Digital anthropolgy

Not quite the post I was expecting to be making at 2am (what? not in Second Life?) in the morning but I could not resist making a link to YouTube ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

... an aesthetically pleasing and beautifully visualized take on Web 2.0 technologies from text to hypertext to Web 2.0 and the democratic paradigm of user content production . All put together by Michael Wesch, assistant professor of anthropology at Kansas State University.

Comments

[Steven Warburton]

Rather than add to the post above I will instead post a link down here to an interesting discussion over on Brian Kelly's blog:
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/viral-marketing-from-store-wars-to-web-20/
... based on the theme of YouTube as a viral marketing tool and ways of exploiting this potential.