Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011

Wired.com hedrer Jobs på denne originale måten:



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Steve Jobs' ettermæle er imidlertid en sammensatt fortelling.  Mike Daisey skriver blant annet dette i New York Times:

The Steve Jobs who founded Apple as an anarchic company promoting the message of freedom, whose first projects with Stephen Wozniak were pirate boxes and computers with open schematics, would be taken aback by the future that Apple is forging. Today there is no tech company that looks more like the Big Brother from Apple’s iconic 1984 commercial than Apple itself, a testament to how quickly power can corrupt.

The nytimes they are a-changin'

Traditionally, the purpose of a newspaper's front page was to entice the reader into delving further into the publication. As a consequence, they are roughly equivalent with whatever the editors thought were the most relevant news items of the day.
That said, moments like this one are no longer possible:

 "This is one for the books," an elated President Harry S. Truman in 1948.

Having worked with and developed on a number of content management systems I can tell you that as a rule of thumb no one is storing their frontpage layout data. It's all gone, and once newspapers shutter their physical distribution operations I get this feeling that we're no longer going to have a comprehensive archive of how our news-sources of note looked on a daily basis. Archive.org comes close, but there are too many gaps to my liking.

Okayfail via Erik Stattin

Rodney King, 20 år etter

Siden jeg befinner meg i LA passer det å vise til en artikkel i lokalavisen: Twenty years after the beating of Rodney King, the LAPD is a changed operation. Rodney King (egentlig Glen King,ifølge Wikipedia) ble stoppet av Los Angeles-politiet den 3. mars 1991. Da han nektet å gå ut av bilen, endte det hele med at han ble banket opp av fire politikonstabler. I politirapporten het det at politibetjentene hadde handlet i selvforsvar.

Hendelsen ble imidlertid videofilmet av et tilfeldig øyenvitne, George Holliday:

Historietime: Musikkbransjen på ti minutter

NRKbeta ser i en artikkelserie på hva CD’ens død betyr for musikken. For å bedre kunne se hvor musikkbransjen beveger seg, kan det være greit med en gjennomgang av hva som har skjedd i musikkbransjen opp til CD’en – hvilken utvikling som har bragt oss dit vi står idag. Dermed en gjennomgang av den innspilte musikkens historie:





Kilde: NRKbeta