I love the following 5-minute video from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Many of you may have already seen it as it quickly flashed to the top of YouTube viewership in early February of this year. It is an entertaining video on some of the underpinnings and ramifications of the web 2.0 technologies around collaboration, citizen journalism, social networking, etc. There is no talking head video or even any spoken audio, just techno music and images of computer screens showing text and pictures that tell the story.
He was writing a journal article on the topic, and decided he could make his points better with a video. He emailed it to 10 friends to get their feedback (it wasn't even a final version) and within 5 days it had gotten 100,000 views. As of this writing, this draft version has generated 2.2 million views. He has posted a final version here.
The journal Inside Higher Education has a good article on it.
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