Comments on: Web 2.0 explained

By: pb

pb — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:38:50 +0000

Janet: Are we rethinking copyright, authorship, commerce, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, love, family, ourselves?

Because you can move words around on a computer screen?

Only people with a very rootless concept of love, family and the self can be impressed by this. Or, robots perhaps.

Thinking and feeling appear to be dead for so many people - it's very sad.

By: Rugs

Rugs — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:41:03 +0000

Rethinking love may be pushing it a little but otherwise it is very well done.

By: wwAnderson

wwAnderson — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:03:14 +0000

Hello. Everybody knows this.
I call it a flex-video.
In video writing we are brought to the test of mental recognition and comprehension, but nothing is more important than our focus, a little like caffeinated consumption of information, it leaves us amazed but empty. Same thing for the flicker bank of nothing, what does it mean? flex. bodybuilding.
We need to rethink feeling.
We need to rethink God.

By: Joshua Zeidner

Joshua Zeidner — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:21:46 +0000

I would like to point out here that 'Web 2.0' is a service mark owned by CMP Media LLC. It is a widely used word that is not commonly understood to be the property of a US Corporation.

By: D Wallace

D Wallace — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:05:14 +0000

Awesome.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:16:48 +0000

WOW! That video has opened my eyes. The possibilities have always been quite infinate regarding the service of "the net", but that hammered it home.

Well done. I will be interested in more views from the Professor.

Lee

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:17:33 +0000

That was unexpectedly powerful. I should know damn well by now to put more faith in the citations you recommend, but old-dog-new-tricks, I guess. Thanks for that!

By: Kyle Klipowicz

Kyle Klipowicz — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:58:09 +0000

I was a student of Mike Wesch last year for his Digital Ethnography course, and can say that he is a very talented, caring and driven person. His role models include Marshall McLuhan and Edmund Carpenter, and his fieldwork/ethnographic study are focused on a people group in Papua New Guinea.

Thanks for sharing his video with the world!

By: Andy Donnan

Andy Donnan — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:46:32 +0000

Very good video to explain to the average Joe...sorta what web 2.0 is. I misunderstood this buzzword, I may understand it better now.

By: Janet Hawtin

Janet Hawtin — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:47:47 +0000

Thanks Chris
Lethem rocks!