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Mourning the Internet Famous: Randy Pausch's Distributed Funeral When the silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in 1926, thousands gathered in the streets of New York in such an excitable state that a riot broke out, injuring 100 people. It was a leading indicator that the medium and its stars held Americans in thrall. Randy Pausch's death o Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Mourning the Internet Famous: Randy Pausch's Distributed Funeral When the silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in 1926, thousands gathered in the streets of New York in such an excitable state that a riot broke out, injuring 100 people. It was a leading indicator that the medium and its stars held Americans in thrall. Randy Pausch's death o Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Top 10: Bracing for Gustav, Oracle and Google woes This is typically one of the slowest weeks of the year for IT news, but the approach of Hurricane Gustav has Gulf Coast IT departments in full-out preparedness mode and the rest of the country anxiously watching with sharp memories of Hurricane Katrina, which hit that Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Mitch Kapor to phase out involvement in OSAF The Open Source Applications Foundation has announced a major funding and personnel shakeup, including that Lotus Development founder Mitchell Kapor will begin to phase out his involvement and investment in the nonprofit organization, which he founded in 2001. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Spears' Spiral Rewrites Obit Rules Obituary writers examine celebrities' behavior in addition to age and health. Home > Rss Directory > General > ABC News |
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Is Microsoft/Yahoo About Windows' Failure as a Top Server Platform? Linux-Watch: But, if Microsoft doesn't move Yahoo to Windows, 'it will be signing the Windows platform obituary because when people realize that Microsoft itself can run on Linux and does not need Windows, they will follow through...'" Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Obituary: HD DVD 2002-2008 No flowers, please (Almost) Forgotten Tech Toshiba's decision to end its production of HD DVD players and recorders effectively marks the death of the optical disc format once touted as the natural successor to the phenomenally popular DVD.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Obituary: Founder of Trek Bicycle, Richard Burke, Dies at 73 With his friend Bevil Hogg, Mr. Burke started the Trek company in 1976, in a barn in Waterloo, Wis. It now has 1,600 employees. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you'll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide a central location to house online memorials for tho Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you'll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide a central location to house online memorials for tho Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you'll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide a central location to house online memorials for tho Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Edwards: Don't write anybody's obituary Elizabeth Edwards, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" Wednesday to discuss Sen. Edward Kennedy's cancer diagnosis. Home > Rss Directory > General > CNN |
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Obituary Career of director, producer and actor Sydney Pollack Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Steve Jobs is Not -- Repeat, Not -- Dead We're not in the habit of piling on the gaffes of other media, but we feel duty bound to share this gawker story about Bloomberg somehow publishing its work-in-progress obituary of the Apple CEO -- who, by the way, is very much alive. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Steve Jobs is Not -- Repeat, Not -- Dead We're not in the habit of piling on the gaffes of other media, but we feel duty bound to share this gawker story about Bloomberg somehow publishing its work-in-progress obituary of the Apple CEO -- who, by the way, is very much alive. Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Steve Jobs is Not -- Repeat, Not -- Dead We're not in the habit of piling on the gaffes of other media, but we feel duty bound to share this gawker story about Bloomberg somehow publishing its work-in-progress obituary of the Apple CEO -- who, by the way, is very much alive. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Apple Unveils New iPods, Jobs Plays On Health Rumors (AHN) (AHN) - Apple introduced its thinnest iPod ever on Tuesday with the release of a new 8 gigabyte and 16 gigabyte nano. CEO Steve Jobs entertained the crowd when he poked at an obituary on him that was erroneously posted by Bloomberg News. - Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:10:55 GMT Home > Rss Directory > Business > AllHeadline |
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Obituary Studs Terkel: spokesman for ordinary Americans Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC World |
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Nov. 26, 1894: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener Born 1894: Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th century's most famous mathematicians and the founder of the discipline of cybernetics, the study of self-regulating systems. Norbert's father, Leo Wiener, was a lecturer (and late Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 26, 1894: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener Born 1894: Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th century's most famous mathematicians and the founder of the discipline of cybernetics, the study of self-regulating systems. Norbert's father, Leo Wiener, was a lecturer (and late Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |