Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Posted by admin on October 28th, 2009 and filed under on the internet | 25 Comments »

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

Duration : 0:4:31


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25 Responses

  1. TheLazy0ne Says:

    we are …
    we are Determinators :P

  2. samir30you Says:

    thank for the video …
    thank for the video, ingenius, but what about WEB 3 ??

  3. leamericanos Says:

    we are the …
    we are the Terminators . !!!!!!

  4. drocks7777 Says:

    Love this video.
    Love this video.

  5. moldovianVendetta Says:

    guruseye, i can …
    guruseye, i can tell you truly understand what Web 2.0 means, get a book

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    Well if youre stuck …
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  7. gbg112 Says:

    Gppd video.
    Gppd video.

  8. MouseFX Says:

    part is true
    part is true

  9. theguruseye Says:

    Web 2.0 / Social …
    Web 2.0 / Social Media are just buzz words we have been communicating on the internet since the inception, Back in the day when we would send e-mail or IM someone. That is socializing on a media device “computer” I hate the buzzwords. I understand how these devices are changing our world and I like it for the better and the worse. We definitely need to rethink copyright laws.

  10. awkno Says:

    However, my …
    However, my excitement about that god in that human race accelerated in the last ten years to the point where I’ve started saying, in something like an abbreviation, “the internet is god.”

    This Kansas video comes very close to describing my feelings about god in the doings of people–doings both brilliant and flawed. (post continues; see above)

  11. awkno Says:

    I don’t mean to …
    I don’t mean to inflame the discussion here by submitting a comment about religion. But, in fielding questions from my friends, now and then someone asks me if I believe in god. I answer with a response that you might call the basic secular humanist position. I say that I see god in the doings of the human race.

    (post continues, see below)

  12. immo121 Says:

    Web 1.0 back in …
    Web 1.0 back in late 1990s was made up of mostly just image and text. Web 2.0 provides more interaction.. like it says in this video .. data is collected when every time a person types or clicks. that data then is used to make the web more intelligent..

  13. gamer1lv Says:

    ok?
    ok?

  14. Rupsenshow Says:

    4:07 “we need to …
    4:07 “we need to rethink copyright”

    *points at WMG* we sure do!!

  15. SchrodingerSounds Says:

    OMG html! So …
    OMG html! So complicated!

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    Buzzword created so …
    Buzzword created so confused old people with fund bullshit projects.

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