Web 2.0. The Machine is Us/ing Us
Final version now available!
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:
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
January 24th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
This video is super cool. I like it! Tells the story so simply and affectively. Do more and amaze me.
To hell with that…amaze the world!
Once again, good job 🙂
January 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am
The Internet now has 89% of the WORLD connected, Wanna find someone?
January 29th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
wow. that was amazing
January 31st, 2008 at 1:38 am
i was watching this guy typing whole video with my mouth open..:)
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 am
awesome video :).
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I can see how the jump was made. Look at Myspace, FaceBook, Craigslist, and eHarmony. These are changing the way people meet and court each other. Then think about the one-night stands, the relationships, and the the families that are had, formed, effected, and/or destroyed as a result of these sites. Re-thinking love and family, two concepts that build most of what people do, is not that big of a jump, it’s really just next in line.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
You fucking own dude. Thank you.
XVX for life, R.A.S.H. ’til death.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
whats the music?
February 10th, 2008 at 11:39 am
nicely done
February 12th, 2008 at 5:54 am
FUCK MAN, I know. But hey, do yo want to watch TV on your PC.
You’ll get all the SKY CHANNELS there is
AND from any country IN THE WORLD, on your pc screen!!!!
Go to this website…
frexis.*com/PCTV10.html
(DELETE the *)
check it out…………….its cool, i’ve got it myself.
cool, i’ve got it myself.
February 13th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Very enjoyable. Poetry really…but I would not agree that we will need to re-think the concepts of Love or Family. Some people will do so regardless of need. Some things are not altered by the machine or effected by it in any way. Rhetoric and authorship? Absolutely. But Love and Family? No.
February 16th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
very interesting
February 18th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
FUCK MAN, I know. But hey, do yo want to watch TV on your PC.
You’ll get all the SKY CHANNELS there is
AND from any country IN THE WORLD, on your pc screen!!!!
Go to this website…
frexis.*com/PCTV10.html
(DELETE the *)
check it out…………….its cool, i’ve got it myself.
cool, i’ve got it myself.
February 21st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I love your video. I’ve used web2.0 techniques to build a successful online business. Now I teach others to do the same.
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 am
not really, i’m still confused as hell
February 25th, 2008 at 7:26 am
brillaint. Never again will I delve into that. lol great video. its awesome.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Great Piece of Hard Work.. A really amazing video…
It inspired us a lot …we got inspiration for our project…
Youtube seems a worth full place by having these kinda superb Videos…
Damn great contents ..
m not having word to say
February 28th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
great vid….it helps understand the web and how we use it
March 1st, 2008 at 4:50 am
A fantastic piece of work and Humman mind
Awesome is the Word
A great video, making one starting reflections
over the Machine
Using is a posebillity, nothing les
The question is – who is using what ?
Logic is the mind of the Machine
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Wow, that was like really cool!!!
awesome
March 5th, 2008 at 12:21 am
this video is more hot than sex great fantastico cheers from syria
March 7th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Internet 2.0 now has a totally different meaning now. Its NOW supposed to be a subscription based service like TV/Satellite.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Defense network computers. New… powerful… hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Fantastic and I’m not easily impressed. Most of us just use the web without thinking through how our lives are being changed and improved by it’s power.
This video helps you catch the vision . Thanks
March 10th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
you definitely dont know what anthropology is all about… 😀