Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Final version now available!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
http://mediatedcultures.net

Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.


This is the 2nd draft, and I plan on doing one more final draft. Please leave comments on what could be changed or improved, or what needs to be excluded or included. Subscribe if you want to be notified when the revision is released.

UPDATE: I just added this video to Mojiti where you can actually write your comments into the video itself. It is an exciting experiment in "Video 2.0". Go check it out at http://mojiti.com/kan/2024/3313 and add your voice!

Transcripts are now available as well:
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?...

A couple of people have noted that the statement, "XML was created to do just that" (separate form from content) is misleading because CSS enables the same effect with HTML. I tried to integrate CSS into the video, but it ruined the flow. Perhaps in the next draft.

My statement on XML is based on the following from xml.com: "In order to appreciate XML, it is important to understand why it was created. XML was created so that richly structured documents could be used over the web. The only viable alternatives, HTML and SGML, are not practical for this purpose. HTML, as we've already discussed, comes bound with a set of semantics and does not provide arbitrary structure."

Thank you all for the comments. With your help the next draft will be cleaned up and hopefully free of factual errors.

A higher quality version is available for download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?6duzg3zioyd Please note that this is the second draft and the final version will not be available until late February after I review all comments and revise the video. Please return for a new download link at that time.

The song is "There's Nothing Impossible" by Deus, available for free at http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/103/
Deus offers music under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, yet one more example of the interlinking of people sharing and collaborating this video is attempting to illustrate.

CC: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University

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  Education

[Phyllis Willis]

i was forced to watch this for class :(

[William Strong]

And here we see how many of the promises have actually come true. Wikipedia is administrated/edited by 2% of its users, who themselves have become mired in a faction war "behind the screen". Deletionists versus completionists; the digital editors.

History may not repeat itself, but it sure as hell seems to rhyme.

[Aaar Kaa]

We watched this in at university for Computer Mediated Communication. I am grateful to the author of its video and to my lecturer who showed it to me.

[Xepa777]

your teacher is a smart person

[PublicSafety91]

Watched this for a technology and society class.. very cool video thanks

[Maria Gonzaga]

Informative and cool.

[dragonthewatcher]

so horrible, you had to watch a video that means something.

[37thgungrunts]

I enjoyed this several years back haha.

[MrIronriver]

2013!

[Joanie Souffrant]

This video is way too fast

[RPGTKingpin]

same here :>

[YahGodIs]

And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.” Matthew 21:44