I have been away, a couple of days physically, a few mentally, but one great thing that has happened as I have sat on planes and sat in airports over the last weekend, I was able to catch up on some magazines to read.
I picked up a copy of Wired and really enjoyed the 2007 Rave Awards. Of note, was Michael Wesch, creator of “The Machine is Us/ing Us” that I wrote about a few months ago.
Anthropology — humans studying the experience of being human — is a recursive discipline, and Wesch’s is a recursive video, cutting quickly between screenshots that show him bookmarking Web sites with del.icio.us, creating a blog with Blogger, and posting pictures on Flickr. Wesch, whose video was viewed 1.8 million times on YouTube in six weeks, now has his digital-ethnography class conducting fieldwork about YouTube itself. “It’s just amazing to see all the humanity people put out there,” he says. excerpt
If you haven’t seen the video, I highly recommend it.
I will try to catch up this week with my reading and rather than posting irrelevant things, I will try to keep the junk posts to a minimum.
