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Dispatches from 1999
Posted in September
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Steadfast Suggestions for Web Design
A dozen suggestions and principles for basic Web design and site architecture.
Outside
Briefly Noted from September 1999
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Broadcast's future is social
Speaking from experience, this is the next design challenge for those in mass media
Topics: TV, Social Media
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Poetry in the comments
Literally. Somewhere my past and present self are celebrating
Topics: Writing, Social Media
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Paul Ford's return to the Web
The man who inspired an entire online style, returns to the landscape from Harper's
Topics: Web Culture, Magazine
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Spin on Google Books
Every issue of Bob Guccione Jr.'s Rolling Stone competitor scanned and available online
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A CSS typeface named Curtis
Built of spans, the design is reminiscent of a bold, Art Deco-style display face
Topics: Typography, CSS
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"Turtle storm"
Hnady new term for sluggish and slow moving days; also works for boring meetings
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IE9 preview available
Quick tests of new browser seem to put it almost on par with the latest Firefox and Safari releases
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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Toronto neighbourhood poster
Finally, Ork Posters tacles Hogtown
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The art, science and technology of reading
Presentation deflates many myths about reading onscreen
Topics: Typography, Web Design
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How media outlets mimic tech companies
Focus is on NYTimes and CNN efforts to stay ahead of the curve (anecdotes apply to msnbc.com, too)
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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iPhone a recreation phone
Usage data suggest the iPhone apps are used most during the evenings
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Canada cuts public Internet access
Libraries and community groups lose funding for free, public access (aside: I remember scrumming with Bill Gates when program first began)
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
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State of the Media for 2010
Cuts to traditional news-gathering outlets may also be hurting loyalty to the online brands
Topic: Journalism
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Microsoft loves the iPhone
Or at least its employees do, despite the poor phone reception in a lot of the buildings
Topics: Mobile, Web Culture
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Rushkoff's 10 Commandments
Suggestions for being aware of the biases of digital media, reminiscent of Technorealism's ideas
Topic: Web Culture
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Designing for the Web: the book
Read Mark Boulton's book online for free, or buy a downloadable PDF
Topic: Web Design
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Reporting the Internet
Reuters offers some good advice for its journalist as they work with and on the Internet
Topics: Online Journalism, Style & Usage
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How to render video and audio
In-depth article on working with HTML5 to get video and audio elements working in a page
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Mad Men meet Barbie
"I'm going to be the organization man, and she's going to be the soulless drone"
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CSS3 Please!
A simple one-page site offering an easy way to remember the vendor prefixes for your favourite CSS3 features
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The golden flush
A dramatic illustration of how synchronized Canadian bathroom breaks were during the Canada vs. USA Olympic gold medal hockey game
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Books in the iPad age
The emergence of the iPad suggests new guidelines about what should actually be printed in book form
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iPad application design
Interpreting iPad design conventions, with a focus on UI elements
Topics: Mobile, User Interface
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Movies and graphic design
Seattle’s ByDesign series features films by Charles and Ray Eames and some of the best designed title sequences
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Web design post-mortem
Insightful, honest, and incredibly detailled review of the process that created the new MIX site
Topic: Web Design
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CSS cleaner
An IE8-only tool that helps identify unused CSS rules
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Iterative design repairs
The Atlantic launched a massive redesign, then promptly refined it after vocal audience reaction
Topics: Web Design, Magazine
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Publishing's revolutionary future
Jason Epstein's essay on the future of books is one of the most informed you'll read
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How Americans get their news
Most get the from off- and online sources, with the Internet the third most-popular news platform
Topic: Online Journalism
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Networked model of information
Tremendous essay about how content distribution works in a post-broadcast world
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Stack of magazines
Clever bundled subscription idea for independent magazines
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Today's twentysomethings
Pew Research has done an intensive study of the millennial generation
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Aviary now free
The powerful suite of online image editing tools is now completely free
Topics: Web Design, Design
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Photoshop at 20
The powerful granddady of all image editing tools is now 20
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Buy a font, use it online
This crazy concept is now possible with Typekit and almost any FontShop typeface
Topics: Typography, Web Design
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Ignite Seattle 9 speakers
Learn about Vietnam, motorbikes, arguing and Star Wars on March 4
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Deconstructing design
Looking back on the design decisions made for the pages of the NYT Magazine
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Olympic accessible failure
Joe Clark reports Vancouver2010.com is almost completely inaccessible
Topic: Accessibility
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Designing a visual language
No major site should be without one, that being said BBC seems to be the only with one
Topics: Web Design, Design
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Transdisciplinary Design
A new, TED-esque, MFA at Parsons The New School for Design
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Designing a newspaper app
A newspaper designer thinks about an iPad news experience
Topics: Mobile, Newspapers
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Breaking news and Twitter
David Akin explains how the Gordon Lightfoot death rumour started and how to avoid such mistakes
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Canada's biggest newspaper free
The Toronto Star is free at newsstands and everywhere else during the Olympics
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
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The future of reading
Josh Quittner delivers an excellent essay on media's fortune, past and present
Topics: Journalism, Mobile
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Google's big test
Could Google have been analyzing the effectiveness of SuperBowl's TV ads?
Topics: Advertising, TV
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CNN AP-less
CNN.com trying to quite the AP habit - sensing a emerging trend
Topic: Online Journalism
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Toronto Sun building sold
Newspaper staff will be crammed into the second slower to make way for retail stories
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
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The pay wall around research
Companies like Forrester could be the next to see their business model change
Topic: Subscriptions & Registration
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The State of the Web 2010
Take a 10-minute survey to help define where the Web design industry is at
Topic: Web Design
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Canadians and taxes
When directed to community infrastructure, Canadians don't mind increased taxes
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Mobile stats
Some data around the surge in mobile data usage
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iPad GUI templates
A PSD containing all the UI elements needed to mock-up a iPad design
Topics: User Interface, Mobile
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iPad interactions
Some of the interaction gestures availble on the iPad
Topics: User Interface, Mobile
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A century of crayons
Visualizing all the colours of the Crayola crayons
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Radio Canada
A beautiful concept radio for listening to Canada's public broadcaster
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Let your presentation tweet
Script allows a Keynote presentation send updates to Twitter
Topic: Social Media
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Foursquare and Metro
Geo-location game partners with news chain to offer news about a persons current locale
Topics: Mobile, Online Journalism
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NYTimes.com e-reader division
Special business division formed to managed things like content on Kindle and the Apple tablet
Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile
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Ignoring mobile
Some good points about the effects of neglecting the mobile web
Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile
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Feltron's 2009 Annual Report
More beautiful data visualizations focusing on everyday life
Topics: Design, Interactive Journalism
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Search the world’s government data
Currently only four countries, but it's a unified interface
Topics: Web Technology, World
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36 bills Harper killed
Dozens of potential laws have been indefinitely delayed
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Typekit supports WOFF
The Web Open Font Format will be used to deliver fonts to Firefox 3.6
Topics: CSS, Typography
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Brands of the decade
An overview of the most notable brand/identity work of the '00s
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Magapps make money
Magazines-as-apps might be a profitable future, if GQ's singular example can be spun into a trend
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Liquor store API
Find our what booze is available at the LCBO in JSON
Topics: Web Technology, Ontario
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Cdn. magazines face funding cut
Reallocation of money could kill arts mags, while halving bigger books' budgets
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Citytv succumbs
One of North America's pioneering TV stations sad decline at hands of corporate media
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NYTimes.com readies the paywall
New York Magazine suggest the plan could be announced in weeks
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Editor & Publisher back
The newspaper trade publication resumes publication
Topic: Newspapers
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JQuery 1.4
The greatest JavaScript library has a new release
Topic: JavaScript
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The Kids in Hall come back
The new "series opens, reportedly, with Death arriving on a Greyhound bus" -- brilliance
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Open-source Flash
Gordon is runtime using JavaScript and SVG to render Flash movies
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Newsvine earnings for Haiti
If you've used Newsvine, you may have earned money that can be donated to Haiti's disaster relief
Topics: World, Social Media
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Stock photos and news
TinEye makes stock photos usage in news stories easier to identify, so be sure to identify the source properly
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
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Conan says no with class
The Tonight Show's current host issues a statement, and in doing so, demonstrates why he shouldn't be bumped
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Mathew Ingram joins GigaOM
Well-deserved congratulations to my former colleague who leads the way when it comes to the journalistic use social media
Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism
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The Economist slams Harper
The conservative magazine calls the Canadian prime minister's move to again prorogue Parliament a dangerous abuse of power
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Interviewing a nation's leader
Good insight about what its like behind-the-scenes when interviewing Canada's PM, Stephen Harper
Topics: Journalism, Politics
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TMZ.com as the future
Convincing argument that the gossip site points to the future of news sites
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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Stop the Presses stops
Likely the last column by one of the first and best commentators about newspapers and the Internet
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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The origins of Santa Claus
Great history on the creation of the icon in the red suit
Topics: Culture, Advertising
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Best words of the decade
Picks from the Guardian's Books blog
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Five years of infosthetics
Great use of elastics lists to create a interactive archive
Topics: User Interface, Interactive Journalism
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Trained toasters
Advertising cutting edge technology circa 1936
Topics: Technology, Advertising
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Portraits of world leaders
The New Yorker has a stunning set of portraits taken by Platon
Topics: Politics, Interactive Journalism
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Recovering from the unrecoverable
Did you get an unexpected signal 10 from VMFusion that prevented starting a suspended version of Windows? Try this
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Reuters redesigns
Huge new redesign of Reuters.com offers a lot of nice details
Topics: CSS, Online Journalism
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Google Wave and Washington police shooting
Seattle Times has a public wave going on the manhunt - crashed my browser
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
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Twitter and Washington police shooting
Breaking local news happens, Twitter responds - this is how I've been following the story 2100 miles away
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
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California City
"In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself"
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Driving from Toronto to Vancouver in 3 minutes
Amazing time lapse of a 45 hour cross-country drive
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9/11 pager messages
Incredible snapshot of one of the most important days in modern history
Topic: Sept. 11, 2001
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PBS Objectified
The Independent Lens series airs an abbreviated version of the industrial design documentary on Nov. 24
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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
The original hipster, as captured in a 1965 NFB documentary
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Web Font Specimen
Build your own reference library for Web typefaces
Topics: Typography, Web Design
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Visualizing war
Using visualizations to help understand who is fighting and dying in Afghanistan
Topics: Interactive Journalism, Sept. 11, 2001
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IE9 preview
Rounded corners, CSS3 selectors, greatly improved performance
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Notes from Canux 2009
Bryce Johnson collection of 200 tweets from the conference
Topics: Usability, Web Design
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Ligature, Loop & Stem
Limited edition typography products beautifully designed
Topic: Typography
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Lunascape
One browser with three rendering engines means you can quickly check how page looks in IE, Firefox, and Safari
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Seattle P-I aftermath
Seven months, most laid-off journalists are making less in very different roles
Topics: Journalism, Newspapers
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Online news growth visualized
Nicholas Felton to charts 13 years of CNN.com
Topics: Online Journalism, Sept. 11, 2001
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The fall of the Wall
Doug Saunders, and others, look at how the fall of the Berlin Wall affected Europe
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Pictures of you(th)
Pictures from a cultural moment that is definitively gone...grunge
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Separating the business from journalism
Worth remembering: "Journalism at its best is a practice, not an industry"
Topic: Journalism
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Crown copyright stymies The Globe
Linking to the original is the only approved way to access reports from Canada's Auditor-General
Topics: Copyright, Online Journalism
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The Globe and Mail's backup press
Encountering server problems, Canada's national newspaper turns to Facebook and Twitter to get the news out
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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OpenTO
Toronto beginning to release its official data set catalogue
Topics: Toronto, Social Media
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Another view of the new CBC
The relaunch highlights the new unified assignment desk, argues a former CBC-er
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How we got a visual Web
An early discussion about loading pictures on Web pages reveals how some things never change
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
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Simple Desktops
Tom Watson collects desktops backgrounds for the minimalist
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Visualizing cell size
Effectively simple, powers of ten style diagram of the scale microscopic objects
Topic: Interactive Journalism
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Interactive sketching notation
How to sketch out event-based user actions
Topics: Web Design, Web Patterns
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Social networks and news before Twitter
The Velvet Revolution in 1989 was fueled by social media, but not the kind we know now
Topics: Social Media, Politics
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Allowed rel values
HTML 5 limits the values for the rel attributes to certain values
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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National Post risks closure
Conrad Black's dream reduced to being a pawn in bankruptcy negotiations
Topic: Newspapers
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Making online premium ads possible
Scaling a premium experience could bring much value for online publishers
Topics: Advertising, Online Journalism
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Mapping bike routes
Ride the City maps the best or safest route from point A to B
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CBC's The National redesigns
New site appears in the hours before the revamped newscast
Topics: CBC, Web Design
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1984 Macintosh review
"Any files that you have created are also graphically depicted on your electronic 'desk top.'"
Topic: Technology
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Paris snapshots
As seen through the filter of Google Street View
Topics: Culture, Search Engines
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What really brought down the Eastern Bloc
Hint - it wasn't Reagan or "people power"
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Toronto's Ossington experiment
The bar and restaurant restrictions could be extended city-wide
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New CNN.com design
The look follows the trend of featuring more inline media
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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Impressive CSS typography controls
Mozilla is exploring some new rules to expose type-specific features in CSS
Topics: CSS, Typography
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CBC revamps news again
Features a build-your-own online version of The National and a familiar abbreviation
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Canada abandons net neutrality
Canadian ISPs allowed to shape traffic if they tell customers about it
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
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Apple to patent CSS animation effects
Not cool at all.
