This week we were assigned to watch “Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us” by Michael Wesch. This was mostly about how the web is evolving. It talks about how we are the machine, and we need to rethink a lot of things for Web 2.0. A couple years ago we needed to go through a huge process to make a website. Now we can just create a blog and it’s done. It said in the video that a blog is created every half second. The web is evolving and it is us that are helping it evolve.
This video amazed me in several ways. Its amazing how regular pencil and paper text has changed, and how the old way of making a website has changed. As we evolve the machine evolves. What does Michael Wesch mean when he says we need to rethink several things? Does he mean that the web is so accessible and easy to get on that we can’t be putting everything out there? He does make a lot of valid points. When he is hyper linking everywhere on the page and talking about that the web can be connected anywhere and everywhere is a really good point, because you can access a lot of different things from one webpage. The fact that a blog is created every half second blows my mind. This is a hard fact to rap my mind around. If that is true then there is 63,072,000 blogs made in one year from people around the world. It is amazing how as we change the machine changes. We teach the machine and give it new ideas.
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