While surfing around on YouTube, I found a video called “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” which you can view below. As you will see, this video addresses the nature of web 2.0. The video suggests that we, the users of web 2.0, not only use web 2.0 applications, but also, we, essentially, are the web 2.0 applications.

The video is supportive of Nardi and O’Day’s Information Ecologies metaphor. In an information ecology, it is the people that create and use the technology. This video asserts the same principle for web 2.0 applications.

I wanted to write a quick post because when I logged onto Facebook this morning, I was shocked, confused, and a bit irked.

The Facebook homepage previously showed a list of all your "friends" updates (notice I put "friends" in quotes, ever since the article I last blogged about.)  This included who had recently become friends with who, new pictures, comments, etc.  Now the homepage is exclusively a "real-time stream of Facebook status updates."  Where I come from, that's called TWITTER! 

Has Twitter's popularity really reached a point that other social networking sites are trying to get in on the action?  It also seems like Facebook has been floundering a bit lately.  Their homepage has gone through repeated changes, the new Terms of Agreement caused a huge uproar, and now this.