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Typotheque Web Font Service
Type foundry unveils a well-rounded collection of Web fonts for use with @font-face
Topics: Typography, CSS
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Protovis
Create impressive data visualizations with this open-source JavaScript library
Topics: Interactive Journalism, JavaScript
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Transit app building workshop
Seattle's agency wants to make it easier to develop apps using its transit data, unlike other transit agency (TTC, for example)
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Grouping mobile apps
An intelligent way to start classifying mobile (read: iPhone) apps
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Good HTML 5 and CSS 3 tutorial
A good step-by-step for mimicking the Webkit Sticky Notes demo
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A/B testing headlines
Now writers can enjoy the benefits of market-driven intelligence
Topics: Online Journalism, Usability
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Bladeless fan
Dyson finds inspiration in a hair dryer to reinvent the fan
Topics: Technology, Design
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Gag order no longer effective
The Guardian was prevented from reporting on a story that the social Web then blew wide open
Topics: Social Media, Journalism
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DailyMe 2.5
A brief overview of the variety of personal news plays out there
Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism
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Sourcemap
Mapping where all the parts of product come from
Topics: Social Media, Interactive Journalism
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IAs pitch to Tages-Anzeiger
The UX design agency shares its entire proposal to redesign the renowned Swiss newspaper
Topics: Newspapers, Design
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Boing Boing readers and @font-face
Webmonkey explains why the reaction to Boing Boing's redesign may have been more severe than it could have been
Topics: CSS, Typography
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Photoshop for the iPhone
Really. (Of course, the feature set is scaled down just a bit)
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Font embedding 101
How to get nice type on Web pages with only some pain
Topics: CSS, Typography
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Debatable social media as a panacea
Some good in the trenches critiquing about the potential for social media to save journalism
Topics: Journalism, Social Media
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iPhone choice for Canadians
Three Canadian companies, up from one, could be offering iPhones; does this mean AT&T's monopoly is next to fall
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Look inside first
If you move get beyond his characteristic pique, Joe Clark makes important points about the insecurities within the Canadian media-verse
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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Flash apps on the iPhone
Adobe one-ups Apple by creating a way to automatically convert Flash apps into native iPhone apps
Topics: iPhone, Web Technology
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Local blog wins national award
My Ballard (run in part by a co-worker of mine) won a 2009 Online Journalism Award for community collaboration
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Pownce reborn
Microblogging service long dormant reborn as a TypePad open-sourced service
Topic: Social Media
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Making the free model work
Some advice on building a successful business publishing online content free
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Google reads your images
A new feature of the Google Docs API offers an OCR service
Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology
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Building iPhone apps with Web standards
A Web-based O'Reilly reference for developers of the mobile Web
Topics: Web Technology, iPhone
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Twitters and TV
TODAY's Twitter audience share some interesting pics of how & where they watch the show
Topics: TV, Social Media
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Owning the design
A lengthy rant about how collaboration can destroy the very design process its intended to help
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Canadian fascists in 1938
Google Books makes available an early Life article exposing racists in pre-WWII Canada
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Patterns for the colour blind
Colour patterns for infographics and other visualizations
Topics: Accessibility, Interactive Journalism
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Optimizing JavaScript rendering time
Gmail for Mobile hides the scripts in a comment blocks to speed startup
Topic: JavaScript
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Spelling Gadhfi
The name of Libya's leader has 32 spelling variants
Topics: Style & Usage, Politics
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Trendsmap
well-executed, location-aware map of trending Twitter topics
Topics: Social Media, User Interface
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Newspaper wins Emmy for online effort
The Globe and Mail's exceptional Talking to the Taliban wins yet another
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Five-star rating systems fail
YouTube shows using five stars to rate something is three too many
Topics: Social Media, Web Patterns
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Design love Google
Some unique designs and portfolios powered by Google Maps
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
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Julie Doiron wins NxEW's Shadow Polaris Poll
My one-time house guest's latest album, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, is picked as the NxEW's readers favourite
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hulu.cbc.ca
The case for CBC bringing Hulu to Canada
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Preserving a free and open Internet
Momentous... the U.S. government has pledged that every citizen has access to open and robust broadband
Topics: Web Technology, Politics
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Happy birthday, New York Times
The front page from the first edition, printed 158 years ago today
Topic: Newspapers
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Toronto wants Canadian English
City Hall asks for software that spells councillor with two "l"s, for example
Topics: Toronto, Style & Usage
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Everything you wanted to know about A/B testing
But were afraid to ask (answered in the form of 114 slides)
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Canadian Online Publishing Awards
Finalist announced in 20 categories
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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Google's Fast Flip
The mobile version shines on the iPhone, where the desktop version feels awkward
Topics: User Interface, iPhone
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Excellent advice online magazines
Joe Clark shares some thoughts that publications would be smart to follow
Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism
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The down and dirty revolution
Good post on how journalism (and other corporate enterprise) could benefit from getting a little messier
Topics: Journalism, Work
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W3C on open goverment data
The people behind the Web standards offer some best practices for governments looking to open their data
Topics: Web Standards, Politics
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NowPublic finds a buyer
Citizen-journalist news site sold to Denver's Examiner.com
Topics: Social Media, Canada
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The HTML5 Super Friends
Some smart standardistas want to help polish HTML5
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
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MSN and Sympatico breakup
The Canadian mega portal partners are going there separate ways
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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Yelp augments reality
The term will wear out faster than the coolness of the feature
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…And the Kitchen Sink
Scott Boms' all-in-one Web development environment is now Snow Leopard ready
Topic: Web Technology
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Geek's guide to Seattle
Microsoft and Amazon landmarks are amongst the locations highlighted
Topics: Seattle, Technology
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An end to movements
Douglas Rushkoff argues mass media has defeated mass protests
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Open sources thoughts on EveryBlock
Thinking about how to safely open source contributions on Web-based projects
Topics: Social Media, Copyright
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Making the NPR iPhone app
Good description on the making of a great news app for the iPhone
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EveryBlock joins msnbc.com
Very pleased to finally be working with Adrian Holovaty
Topics: Work, Online Journalism
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More than a wire service
The Canadian Press tries to survive obscurity by offering page layout and editing services to newspapers
Topics: Newspapers, Journalism
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What's in a name?
For some nostalgia-blinded members of the left a name change for the NDP is sacrilegious
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Project Retweet
Twitter's planning officially supporting the retweet, prepare for another round of explosive growth
Topic: Social Media
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AP's new distribution plan
Exclusive AP content to be available only on the consortium's own site
Topics: Online Journalism, Email
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Design pattern collection
A Flicker-based collection of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows
Topics: Web Patterns, User Interface
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Seattle as a one-newspaper town
A look at the news business in Seattle, nearly six months after the P-I, stopped printing
Topics: Newspapers, Seattle
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The Globe's new editorial team
John Stackhouse unveils his new, flatter, editorial management team
Topic: Newspapers
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IEBlog on IE6
Reading between the lines, the official browser blog asks people to stop using IE6
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Article page design
How msnbc.com's new story design can help advertising (based on an interview eMedia Vitals did with me)
Topics: Web Design, Work
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Enterprising online journalism
NYTimes profiles msnbc.com's efforts in Elkhart (note: I work for msnbc.com)
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
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Rupert Murdoch to charge for news sites
Wants a "a company-wide effort to establish a new economic model to profitably transition [News Corp.'s] print properties to digital"
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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Yahoo's development tools at risk?
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal creates questions about relying on closed-source tools
Topic: Web Technology
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Seattlepi.com redesigns
And by doing so, fixes the biggest problems with the former newspaper web site
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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TED's design talks
Some of the best design talks from TED Global 2009
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Sabotaging the local news
An insider describes how CBC's new local news program is designed to fail
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A CN Tower-less Toronto
Removing the iconic tower changes more than the skyline
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Cross-browser HTML5 audio
A jQuery plugin (called jPlayer) enables broader support for embedded audio
Topics: HTML, JavaScript
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Search Patterns
Peter Morville's collection of search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns
Topics: Web Patterns, Search Engines
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NYTimes.com subscription idea
Steve Outing has an interesting twist on the typical pay-to-read model
Topic: Subscriptions & Registration
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The Developer Evangelist Handbook
Interesting how-to on promoting ones company to other developers
Topics: Web Technology, Work
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Limiting HTML5 feeback
HTML5 WG is "run by tech geeks...And to a geek...the way to filter input is to use technology as a barrier"
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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100 years of design
Dozens of manifestos from some of the century's leading design thinkers
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Resurrecting the afternoon paper
The free daily (called t.o.night) will have the day's actual news
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
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Rebranding Tim Hortons
Hearing it described as a "coffee & bake shop" sounds off, even if accurate
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AnythingZoomer
Clever little jQuery plugin for magnifying images and text
Topic: JavaScript
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Nice Web Type
Some stunning examples of what's possible with real type on the web
Topics: Typography, CSS
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Push again: pushbutton web
Anil Dash examines the new generation push technologies that can actually scale
Topic: Web Technology
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Secretly Starbucks
Manufacturing local charm with a purposefully rustic renovation and name: 15th Avenue Coffee & Tea
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Two big hires at the Globe and Mail
Kenny Yum returns as the site's editor, Anjali Kapoor becomes the ME of digital
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Web-friendly fonts, take 2
An XML-based licensing standard (.webfont) has been proposed as a way to embed typefaces
Topics: Typography, Web Standards
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USA Today's News Deck
Not sure I really understand the point of this other than to experiment with some JavaScript effects
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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3D CSS Transforms
Some stunning WebKit-only visual effects previously only possible in Flash
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Everything you didn't know about tech and media
Or at least 25 bits of trivia
Topics: Technology, Journalism
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Web-friendly OpenType fonts
The Font Bureau proposes a way to legally distribute fonts for Web use
Topics: Typography, Web Standards
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Making sense of HTML5
Zeldman valiantly tries again to refocus the HTML5 debates around standrds
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
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We choose the Moon
An amazing, real-time recreation of the the Apollo 11 mission online
Topic: Interactive Journalism
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Improving "Missing cat" posters
A brilliant guerrilla typography project to beautify the streets
Topics: Typography, Design
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Ethics, blogging, the Star
My former colleague (Kathy English) has lambasted a skilled columnist (Antonia Zerbisias) for writing about a protest of a protest
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
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Desgin principles
Well defined design principles can define the experience without prescribing it
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Data and journalism
Overview on how the wealth of data available now can revitalize journalism
Topic: Interactive Journalism
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Examining the news cycle
Mainstream news still leads on news stories, but blogs are having an influence
Topics: Journalism, Social Media
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Assessing the Globe changes
Maclean's has an in-depth feature about the recent changes at The Globe and Mail
Topic: Newspapers
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Reuters' Handbook of Journalism
The news service has posted its core journalistic principles online
Topics: Journalism, Journalism Resources
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Value added news
HNews is a new microformat for marking up news articles
Topics: HTML, Online Journalism
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This Movie is Broken
If you're in Toronto this July, help Broken Social Scene and Bruce McDonald make a movie
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iPhone-style password fields
A jQuery plug-in that obscures all but the last character in a password field
Topics: JavaScript, Usability
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Parsing HTML5
An HTML5 parsing engine is now available in nightly Firefox builds
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HTML5 Doctor
A Dr. Web for the new generation of Web standards
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Free book on search UI
Skews more academic than visual design, so there are is some good research here
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
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6,000 status updates per minute
Somehow, it's appropriate Michael Jackson's funeral breaks a number of social media records
Topics: Social Media, Music
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Polaris 2009 shortlist
Given the prizes intention, this year's list seems strangely disappointing despite the quality of the acts selected
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Martin Streek reported dead
The iconic DJ, recently fired from Toronto's CFNY / Edge 102 radio station after 20 years, has apparently died
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The death of IE6 (and 7)
In 2010, 90 per cent of the Web could be surfing with standards-compliant browsers
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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Mediaite from the inside
Rex Sorgatz explains the the design concepts behind the media gossip site
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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No strike at the Globe
The Globe and Mail has reached a tentative deal with its employees, averting a strike
Topic: Newspapers
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Modernizr
A JavaScript solution for detecting CSS3 support in browsers
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Embedded video everywhere
Kroc Camen has developed a script to enable HTML5's video in any browser
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
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The trouble with video
HTML5 offers the promise of embedded video, but the reality may not match
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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EveryBlock source code released
This is a huge milestone for the company, the Knight Foundation, and online journalism
Topic: Online Journalism
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New online ad units
Remember when I said the banner ad was dead, well, prepare for the new ads
Topic: Advertising
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Lebowski Fest Seattle
July 20: an outdoor screening of the movie; July 21: bowling
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50 reasons to love my hometown
Or: why Toronto rocks
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The Globe and Mail faces strike
A note from the publisher of Canada's national newspaper on a potential June 30 strike by the paper's employees
Topic: Newspapers
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Chase erases the user experience
The user-friendly experience that attracted customers like me to WaMu is being lost
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Newspapers weren't always boring
Great post fleshing out my favourite analogy: early newspapers vs. online news sites
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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How to do crowd-sourced journalism
Simon Willison details what was involved in Guardian's expense investigation
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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How to do crowd-sourced journalism
Simon Willison details what was involved in Guardian's expense investigation
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Garbage cam
A garbage can in my former neighbourhood's parkette is now a barometer for the Toronto civic workers' strike
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Infinite Summer
Or, A Sublimely Fun Read I'll Likely Do Again
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Presenting the new news
An aggregated page tracking #IranElection acts as a living prototype of the next online news sites
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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leerichmond.org
Finally, a functional site for Lee Richmond (thanks Tumblr!)
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Oprah likes Niedzviecki
Toronto writer (and former zine-maker and neighbour) Hal Niedzviecki has his The Peep Diaries made as one of Oprah's book picks
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Opera Unite
Essentially, Opera 10 comes with it's own server for sharing files, pictures and content from your computer across the Web
Topics: Browsers, Web Technology
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CSS3 features now
Thirteen features already implemented by more than one browser
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Canada's best music for 2009
The Polaris 2009 long list has been announced
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The National through the decades
Seven clips featuring the intros to CBC's national news show during the past 30 years
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Tiananmen Square, 20 years ago
A photograph of an iconic moment from a new perspective should remind us the full story has still not been told
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Streching bing
After I commented on the horrid logotype, a co-worker gave me a sticker saying "u bing?"
Topics: Typography, Search Engines
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The Cranky Copyright Book
Joe Clark's new book will focus his singular attention on the foibles of the current copyright debate
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Monotype permits Web use of typefaces
For non-commercial use (does that cover blogs with ads?) in the Embedded OpenType format (IE-only)
Topics: Typography, Web Design
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Google Wave
Very interesting, and potentially intuitive, response to Facebook and Twitter
Topics: Social Media, Search Engines
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Typekit
A new platform for managing web-only font linking licenses
Topics: CSS, Typography
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The new socialism is online
Kevin Kelly analyzes the digital evolution of collectivism
Topics: Web Culture, Politics
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Google pushing HTML5
Sees the Web-app friendly direction as the way forward
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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CSS-based gradients
A handy tool for generating Webkit-supported background gradients
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
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Must read piece on burnout
Great advice on recognizing and resolving burnout symptoms
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Big leadership changes at The Globe and Mail
With an eye to online, John Stackhouse replaces Edward Greenspon as editor-in-chief; Angus Frame becomes VP of Digital
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Web fonts 101
Zeldman offers a good overview, and collects, pointers to embeddable Web typefaces
Topics: CSS, Typography
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Firefinder
A Firebug extension to search HTML using CSS selectors
Topics: Web Resources, Browsers
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Typewriter
A simple typewriter-emulator that comes the closest yet to Khoi Vinh's Blockwriter idea
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ABC News redesigns
Big images and more video promotions feature large
Topics: Web Design, TV
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New look for The Globe and Mail online
Canada's national newspaper showcases a bold, new design with clean and readable story pages framed by a more cohesive organizational structure
Topics: Web Design, Newspapers
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Yahoo's Placemaker
Service parses text on web pages or news feeds and returns geographic data
Topic: Web Technology
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New suubscription models
Reports are The New York Times is considering two different ways to charge for online content
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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Tax breaks for newspapers, but not news sites
Washington decides to save newspapers with a tax break
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Canoe and Sun Media merging
What goes around, comes around
Topics: Newspapers, CANOE
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Google and microformats
The big search engine finally supports microformats and RDFa to improve search results
Topic: Search Engines
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Mozilla Prism
Use Web pages as applications with this official Mozilla Labs tool
Topics: Browsers, Web Technology
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TimesReader 2.0
Since it first debuted, I've loved the TimesReader concept - the version overhauls the tech and keeps the elegance
Topics: Newspapers, Web Technology
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Inheriting email
Contemplating a potentially giant knowledge gap for future historians
Topics: Email, Web Culture
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jQuery Twitter search plugin
Juitter provides an easy to display a Twitter stream using jQuery
Topics: JavaScript, Social Media
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Rupert to charge for content
News Corp.'s newspaper sites will begin charging a fee within a year
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Mobile design and development assets
Brian Fling's collection of resources from his mobile workshops
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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Big companies love IE6
Forrester reveals the dirty details
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eCSStender
Making the future CSS happen in browsers now
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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Happy Hour app
Mobile app reveals cheap alcohol and Seattleites achieve bliss
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Imagining Toronto as Seattle
Interesting comparison of my two cities as a high-tech startup friendly places
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Video still seen on TV
CBC finds only 10% of video is watched online and user-generated video viewing has plateaued (do consider the source, tho...)
