When the new Remembering Jobs page landed, I immediately thought it was a fitting tribute; so many people around the world shared what they thought of this man that none of us knew (myself included), and here was a small selection of their thoughts. But seeing them all scroll by they seemed so ephemeral, and I wondered what the whole looked like.
I popped open Safari's WebKit Inspector and saw that it was pulling down the remembrances one at a time, and they were JSON formatted. About five seconds later I was writing the ruby script to do so myself.
Once I got everything downloaded I made a nice word cloud, which you can see here:
