VERY COOL 8) video, essentially celebrating the finally-truly interactive state of the Web today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
apparently a response to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w).
"The Web is linking people..."
A "video response (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFGTzHs39c)" to the above mentions something the ORIGINAL visiCalc spreadsheet programmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bricklin) has recently come up with...
wikiCalc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiCalc). Neat.
The time we are living in now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_spreadsheets) is neat.
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The internet still follows the fundamental form of the written word and the motion picture: non-participatory reception of information.
The internet is essentially a series of Guttenberg presses and Edison kinetiscopes connected by telegraph wire.
...the real achievement of the internet has been to SIMULATE participation.
It has made non-participatory addition of responsive content more rapid ... even instantaneous.
This is a movement towards making the non-participatory form imitate the participatory reality.
-CoryTheRaven, in a video response (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAVmB5dKZZ8) to "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us"
(apparently "The full text can be found on Michael Wesch (http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/02/13/web-evolution/)'s blog (http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/anthro/wesch.htm)" ; see also http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?page_id=2 , http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=77 for discussion more info. etc.)
That original one there was quite nice. The tutorial one was painful >:(