This video was made by Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University

A friend of mine sent it to my by email this morning. It gave me goosbumps. THIS is why I am excited. THIS video explains it. THIS is what gets me up in the mornings:

I deal with “Web 2.0″ all day every day. I blog, I republish RSS feeds on other websites, I aggregate RSS feeds in my Bloglines account, I contribute to Wikipedia (sometimes), and Digg (often), Delicious, Reddit, Wists, Shoutwire, Fark, Five Limes… I played a part in the growth of The People’s Media Company. I have profiles on Myspace, Facebook, Zaadz, The Gaiam Community (not yet web 2.0 but will be soon), Linked In, Tag World, Yahoo 360… I build entire websites using nothing but Word Press templates and plug-ins; my JOB is the web… My LIFE is the web.

The wife think’s I’m crazy. What happened to Everett the tattooed vagabond who only cared about snowboarding, traveling and lifting weights? When did he become a geek who spends 14 hours a day staring at a computer screen? When did he start to get excited about who links to him, how he ranks for this or that, the new tools in Google Webmaster Consol, automated XML sitemaps, affiliate datafeeds… What can I say?