Topics: TV, Web Technology
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The Anti-MySpace
Khoi Vinh reviews the design aesthetic of the new Muxtape
Topics: Web Design, Music
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CBC gets a new online boss
Rachel Nixon leaves NowPublic to be the director of digital media for CBC News
Topics: Online Journalism, CBC
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Google visualizations
In the U.S., Google has begun adding microcharts to illustrate public statistics
Topics: Search Engines, Usability
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When can I use...
Find out when those cool new Web design features will be available to all
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
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News and Twitter
Business strategies try to make Twitter lay a golden egg for online news
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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The Pennysmash Machine
Make your own flattened penny art at the Gladtone Hotel
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Big Picture a side project
Boston Globe's Big Picture blog was developed and promoted on Alan Taylor's off-hours
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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Embedding images
How to use text-based data URIs to embed images in Internet Explorer
Topics: Web Technology, Browsers
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Service design principles
How to develop and evolve design principles for service-based projects
Topic: Web Design
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News timeline
Typically Google experiment in presenting a new way to look at news
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
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Digg's multipart XHR
An very clever idea from Digg on speeding up Web pages
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
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Comic Sans and the Watchmen
Comic book letter Todd Klein disputes the origins of Comic Sans
Topic: Web Design
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2009 EPpy Awards finalists
Long-deserved nods for the globeandmail.com, one for msnbc.com
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
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CanTags project
May 1 will see the debut of a taxonomy for Canadian local news on Twitter
Topics: Social Media, Canada
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Vanishing movie ads
Once big spenders, movie promotions in newspapers are becoming rarer
Topics: Newspapers, Movies
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11 graphic design paradoxes
Valuable points to keep in mind for designers
Topic: Web Design
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Aggregating the buzz
New music service aims to create a chart of the emerging music tracks
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Citzen captioning
CaptionTube allows people to add and export subtitle information to YouTube videos
Topics: Accessibility, TV
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Journalism Online announced
Aim is to create a billing system for online newspapers - wasn't that eMeta?
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Journalism
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Paper Cuts
All the depressing news & data about the newspaper industry collected in one place
Topic: Newspapers
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We Love Typography
FFFound for type, with a great search UI
Topics: Web Design, User Interface
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Seattle Post Globe launches
Umm...good luck? (And please, please date your posts)
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
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Web design features in Firefox 3.5
Just as IE8 catches up, Firefox and Safari sprint ahead
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
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Refresh Seattle's back
The UX event returns with Jared Spool speaking after a few months hiatus
Topics: Web Design, Seattle
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Buy a newspaper box
For $40 you can have your own a Seattle P-I newspaper box
Topics: Newspapers, Seattle
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Web loading time hurt by @import
In many cases, using @import can affect how fast a page loads
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Past-proof HTML
HTML5 may not provide the information historians need to tell our stories
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Torontoist lives on
Toronto city blog is now locally and independently owned, although still affiliated with Gothamist chain
Topics: Toronto, Online Journalism
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Kurt Cobain is dead
Fifteen years later, nothing much remains the same
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A List Apart 2008 Survey
Everything you wanted to know about the state of the Web design industry right now
Topic: Web Design
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Huffington Post steps up
Seeds an Investigative reporting fund with $1.75 million - this is a good sign
Topic: Online Journalism
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Reflow and repaint performance issues
General overview on some client-side things that slow a Web page
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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Web typography
Good resource site from a SXSW 2009 panel
Topics: Web Design, CSS
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Capitol Hill bus map
Modelled on London's transit maps, this bus map shows the routes centred on one of Seattle neighbourhoods
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The Strange Final Days Of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
As experienced by a former reporter
Topics: Newspapers, Seattle
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Drug testing reporters
The final indignity against Seattle P-I reporters? They now have to pass a drug test to stay employed
Topics: Newspapers, Seattle
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Exploring MoMA online
The Museum of Modern Art relaunched with a compelling new design
Topics: Web Design, Culture
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Grid overlay
A simple mac-based tool for refining grid based layouts
Topic: Web Design
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Proposing a new global currency
China wants the IMF "SDR" unit to replace the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency (let the conspiracy theories begin)
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Scandinavian news sites protest IE6
Danish and Norwegian media sites are campaigning their users to use any browser but IE6
Topics: Browsers, Web Design
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Bowman leaves Google
In his goodbye post, Doug Bowman articulates the perils of designing for a big company
Topic: Web Design
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SuperPreview
Stupidly literal name, cool tool: allows you to overlay different renders of a Web page
Topics: Web Design, Browsers
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Micrsoft releases Internet Explorer 8
This very good browser does a lot of contortions to not offend anyone, and almost succeeds
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March 17, 2009 - the end of the P-I
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the city's oldest business, will roll off the presses for the last time St. Patrick's Day
Topics: Newspapers, Seattle
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Newspapers: a revolutionary victim
Clay Shirky writes one of the most insightful essays on the what is really happening to newspapers and what we mean when we want to save them.
Topics: Newspapers, Journalism
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Site Compatibility and IE8
Otherwise known as what fixing your site's bad habits
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The Web at 20
Twenty years ago today Tim-Berners Lee submitted the proposal that would become the World Wide Web
Topic: Web Technology
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51% design
What if you started with an idea but only designed 51% of its potential before letting it loose?
Topic: Web Design
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Hometown newspapers no more
City newspapers may, for all practical purposes, disappear in the U.S. by year's end
Topics: Newspapers, U.S.
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Joys of being Gen X
This inspired a sarcastic tweet from me a little ways back...
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CSS selectors and page performance
Turns out, in real world tests, CSS selectors don't effect the rendering time of Web pages
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Guardian frees its content
Simon Willison explains more about the Guardian Open Platform's APIs and the content available
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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10 at-risk U.S. newspapers
Time's list of newspapers possibly following the path of Rocky Mountain News or the Seattle P-I
Topics: Newspapers, U.S.
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Digital Web done
One of the longest-running publications about Web design and development has ceased publication
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
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Happy birthday Toronto
For the city's 175th birthday, Spacing donates 175 iconic pictures to the city archives
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Seattle P-I going online only
Some staff members of the newspaper were offered a chance at continued employment in an online edition
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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The Media 2.0 Best Practices
An attempt to set and document the best practices for social media platforms
Topic: Social Media
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Hearst tries to figure out the pay-wall
Having been on the ground for practical discussions of the same issues years ago, I'm amazed how many lessons have not been learned
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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The Elements of Social Architecture
The incomparable Christina Wodtke outlines the key patterns for creating successful online communities
Topics: Social Media, Web Patterns
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Elastic lists and search
Interesting interface for searching on a set of fixed terms
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
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The first sketches of history
Great summary of all the different experiments in visualizing the words news is literally made of
Topics: Journalism, Web Design
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Toronto then & now images
Love how little Ossington and Arglye have changed in 50 years
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Clark on Google's caption idea
Thirteen things to not do when developing online video captions
Topics: Accessibility, Search Engines
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Designing Web Interfaces' photostream
A huge collection of Web interfaces used as support for an O'Reilly book
Topics: Web Design, User Interface
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Guardian's Oscar interactive
Simple, dull, but a good pattern to examine
Topics: Interactive Journalism, Web Patterns
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jQuery Sparklines
Create sparklines that render cross-browser
Topics: JavaScript, Web Design
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Online dreams for the P-I
The last breaths of a newspaper that owns the building two other successful online news company are operating out of
Topics: Newspapers, Work
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Reseting Safari 4
Don't like the tab bar above the URL bar in Safari 4? Switch it back.
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Who uses Twitter?
Urban, mobile, news-reading thirtysomethings
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
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CanWest faces bankruptcy
Karmic payback?
Topic: Journalism
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Boxee and Hulu
The transition to the streaming of traditional television online just had a big setback
Topics: TV, Web Culture
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Design Technologist
An interesting title for people who aren't really Web developers
Topics: Web Culture, Work
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CanCon rules coming to the Web?
The CRTC is floating the idea setting up a $100-million fund to Canadian programming online
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
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Ealy online newspapers
The Electronic Examiner profiled in a 1981 TV news story
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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U.S. vs. Canadian Smarties
Canadians know them as Rockets, Americans call this Canadian-made candy Smarties. How bizarre.
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TinEye open
The image search service is now open to everyone, not just registered users
Topic: Search Engines
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The Globe and Mail lays off 30
Another 60 take packages at Canada's national newspaper
Topic: Newspapers
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Making buttons
Doug Bowman offers a great explanation of the lengths he went to develop a better button for Google
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
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Optimizing page load times
Some long held beliefs about Web design actual hurt page performance
Topic: Web Design
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Irony
NYTimes.com may charge for its site again - I've long argued subscriptions made sense if implemented properly
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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Canadian news digest launching
My former boss and a former Walrus editor are launch new "online forum for [Canadian] news and opinion"
Topic: Online Journalism
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SuperBowl ad showdown
For many, the real SuperBowl competition is the ads - take a look this years and pick your favourite
Topic: Advertising
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Five Simple Steps released
One of my most anticipated Web design books has finally been released
Topics: Web Design, Books
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Open-source politics
The embrace of social media, unconferences and community politics is pushing Toronto into the vanguard of open-source politics.
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BaconCamp
In the spirit of BarCamp - a celebration of bacon
Topic: Web Culture
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Fluid grid template
Up to 16-column grid design that is flexible and fluid. Remember when this used to be almost impossible in CSS?
Topics: CSS, Web Design
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IE8 almost done
The best IE browser built to date is now available as a release candidate
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Gigapixel image: Where's Obama?
Amazing panorama of the U.S. president giving his inauguration speech (try viewing full-screen on a 30" monitor!)
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Most wired U.S. city
Seattle (seems also to be the most wirelessed, too)
Topics: Seattle, Technology
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New stopdesign
Doug Bowman unveils a new look for his now, more personal, blog
Topic: Web Design
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Mobile JavaScript library
XUI is library optimized for modern mobile devices
Topics: JavaScript, Mobile
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Ingram and Nieman
Mathew Ingram joins the Nieman Journalism Lab
Topic: Online Journalism
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Live web coverage of subway shooting
The Globe and Mail is using Cover It Live technology to do instant community updates on the news story
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
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Obama's inauguration
Poynter's collecting screen shots as news sites cover this historic day in U.S. politics
Topics: Online Journalism, U.S.
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Pushing the news UI
A critique of GlobalPost turns into an examination of future potential
Topics: Online Journalism, User Interface
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Broken font-weight
CSS's font-weight remains broken in all but one browser variant used today
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Chicago Tribune goes tabloid
Subscribers will continue to get the broadsheet - interesting arrangement, not sure I see the savings
Topic: Newspapers
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Promoting the new, new journalism
New York features on the interactive journalist at NYTimes.com
Topics: Interactive Journalism, Newspapers
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Seattle P-I: bye-bye?
The Seattle Post Intelligencer is being put up for sale, which is the complicated way to stop printing the newspaper
Topic: Newspapers
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And now the Globe
Canada's national newspaper now facing layoffs
Topic: Newspapers
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The State of the Web 2008
John Allsopp has released the summary of his extensive survey of professional web designers and developers
Topic: Web Design
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The world with the Times
Interesting article examining what might happen to the New York Times
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Browser 10 bug
Like Y2K all over again, browser detection software may need an upgrade to support those, like Opera, now in version 10
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Sun Media cutting 600 jobs
Ten percent of its workforce will be gone by year's end
Topics: Newspapers, CANOE
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Adding the fourth dimension
Zoetrope concept demonstrates how to browse the past online in very rich ways
Topics: User Interface, Web Technology
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Stephanie Nolen: Out of Africa
One of Canada's, if not the world's, best foreign correspondents says farewell to the continent she covered for five years
Topics: Journalism, Newspapers
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CSS Text Wrapper
Tool for creating the markup needed to wrap text around an image
Topic: Web Design
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Digital Web seeks new direction
The online magazine that literally changed my life, is now seeking to change itself and wants your thoughts
Topics: Web Culture, Web Design
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WCAG 2.0 official
The contentious second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is now a recommendation
Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards
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Government 2.0 - really
Chnage.gov is becoming an example of how government's can easily appear more transparent
Topics: Politics, Social Media
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StatCan as Google
Great proposal on how Canada's statistic agency could reshape itself to literally be the Google of that country
Topics: Search Engines, Canada
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The beginning of it all
How you do what you are doing right this instant was inspired by a demo 40 years ago
Topics: Computers, User Interface
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Adrian Bromley, 1971-2008
He was one of the first people in the industry I worked with and made those night shifts something to enjoy - 30 -
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A Putlizer for online
The revered journalism prize is final going to be awarded in an online category (although it must be text-based)
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism
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Online ads & Web design
Good overview of both the importance ads play in Web design and the current trends
Topics: Web Design, Advertising
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20 signs you don’t want that web design project
An scarily accurate list of warning signs
Topics: Web Design, Work
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Microlocal
EveryBlock replaces the buzzword "hyperlocal" with the more accurate "microlocal"
Topic: Web Culture
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* o GlobeAuto o Careers o Classifieds o Newspaper Ads o Personals o Real Estate Click here to find out more! Canadians react
Interactive showing how Canadian premiers and Globe and Mail readers feel about the crisis of confidence in the House of Commons
Topics: Politics, Interactive Journalism
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Green browsing
The new Web development trend: reduce your site's energy footprint
Topics: Web Technology, JavaScript
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The Grid System
A resource for everything related to using grids in design
Topic: Web Design
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Agile for design
How to apply Agile development concepts to Web design
Topic: Web Design
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Data cleaner
A great Web-based tool for those who hate regex and need to normalize data
Topic: Web Technology
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Pownce says goodbye
The potential Twitter-killer has been sold to Six Apart and will be going offline
Topic: Social Media
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Summarizing the poitical sentiment
Discussion about a change in Canadian government grew to 1,200 comments and Mathew Ingram read through them all to find the best ones
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Helvetireader
Brilliant skin to Google Reader (and love the article sampled, too)
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
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New Google Map controls
Streetview on Google Maps introduces an terrific new interface for the map controls
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
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The Souvenir Shop
Pseudo-souvenirs of Canada from some country's best emerging designers
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Discover related keywords
Chris Heilmann demonstrates how to use Yahoo's API to uncover related keywords
Topics: Search Engines, JavaScript
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All-in-one browser
One browser, three rendering engines (IE, Firefox, and Safari); great for testing
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Reason #80211 why I like Virgin America
In-flight Wi-Fi
Topic: Web Technology
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New ideas for newspapers
Seth Godin has some original ideas to help newspapers survive online.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Skewing images with JavaScript
A clever script to do projective transformations of Web-based images using canvas and JavaScript
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Making decisions about user research
Eight questions to ask when debating when to do research
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News site design trends
Overview of the current design looks of news sites (include my place of employ)
Topics: Web Design, Work
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Lessons learned about iPhone sites
Good insights from the folks at Flickr about how to design an optimized mobile site
Topics: Web Design, iPhone
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Gmail vs. Skype
Google introduces video chatting to its Gmail messaging service
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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ClusterShot
Silverorange launches a new service that allows you to be your own stock photography agency
Topic: Web Technology
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Buy pieces of BSG
Props and costumes from Battlestar Galatica are being auctioned off. Tempting...
