In the YouTube video “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” by Michael Wesch it is said that “text is often said to be unilinear when written on paper” but “digital text is different, more flexible, moveable and above all…hyper.” With digital text or hypertext you can link websites. The video tells what <HTML>, <p>, <LI>, <b> and <i> all stand for. The video refers to who organizes the web. At the end of the video it comes to a conclusion; “XML + U & Me create a database-backed web.” We are the web. “When we post and tag pictures we teach the Machine. Each time we forget a link, we teach it an idea.“ We are the Machine. Web 2.0 is linking us together.
To me this means that since we make the web what it is; does that mean everything is accurately correct? During the video Wesch was on Wikipedia and he deleted everything on the page for Web 2.0. He changed it from being hundreds of words to being below 15 words. With all the features of Web 2.0, you can make a website not only look good but also interesting. When you type on the web you can make your words bold or italicized to give it meaning. That is really the only things that came to my mind when I saw this video. Nothing really caught my eye to make me think so much about this video. All I really got out of this video is that the web has codes to make things specific and that we are the web. We make up the web. When we do something to the computer we teach it.
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