Steve Jobs being killed by Bloomberg’s content management systems!

August 31st, 2008, 10:39 pm admin Uncategorized

That is a tragic end for the celebrity of all digital ages to be killed by software! Yes! Steve Jobs was killed by Bloomberg content management systems! (read hear) Actually a financial content provider company such as Bloomberg produces its obituary articles beforehand so they could tackle the unexpectedness of death incidents in the news world (and making this provision is considered quite insulting in my Iranian culture). Last day while an employee was updating this obituary, it then accidentally got published on the web and as there was previous records of Steve Jobs pancreas cancer issues it became a strong rumor wave which could be only refuted by a same size wave of denial.

Bloomberg probably uses an integrated content management system so all contents have easy path to the scene. That is what I advertise when I want to persuade my customers to have a CMS contract with me, but I also give them a switch to avoid unexpected incidents like this and that is staging mechanism. Each content should be approved in a mechanism (a workflow or something like that) so there would be enough confidence on suitability of the content. Of course I think the CMSs being used by Bloomberg surely have these mechanisms embedded and probably well sophisticated ones but that is what makes me think about more robust ensuring but not annoying mechanisms on double-checks.

Anyway I hope besides Apple’s stocks’ price fluctuation (if any) there would be enough reasons for managers to invest more on well structured content approaches and systems also as in the age of ultra-fast news propagation, mistakes might cost too much.

Which of them is the Steve to be remembered in the history? That was always a question for me about all people.