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Hipster apocalypse
A "now hiring" sign at American Apparel store sparks an inspired rant
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U.S. election night homepages
An amazing collection how major news sites looked every 30 minutes on November 4, 2008
Topics: Online Journalism, Politics
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Mathew Ingram and community
The hardest working blogger in Canada is now heading up The Globe and Mail's community efforts
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Less national Post
The National Post continues to whither in relevance as a relevant newspaper in Canada
Topic: Newspapers
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CS Monitor replacing print with Web
The 100-year-old news organization will cease publication of its printed newspaper in April 2009
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Delaying JavaScript execution
A simple script to delay the execution of JavaScript when event's fire
Topic: JavaScript
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NYTimes.com visualization lab
Equating it with reader comments, The New York Times invites readers to create their own visualizations of its data
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Cameras for guns
The Toronto police are running an amnesty that offers Nikon Coolpix cameras for illegal handguns
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Multi-touch Firefox
The gestures don't sound intuitive, but its a nice start to browsing the Web with your fingers
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Typocalypse
A series of images revealing what a typeface really says
Topic: Web Design
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CSS3 via JavaScript
Eric Meyer sees JavaScript as a way to boot-strap CSS3 support in browsers
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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TimesTags
Millions of folksonomists rejoice at the availability of tagged NYTimes.com content
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Progressive Enhancement with CSS
Excellent documenting a lot of the CSS tricks used to serve up style to browsers
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100E2R
Terrific case for having big, onscreen text
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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3D cube in JavaScript
The simple approach could be a foundation for an impressive parallax effect
Topic: JavaScript
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Experience Design Manifesto
Manifesto that uses the phrase "happiness" always concern me, but there are some kernels of potential in this
Topic: Web Design
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Why newspapers endorse political parties
J-Source looks into this more and more contentious concept
Topics: Journalism, Politics
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Is that an endorsement?
The Globe and Mail sort of, kind of, backs Stephen Harper for prime minister
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Sans Seriffee
Map of the tiny archipelago discovered by English years ago
Topics: Language, Style & Usage
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Culture in Danger
The extended, English-subtitled, of a political video that is, truly, laugh-out-loud, funny
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ALA@10
A List Apart is a decade old, and the proprietor looks back on the institution
Topic: Web Design
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Canadian Oxford Dictionary: RIP
The entire staff has been laid-off putting the dictionary's future in grave doubt
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Twittering rumours
Mathew Ingram has a honest, introspective piece on the responsibility of journalists on Twitter
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Poitical sound bites
Jumping to key words in the U.S. debate (like Wall St.) videos exposes how prepped candidates are
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The Canadian political view
"Capitalist free marketers, but believe in collective action, largely through governments, to achieve social, economic, environmental and other aims."
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Homezilla
Awkward name for a good service designed to let home buyers discover the amenities in a neighbourhood
Topic: Search Engines
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10 tips to solidify your business
Advice for start-ups is also good for any company/business to consider
Topics: Web Culture, Work
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The case for designing differently
Andy Clarke argues that progressive enhancement is what we should be doing with CSS to move designs beyond IE6
Topics: CSS, Web Design
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Canadian electoral map
Map of Canadian ridings uses colours to indicate which party is leading where
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electopinion.ca
The Canadian election as reported on Twitter - very engaging
Topics: Politics, Social Media
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David Foster Wallace in Harper's
Everything the late author wrote for the magazine
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WSJ.com redesigns
A big redesign from a site that hasn't in a long while
Topics: Web Design, Newspapers
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Announcing the "Web Foundation"
Tim Berners-Lee introduces a foundation designed to support the open Web
Topic: Web Culture
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All about HTML's alt
With argument like this, it's no wonder HTML5 will take so long
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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David Foster Wallace dead
The author of Infinite Jest and on of the best novelist of the time apparently committed suicide
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ONA win for The Globe and Mail
Ironically, the news is nowhere to be found online yet (even the Twitter account is quiet - I learned via email)
Topics: Online Journalism, Interactive Journalism
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Sample dating pop-culture
Andy Baio crunches the numbers on the samples in reveals some interesting details.
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The logic of HTML5
Understanding HTML5 issues (e.g., video, alt, 2022) is a lot easier if you know Ian Hickson's online persona
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Regulating the Internet
A CRTC requested report has some ideas for regulating and funding the Canadian Internet
Topics: Canada, Web Technology
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Resurfacing newspapers
Google plans to scan in old newspapers (including one from Quebec) to make them more publicly available.
Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines
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Microsoft's CSS extensions
IE8 does include support for some CSS3 properties, and will continue to support filters and extensions - but only in a W3C compliant way.
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Publish2: The Web’s Newswire
"A Web-based newswire that makes it easy for journalists and newsrooms to gather, publish, and distribute links to the best news on the Web"
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Globe's election site critiqued
Wrong sentiment, right questions. Elections sites, though, are hard to do well especially when factoring in extenuating (unspoken) circumstances.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Everything you wanted to know about browser user-agent strings*
* But were afraid to ask
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Google Chrome's story
Like Firefox before it, Chrome is a clean attempt to create a browser for today's Web
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Shadows coming to Firefox
CSS-based box and text shadows should appear in Firefox 3.1
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Drag and drop with canvas
Clever demo of dragging and dropping using a textarea
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Joe Clark's book on Canadian spelling
It's called "Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English" and I can't wait
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Mobile Safari doubles usage
The launch of the iPhone 3G pushes the mobile Safari usage to 0.3%
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Google Chrome
Google's browser means there's a good chance one more test case will have to be run on future Web sites
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Seattle tech start-ups
A list of more than 60 of Seattle's tiny companies
Topics: Seattle, Web Technology
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Toronto-area tech start-ups
A comprehensive list of almost 90 of the GTA's tiny companies
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
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Ubiquity in depth
Examining the interface of "Quicksilver for the browser"
Topics: Browsers, User Interface
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Mad Men Twittering
Fan-created Twitter accounts were shutdown until AMC realized the accounts actually was great advertising
Topics: TV, Web Culture
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DIY Bumbershoot schedule
The Stranger has a simple and clever schedule maker for Seattle's annual music & arts fest
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jParallax
Impressive jQuery plugin for creating a dynamic parallax effect
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Fostering creativity
Pixar founder writes an insightful (and long) article on Pixar's secret sauce
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Bullets over Osssington
My old 'hood (and new hipster central) was the location of a four-car gun battle
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Dube leaves CBC for ABC News
CBC may have been a farm team for Jonathan Dube as he returns to ABC as a Vice President of its new site
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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Experimental rounded corners
Based on Snook's example, rounded corners with VML, CSS or SVG
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EveryBlock in eight cities
The hyper-local site is now covering Seattle (and Boston and Washington D.C.)
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
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The Better Way
TTC's new site has competition from a site build by some people who attended TransitCamp
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
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How to cover breaking news
Good analysis of how Toronto's media online covered an explosive news story
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
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08/08/08
The crazy 8s
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jMetronome
A script that helps a page maintain its typographic rhythm
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Flick navigation on the iPhone
Some very simple CSS can create the flick navigation in Safari on the iPhone
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Creating great search results
Advice on making a search result do what it needs to do
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Box office for 2008 visualized
Similar chart as seen in NYTimes infographic, but this is interactive and in HTML
Topic: Web Design
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Implementing canvas
There looks to be a simple way to get the CANVAS element to work on Internet Explorer allowing for a lot more interesting design effects
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iPhone events
Not, not the marketing kind, the JavaScript kind
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The new "delicious"
Delicious has dropped its Web 2.0 spelling and has under went a radical makeover
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
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How to Show Telephone Numbers On Letterheads
Ladislav Sutnar's 1960 booklet demonstrating letterhead design
Topics: VoIP, Web Design
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Canadianizing film posters
Some very clever cultural plays in the Canadian Film Festival posters
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Buid your own font
FontShop's Web-based tool allows you to build simple, modular fonts quickly online
Topic: Web Design
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The 2008 A List Apart survey
Work the Web in someway? Take A List Apart's Web industry survey and help create a clearer picture of the industry
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
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Terry Fox
Had he lived, the man who inspired Canada with his Marathon of Hope would have been 50 years old today.
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CBC.ca does Chinese
And Fake Ouimet (a.k.a., Joe Clark) hit his stride
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
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Recovering the bikes
Remarkable photo essay detailing the recovery of hundreds of presumed stolen bikes
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Tracking the real homicide rates
Are there more murders in Toronto than in past years?
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Movie domain names
Being both an Internet and a movie geek lets you create a entertaining review site
Topics: Movies, Web Technology
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49:00
Only Amazon would sell Paul Westerberg's latest album for 49 cents
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Pop art then and now
An overview of pop art in its classic and modern forms
Topics: Web Design, Culture
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Nazaré Snack Bar
From the Blackout to near blackouts, I'll always love the Communist's Daughter
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The Tea Makers is back
But is now under the management of Fake Ouimet, a.k.a., Joe Clark
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How to write with style
Kurt Vonnegut wrote 7 or 8 tips one should consider
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Igor charged with bike theft
Toronto's stolen bikes always seemed to end up at Igor's place on Queen West
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NPR API
More news outlets lifting the skirts on the core of their business
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Toronto as seen by a San Franciscan
Interesting take on my home city from a resident of a city I newly appreciate
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Multitouch light table in JavaScript
Works both on iPhones and the desktop versions of Safari
Topic: JavaScript
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Creative or invasive?
Outdoor advertising in Toronto hits the bulls eye...or something
Topics: Advertising, Toronto
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Visualizing the Walmart infection
A very viral map of Walmarts explosive growth across the U.S.
Topics: Culture, Online Journalism
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thestar.com: iPhone edition
The Toronto Star launches an iPhone enhanced version as the other Canadian papers seem woefully behind
Topics: Online Journalism, VoIP
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Information design patterns
Based on a beautifully crafted master thesis, this is a brilliant repository of patterns
Topics: Web Patterns, Web Design
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Google as the pressroom
Some thoughts about whether Google should take over the publishing duties for newspapers online
Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines
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Small screens are better
The iPhone shows that, in interface design, less really can be more
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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Touch and gestures in JavaScript
The iPhone API for these new events is thoroughly deconstructed.
Topics: JavaScript, VoIP
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Spectator's last post
Toronto Life has shuttered its blogs and the great Doug Bell signs-off with a brilliantly layered entry
Topics: Online Journalism, Magazine
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Opera Web Standards Curriculum
Chris Mills has done a heroic job developing a massive collection of Web standards-based learning resources
Topics: Web Standards, Web Resources
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Silverback review
This comprehensive review was enough to convince me of this usability program's value
Topics: Usability, Technology
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Identi.ca
Interesting concept for a Twitter replacement (I'm "saila" there) - no API at launch tho
Topic: Web Technology
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Canadian colour palette
Colour for each of Canada's cities
Topics: Canada, Web Design
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Le chandail
NFB, Roch Carrier, and Maurice Richard
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CSS variables
WebKit nightly builds support a much desired CSS feature
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Tyson Homosexual
When political agendas interfere with the news process, the names of Olympic athletes become schoolyard jokes
Topics: Politics, Journalism
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A Netflix for magazines
Interesting concept allows you to rent magazines on a subscription
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Rogers destroying Citytv
Once North America's most innovative TV station, Rogers is systematically eviscerating the channel
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Canadian iPhone pricing
Rogers rate plan means my usage of the iPhone would cost me twice as much in Canada as in the U.S.
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Real 3-D holographic displays
Appropriately demonstrated using a Star Wars spacecraft
Topics: Technology, Movies
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Better CSS font stacks
An excellent collection of font collections to use to ensure everyone has the best chance of seeing the type the way you intended them to
Topics: CSS, Web Design
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Happy Birthday UPC
Thirty years ago, the first product ever was checked using the Universal Product Code
Topic: Technology
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What every Web designer should know
Andy Rutledge goes throw the skills Web designers should have, and most are not what you would expect
Topics: Web Design, Work
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Eric's Trip: the movie
A low-fi documentary about the low-fi pioneers filmed by band member Rick White
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The secret vault of Lego
All the Lego sets ever made have been saved in one magical place
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Seattle's newest 'hood: Radio Point
Appears that the little triangle where I live is being contested by two different neighbourhoods
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about:robots
They have a plan
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Delaying news in the Internet era
NYTimes.com talks a bit about how Tim Russert's death was leaked online
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
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Preloading CSS images
A jQuery plug-in walks through CSS files to cache images to improve loading time
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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Ice on Mars
Real, water ice and MarsPhoenix twittered the news
Topics: Technology, Web Culture
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Air India 182
June 22 marks on of Canada's darkest moments and people need to know why
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Examining the new Orlando Sentinel
Candid discussions about the dramatic new design of a Florida newspaper
Topic: Newspapers
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Visualizing a rendering engine
Three videos show how Firefox renders Web pages
Topics: Browsers, Web Design
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Number Stations reimagined
Video collage of a MySpace security process feels like the shortwave espionage broadcasts
Topic: Web Culture
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Firefox 3 already challenging Safari
Within 24 hours, Firefox 3 around a 4% marketshare (Safari has about 6%)
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David Crow on FreshBooks
Toronto Web tech don profiles the terrific online invoicing service
Topics: Web Technology, Toronto
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NowPublic's logo
The more I look at this logo, the more brilliant I think it is
Topics: Web Design, Social Media
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TimesPeople FAQ
NYTimes.com social reading experiment is now in public beta
Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism
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The paragraph in Web tyopgraphy
Jon Tangerine loving details the ways to treat a paragraph on a Web page
Topic: Web Design
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Good Bloomsday to you
Also known as the secret St. Patrick's Day
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Patterns for reputation systems
Yeahoo has added nine reputation patterns to its social-design related patterns offering
Topics: Web Patterns, Social Media
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AP boycott
AP has got the bloggers mad and if the latter are dedicated the former may really get hurt
Topics: Online Journalism, Copyright
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On Tim Russert
Not being American, the reason to Russert's death surprised me; this helps explain it
Topics: Journalism, Politics
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On Ken Alexander's resgination
Douglas Brown offers an honest take on the Walrus editor
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globeandmail.com free
The product that occupied the least enjoyable chunk of my time at the Globe is now gone (funny how it wasn't mentioned when I met with them tho)
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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Analysing the new Canadian copyright bill
Mathew Ingram looks at the proposed legislation, and weighs it against the U.S.'s DMCA
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Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit
Wireframe stencils for a wide number of Web design elements
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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Firefox Mobile concept video
Very interesting demo of a mobile Web browsing interface
Topics: User Interface, Browsers
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Seattle colder than Siberia
Travelling from Toronto's almost 40C weather to Seattle's low teens has knocked my body for a loop
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Media ethics and citizen journalism
Think piece from the New York Times about the need to identify oneself as a reporter
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism
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Capitoll Hill garage sale
On June 14, 2008 there will be about a dozen sales happening throughout the neighbourhood
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CBC loses The Hockey Theme
Hockey Night in Canada will no longer have its iconic theme now that CTV has bought the rights to the song
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Beta TTC site
Looks like a corporate site designed by committee, and lacks any personality
Topics: Web Design, Toronto
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The Globe and Mail e-Edition Newsreader
My former colleagues put together a very usable interface for browsing an electronic edition of the paper.
Topic: Newspapers
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Goodbye Gardiner
A sizable chunk Toronto's downtown highway will finally be torn down (now if only Seattle could do the same with I-5)
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Phiculator
Easily calculate the golden mean
Topic: Web Design
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IETester
A Web designers dream: four versions of Internet Explorer in one interface
Topics: Browsers, Web Design
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Google Earth in a browser
The new browser plug-in also reveals a JavaScript API to the system
Topics: JavaScript, Search Engines
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Why HTML5's video tag is dumb
Mike Chambers demos the efforts get Flash working with 'video' in HTML5
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Why ads fail online
A solid explanation on why traditional advertising models don't work online
Topic: Advertising
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Google aves your scripts
Google volunteers to cache popular JavaScript libraries
Topic: JavaScript
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CBC being spammed?
