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Webl0ggers: Give to tsunami victims and
I'll give too! (Anders Jacobsen's bl0g)

Webl0ggers: Give to tsunami victims and
I'll give too! (Anders Jacobsen's bl0g) 01/03/2005 08:22 AM
Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I’ll give too! .. dans cet article de son blog .. Ander’s list

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New Louisiana hosting company to give to
major charities. St. Jude, Habitat, and
March of Dimes named as a few they will
give to.

New Louisiana hosting company to give to
major charities. St. Jude, Habitat, and
March of Dimes named as a few they will
give to. 07/22/2004 03:01 AM
[PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Give Me Death and Give Me Liberty
(19-Jan-2004; 0.8K)

Give Me Death and Give Me Liberty
(19-Jan-2004; 0.8K) 01/22/2004 02:38 AM

Online Extra: "I Give So They Can Give
Back" (BusinessWeek Online)

Online Extra: "I Give So They Can Give
Back" (BusinessWeek Online) 08/27/2004 01:26 PM
BusinessWeek Online - Chris Aque, a 17-year-old high school senior in Chicago, is big on the new band Tilly and the Wall. Tilly is the first group to be signed by new indie label Team Love, which was co-founded by Conor Oberst of the band Bright Eyes and Nate Krenkel, and offers free downloads as a way to promote its bands. Aque loves music and talking about the bands he likes with other music fans online at sites including the social networking service LiveJournal.

In a Spin

In a Spin 05/25/2004 04:26 PM
Spinoffs can be great investments. Just don't fall for a spin job.

"Swimming Through the Spin"

"Swimming Through the Spin" 09/04/2004 02:46 AM

Spin Crisis 1.0

Spin Crisis 1.0 10/31/2003 04:03 PM
You must guide your marble through an ever more challenging series of mazes.

A DIFFERENT SPIN (SiliconValley.com)

A DIFFERENT SPIN (SiliconValley.com) 08/18/2004 06:57 AM
SiliconValley.com - As surely as CDs followed vinyl, there was bound to be a successor to the DVD spinning around in research labs.

counter-spin

counter-spin 12/14/2003 11:19 AM
Atrios

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How to spin statistics

How to spin statistics 04/10/2005 07:27 AM
ZDNet Apr 10 2005 10:38AM GMT

New spin on biz cards

New spin on biz cards 12/26/2003 09:04 PM
USA Today Dec 26 2003 8:11PM ET

New spin on search ads

New spin on search ads 05/05/2004 07:42 PM
Tacoda Systems, a little-known tech company, is testing a system that lets marketers bid against rivals to reach targeted audiences as they surf the Web.

Take a Spin in the Concorde

Take a Spin in the Concorde 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
At the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center more than 80 aircraft and dozens of spacecraft encompassing 100 years of aviation history stand majestically on the floor or hang loftily suspended from the ceiling. Using QuickTime VR technology, the museum captures detailed interior and exterior views of each craft in movies for viewing at kiosks near the exhibits. [Feb 5]

Alias Spin Off?

Alias Spin Off? 02/12/2004 08:36 AM
Alias announced that the company is "involved in exclusive discussions with a leading private equity investment firm for the acquisition of Alias". ...

What's the best possible spin to put on
this Orwellian rewrite?

What's the best possible spin to put on
this Orwellian rewrite? 11/12/2003 04:32 PM
Reasons Not to Invade Iraq, by George Bush Sr.

Only available at the Memory Hole, since Time Magazine's website seems to have, erm, lost it.

Satellite Radio Goes for a Spin

Satellite Radio Goes for a Spin 12/31/2003 06:13 AM
When it comes to variety and sound quality, satellite-radio competitors Sirius and XM deliver the goods. Once you've heard it, you might never listen to FM or AM radio again. A review by Lewis Wallace.

to debunking the spin techniques

to debunking the spin techniques 08/10/2004 12:33 PM

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The Difference Between Spin And An Angle

