How blogging gives student journalists an edge in the job market

At an event in London late last year, three young journalists discussed how blogging helped to kickstart their careers. As reported at the time by Journalism.co.uk, Guardian technology and media reporter Josh Halliday stated that ?The most important thing I did at university, including my degree, was to blog and get online. That?s what got me the job.?

The growing list of student bloggers who have found their way into good ?pro? jobs also includes Hannah Waldram, who founded the Bournville Village blog, ended up taking to professional local blogging as the Cardiff ?beatblogger? for The Guardian?s now mothballed Local project before becoming a community coordinator for the same newspaper, and Dave Lee, who founded The Linc newspaper and website in his university town of Lincoln before moving on to a varied career that currently sees him covering technology news for the BBC.

So, is blogging the perfect way for student journalists to get a foot on the ladder? Paul Bradshaw, leader of the MA Journalism course at Birmingham City University in the UK, believes so. ?It?s definitely something I?ve been encouraging my students to do for a few years now,? he says.

?I think students entering the marketplace who have never run their own news website are at an increasing disadvantage,? explains Bradshaw. ?Pretty much every employer I talk to says that they would ask serious questions about why an applicant was not already doing their journalism on some sort of online platform. There?s also a new opportunity for students to build assets ? a URL, a network, a reputation ? that employers will be looking for.?

The ability for anyone to set up a blog in minutes, at no cost, makes it a no-brainer that someone wanting to find paid work as a journalist would want to cut their teeth with some form of news blogging.

Taking on local media

Local newspaper sales have fallen, due in part to a decline in classified ads heralded by Web-based platforms such as Gumtree, so students now seem particularly attracted to covering local news. Kellie Maddox studies journalism at Birmingham City University and started Hednesford News in February this year as part of her final year project, with the aim of continuing and developing the site after graduation.

?With the decline in local print news coverage and the increasing boom of online news, it seemed a natural transition to start up a blog to provide focused content on a specific town or area, particularly when Hednesford (the town where I live) is currently undergoing huge regeneration which local residents are clearly interested/concerned about,? she explains.

?During my second year at university, I began to hear more about hyperlocal blogging and started to network with some of the key hyperlocal figures in the Midlands through social media and networking events,? Maddox says. ?Having seen the success of blogs close to my home, such as The Lichfield Blog (now Lichfield Live) and seen how responsive people are to it and how vital a service it provides the community, I was keen to find out more and wanted to start a blog of my own. Hyperlocal blogging allows me, as a journalism student, to write and produce content, and publish to an audience quite freely, whenever I want and to provide a service which has currently been absent in my local area.?

Joseph Stashko is a journalism student at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK. As a blogger at Blog Preston, he covers local news in the city on a daily basis. He admits that getting into blogging ?was just something to do,? but he was spurred into it by the 2010 UK General Election.

?Blog Preston was already up and running without my involvement, but had leant towards more feature-based and local history pieces rather than information or journalism. With the elections coming up I got in touch with the original founder, Ed Walker, and asked him whether I could run a live blog along with a few others to have some dynamic election coverage. It culminated in a live blog that took in audio, video clips, text updates and photos. That was my introduction to local blogging and after that I was asked by Ed to take over running of the blog.?

Self-made work experience

Stashko sees his reporting for Blog Preston as being more than just work experience ? he sees it as being potentially better than the opportunities a traditional short stint in a local paper newsroom might offer. ?In journalism, work experience is touted as a key part of the process that you need to follow in order to land a job. Local coverage allows you to do arguably more than you?d ever do in a newspaper office because you can be more experimental and have a free choice about what you cover. It also gives you a sense about what people care about on a local level ? something that may not be important to you might be a burning community issue, so it teaches you basic news values.?

To date, Stashko is most proud of the coverage Blog Preston gave to a march by the controversial English Defence League. ?It was an opportunity to go to town on both live coverage and follow-up content. So on the day I was live tweeting and sending out photos, which helped to build a live picture for people following the coverage. Afterwards there was enough content to make a short video package, an audio slideshow, a local business angle and a general report of the event. Our live coverage ended up being so good that it ended up being followed and used by big local media outlets who weren?t even covering it live.?

