<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://wilco.mit.edu/webpub/?p=6"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22.4px;"><B>Cool video: Web 2.0 explained</B></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.2px;">February 7th, 2007</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR style=""></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Check out this </FONT><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl="><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">cool video explaining Web 2.0</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> created by Michael Wesch, assistant Cultural Anthropology Professor at Kansas State Usability. As explained by </FONT><A href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/06/web_20_explained_in_.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">BoingBoing</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana">“[Professor Wesch] has strung together a bunch of animations, text, and screenshots in order to tell the story of “Web 2.0″ — and why it matters, and how it’s changing the world. This is as starry-eyed as techno-optimism gets, and it might just choke you up a little, if you care about this stuff.”</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder" style=""></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="">This posting is saved on our blog at <A href="https://wilco.mit.edu/webpub/?p=6">https://wilco.mit.edu/webpub/?p=6</A></DIV><DIV style=""><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style=""><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style=""><DIV style="">'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`</DIV><DIV style="">Lisa Mayer :: Consultant</DIV></DIV><DIV style="">DCAD :: Database Development Services</DIV><DIV style="">MIT :: Information Services & Technology</DIV><DIV style=""><A href="mailto:lmayer@mit.edu">lmayer@mit.edu</A> :: 617-452-4225 </DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline" style=""></SPAN> </DIV><BR style=""></BODY></HTML>