Information R/evolution
Much of what people assume about the nature of information is actually just the nature of paper. In the spirit of his debut video The Machine is Us/ing Us, Professor Michael Wesch of the Kansas State University digital ethnography group shows us the possibilities of information unleashed in Information R/evolution.
This video also explains Yahoo’s defeat by Google in the search arena: the folly of applying offline assumptions to online business. Even today, some big businesses still make those boneheaded assumptions: witness the NBC-Fox clunker Hulu.
I see he’s also read David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous. If you haven’t yet, go read that book. It’ll make you rethink the order of the universe itself.
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Apr 3, 2008 at 9:10 am
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