Thinking Out Loud

on media, technology and other shiny objects

Liz Gebhardt

Liz Gebhardt
Location
San Francisco, California, usa
Birthday
May 16
Title
Chief Experience Officer
Company
(e.g.) ventures
Bio
Media strategist and producer building brands and content by leveraging the power at the intersection of Web meets (live) World. Otherwise known as: Pied Piper/Drill Sergeant/Den Mother. Protector/provider to dog pack of Zoe and Shiloh. Also blogs at www.thinkingoutloud.com and on Twitter as @egebhardt.

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MAY 20, 2010 8:12PM

Musical Crowdsourcing

This is the most inspiring and musical example of crowdsourcing you will ever hear : Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - 'Lux Aurumque.'

 Composer Whitaker explains the process by which this "virtual choir" (with more than 100 singers from 12 countries recorded themselves separately onlin… Read full post »

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JANUARY 2, 2010 4:53PM

In the Center of Hell There Is a Garden

I've been seeing many stories in the news these days about central Africa (Congo and Uganda in particular) focusing on both humanitarian and environmental issues, the close links between the two, and in particular their relationship to the accelerant that was the Rwandan genocide in 1994. I was there… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 23, 2009 4:09PM

Will Square Be the VISA of the 21st Century?

While startup Square is not in the business of making credit cards as VISA was when it started in 1970, there is a potentially interesting link behind the intentions and possibilities of the two companies at the time of their respective foundings, even though they are separated by 40 years of… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 2, 2009 6:01PM

Twitter = LEGOs?

Twitter Bird Made of LEGO by Artist Nathan Sawaya

 

Some History

On January 28, 1958, Godtfried Kirk Christiansen (a carpenter who built a humble toy factory during the Great Depression) submitted a patent for the LEGO brick building system in Copenhagen, Denmark. Fifty years later, the core building block of the brick is virtually u

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