Wesch does an excellent job in a brief presentation of providing a tentative definition of 'Web 2.0' and hinting at its possible impacts. He does not attempt to provide a clear explanation of the ways in which Web 2.0 is distinctly different from 'social software' that has been around on the Internet since the beginning (Usenet, mailing lists, collaboratively authored FAQs etc) nor does he discuss the implications of the fact that Web 2.0 users are still a minority of users and active Web 2.0 contribution is largely the work of a still smaller minority (something I recently posted about in more detail on the Media@LSE weblog here): http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2007/02/overstating-the- significance-of-web-20/ But of course a 5 minute video is not a paper so that would be too much to expect - the video would make an excellent starting point for discussion of these issues in a classroom. --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)