The Difference Between Spin And An Angle 02/12/2004 02:44 AM
This week, Techdirt got a lot of attention for pointing out the extraordinarily different takes on a speech by former Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi from blogger s and a reporter from Reuters. If you read the different accounts, you would have sworn they were at entirely different speeches. Lots of websites picked up on that story and linked back to us - but now, former Reuters reporter Jeremy Wagstaff (who writes for Far Eastern Economic Review and WSJ.com - and on his own excellent blog) is taking me to task for calling the Reuters report "spin". He says there's a very important difference between "spin" and an "angle" and points out (absolutely correctly) that a journalist's job isn't necessarily to write up a summary of the entire speech, but to pick out the newsworthy point and write about that. He points to other press coverage of the same speech and notes that they all pick up on a different aspect of the speech. He also gives the standard reporter's excuse about deadlines and how things accidentally "creep into" stories where they don't belong. He points out (once again, correctly) that one of the nice things about blogs is that they give an alternate source for more info and context which the reporters don't do (it's not their job). These are all good points, and worth thinking about - but I still don't take back my original comments. While a reporter's job is to find out what's newsworthy and write about it, that does not mean taking something out of context - which is clearly what was done with that Reuters article. If you listen to the speech, Trippi spends the entire speech talking about what a revolutionary force the internet is when it comes to politics. Whether you believe that or not, if you read the Reuters report, you don't get that impression at all. You get the impression he blamed the internet. Giving people the impression of something that clearly was not being said is not an angle. It's spin (scroll down to spin) - and Reuters should be ashamed.

"the latest desperate spin"

"the latest desperate spin" 09/23/2004 02:53 AM

Five to screen Friends spin-off

Five to screen Friends spin-off 08/13/2004 05:24 AM
Five wins the right to broadcast Friends spin-off series Joey, after Channel 4 pulled out of bidding.

I'll Take You for a Spin in My
Apartment... (Reuters)

I'll Take You for a Spin in My
Apartment... (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
Reuters - Feel like you need to turn your life around? Then a new apartment building in the Brazilian city of Curitiba could be for you.

No Friends spin-off for Channel 4

No Friends spin-off for Channel 4 08/12/2004 01:11 PM
Channel 4 says it will not join a bidding war for Friends spin-off Joey claiming the price is too high.

Spin Me Right Round, Baby

Spin Me Right Round, Baby 08/13/2004 10:46 AM
The new sexual position invented by the Japanese porn actor Micky Yanai requires two things: a partner with a strong back and a troubling amount of torque.

Motorola unveils $2bn IPO spin-off

Motorola unveils $2bn IPO spin-off 12/30/2003 09:41 AM
eFinancial News Dec 30 2003 8:17AM ET

IBM, Stanford put new spin on chips

IBM, Stanford put new spin on chips 04/26/2004 07:23 AM
ZDNet Apr 26 2004 11:33AM GMT

Skeptical of Safeway's Spin

Skeptical of Safeway's Spin 04/26/2004 01:01 PM
The company's recent presentation to institutional investors fails to instill confidence in this Fool.

Motorola future in a spin

Motorola future in a spin 12/20/2003 09:42 PM
Scotland on Sunday Dec 20 2003 8:14PM ET

TOM.com proposes HK$1.46 bln Internet
arm spin-off

TOM.com proposes HK$1.46 bln Internet
arm spin-off 02/15/2004 10:30 PM
Reuters Feb 16 2004 2:36AM GMT

Apple products go for a spin

Apple products go for a spin 04/14/2005 04:01 PM
Apple products have begun to show up in all kinds of vehicles making it easy to take them around town using many modes of transportation. From bicycles to BMWs, the iPod can be found making its way onto the road, and the Mac mini has even found its way onto the highway. At the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco this past January, Apple announced it teamed up with Mercedes-Benz USA, Volvo, Nissan, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari to deliver iPod integration with their car stereo systems in 2005. When Mercedes-Benz USA announced its iPod Integration Kit, it became the first automaker to provide full iPod music navigation for drivers to listen to their entire iPod music collection through the car audio system. The integration kit also allows the user to select music by artist, album or playlist using multifunction controls on the steering wheel and the integrated multifunction display on the instrument cluster. BMW and MINI Cooper began providing integrated iPod solutions in 2004, enabling drivers to use iPods in BMW’s 3 Series, Z4 Roadster, X3 and X5 Sports Activity Vehicles and MINI Cooper by plugging the iPod into a cable located in the car’s glove compartment. Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated that one of the next frontiers for a seamless digital music experience is the car since "we all spend a lot of time driving" and the company's solution lets "iPod users enjoy their entire music collection" in their BMW or MINI. “Almost every car company in the world is working to integrate iPod into their cars in 2005,” Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller said. “iPod customers want to take their entire music collection with them everywhere they go, including their car, so we’re excited to be able to work with so many leading automotive companies to provide customers with integrated solutions.” Following the release of Apple's Mac mini, vehicle restoration service, Classic Restorations, announced plans for installing the pint-sized computer in vehicle dashboards. Back in January, the New York-based company's president Melvin Benzaquen said there would be no standard pricing for the car installations, though past computer installations have cost between $1,500 to $7,000. So far the company has added a Mac mini to a classic 1969 MacNova SS, a Jeep Grand Cherokee, and has given word on its latest restoration project, a Camino. A Mac mini was installed in the i-Car by Miami-based Audio Elite, who integrated the Mac mini into a Lexus. The car features two displays, a USB 2.0 and Firewire hub mounted below the dash, and the Mac mini mounted in a custom arm rest that has air vents and a plexiglas top that reveals the Apple logo. Gadget magazine T3 recently showed off a customised Yamaha EC-02 iPod-modified electric bike. The environmentally-friendly motorbike was custom-built for use with the iPod and features a clear snap-shut case on the top of the bike where the iPod sits snugly. The iPod is controlled through a set of controls positioned on the right handlebar. In addition to all the other cool features, the bike also has a stereo speaker built into the place that the gas tank normally sits. As for bicycles, Marware makes an iPod bike holder that mounts to bike handlebars and can be used with all Marware cases that use the Multidapt clip system. The holder allows the iPod to clip onto the bike handles placing it in clear view, for easy access to the menu and buttons while riding.

