Comments on: If you have a spare 55 minutes and 33 seconds this weekend….

By: Tirk

Tirk — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:13:18 +0000

I think I stumbled your web 2.0 video a while ago. Just like I stumbled this~

I didn’t watch the whole video but I plan to later, very good! That’s about all I can say. =3

By: gout

gout — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:16:24 +0000

thanks for nice video…..I am very enjoy….I love the music background….thanks for information…..

By: Marija

Marija — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:11:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, Darren.

Great video! I feel like making my first vlog now. :)

By: CoolProducts

CoolProducts — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:34:41 +0000

This was a very very interesting watch. I caught it last night when I was checking out my reader and ended up getting to bed an hour later.. haha

By: Ravi

Ravi — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:53:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing a great video which shows the power of social media.
By this video we can understand how social media has changed our internet experience and some what our life too.

Today with social media sites we can connect to the world very easily and show our work and knowledge.

By: IT Freak

IT Freak — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:53:15 +0000

I have that time… ;)

Thanks for this posting and the video too.

By: Ben Moreno

Ben Moreno — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:12:39 +0000

I came across a blog the other day that did not have comments. It was an opinion piece too but no option for discussion.

A blog belongs to the person who created it and if they want to throw info out without letting people discuss it then it’s their business. However, it does draw a negative toward their character in my opinion.

By: L-Jay

L-Jay — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:25:38 +0000

Social media is exclusive – only those who have the means can particiapte.

By: L-Jay

L-Jay — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:22:14 +0000

Social media means you do not have to be responsible – you can quit at anytime.

By: MAtt Borden

MAtt Borden — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:38:00 +0000

Wow, thats amazing. I started just to watch a couple of minutes and wound up watching the whole thing. I love studies like this, and I learned so much.

I never really grasped what Web 2.0 is, but now I get it. Posting on youtube to help people live in the world, the lights are coming on. This has SOOO many applications in business, thank you for helping to understand people.

By: Dr. Nicole Sundene

Dr. Nicole Sundene — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:43:09 +0000

Wow I am a reader, not a video person, so I rarely have the attention span to even watch a 3 minute video, let along a 55 minute video, but this was really well put together and explains a great deal about why people spend so much time on the internet. Thanks for sharing this!

Producing videos is a lot like blogging. We all blog because we want to be connected, and the need for connection is stronger than the need for food, water, shelter, safety– or any other basic human need.

I am working on a guest post right now “Why we Blog” and have sited an extremely unethical experiment done on baby rhesus monkeys.

The babies were either given a wire mom monkey with a bottle attached, or a snuggling soft mom monkey with no food.

The baby monkeys all curled up next to the snuggly soft monkey and died of starvation.

They had the option to get food, but they chose connection above and beyond that.

The basic human need for connection is so strong that it surpasses every other need.

Everyone is truly disconnected in our culture as stated in this video and that is the root problem of what is really going wrong with our society.

The family unit has been disrupted by the new standard for the dual income family, and as a result we have a whole new neglected generation of teenagers fighting for someone to pay attention to them on Youtube.

By: Avior

Avior — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:06:23 +0000

The video is really very interesting. Yet it made me think about the issue of quality on the web. OK. So you are right, Mike, that Youtube has original content. However, is it really interesting? Is it really new?

Read more of my thoughts of this video here:
http://www.bymusic.org/blog/2008/10/Did-Schoenberg-kill-classical-music.html

By: mihla

mihla — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:53:08 +0000

How I wish all of this had been available at the beginning of my life instead of now when I have so few years left to participate. Regret is probably not the emotion Michael Wesch expected to evoke with this exceptional video.

By: Cade Krueger

Cade Krueger — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:39:58 +0000

Two other videos worth taking a look at about kids that are funny and I think you would enjoy when you get a chance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXGj_-orxw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYWPV3F41Y&feature=related

I didn’t want you all to think I am into videos about kids kicking people, but they are worth a look when you have a rough blogging day. :)

By: Alcides Fialho

Alcides Fialho — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:12:07 +0000

Hi Dave,

Well, I only have one thing to say – fantastic!!!
You know, we all know the potentialities of internet (youtube in this case), but few of us realise what it really means. Few of us, maybe even working ”in it” don’t quite understand the strength and power this kind of ”participant collaboration”….

Thank you for this and also a good work to Michael Wesch

By: D. T. Collins

D. T. Collins — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:22:17 +0000

Education is only a distraction if it doesn’t provide any tangible benefits for the student. My contention is that while the concepts of identity, self, privacy, and entertainment do change during the progressions of time, they are not in a flux, instead, they are simply being revealed from another perspective, a perspective that was simply not available earlier, allowing for new discovery.

Anthropologists are among my favorite teachers. According to the late Marvin Harris cultures take on their characteristic forms in response to the available resources. As the demands of the growing population eventually exceed these resources, cultures undertake increasingly intensive forms of production until the original resources reach the point of depletion. Then, if the culture is to survive, it must create a new technology, and the cycle of production, overpopulation, intensification, and depletion repeats itself.

Understanding this cycle, and how it impacts you is a key to your continued prosperity.

By: Adele Aldridge

Adele Aldridge — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:10:54 +0000

Thanks for posting this – timely – fascinating. I will pass the link on.

By: EarnersBay

EarnersBay — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:42:17 +0000

A quote on distraction I read the other day:

“America is addicted to wars of distraction”

By: EarnersBay

EarnersBay — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:34:26 +0000

Good one, thanks ^^

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:18:31 +0000

Video looks promoising. I am going to watch it now!