I edit therefore I am

I love CC. Their making the content remixable. So here is a great video called Building on the past explaining Creative Commons.

written by leafar \\ tags: Creative Commons, video remix, youtibe

Michael Wesch is famous for a few very well done video including :

• The machine is using us
  
• Information R/evolution
  
• A vision of students today
• You can see all his video on his channel here

I’ve watched them several time (like I did with EPIC or Shift Happens), they are a source of creativity and of resilience. Working on this ideas for more than 4 years … they always give me a boost of energy when I am down. They are the future and I am very happy with the new release of Wesch : An anthropological introduction to youtube.

Participant Observation is what i have been doing for teh last 4 years. I am not commenting the web from outside, I am a member of the invisible crowd that when populating these websites (mine including). Working mainly on what identity means… with the idea that we are a puzzle, that we are on the verge of a netocratic era, that we are a construct more than ever (less social/peer pressure) free to endorse any subculture we want, test it and adopt it or not. Social Networks when mix with content (what we call Social Objects) are a possible path for expression, true identity … and re-echanting that post-modern world the GenY refuses

I do love travelling with couchsurfing (every month), sharing and improving my photographic skills with flickr, finding book on the street …. connecting in many various ways using various plateform for the sole purpose of solving this inversion culture Wesh is talking about :

Please watch his video it’s pure genius, he talks about context collapse, Identity crisis, Editing our own stories (I would say life : the title of this blog is “I edit therefore I am“) and it’s full of very very good example of what youtube could be (discovered a few new ones).

The only thing missing is probably a list of all the links towards all the video he is quoting.

Excellent work, nitro boost for all month of august… will probably watch it at least 3 times just for the purpose of recognition ;-D

Thanks to nic for pointing it to me even my youtube subscription did it (yet another example of that social broadcasting)

written by leafar