{"id":4232,"date":"2009-11-08T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T10:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/08\/the-internet-is-a-weird-and-wo\/"},"modified":"2009-11-08T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T10:26:55","slug":"the-internet-is-a-weird-and-wo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/08\/the-internet-is-a-weird-and-wo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via somebody on a mailing list, Eric Whiteacre&#8217;s virtual choir:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z1h3Tf26TcA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z1h3Tf26TcA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ericwhitacre.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/11\/the-sleep-experiment-complete\/\">post I got this from<\/a> doesn&#8217;t contain any details, nor does it contain useful links to the making of this particular video, but looking around the <a href=\"http:\/\/ericwhitacre.wordpress.com\/\">top level of the blog<\/a> it&#8217;s fairly clear that this was put together from a large number of individual videos of people singing just one part of the song. He&#8217;s got another piece underway, and you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/ericwhitacre.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/12\/virtual-choir-starting-to-happen\/\">some of the individual parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those really cool and impossible-to-predict things you get with the modern Internet. And I think this stuff is ultimately a lot cooler than anything coming out of the blogging-as-journalism model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via somebody on a mailing list, Eric Whiteacre&#8217;s virtual choir: The post I got this from doesn&#8217;t contain any details, nor does it contain useful links to the making of this particular video, but looking around the top level of the blog it&#8217;s fairly clear that this was put together from a large number of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/08\/the-internet-is-a-weird-and-wo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,15,37,56,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music","category-pop_culture","category-technology","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}