Stashko has even had the opportunity to experiment with new ways of reporting in a way that many fast-moving professional newsrooms may not have time for. In particular, geolocation-based reporting has been trialled of late on Blog Preston. Reviews and articles containing background information relevant to locations around Preston are posted to Foursquare, while Stashko recently mapped out the city?s most unhygienic restaurants and takeaways, including it on the site in an embedded Google map.

?There was little journalism involved ? all it meant was me digging around in the Food Standards Agency for lots of results ? what made it special was rather than just publishing the information I made it easy for the end user by visualising it on a map. Stuff like that also had a strong social element where people were curious to see how their favourite place to go stacked up, or share it with friends,? Stashko explains. ?I think a lot of people underestimate the popularity of just being a useful source of information, rather than necessarily having to pursue hardcore journalism all the time.?

Work-life-work balance

One of the problems of maintaining a blog in your spare time is that, no matter how much you enjoy it, the rest of your life can get in the way. Stashkko admits that balancing his studies, a student social life and voluntary blogging is sometimes a challenge.

?It?s always a struggle, sometimes I get in at 11 or 12 and realise I have to write something up otherwise there?ll be nothing on the site the next day, and that?s a pain ? but ultimately I enjoy doing it, so for the most part that means it?s never too much of a bother.

?For me my studies will take priority in that I want to end university with a good degree, but the value that I?ve got from Blog Preston is very tangible ? it?s led to some paid work, got me known as someone who?s doing things within the hyperlocal space as well as giving me the opportunity to use online tools that?d probably either be frowned upon or looked at as time-consuming in a traditional newsroom.?

Kellie Maddox, blogging single-handedly at Hednesford News, has decided to take a short break from the site while she completes her degree, although she plans to return to it, monetising the project via the Addiply advertising platform, which is aimed at local and niche Web publishers.

Leaving it all behind

Of course, at some point, if all goes well, that experience of running a successful, self-started blog will pay off in the form of good job, but what happens to the blog the students spent so long toiling over? More importantly, what of the audience the blog built up? Are they left stranded?

Luckily, at least in some cases, it seems that local blogs can become something of a legacy for the students who started them once they leave town. Hannah Waldram?s Bournville Village blog is still operating under a new editor, while Dave Lee?s The Linc has gone from humble beginnings in 2007 to become a thriving publication which was shortlisted in the Guardian Student Media Awards in 2009 and recognised by the BBC in 2010 for its General Election coverage.

No longer a novelty?

While blogging certainly helps student journalists hone the skills they learn in lectures, the novelty of ?a student who blogs? must have worn off a little for employers now. Is that a problem?

?I think several years ago employers would?ve been bowled over by the fact that you even had a blog (as long as the content was half decent) ? now it?s a lot more difficult to separate yourself in a world when lots of journalism students are on twitter, have a blog and use other social media,? Joseph Stashko says.

Paul Bradshaw believes that students can still stand out through using new and innovative reporting techniques. ?It?s still easy to stand out from the crowd if you can get great stories or engage a community in powerful ways. Too few students do the latter. The students who are doing data journalism and visualisation are standing out, and also multimedia work.?

?Producing a regular blog allows me to develop my own journalism skills, be creative in terms of the content I produce, such as mapping, audio and video, and to demonstrate my commitment to the cause, my enjoyment and interest and my determination,? says Kellie Maddox.

Maybe that?s it ? in the end, it?s all down to showing that you love what you do so much that you?ll fill your spare time with it, and that?s always going to score bonus points from any employer.

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Next Patch Tuesday includes 9 critical bulletins, plugs 34 holes

Microsoft announced yesterday that it's preparing to unleash a whopping 16 bulletins next week. Slated for June 14, this month's Patch Tuesday will address 34 vulnerabilities across many products. The update follows a comparatively light cycle in May, which included only two security bulletins.

Of the 16 patches, nine are labeled "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating, while the remaining seven are deemed "important." All of the critical flaws can lead to remote code execution, while the others can enable denial of service attacks, information disclosure and elevation of privilege.

Seemingly every supported version of Windows is affected, spanning from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 7 SP1 and their respective Server counterparts. IE6 through 9, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 through 2010, as well as all supported versions of Office for Windows and Mac are also listed.

