Below is an excellent video by Michael Wesch — Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University — describing in under 5 minutes the concept of web 2.0.

While this is a nice explanation and the content is worth noting, of more interest to me was the form it was presented in.

First this is a great example of how well video can explain concepts — in this case much better than I have seen in an article or book (although not with the same detail so it supports rather than takes over other formats).

The way he takes a sentence and then restructures it, is very poetic. By that I mean, he plays with the sentences and does so in a way that makes meaning more understandable.

Once you’ve watched the YouTube video, take a look at the Mojiti version where viewers can put comments into the video. To make this really useful it needs to be more flexible, but that is happening. Think of the potential for commenting on documentaries.

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