Looks like someone if try to clog the CBC with nuisance information requests
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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The New York Times API
First RSS and now this: the newspaper of record is hoping to allow others to mash-up its archive in a very atomic way.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Translating Pork and Bean
Weezer's new video broken do into its 24 parts
Topics: Music, Web Culture
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Jane's brand timeline
A clever portrait of a day rendered by the brands (and identifiably Torontonian)
Topics: Advertising, Toronto
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NYTimes and "link journalism"
Scott Karp shows how true online journalism can work
Topic: Online Journalism
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Newsroom Barometer 2008
A survey of a news editors throughout the globe on what they think online news trends will be
Topic: Online Journalism
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Client-side storage without cookies
Not really sure how this works, but it could come in very handy
Topic: JavaScript
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Canada finally gets movie downloads
Bell Canada has stuck a deal that lets Canadians rent movies online for too much money
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Translating Twitter's explanation
News.com has a clever parsing of Twitter's explanation of its outages
Topics: Social Media, Web Technology
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TimesMachine replaces microfiche
If you don't know what microfiche is, then just know this is the far better way to browse old newspapers
Topics: Newspapers, Web Technology
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Virtual hosting into Parallels
Simple how-to for viewing locally hosted Web sites in a Mac and Windows environment
Topics: Web Technology, Computers
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"3.0" jumps the shark
William Morris has launched a new division called Agency 3.0
Topic: Web Culture
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Love hates Cobain
Nirvana is reuniting for Sub Pop's 20th anniversary show. In Redmond, WA. Home of Microsoft. No more should be said.
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Webmonkey is back!
The best Web building site of the '90s has been resurrected
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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Over simplifying it
The 37signas entry on the best design agency site is right; the inspirational site however is an absolute joke (it is a joke, right?)
Topic: Web Design
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Capitol Hill Arts Center moving
The CHAC is leaving its current location and hoping to buy its own; Crave stays, though
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Type: Metallophile Sp8
Looking at 1950s era flash cards on Saturday, I wished for a digital version of that printed lettering - here it is.
Topic: Web Design
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Political fonts
Explaining the power of type in political campaigns
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Visualizing concept groups
How to visually present similarity and the relevance of a Web search result set
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
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AGO logos over time
The new one strains my eyes, Bruce Mau did a far better job in 1997
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Credit card logos
A collection to fit just about any design need
Topic: Web Resources
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CBS gets CNET and the best domains
PaidConent.org notes the amazing domain names CBS gets with its US$1.8B CNET purchase
Topics: Web Culture, Journalism
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Cubescape
Build anything with isometric boxes jQuery thanks to Cameron Adams
Topics: JavaScript, Web Culture
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Knight News Challenge 2008 winners
One Canadian and one creator of the World Wide Web among the winners
Topic: Online Journalism
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Ex-CBC editor-in-chief jumps to Al-Jazeera
Tony Burman joins fellow Canuck Avi Lewis at the news network
Topics: TV, Journalism
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Da Vinci's Inquest coming back
Probably one of the best drama's aired on Canadian TV is returning for a couple of hours
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Google Doctype
An open compendium of the best Web practices, spearheaded by Mark Pilgrim
Topics: Web Standards, Web Resources
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Timelapse CSS
Curious little demo showing CSS rules plaed one by one to a plain HTML page
Topics: CSS, Web Design
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Times Reader coming to the Mac
Finally, the news reader is ported to Mac via Silverlight
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Twittered: Harper's redesign
No mention on the yet of the new design, but it is well promoted on Twitter
Topics: Web Design, Social Media
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Session variables without cookies
Impressive research on a method I once used to circumvent cross-site security
Topic: JavaScript
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Yahoo! Internet Location Platform
Cataloguing all the places in the world in one open API
Topics: Web Technology, World
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Descendent selectors slow CSS rendering
But by such a miniscule amount, it is important to remember that better performance != best practice
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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The Real Homer Simpson
Amazing (and creepy) rendering of what Homer Simpson would look like were he flesh-and-blood
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Messina on data portability
A thought-provoking article on what data portability should mean.
Topics: Social Media, Privacy
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User Interface Resource Center
Articles and links on UI and RIA design
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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Facebook Connect
Facebook offers to be the holder of all your online identity information
Topics: Social Media, Privacy
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Eric's Trip playing SP20
The Sub Pop 20th anniversary party now includes on of Canada's best lo-fi bands
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Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery
Links and resources from a three hour tutorial presented by Simon Willison
Topic: JavaScript
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Opera Dragonfly released
The new Web development tool is still an alpha but is big step forward for Opera
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Canadians forget the iPhone...
The Zune is finally coming to Canada! (Thus becoming the first non-U.S. market to enjoy Microsoft's iPod clone.)
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Tom. Waits.
The man announces his tour in a way only he could
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George Oates on community
Flickr co-founder offers some excellent advice about build online community
Topic: Social Media
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Canada shuts down Access to Information database
Harper's government has shutdown a free database journalists, politicians and others used to find publicly available documents
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Case study of Toronto's Transit Camp
BarCamper Karen Fung has posted her honour's on Transit Camp
Topics: Social Media, Toronto
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Nielsen improves metrics
At least in that they now claim to track combined mobile and PC Web use
Topics: Web Culture, Advertising
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HTML-parsing JavaScript
Imppressive script reads and builds HTML on the client-side
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Google's design principles
Nice to see user experience goals played so prominently
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The real power of CSS
An unbelievable animation of Homer Simpson done in basic HTML and CSS.
Topics: Web Design, CSS
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Social media better in emergencies
Facebook and Wikipedia do a better job informing the public than the government or traditional media
Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism
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Tax deadline extended
So it wasn't just me, heavy traffic did take down the Netfile site
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iPhone really coming to Canada
After months of speculation and rumour Canada will get its Roger's enabled iPhone
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Sticky, viral, and friendly
Yahoo's new strategy should be embraced by more Web companies
Topics: Web Culture, Social Media
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Mobile screen sizes
Think big, as the new minimum looks to be 240 x 320
Topics: Web Design, VoIP
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Web page sizes triple
The average Web page file size is now ore than 312Kb and calls nearly 50 objects.
Topic: Web Technology
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MediaWiki API
The recipe for getting all the good data from the Wikipedia
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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Online karma
After laying off its online production department, is it a surprise that TheStar.com's news coverage suffers?
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
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TTC strike summary
Torontoist has an excellent overview of the short-lived transit strike.
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CSS Variables
Most definitely not a W3C proposal, but one every Web designer would love to see implemented.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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Opera gets a JavaScript debugger
Dragonfly will be Opera's delayed response to tools like Firebug
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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Defining the Web design elite
nGen's doing it one cartoony face at a time.
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
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Thank Twitter
Good post to counter some negative sentiment, even if 37signals has undeclared bias in the debate
Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture
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Calculating hours
Good advice on pricing the project management part of design work.
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McDonald's mocks Starbucks
How many layers of irony can you see in the McDonald's espresso ad spotted in Seattle?
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Curley leaving WaPo?
Rumours are Tob Curley will be heading to the Django-powered Las vegas Sun.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Web Directions North podcasts up
The podcasts from the speakers at Web Directions North 2008 at our now online, and offer some great listening.
Topic: Web Design
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Torstar elimintates Internet staff
The entire Internet production staff at the Toronto Star has been laid-off.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Facebook "trends"
Facebook unveils a new service showing comparing what terms people are talking about on the site.
Topic: Social Media
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Today's front pages
Collect the Newseum's newspaper front pages into one document.
Topic: Newspapers
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Testing the mobile Web
Similar to the Acid tests, the W3C has unveiled a Web standards test for mobile browsers -- none fully pass it.
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"Ouimet" calls it quites
The anonymous CBC manager who began by blogging about the strike, signs off
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CSS Gradients
WebKit now does gadients, but at what price inter-operability?
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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Load the scripts you need
A simple script that will dynamically request only the JavaScripts required by the page.
Topic: JavaScript
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A decade of Black Flag hair
The American harcore band's coif stylings
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The new Musseum station
ROM-inspired look is better than expected, especially the station name on the walls.
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Webby nominees for 2008
The Globe and Mail and the CBC are both up for one.
Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism
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Bumbershoot 2008 lineup
Seattle's amazing music and arts festival unveiled some of the performers scheduled to appear
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Design Coding
The Web Standardista's new rap.
Topics: Web Standards, Music
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The EveryBlock issue of A List Apart
Two great articles from the folks at Holovaty's hyper local company
Topic: Web Design
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Google Maps as a narrative tool
Good, fiction that experiments with the Web's new user experiences.
Topics: Books, Web Culture
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ISO to define UX
Apparently,there is to be an International Standard for Human Centred Design that codifies user experience.
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Canadian newspapers healthy
Differences between Canada and the U.S., number 301
Topics: Newspapers, Canada
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Conversations as the new stats
Probably not new to most bloggers, but increasingly important for news sites to realize.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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Better Toronto transit site
An effective, well-designed Google Map mashup showing transit stops and parking lots in the Toronto area.
Topics: Toronto, Social Media
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JavaScript "TimeMachine"
An early effort to duplicate the Mac OS's TimeMachine effect in JavaScript
Topics: JavaScript, Usability
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Visualizng rhythms of text
Stefanie Posavec has created some stunning work inspired by "On The Road"
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CSS compatibility and IE
A comprehensive guide to what is and is not supported in the various versions of Internet Explorer.
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Defining the Open Web
Brad Neuberg helps explain what it means and explains why it is important.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Standards
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Best news photo gallery
A couple of my co-workers work was chosen as the NPAA's Best of Photojournalism for 2008
Topics: Work, Online Journalism
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Geogrpahic bias in news coverage
A visualization about how regions less coverage, the further away it is from the paper's base.
Topic: Newspapers
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iPhone optimization
A little JavaScript that optimizes the presentation of a site on an iPhone
Topics: JavaScript, VoIP
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OpenSocial Foundation
Google leads a bold, truly open-source, community venture aiming to standardize the social graphs online.
Topics: Social Media, Search Engines
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Caprica a go
BSG prequel will probably be shot in Vancouver, allowing CBC to call it "Canadian made"
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State of the media - 2008
The fifth survey of journalism in the U.S. is out
Topic: Journalism
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CBC P2Ping it's shows
Okay, not all of them, just "Canada's Next Great Prime Minister" but it is a start.
Topics: TV, Web Technology
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Levi's retro ads
Four commercials from the 1970s shows how amazing ads could be
Topic: Advertising
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Dual-sided, translucent touch-screens
A patent filing from Apple showcases some innovative new interface ideas.
Topics: Technology, Patents
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SI.com opens its archive
Magazine hopes to stave of competitors by opening up decades of articles to the Web
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CBC.ca now allows comments
The news site for Canada's public broadcaster finally embraces comments and recommendations.
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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CBC cancels more good shows
JPod and the outstanding Intelligence are cancelled (the latter will probably appear as a U.S. adaption soon enough, though).
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iPhone SDK
The iPhone Developer program is unveiled.
Topics: Technology, VoIP
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Download IE8
The first Beta can now be downloaded
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Making iPhone icons
Need a custom icon for your Web app on the iPhone. stress no more.
Topics: Web Design, VoIP
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Pownce's new API
Pownce offers a complete API that now includes the ability to post notes...but is it too late?
Topic: Web Technology
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New media criticism blog
Douglas Bell is bringing his humourous voice to a new blog from TorotntoLife.com
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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Give IE8 a break
Tiff Fehr asks the Web standards community to help IE8 developers out for a change.
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Infographic: box office
NYTimes.com demonstrates the ebb and flow of movie revenue.
Topics: Web Design, Movies
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Eyetracking search forms
Early findings into the effectiveness of come search form layouts.
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Eyetracking label placement
Where are form labels most effective?
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Sasquatch 2008 lineup
Unbelievable line-up for long-weekend music fest
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Keming
A new typography term.
Topic: Web Design
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Dimensions: xScope's killer
The screen measurement feature of this little app is worth more than all the other features combined,
Topic: Web Design
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Fire ravages Queen West
Six-alarm fire destroys some of Toronto's great, independent stores.
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EveryBlock: the real story
Rex Sorgatz talks to Adrian Holovaty about the super-hyper-local site
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Calis building the semantic Web?
Reuters' little open-source project sounds almost too good to be true.
Topic: Web Semantics
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Transcripts as video navigation
NYTimes.com has a clever, easily searchable video navigation tool for the 2008 State of the Union
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Toronto.com: ten years of mediocracy
BlogTO.com does a insightful analysis on the "city search" portal
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
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Revisitng Wired 1.1
The founding editor, Louis Rossetto, responds to a very in-depth review of the magazines first issue.
Topics: Magazine, Web Culture
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Award-winning newspaper design
And who says print is dead?
Topic: Newspapers
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Good redesign numbers
AOL's recent redesign shows how good design can lift the bottom line.
Topics: Web Design, Site Redesign
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New Xerox logo
Shiny, and very "x" -- kinda reminds me a certain game console's logo in fact...
Topic: Web Design
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Yahoo rejects Microsoft
Yahoo Board claims the $44.6B undervalues the company. Yeah. Okay.
Topic: Web Culture
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No version switching for HTML5
Says Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer Platform team.
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Principles of effective Web design
Smashing assembles some genuinely good advice.
Topic: Web Design
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Pay-asyou-throw garbage
Toronto's new plan seems far more sensible than the one used in Seattle now
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Knight Rider revival
This article contains enough interconnected pop cultural references to fry KITT's motherboard.
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IE8 preview at Mix08
Not a huge surprise, but IE8 is now officially being previewed this March.
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sailaTV
Yahoo! Live enables everyone to be just like Justin.
Topics: Web Culture, TV
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Free book on digital literacy for journalists
An excellent resource for online journalism as its practiced today.
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism Resources
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Social Graph API
Using microformats to uncover the open social network on the Web.
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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Time-merged media
Kottke examines the manipulation o time on linear media.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Design
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Obit: chicagocrime.org
Holovaty's site, for me and many others, was one of the exemplary Web 2.0 sites.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Toronto’s best Web evangelist
The well deserving, TorCamp muse David Crow.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
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TransitCamp II
The successful TransitCamp will be mounted again, and this time will discuss transit issues in the Greater Toronto Area.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
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OfficeMac 2008 annoyances
A timely Flickr pool of bugbears in the Mac OS version of Office.
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Excellent investigative journalism online
Yes, its from MSNBC.com, but I had nothing to do with it so I say without bias this is piece on bridges at risk is a tremendous piece of reporting.
Topic: Online Journalism
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The State of Media
Deloitte's second survey on changing media attitudes amongst the generations has some good insight (PDF)
Topics: Web Culture, Advertising
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Leonard Cohen to tour again
Never expected to see him perform live again.
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HTML5 is a draft
Keep in mind it is a draft, and won't be real this decade, but it is a major evolution of the mark-up language used to build the Web.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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EveryBlock launches
Adrian Holovaty's hyper-local site launches and offers exactly the kind of site I would want for local information...when comes Seattle?
Topic: Online Journalism
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Starbucks trying to suck me in
Starbucks is experimenting with $1 coffees with free refills in Seattle.
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Opting-in to use Web standards
Jeremy Keith exactly sums up mine (and many other peoples) concerns over the plans to lock-in browser compatibility.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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IE8 and future compatibility
Chris Wilson, Internet Explorer's Platform Architect, explains how IE8 plans to not break the Web.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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Microsoft lunch tour
Reviewing all the various Microsoft campus cafes.
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Netscape dead again
February 1, 2008 marks the end of AOL's support for the Netscape browser.
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CBC.ca calls for original online content
The call for freelance online projects is rare, but to bulk about its resources, CBC.ca has put out a call for some pitches.
Topic: Online Journalism
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CSS Working Group proposals
Ideas on reforming the W3C's CSS standardization process, from Andy Clarke. Agree or not, this is a huge issue that needs to be discussed.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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Moderating comments a union issue
The Canadian Media Guild is concerned that CBC.ca is outsourcing comment moderation to Pluck.
