Recently, I attended a conference of law firm managing partners, practice management advisors, law firm CIOs and CMOs, law professors, and other legal management experts from the U.S., Canada, Scotland, England, and Australia. Professor Michael Wesch's YouTube videos came to my attention as we discussed the impact of Web 2.0 in the legal world.

In June, Wesch, an anthropology professor at Kansas University, spoke before the Library of Congress about the cultural changes in the world highlighted by YouTube. (You may have already seen Professor Wesch's video, "The Machine is Us/ing Us" a few years ago.) I recommend you watch this presentation he gave to the Library of Congress: An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube.

This second video is almost an hour, but worth the time. It is food for thought as the legal profession evolves within a flattening world, as we adapt to the ideas of younger lawyers, and compete to survive and thrive in that evolving world. Keep track of your ideas as you watch . . .