Web 2.0 viral video

June 8, 2007

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a moving picture moving thousands? Or…maybe a picture of words worth thousands of pictures?
YouTube – The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) In this short video (“a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007″), Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, demonstrates the power of the web as a communication tool.

YouTube – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us (~5 min.)
A short film by Kansas State Cultural Anthropology Professor Mike Welsh. In under five minutes, he takes a big bite of the Web 2.0 gestalt

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Wow. And this video is nearly a year old…

“Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, “interface-free,” touch-driven computer screen…(Duration: 09:32)”