Strange Duck - Tech Talk in Plain English

An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube by Mike Wesch was presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.

Instead of a powerpoint presentation, the professor made a 40 minute video with the help of his students talking about the cultural phenomenon of Youtube.

His point - “when media change, human relations change.”

Youtube, as an aggregator of content, of which 88% of it is new and original content, is changing the way we relate. It’s a connector.

“it’s a story of new forms of expression, new forms of community, and new forms of identity emerging.”

Remember Numa Numa’s Gary Broelsma? Wesch credits him as being the first guy on the dance floor of this “global mixer” who inspires others to dance in their bedrooms for joy.

Take the tour of Youtube. For Wesch, it’s a celebration.

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Video! It’s all the rage. Video on the web is king. The future of TV is on the web. Using video to drive business yields the highest ROIs.

Yes, the media is all abuzz about the video on the web. And leading the revolution - are Fred and Sharon Spencer of fredandsharonsmovies.com.

PS. Sorry I haven’t posted that much lately. Been kind of busy - making videos for the web.

Tags: Fred Spencer, Fred and Sherry’s movies, Fred and Sharon’s movies, funny video, video on the web

Todays lesson explains the tech market for newbies.

From Wikipedia - A stock market bubble is a type of economic bubble taking place in stock markets when price of stocks rise and become overvalued by any measure of stock valuation.

Behavioral finance theory attribute stock market bubbles to cognitive biases that lead to groupthink and herd behavior.

Tags: tech market, bubble, overevaluation, stock trends, funny videos

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