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/?p=78

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/by-nc-sa/2.5/

Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ksudigg
• web2.0
• digital
• ethnography
• hypermedia
• anthropology

[spameister]

thumbs up if you're watching THIS in 2012...

[ericzum]

Out of all the tens of thousands of videos I have watched on Youtube, this one is the most sociotechnologically (yeah, not a real word) defining in terms of history and the human spirit.

[ssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam]

you're not getting this straight, buddy.

[PurplePhoenix95]

I'm watching this because this guy came to my school to talk and give a lecture. I loved it and was so lucky to meet him.

[canadianjames01]

Down with SOPA, PIPA, ACTA. We need new constitutions that enshrines the rights of the internet.

[ff7522]

This was the first video I favorited way back in 2007.

[merryfromhalo]

All the dislike-rs cannot comprehend this video.

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[SpunkySkunk347]

so let me get this straight, this video appeals to facebookers who have never heard of HTML before and want to feel like they are cool and smart and a part of something, but you're not. Get off my internet