Sit And Spin: December 2003

Sit And Spin: December 2003 12/23/2003 02:43 AM
The Straight Man's Guide to Enjoying Gay Sex (prolly NSFW)

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New Spin on the Music Business

New Spin on the Music Business 05/15/2004 05:45 AM
A Harvard professor outlines a radical plan for compensating recording artists in the digital age. He wants to pay for music with taxes on Internet access and MP3 players. Katie Dean reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PalmSource spin-off slips again

PalmSource spin-off slips again 03/21/2003 10:17 AM
Summer 2003 at the earliest

Web developers positive spin

Web developers positive spin 05/19/2004 02:58 AM
Business News May 19 2004 7:11AM GMT

Taking Yahoo 360 for a spin

Taking Yahoo 360 for a spin 04/02/2005 08:31 PM
WebProNews Apr 3 2005 12:58AM GMT

Book: All the President's Spin

Book: All the President's Spin 08/04/2004 01:47 PM
My former Silicon Alley Reporter colleague Ben Fritz -- who's also co-founder of political-spin-debunker website Spinsanity-- has a new book out. It's a doozy.

Our first book, All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth, goes on sale today... it offers a nonpartisan analysis of the PR-driven deception that has come to define George W. Bush's presidency, chronicling his spin on issues ranging from tax cuts to the war in Iraq. We also put Bush's presidency in perspective by tracing the history of public relations in modern presidential politics; examining how this process has culminated in a presidential campaign in which Bush and John Kerry are both engaging in deceptive PR tactics; and explaining why the media has failed to hold Bush and other politicians accountable for dishonest spin.

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Motorola needs more spin offs: analysts

Motorola needs more spin offs: analysts 12/23/2003 01:02 PM
Cyber India Online Dec 23 2003 11:38AM ET

O'Reilly trapped in the spin zone

O'Reilly trapped in the spin zone 07/22/2004 11:39 AM
Jim Gilliam, one of the producers on Outfoxed, has a great account of O'Reilly's temper tantrum about the moview.

Motorola to spin off chip unit

Motorola to spin off chip unit 12/18/2003 02:23 PM
ZDNet UK Dec 18 2003 11:44AM ET

RFID Cards Get Spin Treatment

RFID Cards Get Spin Treatment 03/29/2005 06:49 AM
Wired News Mar 29 2005 10:40AM GMT
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Steve Portigal — About Steve —
Foreign Groceries

Steve Portigal — About Steve —
Foreign Groceries 11/16/2003 05:58 AM
Online Foreign Groceries Museum .. Now in Funky Soy Sauce Flavor! .. foreign snack foods .. Food for thought

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China Mobile And China UnionPay Launch
Wireless Banking

China Mobile And China UnionPay Launch
Wireless Banking 03/28/2005 01:29 AM
ChinaTechNews.com Mar 28 2005 5:54AM GMT

China agrees to take neutral position on
3G standards at China-U.S. JCCT

China agrees to take neutral position on
3G standards at China-U.S. JCCT 04/22/2004 10:45 PM
Interfax Information Agency Apr 23 2004 2:25AM GMT

China Expert Technology awarded $10m
e-government contract in China

China Expert Technology awarded $10m
e-government contract in China 03/19/2005 02:27 AM
Computer Business Review Mar 18 2005 5:40AM GMT

"China (yes, that China) won't support
the UN resolution on US international
legal immunity because it would look as
if they were condoning our war crimes in
Iraq. Sorta makes you proud to be an
american, don't it?"

