{"id":18951,"date":"2010-05-15T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=18951"},"modified":"2010-05-15T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T20:29:21","slug":"gawker-sends-e-mail-to-jobs-asking-about-freedom-and-bob-dylan-gets-a-little-heated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/15\/gawker-sends-e-mail-to-jobs-asking-about-freedom-and-bob-dylan-gets-a-little-heated\/","title":{"rendered":"Gawker Sends E-mail to Jobs Asking About &#8216;Freedom&#8217; and &#8216;Bob Dylan&#8217;, Gets a Little Heated."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Gawker Media Editor Ryan Tate sent an e-mail to Steve Jobs. In it he asked the CEO if Bob Dylan was 20 today, what would he think of Apple as a company. Starkly contrasted against the one-liner replies we usually see from Jobs, Tate and Jobs had a full length discussion. That after the break! .. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gawker Media who have been in the mainstream media a lot lately, mainly due to the @Gizmodo network saga and the &#8220;Next iPhone&#8221;, are yet again making the news. <\/p>\n<p>This time though, it isn&#8217;t Gizmodo. Instead, Contributing Editor Ryan Tate of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5539717\/\" target=\"_blank\">official Gawker Media blog<\/a> decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2010\/05\/15\/steve-jobs-replies-to-an-email-this-time-its-personal\/?awesm=tnw.to_16A5Y&#038;utm_medium=tnw.to-twitter&#038;utm_source=direct-tnw.to&#038;utm_content=twitter-publisher-main\" target=\"_blank\">send Jobs an e-mail<\/a> on Friday, specifically related to the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>The question was simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If Dylan was 20 today, how would he feel about your company?<\/p>\n<p>Would he think the iPad had the faintest thing to do with &#8220;revolution?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Revolutions are about freedom.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which Jobs replied:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_sjobs1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_sjobs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_sjobs3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_sjobs4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[via @Zee and @TheNextWeb]<\/p>\n<div class=\"cbw snap_nopreview\">\n<div class=\"cbw_header\"><script src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/javascripts\/widget.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"cbw_header_text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/\">CrunchBase Information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cbw_content\">\n<div class=\"cbw_subheader\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/thenextweb\">TheNextWeb<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cbw_subcontent\"><script src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/cbw\/company\/thenextweb.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Contributing Editor Ryan Tate sent an e-mail to Steve Jobs. In it he asked the CEO if Bob Dylan was 20 today, what would he think of Apple as a company. Starkly contrasted against the one-liner replies we usually see, Jobs and Tate had a full length discussion. That after the break! ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,2144,2028],"tags":[4,1472,2691,261,2692,2694,2585,2693],"class_list":["post-18951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-breaking-blog","category-ipad","tag-apple","tag-breaking","tag-e-mail","tag-exclusive","tag-gwaker-media","tag-heated","tag-jobs","tag-sents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18960,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951\/revisions\/18960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}