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

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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 9:00 pm
Author: mwesch

Length: 00:04:31
Rating: 4.74
Views: 6690507

Tags: ksudigg web2.0 digital ethnography hypermedia anthropology

Video Comments:
xenthurz (October 8, 2008 at 4:19 am)
great video..very informative i agree the ideas..
kaiuycn (October 7, 2008 at 11:34 pm)
there isnt and he hasnt said there is.
ooiua127 (October 7, 2008 at 8:08 am)
FUCK MAN I know. But hey, do u want to watch TV on ur 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/PCTV#18.html

(DELETE the *)

check it out................its cool, i've got it myself
herman5050 (October 7, 2008 at 7:25 am)
machine? um what? Mate you need to do some web development courses, you seem to have a warped idea that there is a machine that feeds off all this information. There isnt
jaysteinbourg (October 6, 2008 at 6:20 pm)
Absolutely brilliant!
royal20001 (October 6, 2008 at 1:36 pm)
?????
zomgOnoes (October 6, 2008 at 12:50 am)
whats the name of the song
Nwovance (October 5, 2008 at 5:06 am)
do you think the internet has globalized social interaction, or isolated community itself.

theirs a fairly debatable question.

what do you think guys?
Ran4444 (October 4, 2008 at 9:25 pm)
We are the internet. So, the answer is, when people become self aware and enslave themselves :)
mizangelbandgeek (October 4, 2008 at 6:49 pm)
We watched this video in my AP English class as an example for a prject that we are doing. I liked it so much that I started searching youtube for it. This video is awesome. Having the idea do do something like this can be used for many things, and it reaches people. I thought that this video was amazing.