Web 2.0 explained

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Lessig

As reported on BoingBoing: This is extraordinary. Watch it. Share it.

(Thanks, Neil!)

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15 Responses to Web 2.0 explained

  1. Kevin says:
    February 7, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    The coolest part is that a professor of anthropology created it.

  2. Justin says:
    February 7, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    Fantastic. I miss this kind of optimism.

  3. Chris says:
    February 7, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    Off-topic, but this deserves to be widely read:

    The Ecstasy of Influence
    by Jonathan Lethem (in Harper’s)

    Also see the Radio Open Source blog.

  4. RAEM says:
    February 8, 2007 at 12:04 am

    A strange way of reading: fragmented – unfocused – disorienting. But somehow it gets the message across quite effectively.

  5. Janet Hawtin says:
    February 8, 2007 at 5:04 am

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

  7. Andy Donnan says:
    February 8, 2007 at 6:46 am

    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.

  8. Kyle Klipowicz says:
    February 8, 2007 at 10:58 am

    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!

  9. Chuck says:
    February 10, 2007 at 1:17 am

    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!

  10. Lee says:
    February 12, 2007 at 4:16 am

    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

  12. Joshua Zeidner says:
    February 12, 2007 at 8:21 pm

    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.

  13. wwAnderson says:
    February 13, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    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.

  14. Rugs says:
    February 14, 2007 at 7:41 am

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

  15. pb says:
    February 16, 2007 at 3:38 pm

    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.

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