So I have to confess I’m still trying to figure out all of the Web 2.0 pieces and just when I think I’m starting to get a handle on it something new comes along. This week it’s the new EM “Everywhere Messaging”. But more on that later.
For those of you in the same position as me this YouTube video from Assistant Professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University is an excellent 5 minute exploration. It does a pretty good job at describing the way the web is changing and how Web 2.0 technologies enable Social Media applications. That is, the ability to separate data from its markup container (thus allowing RSS feeds of the text of a site without having to drag the layout around with it) allows many of the things we take for granted – news feeds, podcasts, rss readers, mashups, and more.
That said, the video is worth watching for its intelligent use of web pages, code and the reoccuring theme of typing and retyping that makes the viewer stop and think.
