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

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mwesch | January 31, 2007

Final version now available! http://youtube.com/watch?v=... http://mediatedc...

mwesch | January 31, 2007

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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  • If you like this video and haven't seen An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube (it's by the same guy) I strongly suggest you go do that right now

  • I just realised that it's not the content of this video that impresses me the most (as the 23 year old "digital native" that I am most of this isn't that new to me) but the form of it. This probably could be used in an introduction to some university anthropology class and is interesting in an almost entertaining way. Reminded me of "a vision of students today" (watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o) and made me wonder whether something like this could be used in serious teaching environments.

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  • This was such a great video. Writing or computers are not my strong points; my children who know everything about new technology have spoiled me. I didn't know I could do all that stuff on the computer and I’m looking forward to the experience.

  • awsome song !!

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