"China (yes, that China) won't support
the UN resolution on US international
legal immunity because it would look as
if they were condoning our war crimes in
Iraq. Sorta makes you proud to be an
american, don't it?" 06/19/2004 04:26 PM

CHINA: China issues more internet
regulations

CHINA: China issues more internet
regulations 06/22/2004 01:09 AM
Asia Media Jun 22 2004 5:14AM GMT

CHINA: Web users want China to clarify
subversion law

CHINA: Web users want China to clarify
subversion law 02/12/2004 10:16 PM
Asia Media Feb 13 2004 3:02AM GMT

Steve

Steve 06/11/2004 05:02 AM

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Ev and Steve - we need more of these!

Ev and Steve - we need more of these! 05/21/2004 04:04 AM
Blogger Reboots: Google's Evan Williams.

The Weblog world is, in the words of Buddy Miles, going through them changes. With Dave Winer open sourcing Frontier and Movable Type struggling with its licensing, Google’s Blogger unit arrives with a spanking new upgrade, the first since Google acquired the company in February, 2003. In a wide-ranging conversa tion with eWEEK’s Steve Gillmor, Blogger co-founder and Google program manager Evan Williams runs through the changes in the software, the company, and the RSS /ATOM ecology.

[Steve Gillmor's Blogosphere]

Out of all of this excellent interview, this is my favorite bit......

Do you have any kind of relationship, or do you plan one, with micro-content reader and router toolmakers?

We are very interested in it. We're talking to folks, mostly on a casual basis now. We don't have any big plans along those lines, but it will certainly be an increasingly crucial piece of the publishing tools in this ecosystem that we're in.

More Steve

More Steve 01/18/2004 12:27 AM

The Blogosphere is Steve Gillmor's new section on his home page at eWeek.

Look Out, Steve!

Look Out, Steve! 02/10/2004 10:36 AM
Microsoft may be plotting to unseat Apple by leapfrogging ahead to movies and TV. By Stephen Lynch (New York Post via MyAppleMenu)

Made-in-China played in China

Made-in-China played in China 12/17/2003 10:38 PM
CNET Asia Dec 17 2003 9:50PM ET

"Steve Gilliard"

"Steve Gilliard" 06/08/2004 05:51 AM

More On Steve Jobs

More On Steve Jobs 06/17/2004 10:10 AM
Students of Jobs interviews will note his comments on the iPod's changing role for Apple (it's not seen as flag-bearer for the whole Mac OS any mroe) and Jobs' repeated statement of admiration for Sony. By Neil McIntosh, The Guardian (via MyAppleMenu)

Hey man...well said.Im a die hard Mac
fan as well as a Steve

Hey man...well said.Im a die hard Mac
fan as well as a Steve 09/04/2004 03:40 PM
TechTree Sep 4 2004 5:46PM GMT

Hire Steve

Hire Steve 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

Q&A: Steve Jobs

Q&A: Steve Jobs 01/29/2004 12:46 AM
In addition to the Business Week cover story, enjoy the Online Extra Q&A session with Steve Jobs discussing Apple, Pixar and even his all-time favorite musician. (available to paid subscribers only) [Jan 23]

Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor 03/14/2005 05:56 PM
Others have pointed this out, but it’s worth saying again: Steve has been writing some really good stuff recently.

Steve?s Mom?s videobl0gs

Steve?s Mom?s videobl0gs 08/04/2004 05:16 PM
My Mom's Blog by Thoroughly Modern Millie: brilliant videoblog entry about usability of a coffeebox lid. Check it.

Steve Johnson on 9/11

Steve Johnson on 9/11 07/05/2004 05:56 PM
Steve Johnson has a terrific review of F9/11. It's about 3 stars short of a rave. Steve reduces the movie to a silly conspiracy theory and an unreeling of images that we need to see if we are to be morally accountable. I agree that the movie is both those things, but I think it's also more than that. Moore blurts out conspiracy theories with alarming frequency, and I agree with Steve that they generally don't stick. (I do want to read the book about the Bushes' relationships with the Saudis, though.) But I didn't read the intellectual content of...

"Steve Reading"

"Steve Reading" 03/23/2005 04:58 PM

Steve Madden-ing

Steve Madden-ing 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
Stiff competition and too many marketdowns have the shoe maker looking scuffed.

