Do you want to get a handle on the Web revolution? Maybe this will help. This brilliant video (4min 31sec) called 'Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us' will enlighten you. XML facilitates automated data exchange. Two sites can 'mash' data together. Who will organize all of this data? We will. You will. XML _ U & me create a database-backed Web. A database-backed web is different. The web is different. We are the web. When we post and then tag pictures we are teaching the machine. Each time we forge a link we teach it an idea. Over 100 billion times per day humans click on a Web page teaching the machine. The machine is us. The machine is using us. Digital text is no longer just linking information. Hypertext is no longer just linking information. The Web is no longer just linking information. Web 2.0 is linking people. People sharing, trading, and collaborating. We'll need to rethink a few things - copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, ascetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves.
Video by: Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University.
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