IT professionals can expect a busy day, as more than half of the updates will require a reboot. In fact, June as a whole will be quite hectic. Adobe's quarterly patch is due next week and you can expect various fixes for Adobe Reader X, Acrobat X and earlier versions for both Windows and Mac systems.

Next week will also bring a new version of Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool. Earlier this week, Adobe released an out-of-band patch for Flash to address a vulnerability being actively exploited, and Oracle shipped a bundle of critical updates for Java SE covering various versions of JDK and JRE. 

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Two New Tools for Self-Tracking

As Nadeem Kassam sauntered down the hall of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, over Memorial Day weekend, all attention was on his wrist. The museum was host to the first annual Quantified Self conference, a gathering of people who use different tools to record a variety of personal metrics with the goal of improving their health, happiness, and productivity.

Kassam was sporting the hottest new fitness monitoring gadget: a device that looks and acts like a watch, but which also measures heart rate and other physiological factors. The monitor, made by self-tracking startup called Basis (which Kassam cofounded), is unique in the number of metrics it tracks; it detects heart rate from the wrist using near infrared spectroscopy, along with both skin and ambient temperature, and galvanic skin response, a measure of sweat on the skin that is linked to both physical activity and stress or excitement. Only a few people have been selected as beta testers for the device, which is slated to come out "soon."

"We analyze five different data streams and figure out what people are doing in the context of life," says Julie Wilner, product director at Basis. "High heart rate and temperature probably means someone is exercising." Low activity, as recorded by the accelerometer, suggests the wearer is sleeping. The device also tracks quality of sleep based on movement during this phase. It combines various measures to calculate the number of calories burned during the course of a day. Accompanying software helps users track and visualize how they are progressing over time. "Are they becoming more active?" says Wilner. "Do they get better or worse sleep on certain day of the week?"

The Basis watch is one of a growing number of new tools that seeks to passively collect data on the wearer's health and behavior with the aim of helping them to change it for the better. These devices are part of the new movement in self-tracking, enabled by a new generation of wireless devices and smart phone apps to track exercise, nutrition, sleep, mood, and other variables.  "In the past, only a motivated few would keep a diary for more than a few weeks," says Wilner. "We want to bring these tools to people who wouldn't do this on their own, people who make New Year's resolutions but don't keep them."

Green Goose is another startup with technology that generated a big buzz at the conference. The company takes a different tack on self-tracking, with cheap, sensor-laden stickers for everything from your toothbrush to the dog's leash. The sensors have an embedded accelerometer, along with an ultralow power wireless transmitter to send data on the object's movement to a central base station.

The company's ultimate idea is to transform healthy behavior into a game. Users can set specific goals?walk the dog twice a day, brush after every meal?and software will award points for successful completion. Green Goose cofounder Brian Krejcarek said at the conference that the company is working on a couple of initial applications for the sensors, but it also plans to partner with others to create a variety of games and other applications. 

"Once you get low enough in price, imagination explodes in terms of what you can do with the sensors," said Krejcarek.

One of the benefits of Green Goose's approach is that because the stickers become an embedded part of everyday objects (each sticker has a year's worth of battery power), they can't be tossed in a drawer once the novelty wears off. "If you stop looking at the data, you can jump right back in again," said Krejcarek. They expect to have the stickers on the market next year.

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Blog - How Robots Will Beat Humans at Billiards

Once a year, at the International Computer Olympiad, teams pit their AI software against others' in a variety of nerd-appropriate sports: chess, go, backgammon, etc. Since 2005, however, the ICO has also included computer simulations of billiards.

Pool is a hard game for computers to play because it's not just about sinking balls -- it's also about setting up the table to your opponent's disadvantage. Throw in opportunities to sink more than one ball at a time and the literally infinite number of shots that can be taken in every turn, and you've got a gigantic parameter space for a computer to chew on.

And that's before you get to the problem of translating the computer simulations of pool to the real world. Right now there are a handful of robots capable of playing the game, most notably Deep Green of Queen's University, which is an industrial robot.

