Digital ethnography

Mostly for Joe's benefit, here are the links to the YouTube videos of Michael Wesch from Kansas State:

The Machine is Us/ing Us -- The original video that went viral; great little introduction to what constitutes Web 2.0 and why it's so exciting/creepy at the same time

A Vision of Students Today -- Short video full of interesting stats; note that it's the product of a collaborative class project. And most of my professors haven't ever opened a Google document. Shameful!

An anthropological introduction to YouTube -- I haven't watched all of this; just the first 25 minutes or so. Wesch at the Library of Congress -- good for him! Fascinating information, and again he is mesmerizing in his delivery.

Forget powerpoint. This guy really raises the bar -- he's very skilled working with video editing software. And picking out tunes from the creative commons.

Discuss!

How to read a (good) book in one hour.

Ah ha! I'm not the only one who has to "cheat" to get my reading done. Actually though, I find that my familiarity with books is of a different sort when I approach them in this manner; easier to talk about because I know the basics but fewer details.


http://savageminds.org/2007/10/01/how-to-read-a-good-book-in-one-hour/

Selves as networks...

Some interesting musings over at This Blog Sits...: http://www.cultureby.com/

Also, check out the post on Rachael Ray. It's generally an interesting blog to keep tabs on.

And... I'm back!