The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)



Uploaded by: mwesch
Video Description:
"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.
http://mediatedcultures.net
This is a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007.
I considered releasing it as an "eternal beta" in true Web 2.0 style, but decided to let it stand as is and start working on future projects. Many of my future videos will address the last 30 seconds of this video (the "rethink ..." part).
Thank you all for the helpful comments on the earlier draft. It has been a great experience to connect with so many people interested in
similar issues.
Once again, there are higher quality versions available for download:
Windows Media File (55 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?2wnmpy2ibz1
Quicktime File (96 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?axhbjnmw4yn
Mojiti Version (for comments, translations, etc.):
http://mojiti.com/kan/2743/5984
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything. I received many more positive comments than negative about the song choice (great work Deus!), but if you are one of those who does not like the song just download the video and change the audio track to your liking.
The video was created by me (Michael Wesch), working alone from my house in St. George, Kansas. I used CamStudio for the screen captures and Sony Vegas for the panning/cropping/zooming animations. Someday I might make a video tutorial for those who are interested.


Tags for this video: anthropology ethnography ksu ksudigg web2.0

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Great video. Using ... ( 3 weeks ago by narbundi)
Great video. Using web2.0 techniques has enabled me to build a successful online networking business. I now teach others to do the same.
Dear professor ... ( 3 weeks ago by sashometallico)
Dear professor Wesch, congratulations for the successful video. It is a video that every web developer on the world has seen and most of us have embedded it in our blogs. Because it makes a lot of good points. I am a web developer and this video made me interested in digital ethnography .
I think that web will be the AI that we are looking for all these years..
Great video, you ... ( 3 weeks ago by spencerk73)
Great video, you put everything in a very good perspective
you really type ... ( 2 weeks ago by answerOfstupids)
you really type that fast
great job on the ... ( 2 weeks ago by sakostuc9219)
great job on the video! I just got into developing websites so i have a lot to learn yet but you did an excellent job putting web 2.0 into perspective.
amazing 5 out of 5 ... ( 2 weeks ago by zammrock109)
amazing 5 out of 5 this is a really great short clip about the web and i acutally learned from it
I love it! I think ... ( 2 weeks ago by Aboundz)
I love it! I think I've watched it nearly as many times as it has been viewed. Plus I love the music.
Best vid on the net!
Great vid! ( 2 weeks ago by peregrinrimor)
Great vid!
Wow. Google ... ( 2 weeks ago by kcjenner1)
Wow. Google PageRank's this as 7/10 and I agree it's been a little over a year since I got back on the Web and it did seem different, but I also was getting used to a new computer and OS (Vista) so I wasn't certain how to describe it at the time except by saying that the Internet is "different" since I was on last (almost 2 years being away from it). This video explains exactly what it is that is so different.
Absolutely superb. ... ( 2 weeks ago by jaxhogan)
Absolutely superb. Everyone who has any interest in the future of IT and the impact the web will have on us should watch this.
And a perfect example of the medium IS the message.
FUCK MAN, I know. ... ( 2 weeks ago by ooiuj1)
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!!!!
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cool, i've got it myself.
just perfect ( 2 weeks ago by cooglis)
just perfect
I just got to say ... ( 2 weeks ago by iamandrewhall)
I just got to say how amazing that was! Good job, and i agree with with everything you stated.
FUCK MAN, I know. ... ( 1 week ago by ooiuj1)
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.
Array ( 1 week ago by WEbTogether)
that was amazing
i didn't quite understand the whole Web 2.0 thing, but i get it better now
Don't buy in to ... ( 1 week ago by Mayhem84)
Don't buy in to this they are claiming they are expanding on the net, but they are not it's basically nothing more than a Myspace style information sharing that uses the Internet. It will not in any way expand on the Internet at all it's just going to restrict it more in reality. Notice the word "Governance" they will find a way to silence you if nobody likes what you are saying.
my rofl copter goes ... ( 6 days ago by killstealer117)
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Censorship has no ... ( 6 days ago by capt1ve)
Censorship has no place on the internet.
what's there to buy ... ( 4 days ago by mathewchui)
what's there to buy into?
Buy - 8. Informal. ... ( 4 days ago by Mayhem84)
Buy - 8. Informal. a. to accept or believe
Don't buy in to what they are selling to you. The idea that this is a whole new kind of internet, and that it is better than what we have now. It is not!
(haha, I know what ... ( 4 days ago by mathewchui)
(haha, I know what it means to "buy into" :P)
This is just my opinion, but I don't feel that the video is trying to do that. The video is simply stating how the internet has changed; and how people can use it much more interactively (with the web itself and with other people)
Google the term " ... ( 4 days ago by Mayhem84)
Google the term "Internet 2" or "Internet2" This just selling the "idea" that we need a new kind of internet. We do not need to "Rethink" internet we need to keep it the way it is. Don't buy in to the idea that we need "Internet2" as explained in another video I watched will create internet "gated" communities" Don't let yourself get locked in a box on the internet. Let the internet stay open and free. (and I don't mean $0)
I lol'd ( 2 days ago by antonj3000)
I lol'd
FUCK MAN I know. ... ( 12 hours ago by ooiua127)
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You'll get all the SKY CHANNELS there is
AND from any country IN THE WORLD, on your pc screen!!!!
Go to this website...
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(DELETE the *)
check it out................its cool, i've got it myself



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