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Donation seeking non-profits in Toronto
The City of Toronto has a huge list of non-profit agencies accepting donations of computer equipment, clothing, and books.
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Shrink your code
Four ways to help reduce the size of the files delivered from your site.
Topic: Web Technology
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Google Chart API
Simple URL-based schema renders complex charts for up to 50,000 views a day.
Topics: Web Design, Web Technology
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Disposable fuel cells by Bic?
Forget recharging batteries, Bic wants to develop a replaceable fuel cell that can power a cell phone for weeks.
Topic: Technology
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Creating sexy stylesheets
It may not be sexy, but Jina Bolton's advice one building a stable CSS suite is worth following.
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Most reads feeds more reads
The globeandmail.com now offers newsfeeds for its most read and recommended articles -- expect the best (content).
Topic: Online Journalism
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Molly vs. Bill G. on IE8
Molly wonders why Microsoft is being so tight-lipped about IE 8, and Bill promises to look into it.
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Canoe.tv and CBC
Quebecor leverages CBC content to prop up its "interactive" TV attempts. Ahh, the minds hired by PPK shine so bright...
Topics: TV, Web Culture
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Digg using Idée for image checking
The amazing technology developed by Idée is now being used by Digg to check for duplicate images.
Topics: Web Technology, Social Media
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HTML 5 preview
Finally, a decent overview of the next step in the Web's core language.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Geist on Canada's new copyright plan
The proposed changes to the Canadian copyright law could make Canada one of the most restrictive regions in the democratic world.
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Google can't code
"The half-assed HTML these guys grew up with between D&D sessions in suburban basements is considered good enough," Joe Clark writes.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Get rid of text-resizing widgets
Accessibility expert Joe Clark explains why those tools (and, I'd add, others duplicating browser functions) are pointless.
Topics: Accessibility, Usability
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The Email Standards Project
Loath it or love it, HTML email is here to stay and now a group want's to bring support inline with the W3C recommendations.
Topics: Web Standards, Email
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National Post redesign's site
The new look is an tremendous improvement over the previous design, and not offers comments and widgets.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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The economics of online news
Some interesting thoughts about the business of online news from the media owners themselves.
Topics: Online Journalism, Advertising
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Deconstructing Facebook Beacon
Jay Goldman dives deep into the code and provides both an summary and an analysis of the new advertising service.
Topics: Advertising, Social Media
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Globe Docs: Raven and Jason
Wow, this compelling documentary (and the others available) shows The Globe and Mail doesn't just print words on pulp.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Optimal site width
A comprehensive survey of browsing habits suggests more than 80% of people browse at a browser width of 1000 pixels.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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Guardian and NYTimes fight for top slot
Guardian Unlimited squeaked by the nytimes.com to be the top newspaper site in the world.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Firefox 3 new user interface
Alex Faaborg, member of the Firefox UI team, goes into great and interesting detail about the thinking for the browsers new interface.
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Facebook's advertising model
An overview of Facebook's Social Ads and Beacon (I've already unexepctedly encountered the latter).
Topics: Advertising, Social Media
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Text selection improvements in Firefox 3
Selecting (and copying) separate chunks of text at once.
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Introducing the Giant Global Graph
Tim Berners-Lee sets out his idea on the successor to the Internet and World Wide Web platforms.
Topics: Social Media, Web Technology
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Canadian online ad growth to slow
Online ad spending will triple its 2006 value by 2011 in Canada, but year-over-year growth will steadily slow.
Topic: Advertising
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Digg the Candidates
Digg applies its unique approach to covering the U.S. presidential candidates.
Topics: Politics, Online Journalism
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Jeremey Keith on Web design
Another take on the current tension with the Web design community (of which Zeldman's essay is an antidote).
Topics: Web Design, CSS
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Breaking news twittered
Covering big breaking news via Twitter may be more effective than email/SMS blasts.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Responding to colour profiles
Apparently Safari is the only non-beta browser (Firefox 3 will) to correctly support a wide gamut of colour profiles online.
Topics: Browsers, Web Design
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Zeldman on Web design
In fine form, Mr Z. defines Web design a definition so apt, it will become the new standard.
Topic: Web Design
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Freelancing calculator
Struggling to figure out what to charge? This tool may help.
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Amazon's Kindle
The new e-reader tremendously improves on other similar offerings, but the interface and display will still disappoint most people.
Topics: Technology, Books
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Canadian wireless prices becoming rational
In less than five months, the 1GB plan for most carriers has dropped in price by more than $2200, but still nearly double U.S. pricing.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada
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Toronto's light sabre battle
Two-thousand come out to have a Friday night light sabre fight in front of the Royal Ontario Museum
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Canada legally recognizes "responsible journalism"
Essentially, there is a new defense for lawsuits arising from the publication of a well-researched story in the public interest.
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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RSS readers visit more often
Fairly obvious conclusion, but worth saving for evidence when needed.
Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism
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Top 100 indie rock albums
As chosen by Blender and commented on by Stereogum
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Clark's Law
Joe Clark: "The more expensive an online system is, the worse its output is."
Topic: Web Technology
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The science of swarms
Discovering the selfish rules behind swarm behaviour.
Topic: Social Media
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Seven rules of unobtrusive JavaScript
Excellent advice for developing JavaScript in a progressive enhancement way.
Topic: JavaScript
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The new CSS handheld format
Okay not new, but as mentioned in this article, CSS3's media queries are being quickly adopted.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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Citizen journalism bares witness
The video of Tasering of Robert Dziekanski is a demonstration of how effective citizen journalism can be.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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Safari 3 enhancements
Detailing ten new things in the version of Webkit powering Safari 3
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Safari 3 comes to Tiger
Now Mac OS 10.4 users will enjoy a greatly enhanced browser.
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Death knell for online subscriptions
With WSJ.com and FT.com going free, selling news online as a business model has been (wrongly, in my mind) killed.
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The best minds of my generation...
A version of the AP's obituary for Norman Mailer (at The Globe and Mail) mangles the spelling of Allen Ginsberg's name.
Topics: Books, Journalism
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Agile journalism
Mathew Ingram explains how journalism can learn from the agile approach to Web development.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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The new MSNBC.com
One of the biggest, and oldest, online news sites in the U.S. launches its redesign
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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Microsoft licensed Eolas technology
Internet Explorer will once again be able to run plug-ins without requiring the user to "click to activate"
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MSNBC.com does an alpha
A blog from the development/design team at MSNBC.com. Watch this space.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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Google announces "Gphone"
It's not really a phone, but rather a hardware alliance using a mobile platform called Android.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Search Engines
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Ed Greenspon on direction of The Globe and Mail
The editor talks about the new design changes and the goals the company has for the newspaper and Web site.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Home computer sales dropping
...in Japan, which could signal a future North American trend (assuming the mobile space gets worked out).
Topics: Computers, Technology
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Security risk in online ads
Tucson Newspapers detected banner ads that, surreptitiously, tries to install spyware on a readers computer.
Topics: Advertising, Spam/Virus
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Prism builds for Mac & Linux
As the title says the Mozilla attempt to bring the Web to the desktop is now available on non-Windows programs.
Topics: Web Technology, Browsers
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Yahoo vs. Google homepages
Nearly a decade of homepages comparing the two search giants' approaches.
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
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Overview of OpenSocial
Ajaxian aggregates the key documents on OpenSocial.
Topics: Social Media, Search Engines
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Google's Coalition of the Willing
Google nabs all the big (non-Facebook) players in the social media space to be part of its OpenSocial initiative.
Topics: Social Media, Search Engines
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CSS animation
Another non-standard extension makes its way into WebKit. Nice, but this is feeling like '97 again.
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Pownce API arrives
After a buzz-killingly long delay, Pownce releases the first stable API with promises of more enhancements to come.
Topics: Web Technology, Social Media
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SimplePie RSS
A great PHP plug-in that can parse RSS feeds for CodeIdniter among others.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Resources
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Mozilla Labs announces Prism
Toolkit allows Web pages to become desktop applications, without relying on proprietary languages.
Topics: Web Technology, Browsers
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Bell backing out of IPTV
The phone company once again delays its Internet Protocol TV roll-out causing some to wonder whether it well happen at all.
Topics: TV, Web Technology
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Processing the Ontario election
Patrick Dinnen builds a compelling visualization of the 2003 election results.
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Sustainable green Web hosting
The San Fransisco company offers 100% carbon neutral Web hosting service.
Topic: Web Resources
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Canadian iPhone for January 2008?
A Molson Export marketing campaign seems to suggest that but everyone involved is denying it.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada
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Microsoft buys into Facebook
News broke for me on Twitter, still no update on Facebook's news page
Topic: Social Media
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Guardian America's voice
Inigo Thomas introduces Guardian's new American Web site be explaining why its style and writing voice will not be "Americanized"
Topics: Style & Usage, Online Journalism
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LATimes.com tracking fires on Google Maps
Smart, simple way to use Google Maps in breaking news without any developer requests needed.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Mozilla shows some strong numbers
Revenues increased 25% to $66,840,850 on $19,776,193 in expenses for 2006. Remember this is a non-profit pushing open-source technology.
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Nielsen says don't avoid passive writing
Realizing the positively ironic nature of the headline amuses me.
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It's the data, stupid
Deconstruct the hype behind widgets (and there is a lot of hype) and you can find some real truths.
Topics: Web Technology, Social Media
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Parsing the case for online subscriptions
Mathew Ingram reality-checks a study by Matthew Gentzkow that essentially says the making news free online costs millions in lost revenue.
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Making a successful news site
Jay Rosen lays out yet more ideas for making a solid online news site.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Don't click here
A blog for marketing uses sketchy data and test to justify the worth of "click here".
Topics: Usability, Accessibility
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Humanized messages
While watching the Leopard preview, I thought about doing something like this tool JavaScript-based prompts and notices.
Topics: JavaScript, Usability
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The new Newsweek
The redesign of newsweek.com is one of the first mainstream sites I've seen to smartly incorporate Web 2.0 functionality.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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CSS Snapshot
W3C says CSS "standard" enccompasses CSS 2.1, CSS 3 Selectors and Colors, and the CSS Namespaces.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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Handicapping the TTC.ca contract
Joe Clark, undoubtedly the most qualified and informed evaluator of the TTC.ca Web site proposals rates the hopeful firms.
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
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ONA 2007 Winners
Gala event sees the Toronto Star win one online journalism award for Canada.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Paywall lift boosts NYTimes.com's pageviews
Reportedly, less than a month after lifting the paywall on its op-ed section, pageviews doubled.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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NYTimes.com open source
NYTimes.com is starting to release some of its code for the public to play with. Setting a brave new standard.
Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism
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Print circulation now will count regular online traffic
This may be another reason why the NYTimes.com dropped its paid circulation service.
Topics: Newspapers, Subscriptions & Registration
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Panel on the future of news
CBC, as a precursor to the Online News Association's conference, is hosting a panel discussion about the future of news.
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
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Interviews with "networked" journalists
Sixty-two interviews with the attendees of the Networked Journalism Summit.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Toronto Star stop PDF-based afternoon edition
Apparently it wants concentrate more on its Web and mobile presence. There's something wrong with that equation/
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Web Directions North 2008 line-up announced
Amazing line-up for one of North America's best Web conferences.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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The next standard: VWAML?
Could a "Virtual World Avatar Markup Language" be the result of IBM and Second Life plan to free your online persona?
Topics: Web Technology, Social Media
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Wal-Mart bigger than Manhattan
The combined area of Wal-Mart's stores take up more space on Earth than the island of Manhattan.
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Mobile Firefox
Effectively, this kills the Minimo project and promises to bring the Firefox spirit to mobile browsing.
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Ontarians: Get your (2007) vote on
Election day comes to Ontario and the parties are dull, but the referendum on proportional representation offers hope.
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CSS3's grid module
This would be what people are really looking for when making column-based layouts in CSS.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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Out of the ashes of the portal...
...comes the concept of a network of sites. I've seen it fail, but it does have promise.
Topics: Advertising, Web Culture
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Local TV news threatened
As media consolidation continues, CRTC may ignore the decline in local TV news.
Topics: TV, Journalism
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MSNBC buys Newsvine
Being closer to this deal than I would have imagined doesn't prevent me from being surprised; but it does mean I think it will work well.
Topic: Online Journalism
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BarCamp Canada
On November 3rd, BarCampers from across Canada will descend on Montreal.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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IE7 comes to XP
Whether its another admission Vista is doing poorly or not, it's a good thing for Web developers.
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Client-side load balancing counter-point
Some thoughts against client-side load-balancing.
Topic: Web Technology
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Redesigning the Wall Street Journal
Andy Rutledge tries to improve WSJ.com's mess of a homepage.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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Interface design for the mobile Web
Lessons in interface design for mobile devices.
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Client-side load balancing
Digital Web has a great new article on load balancing Web 2.0 apps.
Topic: Web Technology
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Making the popular vote count
Ontario is holding a referendum on changing its election system to one of the best ways to reflect the popular vote: the mixed-member proportional (MMP) system.
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AIR Development Center
Apps created in Adobe's new Web/desktop development platform is a good place to learn what it can do (and how).
Topic: Web Technology
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The pay wall "third way"
FT.com is loosening its pay wall, and letting causal readers view 30 articles a month, for free.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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Secrets of Sidebar
Sidebar Creative, the freelance co-op (a brilliant idea), talk to Digital Web about their process
Topics: Work, Web Design
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Thunderbird gets its own company
Mozilla is creating a new company to better drive the development of its email client.
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The history of Amazon-ian tabs
A new design suggest Amazon might be going back to the past to tame its tabs.
Topics: Web Design, Web Patterns
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Sistr
An early sIFR alternative using Silverlight.
Topic: Web Design
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The Times is free
The New York Times drops is subscription model, and also makes early archives and those from the past decade free to the public.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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Follow the commenter
Gawker Media is letting readings follow particular commenters on its blogs.
Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism
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Doing tabs right
Thirteen guidelines on how to use tabbed navigation.
Topics: Usability, Web Patterns
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More on personalized news
Although the Daily Me isn't yet here, it's not stopping news outlets from experimenting.
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Visual-O-Rama
Poke the tires of Idée's amazing visual search tool (iPod for the bst 5 results).
Topic: Web Technology
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ONA 2007 finalists
CanCon: Two nods for the Toronto Star's "Lost in Migration", one for the CBC's consumer reporting, and one for The Globe and Mail.
Topic: Online Journalism
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The radiated book
Eleven years before Vannevar Bush's seminal essay, Paul Otlet proposed any even more Web-like vision.
Topic: Web Culture
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Canada's venture capital crisis
Mark Evans looks at why investment in Canadian start-ups is dangerously non-existent.
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
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Detecting WebKit script
Don't do it. But if you really must find out which WebKit-based browser is visiting, here's a script for you.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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Le Monde goes 2.0
France's Le Monde has launched an impressive Digg-style news service called "Le Post"
Topic: Online Journalism
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The day the news first stopped
When Princess Diana died, CBC experienced the same traffic surged many sites faced six-years ago today.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Text as design misleading
Sometimes, if important information is overly-designed, and poorly placed, it can get lost.
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Real-time journalism
That this is considered an innovative idea still is shocking, nevertheless it should be repeated until real-time reporting is second-nature.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Beautiful design critique
A Brief Message aims to offer a design opinions in 200-words or less each presented on an "art-directed" Web page.
Topic: Web Design
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Defining (HTML) semantics
John Allsopp offers a comprehensive explanation of what semantic mark-up is and how it works.
