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Saila’s Miscellany
A sample of much larger collection links, likes, snaps, and vids
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Briefly Noted as Blogmarks
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We want more BIXIs
Crowd-sourced suggestions for more bike-sharing locations in Toronto
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Structure first, content always
Mark Boulton tries to correct a web design belief that demands heavy art direction at all times
Topic: Web Design
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civic.ca
A simple, easy-to-use site to let Canadians find their government representatives
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J-Source's Newsperson of the Year
OpenFile's Wilf Dinnick gets the nod as Canada's journalism innovator
Topic: Journalism
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If I were CEO
Seven simple things RIM's new bosses should do right away
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DIY dingbats
Build your own custom web typeface using from 650 icons for a reasonable cost
Topics: Typography, Web Design
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Modern Pictograms
Another dingbat typeface designed for the web's visual vocabulary circa 2012
Topics: Typography, Web Design
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Big editorial changes for The Globe and Mail
A public editor, along with a number of new senior positions, will reshape the newsroom
Topics: Work, Newspapers
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VRML 2.0
A high-end conceptual web design using CSS (and some JavaScript) to create a 3D UI
Topics: Web Design, User Interface
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Google Chrome beats IE
The world's most popular browser is no longer Internet Explorer, it's Chrome. Wow.
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Old Internet Explorers get an update
Microsoft will autoupdate IE to help ensure the newest possible version is installed
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Generating typographic portraits
Some lessons learned about getting optimal performance from process-heavy web apps
Topic: Web Technology
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Don't be a free user
Pinboard creator explains why paying for stuff you like is a good thing
Topics: Web Culture, Subscriptions & Registration
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The history of Toronto in photos
Compiling all @BlogTO's photos of the changing landscape of Toronto into one super post
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NYTimes - Nose to Tail
Great deck explaining the inner workings of the New York Times APIs
Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism
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Statistics Canada data to be free
Finally, it looks like Canada will allow free use of all the data collected in the 2011 census
Topics: Online Journalism, Privacy
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Web Symbols typeface
Free collection of nicely designed dingbats for today's web
Topics: Typography, Web Design
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Borked Unicode
Joe Clark offers advice on producing (typographically) clean copy - too bad CMS don't play nice
Topics: HTML, Online Journalism
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Responsive ads
Dissecting the challenges ads present to responsive web design best practices
Topics: Advertising, Web Design
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HoHoTO 2011 tickets on sale
The annual HoHoTO party has collected than four tons of food for hungry Torontonians since 2008
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
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TEDxToronto videos
The TED talks from Toronto's 2011 event, including David Miller's, are now online
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Mixel
Khoi Vinh unveils his latest project - a social digital art for the iPad
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Relative digital type size
Ethan Marcotte makes a potentially deeply technical web design topic accessible and educational
Topics: CSS, Typography
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Take the train, Toronto
In talking transit, Toronto may have forgotten the benefits of its existing rail lines
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Unravelling the social graph
Examining the inherent flaws in the way we map social relationships online
Topic: Social Media
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Design-in-residence
Jet Cooper will be offering agile design training to help start-ups succeed more effectively
Topics: Web Design, Canada
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Real-world analytics
Euclid Elements tracks customer behaviour in stores like one does on websites with Google Analytics
Topics: Privacy, Technology
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Toronto journalism-related events
Nicely curated list of journalism & digital culture events around the city
Topics: Journalism Resources, Toronto
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CBC's local future?
A vague description, with lots of promise, for a new localized digital news starting in Hamilton
Topics: Online Journalism, CBC
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Postmedia to charge for more content
Canada's biggest newspaper published will be introducing a metered pay model to more of its news sites
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Inside
This Just In
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Community is not another buzzword
Something’s been wrong with mainstream news when The New York Times is considered innovative by acting like you’d expect your neighbour would.
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Building a bridge
An open letter to Toronto’s city council to urge them to support continued construction of the Fort York Pedestrian Cycle Bridge
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Muzzling the election
What Elections Canada ban on reporting the results means for news organizations and social media
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Reading and paying for news
Within days of the The New York Times pay-fence being unveiled, a number of reports about the well-being of the newspaper industry in Canada have been released. The sources, are, as usual, biased, but do present some interesting details.
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A year (almost) in photos
Surprising what a daily photos reveal in hindsight