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Crowdsourcing a tribute to Johnny Cash

Posted by: leeerickson on: March 26, 2012

Leveraging the crowd for its artistic talents. In the category of it’s “incredible what hundreds of people around the world who don’t know each other can collectively create,” artist Aaron Koblin leverages the power of the crowd to create an amazing crowdsourced video one frame at a time. The Johnny Cash Project allows anyone to [...]

Our short digital memory: The not so new, new interactive ebooks

Posted by: leeerickson on: March 28, 2011

It appears as a culture we may have a very short digital memory. This morning I was listening to a story on NPR about “new” app books for children. “There’s a whole new way to read your kids to sleep these days” the story begins. It goes on to describe eBooks that read to your [...]

That’s cool.

Posted by: leeerickson on: August 4, 2009

In the that’s just plain cool department Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale. Try to sing along.


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