Topics: Web Semantics, HTML
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Google News to serve wire articles
AP, AFP, CP, and Reuters are licensing articles to Google News making the service less of an aggregator and more of a provider.
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
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Twelve online news biz tips
Twelve real lessons from online newspapers as editors reveal the successes and failures.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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The death of A1
Jack Shafer talks about how the inside pages of a newspaper are of more value now.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Making online news forget
Clive Thompson riffs on reputation management when it comes to online news.
Topic: Online Journalism
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iPhone unlocked
So will Rogers brings an official one to Canada or will we will Canucks need to hack it?
Topics: VoIP, Technology
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The Mullet Strategy
Let the users play on the secondary pages, but keep the primary ones under in-house control.
Topics: Social Media, Web Culture
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Hockey Night in Canada streamed online
The entire 85-game schedule is to be streamed online and will include pre/post-game shows.
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More electronic editions
Electronic editions of newspaper serve no-one but the circulation figures (possible exception: those like NYTimes Reader)
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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More electronic editions
Electronic editions of newspaper serve no-one but the circulation figures (possible exception: those like NYTimes Reader)
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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On the TTC redesign RFP
Joe Clark analyzes the RFP, with a clarity and intelligence that shows why he deserves to be (but isn't) well paid.
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
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Globeandmail.com and GMaps
The Globe and Mail is now embedding contextual GMap within articles.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Gigapixel images in Firefox
HD View plugin, which allow you to view super-high resolution images, is now available for Firefox
Topics: Browsers, Web Technology
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JQuery for JavaScript coders
Another excellent tutorial from Simon Willison, this time explaining the strengths of jQuery.
Topic: JavaScript
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Web-code syntax
Code standardizing one's coding style improve the Web for the better?
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
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Setting up IMAP
Mini-tutorial for setting up IMAP in Apple Mail
Topic: Spam/Virus
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Google New going comments
Seems Google is experimenting with a way to allow the subjects of a news story to comment on it.
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
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Google New going comments
Seems Google is experimenting with a way to allow the subjects of a news story to comment on it.
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
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Blueprint: a CSS framework
More and less than a template, I think this concept could catch on.
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Stop the mobile browser war
Eric Meyer urges everyone to resist designing mobile Web apps just for the iPhone.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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No more TimesSelect
The New York Times is reported to be ending its online subscription service
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Monkey News
Looks like the folks at Mozilla are looking to make scripting languages like JavaScript and Python a browser plug-in.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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Zunior.com
The digital music store that, with its selection, prices, and DRM free music, puts iTunes to shame.
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CSS 2.1 a Candidate Recommendation
Almost there, one more step and CSS 2.1 is official.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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Uniform Event Model
Making Internet Explorer respect the W3C DOM3 Event recommendations.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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RIP: Checkers
An Albertan computer professor has, after 18 years of computations, had proved checkers is impossible to win.
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More multi-touch from Apple
A collection of multi-touch interfaces proposed by Apple over the years.
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Leaflets
Blue Flavor creates a very clever iPhone gateway and templates for a number of Web apps.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Web Technology
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Introducing iUI
Joe Hewitt explains a new AAjax framework for use in building native feeling iPhone Web apps.
Topics: Web Technology, Phone/VoIP
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Google taking back mash-ups
Google is letting map-based mash-ups reside on its site, in a clever effort to consolidate traffic.
Topic: Search Engines
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2007 Polaris nominees
An overview of the somewhat surprising (yet excellent) nominees for 2007's Polaris Music Prize.
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Wikipedia top information site
Nearly 50 million unique visitors went to the site in May, according to Nielsen//NetRankings, ironically.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Nielsen goes with time spent
Online metrics to be measured by time spent, not page views, but same problems still apply.
Topics: Advertising, Web Culture
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Write articles not blogs
Jakob Nielsen offers some good advice on how to be an expert.
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purple-include
An easy way include "of part of a document into another document by reference" using JavaScript
Topic: JavaScript
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CSS Redundancy Checker
A Ruby-based tool that finds all the CSS selectors not used in the specified HTML files or URLs.
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Google Gadget API for Ajax Developers
Small tutorial on using the Google Gadget's API
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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StartupNorth
A Canadian "TechCrunch" reviewing Canadian startups and hoping to build a community around them
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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Toronto neighbourhood guides
BlogTO releases its neighbourhood guides as for the offline visitor (map included!)
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Low Pro
An extension to the JavaScript Prototype library offering some nice unobtrusive scripting additions.
Topic: JavaScript
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CBC Skypes
Some shows have begun using Skype as an alternative to satellite video feeds
Topics: TV, Web Technology
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CNN frees its video
The formerly Premium Pipeline service is now free, and welcomes user-submitted video
Topics: Online Journalism, TV
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Google frees FeedBurner
Pro version of feed tracker is now available as part of the free, base package
Topic: Web Technology
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Pownce!
From some smart minds comes a very killer Web app.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture
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Mossberg & Pogue: iPhone not hype
The two big American tech reviewers praise the iPhone (which passed the typing test) criticizing only the AT&T network
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Technology
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Visual vocabulary for IA
Includes templates for Visio, OmniGraffle, and OpenOffice
Topics: Web Patterns, Usability
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Superhero entrepreneur trading
Sunir Shah turns profiles of young Canadian tech entrepreneurs into a trading cards series
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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CSS 3 features in Safari 3
Some demos and explanation about which CSS3 features Safari supports (apparently, 2x as many as Firefox)
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WebKit does Firebug
There's a new Web Inspector in the nightly builds of WebKit (Safari) that functions a lot like Firebug -- worth a look.
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Opera Mini 4 beta
Mobile browser offers some impressive features, and can be installed on any mobile device
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Browsers
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IPhone browser specs
Details for building iPhone-friendly Web pages say width is 480px; Web standards are best; and it's QuickTime, not Flash
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Browsers
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IPod-friendly NOW restaurant guide
Ryan Feely and Jakub Labath created a portable version of Toronto restaurant reviews.
Topics: Toronto, General Resource
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Mark Bowden on journalism
Journalists and author of "Black Hawk Down" offers some good ideas on where he thinks journalism should be going.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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CBC.ca undergoes massive redesign
New site is cleaner, with lots of whitespace and a good effort to bring its disparate parts together.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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Facing EnergizeIT
I thought I missed this event, but then I saw David Crow's presentation slides and to the right of WR is...
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
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Introducing WEDJE
Or, “Widget Enabled DOM Javascript Embedding” for embedding little apps on third-party sites
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
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No iPhone for Canada yet
Rogers and Apple seem to be in no rush to bring the latter's mobile device to Canada
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada
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Why the iPhone will be expensive in Canada
Dave Shea nails the problem with Web apps on mobile devices in Canada
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada
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Joe Clark's presentation advice
A number of great tips from a very experienced presenter.
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HTML Entity Character Lookup
Web app and Dashboard widget for suggesting the right entity code based on the character inputted.
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Differences between HTML4 and HTML5
Anne van Kesteren has created a draft list of the differences to be found in the new HTML proposal.
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
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How to introduce new designs
Jared Spool loves how Yahoo Finance encouraged its users to try its new charting services.
Topics: Usability, Web Design
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Collection X
AGO's online art gallery that encourages user submissions and social networking.
Topics: Web Culture, Ontario
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Explode the homepage
Jeff Jarvis on how to radically reinvent the news sites homepage.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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Realtime tracking of Dublin trains
A Google Map mashup tracking Ireland's DART rail service
Topics: Web Technology, Web Technology
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...Joe Clark retires
The Web accessibility expert is done being an expert. We all owe Joe more than we will ever acknowledge.
Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards
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WCAG Samurai Errata published...
The proposal is to be finalized in the coming weeks and uses WCAG 1.0 as a foundation.
Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards
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How to do local right
Simon Willison explains how to make local news profitable.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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globeandmail.com homepage update
The news sites homepage catches up with the business redesign of a few weeks ago and offers far more content.
Topics: Work, Web Design
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Next step: companies on Facebook
Facebook may be opening up to allow companies to offer its services directly to Facebook users.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
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When blogs move the market
A nice overview on "Applegate" and a comment on how we all need to adjust to idea of blogging as journalism.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Browsers and accessibility guidelines
Patrick H. Lauke offers some thoughts on how the Web browsers themselves handle accessibility.
Topics: Browsers, Accessibility
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Sue Gardner leaving CBC.ca
Head of the public broadcaster's Web operations "had achieved what [she] wanted"
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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Banner ads create good feelings
Though click-through rates may be declining, the ads are excellent at improving brand awareness.
Topic: Advertising
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Molly on online community
A honest and insightful essay about online community, and what the JPG fallout really indicates.
Topic: Web Culture
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Preview Firefox 3.0 with forms widgets
Developer release of what could be an official Firefox release with Mac OS X form controls.
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Microsoft eats Crow
David Crow joins the company's Canada arm as a Senior User Experience Advisor.
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Snook supercharges
Another redesign, and this time its Snook with a massive overhaul that is very impressive.
Topic: Web Design
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D. Keith Robinson Reboots
New look and direction all set on a nice grid.
Topic: Web Design
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webtechnology
Preview of My Telegraph
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Plain Old Semantic HTML
It's all about POSH
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Zerbisias on the new Globe
Offers a summary of criticism, but ends on an up note.
Topics: Newspapers, Work
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Coda
What HomeSite coulda been, had HomeSite continued to be developed app, and done so for the Mac.
Topic: Web Technology
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The quasi-new globeandmail.com
Bill Doskoch on the transitional design for the Web site timed to coincide with ReportonBusiness.com
Topics: Work, Web Design
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The new Globe and Mail
Ironically, the new Web site is getting better props.
Topics: Work, Newspapers
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Energy-saving colour palette
Jon Doucette designed a Web colour palette that is designed to use as little energy to display on yr monitor as possible.
Topic: Web Design
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Google AJAX Feed API
Cross-domain RSS mash-ups made possible on the client-side. Where was this nine months ago?!
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
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WPF/E announced as Silverlight
The new plug-in will operate like Flash and QuickTime with the hopes of taking some mind/marketshare from Apple and Adobe.
Topic: Web Technology
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CNMA 2007 Finalists
Typical mix for Canada's new media awards
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
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Harper's redesigns with more meta data
Simply, intuitive, brilliant. And Paul Ford explains why all the tables.
Topics: Web Design, Magazine
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Managing tasks
Great article on handling and responding to "unforeseen projects or tasks that tend to come from nowhere"
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Combine and compress
A technique to reduce HTTP requests by combining multiple CSS or JavaScript calls into one.
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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HTML5 proposed to the W3C
Apple, Mozilla, and Opera are proposing the WHATWG's HTML5 be the starting point for the W3C's new HTML
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Going to London, from Toronto
Google Maps tells you how (with step 26 being key)
Topics: Toronto, Search Engines
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It's what we call the news
JibJab on the state of the news media.
Topic: Journalism
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Toronto's new street "furniture"
Joe Clark has extracted the renderings of the street furniture proposals and posted them on Flickr.
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EyeTrack07
Finally: some hard data to counter the perception people only scane text while reading online.
Topics: Online Journalism, Usability
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Worldmapper
Redrawing the world according a range of economic and social measures
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CBC unleashes more podcasts
Selections include Radio News, World at Six, The House and some podcast-specific offerings
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NADbank 2006 Readership Study
Canada's newspaper readership in the top markets is stable, and more than 17 percent read an online edition.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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State of the (U.S.) news media in 2007
Excellent overview of the journalism industry as it heads into 2007.
Topic: Journalism
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How to save newspapers
Doc Searls offers some smart advice for improving newspapers fortunes online
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Web apps outside the browser
A comprehensive summary of Apollo (and WPF/E) and what it means for Web app developers.
Topics: Web, Technology
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dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide
Brian Fling's ebook on Web development for the mobile world is available as a free download.
Topics: Web Technology, Phone/VoIP
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Dean Edwards' base2.DOM
A JavaScript library that makes sure every browser does the DOM scripting the W3C way.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards
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CakePHP v. CodeIgnitor
Snook does an excellent comparision of the two PHP-based MVCs
Topics: Web, Technology
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Installed fonts
As detected by CSS and JavaScript (this version has a nicer UI than the original)
Topics: JavaScript, CSS
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24 killing the Sun?
It looks like Quebecor's free, daily newspaper mortally is wounding it's paid-circulation tabloid.
Topic: Newspapers
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Management By Optimism
This nails a nasty little trend I've been seeing quite frequently.
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Web-based project tools
An overview of Web-based tools for planning, budgeting, and developing projects.
Topics: Web, General Resource
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Em Calculator
Useful for any CSS developer looking to figure out what 0.625em actual is.
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W3C relaunches HTML
First draft due this summer, final recommendation 2010. Expected adoption: 2015.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Opera wants a VIDEO tag
The browser vendor is proposing a new element for video in HTML5. What OBJECT doesn't work for you?!
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOMs
Three top guns from three top browsers talk DOM in this Yahoo Video.
Topics: Browsers, JavaScript
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Reaction to the new USAToday.com
Bout sums it up
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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Newspapers have 25 years left
More predictions on the death of the newspaper in the face of online news outlets
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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MySpace for finance geeks
Reuters plans on launching a social networking service
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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Prototype/script.aculo.us TextMate bundle
For all those TextMate users who do JavaScript work, this is for you.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
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Mesh 2007 announced
Canada's "Web 2.0" conference has just been announced for this year.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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The Unconference Book
A wiki-to-book project documenting how to do unconferences.
Topics: Web Culture, Social Media
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Flash image replacements
Use to rotate images, add drop shadows, and other effects simply.
Topic: Web Design
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Newspapers better than TV for Web video
The unbiased take on video may help newspapers beat television on the Web.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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The Machine is Us/ing Us
Pretentious, possibly. Illustrative, definitely.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
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Daily You
Smart personalization with tags at Pegasus News
Topic: Online Journalism
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Canadian ISPs send copyright warnings
The Business Software Alliance sent out about 60,000 "notice and notice" e-mails to Canadian internet users last year
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The Complete New Yorker on a hard-drive
Move from eight DVDs to one, fast hard-drive.
Topics: Magazine, Technology
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The Mozilla Manifesto
The Manifesto sets out a vision of the Internet as a piece of infrastructure that is open, accessible and enriches the lives of individual human beings.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture
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Comment on The Economist's letters to the editor
How meta.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Netscape 9 coming
To be released on Windows, Macintosh and Linux, Netscape 9 will be built by Netscape and based on Firefox.
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Cancel WCAG 2.0
Joe Clark's open letter to the W3C asking it to cancel WCAG 2 (he announced it at Web Directions North)
Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards
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Wish list for IE.next
The WaSP presented it's "must-fix" list for IE to Microsoft and the reception was positive.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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Concert calendar
iTunes plug-in that generates a concert calendar for your city based on music in your library
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TTC re-opens RFP for Web site
Bloggers get the previously closed RFP for revamping the TTC Web site reopened.
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
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Adding sound via JavaScript
Clever test to embed audio files using only JavaScript
Topic: JavaScript
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TTC: the better Web way
Smart people often seen at the BarCamp events put together the best proposal yet for a new TTC.ca
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
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.htaccess tutorial
One of the best on this arcane, but powerful area I've found.
Topic: Web Technology
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BBC's 15 Web principles
If everyone followed these (with possible exception of 14), the Web would be much better.
Topics: Usability, Web Design
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Wired changes logo
The Wired flag run in the magazine and online for years, has been tweaked and "improved"
Topics: Magazine, Web Design
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TagMaps mapping in TO
Clever new Web app from Yahoo using Flickr tags to picture a mapped location.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
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Thirty years of newspaper revenues
StatsCan has released a free report analyzing the revenue of flow of newspapers in Canada since
Topics: Newspapers, Canada
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CBC to Canadian indie music fans: pay to listen
Ironically, CBC Radio 3 and Brave New Waves pushed to the for-pay satellite service in effort to attract younger listeners to Radio 2.