"Steve Kirks "

"Steve Kirks " 06/18/2004 04:59 AM

Adam and Steve Together At Last

Adam and Steve Together At Last 05/17/2004 07:31 AM
Whether you're for it or against it, it looks like we'v e got it.

March 17, 2004 brings gay marriage to Massachusetts, adding the USA to a short list of countries who recognize this union. Whether we remain on that list for long depends on whether certain people get their way.

Thank God for Steve Gillmor

Thank God for Steve Gillmor 02/01/2005 08:42 PM

Steve is the only guy who reminds me of what it was like before....

Everyone else - from Dave Winer, Steve Levy, Dan Farber, Mitch Kapor, Heidi Roizen the whole gang - all all grown and matured. But Steve still reminds me of what it was like BEFORE Windows - back when Apple still had a chance.

Before the ultimate mistake - that cost them the market and their company. It's nice that Apple has great products now - but I'm a software guy and I have to figure out what to do. This 'comeback' that Jobs is formulating must prove ONE thing.

Will they license their software or not?

I believe the Motorola deal is what we're waiting for - right?

The HP deal is nothing more than turning HP into their sales force. But it's the iPhone that will show what the future of Apple is.

When you read this rant from Steve Gillmor - remember one thing. Apple DOES have the best products and software. And they stole allot from Xerox PARC so we can steal from them. Remember that.

Everything they do is OUR roadmap. OUR R&D.

So without any further ado...... Steve Gillmor....

With all due respect to Marc Canter, thank god for Apple. As Microsoft’s DRMForSure juggernaut rolled out of Vegas with a full head of cartel-fired steam, even phone guru Russell Beattie was ready to bow before Bill Gates and that personal video device vibrating in his pocket. Though Bill’s message was marginally diluted by some demo misfires in his CESdex keynote, the gathering force of Media Center extenders, Scoble’s Smartphone, and the tantalizing prospect of being able to watch the West Wing in letterbox format on a one-inch screen at 50,000 feet all conspired to create a surprisingly vivid re-innovation of Steve Jobs’ patented reality distortion field.

With all due respect to Robert Scoble, thank god for Apple. When Steve strolled out to center stage with the Mini, he got more applause for the box than anything Bill showed Conan O’Brien. Actually, there was a collective gasp over the size of the box, as it drove home the nuanced multi-threaded message of the Apple play: less is more. The ThinkSecret leaks didn’t take the power out of the punchline–they amplified it.

With all due respect to Dan Gillmor, thank god for Apple. They don’t call them trade secrets for nothing. Personally, I think they sued for the same reasons Gates called us communists: to protect their business model. Thank god for the EFF, too. Personally, I think the gasp in the Moscone Center should be used as Defense Exhibit A for the fact that no secrets were exposed.

The biggest secret of all was the word not spoken in either Vegas or San Francisco: podcasting. Nowhere to be seen was the ru mored Firewire audio breakout box, the reported subject of several subpoenas issued in December. But add up the rest of the announcements, most shipping by the end of the month, and you may notice that Apple has restructured itself around the iPod platform.

1. The iPod Shuffle
Though most of us boomers can’t fathom the idea that "life is random" is a feature, the Shuffle’s secret sauce is its Playlist mode, turned off by default. Attention: iPodder developers–if you develop SmartPlaylist functionality in your aggregators, you can use attention and other explicit metadata to program iTunes to download, sort, and sequence podcasts while you sleep. Remember, the iPod is the delivery system, the data cache at the end of the pipeline. Of course, if some smart 3rd-party vendor adds a microphone that clips onto the Shuffle, it’s a data recorder hanging around your neck.

2. The Mini
For podcasters, this is a $500 studio-in-a-box. GarageBand now supports multitrack recording (eight channels each with their own eq and effects) and the ability to create your own loops. Combine GarageBand with Smart Playlists and slice and dice your podcasts up into "songs" that you can sequence and, more importantly, pull "quotes" for inclusion in other podcasts. Once again, remember that the iPod is the endpoint of the production environment. The Mini is the studio, the mastering lab, where you cut the virtual grooves between the tracks of these next-generation podcasts.

3. Tiger
The next version of OS/X will load just fine on the Mini, too. It comes with Automator, which, if hooked up to GarageBand, would provide an automated way to refactor existing long-form podcasts into this new track model. Automator could also build consoles to automate real-time, radio-style production with multiple audio inputs, taking advantage of Tiger’s enhanced ability to handle multiple virtual audio devices.

