Tiny Idea
More thoughts based on comments below: I agree that the moving image would be distracting, the original idea was to lock a pic as the background (like the first example in the video). The moving video/streaming felt creepy, but new and different in a fun way. I wanted to include it as an idea.
I'm intrigued by Kevin Rose's Tiny, an in-development blogging platform that would enable readers to see what the writer was doing as they were writing the piece you're reading.
In particular, it prompted me to consider how sex bloggers, erotic authors, or other producers of perverted text-based content might use the platform. For example, what if the female author of an erotic blog was nude while writing?
You would see her blurred naked form in the background, in real-time, as she worked to create her piece. So much for the gap between words and that which they seek to represent. In this case, the text and its author would coexist.