I work with computers every day of my life. I like them just fine. But there is something about writing on paper -- being forced to organize one's thoughts near-perfectly, and linearly, before committing them to paper -- that is useful. Somehow, I fear we are losing this ability ... losing an intangible skill.

(And, no, I was not able to create the above paragraph in one, single, linear burst -- but I might have been able 30 years ago when I was a newspaper reporter writing on yellow legal pads or typing on a manual typewriter.)

Michael Wesh on Web 2.0.

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Grossartiges Video welches einem erklärt, wie die darstellende Technologie im Internetz funktioniert. Web 2.0 erklärt in 5 Minuten!

The evolution of the Internet from "Web 1.0" to "Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes. Learn more at: http://mediatedcultures.net

changed my life

This widely watched video, made by Kansas State University's Micheal Wesch, talks about an interesting contemporary application framework (called Web 2.0) that runs on the top of the Internet.