Monday, October 22, 2007

information r/evolution video from KSU

Those folks at the Media Cultures project at Kansas State University are at it again.

This video from Michael Wesch helps illustrate and explain how information is/could be/should be managed on the internet. Wish this video had been around to show folks when we were having our big "how to create a tagging system" debate in our online community.

You'll see the work of both Clay Shirky and David Weinberger highlighted in the video. Their work is required reading, but first, take a look at the video:

1 comment:

KrisRobinson said...

That is VERY cool. It's sort of a chicken and the egg thing (or is that on another blog??? :0). Do the possibilities change the way we think about information, or is the way of thinking about information expanding the possibilities?