A charity single assembled from 57 geographically scattered unsigned and independent singers, each filmed at home, cut into one video to raise money after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Covered repeatedly on CNN, and the participants were collectively named ABC News Persons of the Week in March 2010.
Died in 2011 with the coverage it depended on. Charity singles are built to be timely, and timeliness has a short and well-documented shelf life. The money it raised outlived the video.
The grid of webcam squares became the standard look for collaborative video a full decade before everyone was forced into it by circumstance. Filed for the layout as much as the song.
Reported that Diane Sawyer named the contributors collectively as ABC News Persons of the Week in March 2010. Fifty-seven people who had never met shared one honour.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