Warning, the following video has unnecessarily loud, pounding music:

But back to the world of virtual pool: in this realm, advances are being made all the time, in hopes of creating a pool AI so powerful that it can some day be paired with a physics simulator and robot capable of beating the world's best human players.

The latest development, while modest, allows a pool-playing AI to better optimize its shots for both pocketing extra balls and breaking clusters of them. Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke, in Quebec, are tuning their AI's decision-making model to take multiple factors into account when planning its shots, since pool is about strategy as much as skill.

Part of the value of attacking this problem is that it's so distinct from other models problems in computer science and artificial intelligence, such as Chess. In Chess, all the options available to a player are discrete -- there are only so many pieces that can be moved, in a prescribed number of ways, at any given moment.

Pool, on the other hand "features a unique combination of properties that distinguish it from others such games, including continuous action and state spaces, uncertainty in execution, a unique turn-taking structure, and of course an adversarial nature." That's a quote from Computational Pool: A new challenge for game theory pragmatics (pdf), which announces the next tournament for virtual pool, to be held in August 2011.

Interestingly, this competition will attempt to simulate what it would be like for these virtual pool players to have their models translated into real-world pool by robots: "The championships will feature separate competitions at different noise levels, allowing for innovation and new ideas, since new strategies may be most effective at the new noise levels."

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Middle East governments struggle with being social

Since international media has struggled to slap the convenient label of the Facebook Revolution on the Egyptian uprising, it seems that Middle Eastern governments have been the first ones to sit up and take notice of the name. Fittingly, the Egyptian Supreme Council for Armed Forces seems to have been in the lead, launching their official Facebook page.

Since Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak stepped down on February 11, the Egyptian Supreme Council has announced all of its communiques to the country through the social network, which has been credited with a role in bringing the former regime down. With over 1 million fans on Facebook, you?d think that the method of communication is working.

Egypt?s military is not alone in the sudden surge in Middle Eastern government presence both on Facebook and Twitter. Egypt?s Armed Forces, along with the Cabinet of Ministers, and even the Egyptian Prime Minister himself have all created accounts on Twitter to make announcements to the public. Despite their strong online presence, Egypt?s officials are not taking advantage of the two-way communication that both Twitter and Facebook afford them.

Ironically, it was Bahrain?s Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa who seemed to have the right idea on how to use Twitter. Using his official Twitter account, he was more than ready to interact with other users, to clarify statements made by the Ministry and even went so far as to share images of himself as a young man, using a personal approach to his Twitter persona was so far removed from what you would expect of a Gulf official. Taking a deeper look however, his participation was cosmetic at best, while Bahraini pro-democracy activists on Twitter told a very different story of Bahrain?s tendencies for communication and dialogue.

Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi reveals that there is yet another kind of official government user on Twitter, there to monitor rather than to communicate or interact. The existence of these kinds of accounts is not surprising by any means, with security and government officials keeping a close eye on Internet activity long before the Arab uprisings. The public admission, however, does come as a surprise.

While their Egyptian counterparts are coming to the social media scene with Arabic as the only language they use, Gulf governments are clearly more conscious of the international scope that these networks provide. The Bahraini Foreign Minister tweets almost entirely in English, while the official Dubai Police Force Twitter account takes a more bilingual approach, making announcements both in English and Arabic.

The choice of language is very telling on what these officials are there on Twitter to do. Queen Rania of Jordan can probably be credited as the very first Arab official to truly embrace social media, long before the uprisings in the region began. Addressing her audience in her YouTube vlog in English, as well as from her Twitter account which has over 1 million followers, the Queen certainly has a following, but does not actually interact with her Twitter audience.

This begs the question, are Middle Eastern governments simply jumping on the social media bandwagon out of necessity? It seems that is the case, with the exception of a few individuals who have a genuine, personal enthusiasm for social networks, they limit themselves to talking at people rather than talking to them. In a region where citizens, and particularly youth, are taking advantage of the medium, their governments are slow to catch on.

The Dubai School of Government?s latest report reveals some interesting statistics about social media use in the Middle East which could lead to the conclusion that governmental online presence is a minor issue, since the audience they will reach is minimal best. The best medium, for communication in the Middle East can probably be narrowed down to television, but the trend in the figures may be a hint of the change to come in the future.

