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: 6723989

Tags: ksudigg web2.0 digital ethnography hypermedia anthropology

Video Comments:
ooiu1l (October 11, 2008 at 10:30 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.
ilikehwy40 (October 11, 2008 at 6:33 pm)
XML is bloated and makes it hard to tell what is going on with the extra crap.

Web 2.0 is a series of non-things that is all hype. Think of everything you did on the web today. Understand that everything you did people were doing ten years ago, just with more people.
KingNetherdrake (October 11, 2008 at 6:33 pm)
Nice vid :)
ooiua131 (October 11, 2008 at 12:58 pm)
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
wheadam (October 11, 2008 at 1:43 am)
Get more views on your video - GetYouTubeViews(dot)com

Yeah but it aint that cool...
ooiua130 (October 10, 2008 at 12:40 pm)
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
hackervn9000 (October 10, 2008 at 12:38 pm)
i like it
crappysoda1 (October 10, 2008 at 3:43 am)
i dun get it wats this about? SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN
bansal911 (October 9, 2008 at 6:16 pm)
awesome
marvellous work
worldwhore3 (October 9, 2008 at 9:58 am)
not a bad video, but we all know that web 2.0 will be highly censored, and some if not all content will have to be paid for in advance in order to view it. think of the future of the internet as pay-per-view TV.

its not cool.