[ECP] NetHappenings Newsletter - Resources and Headlines
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RIP Steve Jobs
Just speaking for myself ...
as an author, publisher of text and online
media, teacher, tech user, web dev person and admin of NetHappenings
There's A big question when it comes to
curriculum in schools - and the choices regarding
what to leave in and what to take out the core
curriculum. For those of you with kids who have
to decide to put your kid in a public or private,
charter, or online school with the hopes that
they will go to college one day ....
I think it's best to watch this wonderful,
wonderful video when Steve Jobs talk about his life in 2005
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/standards.html
I feel people are in morning for a person that
they feel did something right in this country.
Who else comes to mind that makes you feel that
way? His grew his company to be as big as exxon.
Was Jobs also evil? That's another discussion about Fair Trade.
But in my life I've had the privilege to know
some of the Internet pioneers, and like the
giants who come before us, Steve may not have
invented electricity but he knew what to do with it.
~Karen Ellis
Educational CyberPlayGround ®
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Steve Jobs has definitely been underappreciated in the tech community.
What this represented was the fight for creative
control. In Hollywood everybody wants creative control
and it's not an ideological issue. In Silicon
Valley, the technical guys think they should have
creative control but so do the business
guys. Most of the business guys don't know
enough, but Jobs knew more than enough.
He didn't invent anything, but his taste and
judgment in selecting what others came up with,
and unifying it all, created a user world of
elegance and charm. In this I think he should be
compared to Walt Disney, who likewise put
together the contributions of others into unique
completions that only he imagined.
And as at the Disney organization, the music and
corporate image will go on without him, but the soul will not.
~ Ted Nelson
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/hypertxt.html
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For A Dancer
"I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
Like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening"
If Steve Jobs were alive, he'd be going to work.
Because the mission was just that important.
There were no excuses, nothing could hold you back.
That's just one of the many lessons Steve taught
us. Go for greatness and never give up.
And unlike the athletes he was not
one-dimensional, there was no expiration date on
his career, he kept on keepin' on, disproving
conventional wisdom at every turn.
There are no second acts?
Huh?
No one knows anything in the movie business?
Then how come each and every Pixar movie was a blockbuster?
Steve did it his own way, and that's why we
revere him. He was like the rock stars of yore,
beholden to no one. The rules didn't apply to him.
But unlike Hendrix and Joplin and so many musical
legends, Steve didn't O.D. He hung on. And went out at the top of his game.
Huh?
That's not the American story. Usually way past
your prime we give you another go 'round, another
shot of publicity, a thank you for past efforts.
Look at today's Tony Bennett hype for example.
Does anybody believe this duets record is worth
listening to? Does it compare to his best work?
Don't make me laugh.
But the iPad was an even bigger triumph than the
iPod, which eclipsed the iMac. Steve just kept
getting better and better. It's as if the Beatles
never broke up and every few years they dropped
another album that made our jaws drop.
Meanwhile, people are tearing you down. They
don't like dominance. John Lennon is revered now,
but people were saying he was toast before he was
tragically shot. It's hard to soldier on in the
face of all that naysaying, it's hard to go your
own way, it's hard to stay the course.
But Steve did.
I'll read the biography, but I really want
Malcolm Gladwell to do a book, to explain how this happened.
Was it the adoption?
Was the success of his second tenure at Apple due
to his being blown out a decade before?
I can usually see the thread. But not with Steve Jobs. He was sui generis.
And he touched everybody.
This is not only my pain, this is the whole
world's pain. Eclipsing the death of any rock
star, akin only to the death of JFK.
It's almost sacrilegious to be typing. This is his machine. Without him...
My life would be much less rich.
He willed himself to live through Tuesday's presentation.
Then his work was done.
But he lived so long after stepping down as CEO
we all had a glimmer of hope, that maybe he could continue to make it.
So I was shocked when I looked at my phone and read that he passed.
I called my girlfriend, my best friend, I needed
to touch humanity, I had more questions than answers.
And I still do.
It feels like a death in the family.
Last night I had no words.
And right now I barely do. My beacon...the light has gone out.
"Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
Just as easy it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound"
"For A Dancer" Jackson Browne
Spotify: http://bit.ly/qNcvD5
~ Bob Lefsetz
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