Today on OnDemandJournal, Noel Ward has an article about a YouTube video that has been making the rounds. I've seen it everywhere from political sites to gardening blogs. Noel says:
There are flashes and snippets of ideas and concepts, and running through it all is the core message that the ways we use information have changed profoundly and forever. The data has come out of the bottle, is growing like a virus run amok, and the ways we will think, live, and communicate from now on are not remotely like anything we have ever experienced.
Here is the video he is talking about:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE]
More thoughts and a video response in the extended...
So like any good YouTuber, I checked out some of the video responses, one of which was likewise thought provoking and seemed to argue that all the hype around "Web 2.0" is really just that: hype. User "CoryTheRaven" puts together an equally stylized and impressive response below:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAVmB5dKZZ8]
Cory also points us to another relevant video at his blog:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKC-KHRadkU]
So while fundamentally it is all just communication and we've been doing this for quite some time, there was a video posted online and responded to by a video which was then blogged about in who knows how many places. Maybe there is something to Web 2.0 afterall. For what it's worth I don't think Professor Wesch or Cory's ideas have to necessarily be mutually exclusive.
What do you think?
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By George J. Whalen on Feb 24, 2007
Hi, Eric: Provocative post. I recall hearing about "creative destruction" and it is possible that we are going through this phase now, as we grope for the ultimate medium of communication. We are witnessing the rise of new communication techniques and media from the recycling of print, radio, television and the "old" Internet. What is clear to me is that the emerging media is freeing communication. That is, communicating is being gradually freed of its "gatekeepers," for example,the "publishers," the "producers," and the regulatory intermediaries who once stood guard over the rest of us and "mediated" (controlled) what we read, saw and heard. Inevitably, that led to the appearance of communication, but not the real thing. What came out that was biased either by commercial interests, money, politics, or belief systems. I believe that the "gatekeeper-free" technology of the future will ultimately give "whole Earth" access to every individual who has something to say, or has an idea or opinion to share. When that free and democratic means of communication arrives, only the quality or value of what is being shared will matter. And, of couse, we can always exercise our individual right not to view or hear it. It will be interesting to see where this all goes!
By Eric on Feb 25, 2007
George, Indeed information ultimately desires to be free. This was as true with the pamphleteers of the revolution as it is today with bloggers and youtubers. The question, I guess, is whether or not there really is something new or just better tools to do something very old?
By PrintCEOblog » Blog Archive » “Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us” on May 30, 2007
[...] Eric blogged about this video here. Noel Ward also wrote about it at [...]
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