC documentary series 'Video Nation' which I think uses confessions about the self to map the nation (in sharp contrast to earlier nation-mapping projects like Mass Observation which focussed on public spaces and the documentation of other folks). In general I'm interested in the way popular culture is implicated in the government of the self, and converges with neo-liberal logics around self-management and self-surveillance. Nicole