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

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Final version now available!



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 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: 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
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.

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Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University

Channel: Education
Uploaded: January 31, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Author: mwesch

Length: 00:04:31
Rating: 4.74
Views: 7259008

Tags: ksudigg web2.0 digital ethnography hypermedia anthropology

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What may allow the flow and exchange of independent thought may also one day render it immobile & manipulate thought within a context of "it's" own programming. I ask you though, will the machine evolve? Will we when "it" does? Is technology our salvation from ourselves at this point while it also is our immenent doom? Can we make the leap that destroys most civilizations, and can it only be done by expanding on technology? Do we trust that much data out there? Are you sure? Think about it...
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