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How do you watch the historic Obama ceremony next Tuesday--during work? Bring your headphones and go online says NewTeeVee, which runs down the many live video feeds of the event, including C-SPAN's planned webcast, a multichannel grid of inauguration activities from Saturday through Tuesday. "Obama's campaign set a new standard for high-tech, high-touch politics, so it's no surprise his inauguration will be cast in the same mold," says Cosmic Log (whose own roundup of political webbery mentions the inauguration Twitter feed). Indeed, the official 2009 inauguration site offers tech goodies like updates on your phone via SMS text messages. Thoughts from a Tech Specialist points to a great collection on Inauguration speeches dating back 50 years to Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Every blog I am visiting these days seems to say "Live Blogging the Obama Inauguration," says The Blog Herald, which wonders what is the point when you can just watch the actual video?
Continue Reading Story »What's Really Ailing Steve Jobs?
"It's been said that no chief executive is as important to a company's stock price as [Steve] Jobs is to Apple's, and that seems to have been proven today," wrote VentureBeat Wednesday, after Apple announced Jobs will take a health-related leave of absence as CEO. VB says Apple's value lost about $6 billion as shares traded down yesterday. But Scobleizer says you are an idiot if you sell your Apple stock now: "Apple is fine and we'll all buy the next big thing that they do no matter who brings it to us." Maybe fine for now, says Silicon Alley Insider, but "Apple will gradually lose its lead--especially if it doesn't quickly put in place a plan to move forward without Steve." As MacRumors recaps: Jobs had surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004, looked progressively thinner in public, and canceled his usual keynote at this month's MacWorld Expo, citing a tricky but treatable "hormone imbalance."
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