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Megabins trashed
Toronto will be saved from the hideous mega garbage bins as they get pulled from the streets in the coming weeks.
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Inside the Gladstone
The Gladstone Hotel had an open-house to showcase its renovated interior and artist-created rooms.
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Artist displacing condos approved
The Ontario Municipal Board has approved the (West Queen West) soul-destroying condos in Toronto's artist/gallery strip.
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Converting to numeric entities in TextMate
Neil Lee asks (and learns) how to get TextMate to use HTML numeric entities instead of the named ones.
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Findory fading
Greg Linden puts Findory on autopilot, thereby ending development on the first major personalization news site.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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National Post's Comment blog
It's sort of like the Guardian's comment is free, but one that is still getting its legs.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Newspapers missing the long tail
The CEO of Topix points out how newspapers do a number of reviews, none of which are effectively exposed to the public.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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CBC and Web history
CBC’s RealTime was the first Canadian entertainment show streamed over the Internet (coincidentally, using the RealAudio network)
Topics: Online Journalism, Radio
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Multi-column support coming to Safari
The latest WebKit build now supports CSS3's multi-column properties.
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Type takes on Indigo
The Globe and Mail profiles one of West Queen West's best little bookstore.
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Reconsidering Star Wars in light of the prequels
You know what, even if it is retcon, it makes a lot of sense.
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Washington Post hosts local bloggers
Invited local bloggers to discuss ideas for creating a network to host neighbourhood specific content.
Topic: Online Journalism
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IE Developer Toolbar getting better
The beta 3 offers better ability to isolate style rules and smarter source view.
Topics: Browsers, Web Design
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CBC.ca GMaps the world's wars
Simple and effective Google Map created by CBC.ca of the world's top 15 conflicts
Topics: Online Journalism, Politics
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Outlook 2007 uses Word to do HTML email
And the HTML/CSS support is abysmal.
Topics: Email, Web Design
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Firefox sidebar on the right
Move the noise of the bookmark/history/Sage reader sidebar from the left to the right of the browsing window.
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Transit route-planning in Toronto
Google Maps mashup shows the best way to get around the city using rail/subway routes.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
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iPhone may become my phone
This could be the device that finally pulls my into the mobile world.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Technology
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Markup as craft
Digital Web Magazine is running an article that outlines how to make your HTML the best it can be
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Examples of 1% participation
Luke Wroblewski collects some examples where a small group of Web users makes most of the content.
Topics: Web Culture, Usability
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Daylife: a new news aggregator
The design, experience, and feel of this new site feels nothing like traditional news aggregators and that's very good.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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BubbleShare sold for $3M
Albert Lai's done it again -- sold a great service for some nice cash.
Topics: Web Culture, Toronto
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Improve the TTC's Web site
The big Toronto blogs are collecting suggestions for improvements to the horrible Web site for the city's transit system.
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
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Today in CBC history
Tod Maffin uses Google's spreadsheets to create a calendar of historical CBC events
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The Toronto transit map
Hands-down, the best map of city-wide transit anywhere.
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New buzzphrase: implicit Web
Could it be that "Web 3.0" is the implicit Web? There's a good argument to be made.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
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BBC vs. what we want
A simple comparison of BBC's top stories and the most read ones.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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WSJ.com's new markets data center
Customizable, Ajax-y, and packed with good data.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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Unboxing the WSJ
A Wall Street Journal reader dissects the new design in a video done in the spirit of the unboxing videos.
Topic: Newspapers
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Google Tips bad
Some think Google has gone too far with its new "tips"
Topic: Search Engines
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HTML5 elements and attributes
A list of the new tags proposed by WHATWG for HTML5
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Adobe documents CSS quirks
New site host a site for sharing and finding tips on CSS issues.
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TheStar.com redesigns
Gets rid of its past CMS in favour of something cleaner (called "TOPS"), has user comments, and short URLs!
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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Firefox and the Acid 2 test
Firefox 3 Alpha 1 now passes the Acid 2 test.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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The first YouTube response
The Globe and Mail has gotten what may be its first YouTube-based reader response to one of its articles.
Topics: Newspapers, Web Culture
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Reaction to Stéphane Dion's win
Globeandmail.com commentors react to the surprise choice for the new leader of the Liberal party.
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Rick Mercer blogging the Liberal convention
Comedian and political animal Rick Mercer observes the Liberals at the Montreal convention.
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CBC goes local, again
The news dep't is refocussing on local news once more.
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Death of newspapers foretold
Jack Shafer explains that the industry new it was in trouble three decades ago.
Topic: Newspapers
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Future of personalized news
An interview with Calvin Tang (Newsvine) about truly personalizing the news
Topic: Online Journalism
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Run IE6 and IE7 on one machine
Microsoft releases a virtual PC image that doesn't require another copy of Windows license to run the two browsers.
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Firefox crop circles in Google Maps
How geeky is this (and, yes, the irony of such a comment is intended)
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Uncovering a Greco-Roman computer
The Antikythera Mechanism was a complex astronomical computing machine from around 100 B.C.E.
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Encoding Flash video
Digital Web has a great tutorial on how to encode Flash video for the Web.
Topic: Web Technology
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Zerbisias has left the building for good
One of Canada's top media critics, and for quite a bit there, a top blogger, has retired her Toronto Star blog.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Old-school TV sponsorship coming back
NBC's nightly news benefited from it, and now a new TV comedy is being phrased as "branded entertainment".
Topics: TV, Advertising
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Newspaper sites till behind the curve
Steve Outing wonders wear the real video, blogs, classifieds, and interactivity is.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Do fix the small stuff
Applying the broken windows theory to the Web can make a big difference.
Topics: Web Design, Web Technology
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Comment hosts not libel?
In California, a judge rules that compensation for libelous comments can't be taken from the Web site hosting them.
Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism
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Toronto's Indoor Playground
A place for "for new start-ups and independent innovators who are looking for a professional yet affordable way to scale their business."
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
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Setting up MySQL on a Mac
Helpful walk through for what really is a simple process
Topics: Computers, Web Technology
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Blogger acquitted
New Brunswicker blogger/journalist was wrongly arrested for obstructing justice.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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License the 2007 Microsoft Office UI
For free, unless you're OpenOffice.
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AjaxCore
A PHP framework that uses Prototype to aid in Ajax development.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
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Win a ticket to Web Directions North
Digital Web Magazine is giving way a free pass to the conference to the creator of the best snowboard design.
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Ontario magazines get digital tax credit
The Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit is available to companies to develop digital extensions of the print versions.
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Improving Firebug
Version 1.0 looks to combine all my most-used extensions into one unbeatable debugging tool.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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How media can change the content
Or sometimes not. Kottke looks at how podcasts still feel like radio talk shows.
Topics: Web Technology, Radio
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The Toronto Typographic Charter
Joe Clark proposes a coherent use of typography for the City of Toronto
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Java is free
The first steps are being taken to make the programming language open-source.
Topic: Web Technology
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With ubiquity comes limitations
Aza Raskin argues the Web 2.0 toolkits may actually be hindering interesting developments online.
Topics: Usability, JavaScript
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Teehan+Lax UX Fund
Can an investment portfolio focused on companies with good user-experience beat the indexes?
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Test your mobile-ility
Test your Web site to see how mobile friend it might be (and love the irony of the TLD used)
Topic: Web Standards
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Re-skinning CBC.ca
Blake Crosby shows, on a CBC blog how to subvert the site's business model
Topics: Web Design, CSS
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Comment on any text block
Jack Slocum has developed a very clever means to comment on any block of text on a page
Topic: Web Design
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IE7 and accessibility
IEBlog explains how the new browser and the popular screen readers behave together.
Topics: Browsers, Accessibility
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Web design is 95% typography -- the follow-up
A follow-up to the responses generated by the first article.
Topic: Web Design
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Web design is 95% typography
Excellent comment on the importance of type in Web design
Topic: Web Design
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State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006
Technorati tracking 57 million blogs, with 100,000 being added each day
Topic: Web Culture
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Google ads on newsprint
Google experimenting with putting its ads in the U.S.'s top newspapers
Topics: Advertising, Newspapers
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Print skills translate online
Poynter released a study that confirms a good journalist is a a good journalist, no matter the medium
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
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Hottest Canadian bands for 2006
As voted on by a about dozens of Canadian music writers, bloggers and radio hosts.
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Page-caching in Firefox
Some features appeared in Firefox 1.5 to help improve caching and load times.
Topics: Browsers, JavaScript
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Wishlist for improvements to the next Internet Explorer
Web standards types are collecting a list of features/fixes for the Internet Explorer team in hopes they might appear in IE.next
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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Parakey: Blake Ross and Joel Hewitt's next big thing?
The curtains has been lifted on a Web operating system build by Firefox's key drivers
Topics: Web Technology, Browsers
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IE7 now a Windows Update
Browser now an automatic update for Windows users (let's hope they accept it)
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Blogger and journalist?
Charged with obstructing justice, Charles LeBlanc claims he covering the event like a journalist for his blog.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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100 million Web sites
Roughly speaking, that's a 100-fold increase in less than a decade.
Topic: Web Technology
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Trying out "Office 2.0"
Carson Systems experiments with non-Microsoft office products and reports on the results
Topics: Computers, Web Technology
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The Django Book
An ambitious plan to document the open-source Web framework online
Topic: Web Technology
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Videotron wants to end net neutrality
The Quebecor-owned cable company for transmission fees to cover digital shipping and handling
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
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PressThink on Harper and the media
A great essay and analysis of the prime minister's fight with the press gallery
Topic: Journalism
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Web attracting more newspaper readers
Canadian newspaper circulation continues to drop while the Web sites visits increase
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Push 2.0
How Web 2.0 is really all about push again, and why it may not be so bad
Topic: Web Technology
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Simply Google Map making
Vitamin offers some instructions on (easily) making a searchable Google Map
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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The highest Scrabble score yet
The story behind Massachusetts carpenter winning score of 830
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Tim Berners-Lee wants to reinvent HTML
The father of the Web responds to criticisms about the W3C and suggests how standards will evolve.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Registration open for Web Directions North
Sign-up up for the Vancouver-based conference and save $200.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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Free screen captures of Web pages
Browsershots will take a image of a Web page in nine browser based on a number of different conditions
Topics: Browsers, Web Resources
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Apollo makes Web apps desktop apps
Adobe's new Apollo software will allow the easy creation of rich Internet applications.
Topics: Web Technology, Computers
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Bell Globemedia sells Workopolis
Essentially, Bell Globemedia sells to its part-owner Canada's biggest job site (and cash cow) for $115 million
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
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Now's Best of Toronto: Technology
BarCamp, BlogTO and Amber MacArthur amongst the picks.
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
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P2P use declining in Canada
According to a industry survey, 7% less Canadians have downloaded music over the past 4 years.
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Getting Real in 3 flavours
PDF, and now HTML or paper
Topic: Web Culture
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Steven Johnson's outside.in
The man behind feed (and a few excellent books) is back in the online content business with a new twist on geo-tagging
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Firefox 2 released
But you knew that already -- so here's Mitchell Baker's thoughts on the release.
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Mesh conference will be back in 2007
Canada's "Web conference" returns in Toronto on May 30 and 31, 2007
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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Another option for the Gardiner
Instead of burying Toronto's urban highway, why not embrace it?
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PaidContent redesigns
The online media news site gets a new, contemporary look.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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What's really happening at Torstar
The Globe and Mail exposes what was behind the dismissal of the Toronto Star's publisher and editor
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
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40 years of Toronto Life
Covers from the past issues of the magazine about Toronto.
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Scouring MySpace
Wired News reporter, Kevin Poulson, has open-sourced his scripts to crawl MySpace looking for sex predators.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Firefox 2 due Oct. 24
Release would make two notable browser releases in a month.
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New badge for Scouts: Copyright
Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area can now earn a badge for preaching the evils of downloading.
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TV Guide to be online only
Canada's TV Guide is closing its print edition to live exclusively online.
Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism
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First IE7 security hole
Less than 24 hours after release, Secunia finds a security breach.
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Earth will survive...
...If ever last one of us disappeared right now.
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Eric Sorensen moves to Global
The longtime CBC reporter is leaving to be Global's Washington bureau chief
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Add Google Gadgets to any Web page
This is could make things interesting.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology
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Multiple, standalone Internet Explorers
Install Internet Explorer 7 as your default browser, then use this package to run IE 3 - IE 6
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Internet Explorer 7 released
Get the looooong awaited new browser Microsoft.
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Roll your own heatmaps
A Ruby+JavaScript app that can generate heatmaps based on the users clicks
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Yahoo's seal of authenticity
Yahoo offers a simple, yet clever way to identify a login screen as one of its own
Topics: Web Technology, Security
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What's in JavaScript 1.7
The Mozilla Developer Center documents the new version of JavaScript shipping in Firefox 2
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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Someone never read Suck!
Torontoist calls out The Globe and Mail for sneaking some non-WCAG friendly alt text into a photo gallery
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
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Robertson's copyright claims upheld
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld Heather Robertson's claim The Globe and Mail wrongfully sold her writings to elecrtonic databases.
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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How CBC.ca makes stories
Blake Crosby explains how articles are served on the CBC Web site
Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism
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State of the news industry from a buyer's view
Richard Bloom talks to an ad buyer for a unique, and insightful take on the Canadian news industry.
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
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Museum blog killed by marketing
The ROM's nascent blog was dead on arrival because, rumour has it, the marketing department didn't get it.
Topics: Web Culture, Ontario
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Interview with Hakon Wium Lie
Opera's CTO offers some insight into the future of the number three browser.
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Tim Hortons meets Google Maps
Need a Tims? Don't know where one is? Use this. (Works for Starbuck, too.)
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Internet Explorer 7 will be here by November
Microsoft says it will be released in October with autoupdates being pushed out weeks later.
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ONA Award winners for 2006
PaidContent reports on the winners of the online journalism awrds for this year.
Topic: Online Journalism
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State of Web development
For 2006 and 2007, Ajax looks to be big.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture
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GlobeSports.com launches
Had a bit of a hand in this site -- which holds a lot of promise.
Topics: Work, Online Journalism
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TTC shirts you could wear
Torontoist's Marc Lostracco quickly designed brilliant some T-shirts inspired by Toronto's transit service.
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Equal height columns in CSS
Clever CSS-based hack to get euqal columns, not sure how extensible it is, but still...
Topics: CSS, Web Design
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Yahoo can authenticate your users
Yahoo is now allowing other sites to use its user IDs for browser-based authentication.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology
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Detecting JavaScript leaks
Designed for Firefox interface developers, Leak Monitor also finds things leaks on the Web.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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Shuttle, space station eclipsing the sun
A spectacular photo taken on September 17.
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Google's big bug
Looks like a tiny bug got caught in the scanning process used form Google Maps.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Culture
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No more Sunshine girl?
Looks like the Toronto Sun wants to drop the bikini-clad institution
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
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Web Directions North
The famed Web conference is coming to Vancouver in February 2007.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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Simon Willison's re-introduction to JavaScript
Great review of the basics offered one a-ha moment: objects and associative arrays are the same thing.
Topic: JavaScript
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Znaimer may get his Way
Toronto is considering naming the strip of Queen West that runs past CITY-TV, between John and Duncan Streets, Moses Znaimer Way.
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Shafer loves the Times Reader
And I admit, it does sound quite enticing. Still not sure it can't be done with some effort on the Web, tho.
