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Anthropologist Michael Wesch, famous for his The Machine is Us/ing Us video about the evolution of hypertext, is back with what he calls "an anthropological introduction to YouTube."
One of the things I enjoyed about the Us/ing video was Wesch's seeming boundless optimism about hypertext and he has the same enthusiasm for YouTube (and the participatory culture of the web in general).
For instance, while many might dismiss YouTube as navel-gazing self indulgence, Wesch has no such problem and seems to delight in even the most trivial of videos, which is, frankly, refreshing.
So here's your Friday does of fun. Plus this might be the only time you'll hear a Library of Congress audience rocking out to Numa Numa.
[via Waxy.org]