In fact the report revealed that 71% of Egyptian Facebook users would rather vote for a candidate that engages with citizens online. In Tunisia, however that figure sees a drastic drop to 47% of Facebook users. But in order to put these figures in context on a nationwide level, only 7% of Egyptians are on Facebook, while Tunisia surges ahead at 22%.

In the grand scheme of things, these figures may not be enough to get politicians to take Facebook, or the even less popular Twitter, seriously. These figures might reveal which countries could lead a trend of bringing politicians and lawmakers onto Twitter and Facebook. The countries with the highest social media penetration are Qatar and the UAE, and of the two, it seems that the UAE is definitely taking the lead.

Not only does the Dubai Police Force have an official Twitter account. The UAE?s Prime Minster and Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has an account with over 400,000 followers.

Mariam Bakry, Key Accounts Manager for Sarmady, the company behind FilGoal and Mujaz feels that governments still have a long way to go in understanding social media. ?It?s something they?ve started without planning or a clear vision. ?Facebook and Twitter are important, so let?s do them.? Like many other entities using social media, they fail to see that it?s a means to an objective, rather than an objective on its own.? With a glimmer of optimism, she says, ?It?s a step forward ? knowing that there?s more than newspapers to use,? but adds, ?So far I can?t see they have the finesse or knowledge to fully use it to potential.?

Transparency and communication are all too new a concept in the region, and so it might be too much to expect of Middle Eastern government officials to interact casually on a social network. In fact, a quick glance at the official account of any government official almost anywhere in the world shows that we?re simply following the trend. That said, when your countrymen are the ones out there on the streets, setting a trend that is sweeping the Middle East, it might be worth attempting to a start a trend amongst Middle Eastern government officials on the web. A trend of communication.

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Next Patch Tuesday includes 9 critical bulletins, plugs 34 holes

Microsoft announced yesterday that it's preparing to unleash a whopping 16 bulletins next week. Slated for June 14, this month's Patch Tuesday will address 34 vulnerabilities across many products. The update follows a comparatively light cycle in May, which included only two security bulletins.

Of the 16 patches, nine are labeled "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating, while the remaining seven are deemed "important." All of the critical flaws can lead to remote code execution, while the others can enable denial of service attacks, information disclosure and elevation of privilege.

Seemingly every supported version of Windows is affected, spanning from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 7 SP1 and their respective Server counterparts. IE6 through 9, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 through 2010, as well as all supported versions of Office for Windows and Mac are also listed.

IT professionals can expect a busy day, as more than half of the updates will require a reboot. In fact, June as a whole will be quite hectic. Adobe's quarterly patch is due next week and you can expect various fixes for Adobe Reader X, Acrobat X and earlier versions for both Windows and Mac systems.

Next week will also bring a new version of Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool. Earlier this week, Adobe released an out-of-band patch for Flash to address a vulnerability being actively exploited, and Oracle shipped a bundle of critical updates for Java SE covering various versions of JDK and JRE. 

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Middle East governments struggle with being social

Since international media has struggled to slap the convenient label of the Facebook Revolution on the Egyptian uprising, it seems that Middle Eastern governments have been the first ones to sit up and take notice of the name. Fittingly, the Egyptian Supreme Council for Armed Forces seems to have been in the lead, launching their official Facebook page.

Since Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak stepped down on February 11, the Egyptian Supreme Council has announced all of its communiques to the country through the social network, which has been credited with a role in bringing the former regime down. With over 1 million fans on Facebook, you?d think that the method of communication is working.

Egypt?s military is not alone in the sudden surge in Middle Eastern government presence both on Facebook and Twitter. Egypt?s Armed Forces, along with the Cabinet of Ministers, and even the Egyptian Prime Minister himself have all created accounts on Twitter to make announcements to the public. Despite their strong online presence, Egypt?s officials are not taking advantage of the two-way communication that both Twitter and Facebook afford them.