4. iWork and iLife
Keynote, Pages, and iMovie are morphing into a podcast-to-video porting environment. Use Automator consoles to load in podcast segments and annotate them with links, iPhoto transitions, and attention-influenced intelligent caching of related pod- and Mini-casts, and you’re well on your way to a read/write version of the RSS-powered multimedia Web. While DRMForSure coddles the cartel, the iPod Platform plays to the customers in the seats.

With all due respect to Bill Gates, thank god for Apple. If Apple didn’t exist, Bill, you’d have to invent them. Perhaps you did. It’s the real Bill and Steve Show. Two peas in a Pod, that’s for sure.

[Steve Gillmor Inforouter]

Is there life after Steve?

Is there life after Steve? 08/13/2004 11:20 PM
While sifting through the usual day-old headlines Sunday night, looking for a last-minute bit of news to post before I retired for the evening, I came across a headline that made me do a double-take, and filled me with enough shock and caution to divert my eyes from this week’s episode of "Entourage" on HBO: "Apple CEO Jobs undergoes surgery for cancer" Despite the comedy playing itself out on my television screen, I was momentarily filled with an eerie sense of fear upon clicking the link, and in the five seconds it took to reach the article on the other end, I was forced to imagine the worst — as Steve Jobs lied in a hospital bed somewhere on the west coast of the United States, the face of modern computing hung in the balance. Thankfully, the balance has been restored. And while some of you will undoubtedly call me melodramatic (at the very least), when it comes down to it, no one man in the tech industry has as much charisma, insight and talent as Steve Jobs. We can all remember that first time we watched Steve take the stage at a Macworld event — for you lucky ones, on the stage in front of you; for the rest of us via a Quicktime stream or satellite feed. Mixing humor with anticipation, and making even boring sales statistics exciting, Steve"s keynote speeches are nothing short of entertaining. Even those which are light on announcements still keep us on the edge of our seat. It"s better than a movie, and if the Apple Store wanted to charge $3 for admission, we"d pay (mostly without a fight). Of course, when most people think PC, they think Bill Gates, who is as synonymous to modern computing as Edison is to the light bulb — but few tech CEOs play as prominent a role in the day-to-day operations as Steve. And while we know there must be a team of experts designing prototypes and brainstorming ideas, we also know that he has as much a part in the development of Apple’s architecture as anyone on the staff. And right now, Apple’s architecture rules, and Steve"s presence — both behind and in the scenes — would certainly be missed. And not just by Apple. What would happen to the state of the computing if Steve wasn"t around to keep everyone on their toes. Think about it — without the iMac, modern desktop machines would be stuck somewhere in 1998, still clinging to a floppy drive as a viable form of transferring information. And forget mp3 players… can you say Rio? OK, OK — but for every release Steve has been a part of, the tech industry has rocketed ahead. In Steve"s absence, the Newton was the only notable release, and that certainly didn’t prompt copycats. Sure, it was ahead of its time — so far ahead that even Apple"s couldn’t catch up. The technology was mostly bug-ridden, and again, Steve knew best, killing the project when he retook the reigns. Then came the iMac, PowerBook, iBook, PowerMac, Cinema Displays, iPod… And the list goes on (and hopefully will continue to). Legends come and go, and greatness fades, but Steve is as relevant at 49 as he was at 22. Get well soon Steve. The circuit boards — G5s and otherwise — are not aligned without you.

Dear Steve

Dear Steve 06/17/2005 04:30 PM
James Duncan Davidson: Dear Steve: “Well, I think that after the experience we just had this last week, you don’t have to worry about us. We’ll be more than ready for you in very short order.”

Agreed.

Steve Ballmer on innovation

Steve Ballmer on innovation 11/13/2003 04:07 PM
In an interview with Always On, Steve Ballmer comments on innovation, competition, Apple and the computer industry. Though he does recognize Apple's innovation and focus, he fails to see how a strategy of providing users with the best computing experience possible can increase Macintosh market share. Mr. Ballmer also seems to believe, like much of the computer industry, that commodity hardware, Windows and the computing experience this combination provides are "good enough,"...

Project Steve Guttenberg 1.8.2

Project Steve Guttenberg 1.8.2 05/14/2004 10:35 AM
A journal/blogging application that integrates seamlessly into your Web site.

Has Steve Been Body-Snatched?

Has Steve Been Body-Snatched? 06/15/2004 01:50 AM
Steve has spoken in the past about how copy-protection mechanisms do not work... But today, we get a Steve that says this? By Michael Brewer, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

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