Steve Jobs' death greatly exaggerated; obit a mistake

Not sure if you want to be a "notable" person, and to see pre-release of
your own Obituary...

I think content management practice needs to be re-emphasized. Many
years ago (pre-Y2K) during the dotcom, content mgmt, ebiz governance
were popular topics, particularly you can break/make at your fingertip...

This triggers me to share the "wrong" report published by Ming Pao
previously. See next post.

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Source: ComputerWorld

http://www.cw.com.hk/article.php?type=article&id_article=2194

Steve Jobs' death greatly exaggerated; obit a mistake

01 Sep 2008

By Gregg Keizer

Take heart, Apple fans, it's not true.

The Bloomberg financial news service Wednesday posted a revised obituary
of Apple CEO Steve Jobs by accident on its wire service, but quickly
retracted it.

News organizations typically write obituaries of notable people while
they're still alive, and regularly update them so that the stories are
quickly available.

According to the gossip blog Gawker, which posted a copy of the
Bloomberg obituary, the news service issued a retraction late Wednesday
afternoon. "An incomplete story referencing Apple was inadvertently
published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m. New York time today," the
retraction read. "The item was never meant for publication and has been
retracted."

The four-page Bloomberg obituary outlined Jobs' career, touching on
highlights such as the 1976 founding of Apple, the introduction of the
Mac in 1984, his ouster from the company the following year and his
return to Apple in 1997.

Bloomberg also mentioned Jobs' gaunt appearance in June at Apple's
Worldwide Developers Conference, which fueled speculation that the CEO
was again ill. Jobs, who in August 2004 announced he had had surgery to
remove a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. This year, Apple officials
explained Jobs' appearance in June by saying he had been recovering from
a "common bug" at the time.

Last month, he talked off-the-record about his health with Joe Nocera, a
reporter with the New York Times. Nocera reported only that Jobs' health
problems "weren't life-threatening and he doesn't have a recurrence of
cancer."

Interestingly, Bloomberg's obituary noted that Apple has never named a
successor to Jobs for the company's top spot.

Computerworld (US online)