Ironically, it was Bahrain?s Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa who seemed to have the right idea on how to use Twitter. Using his official Twitter account, he was more than ready to interact with other users, to clarify statements made by the Ministry and even went so far as to share images of himself as a young man, using a personal approach to his Twitter persona was so far removed from what you would expect of a Gulf official. Taking a deeper look however, his participation was cosmetic at best, while Bahraini pro-democracy activists on Twitter told a very different story of Bahrain?s tendencies for communication and dialogue.

Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi reveals that there is yet another kind of official government user on Twitter, there to monitor rather than to communicate or interact. The existence of these kinds of accounts is not surprising by any means, with security and government officials keeping a close eye on Internet activity long before the Arab uprisings. The public admission, however, does come as a surprise.

While their Egyptian counterparts are coming to the social media scene with Arabic as the only language they use, Gulf governments are clearly more conscious of the international scope that these networks provide. The Bahraini Foreign Minister tweets almost entirely in English, while the official Dubai Police Force Twitter account takes a more bilingual approach, making announcements both in English and Arabic.

The choice of language is very telling on what these officials are there on Twitter to do. Queen Rania of Jordan can probably be credited as the very first Arab official to truly embrace social media, long before the uprisings in the region began. Addressing her audience in her YouTube vlog in English, as well as from her Twitter account which has over 1 million followers, the Queen certainly has a following, but does not actually interact with her Twitter audience.

This begs the question, are Middle Eastern governments simply jumping on the social media bandwagon out of necessity? It seems that is the case, with the exception of a few individuals who have a genuine, personal enthusiasm for social networks, they limit themselves to talking at people rather than talking to them. In a region where citizens, and particularly youth, are taking advantage of the medium, their governments are slow to catch on.

The Dubai School of Government?s latest report reveals some interesting statistics about social media use in the Middle East which could lead to the conclusion that governmental online presence is a minor issue, since the audience they will reach is minimal best. The best medium, for communication in the Middle East can probably be narrowed down to television, but the trend in the figures may be a hint of the change to come in the future.

In fact the report revealed that 71% of Egyptian Facebook users would rather vote for a candidate that engages with citizens online. In Tunisia, however that figure sees a drastic drop to 47% of Facebook users. But in order to put these figures in context on a nationwide level, only 7% of Egyptians are on Facebook, while Tunisia surges ahead at 22%.

In the grand scheme of things, these figures may not be enough to get politicians to take Facebook, or the even less popular Twitter, seriously. These figures might reveal which countries could lead a trend of bringing politicians and lawmakers onto Twitter and Facebook. The countries with the highest social media penetration are Qatar and the UAE, and of the two, it seems that the UAE is definitely taking the lead.

Not only does the Dubai Police Force have an official Twitter account. The UAE?s Prime Minster and Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has an account with over 400,000 followers.

Mariam Bakry, Key Accounts Manager for Sarmady, the company behind FilGoal and Mujaz feels that governments still have a long way to go in understanding social media. ?It?s something they?ve started without planning or a clear vision. ?Facebook and Twitter are important, so let?s do them.? Like many other entities using social media, they fail to see that it?s a means to an objective, rather than an objective on its own.? With a glimmer of optimism, she says, ?It?s a step forward ? knowing that there?s more than newspapers to use,? but adds, ?So far I can?t see they have the finesse or knowledge to fully use it to potential.?

Transparency and communication are all too new a concept in the region, and so it might be too much to expect of Middle Eastern government officials to interact casually on a social network. In fact, a quick glance at the official account of any government official almost anywhere in the world shows that we?re simply following the trend. That said, when your countrymen are the ones out there on the streets, setting a trend that is sweeping the Middle East, it might be worth attempting to a start a trend amongst Middle Eastern government officials on the web. A trend of communication.

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What would Apple be like without Steve Jobs? [Video]

Steve Jobs was looking a little frail on stage at WWDC 2011. He is such a visionary leader that many think that without him Apple won?t be able to keep up the pace of innovation. Apple?s stock prices fell when rumors about Jobs circulated in 2008.  

We are HUGE Jobs fans here at The Next Web and hopeful that he will be with us for another few decades. But I wanted to find out from some of his biggest fans, the developers at WWDC 2011, how they thought Apple would fair without the company?s epic leader- (God forbid it will happen anytime soon.)

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The hottest developments from WWDC 2011 [Video]