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Dispatches from 2001
Posted on October 18
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Canadian traffic boast
Further example of how misrepresentative Media Metrix’ numbers can be:
Outside
Briefly Noted from October 18, 2001
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10K Apart
Fond memories of the 5K Awards resurface with this modern spin on the idea
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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The music of Scott Pilgrim
Exclaim! explains the audio inspiration for the movie adaption of the graphic novel series
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Goodbye Maury Chaykin
One of my favourite character actors to watch onscreen died on his 61st birthday
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On (Mad) Men
"Enter Don Draper, the last John Wayne among a cultural landscape filled with Jon Gosselins"
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48 Hour Magazine now Longshot
The brazen legal tactics of CBS succeeded in forcing the indie magazine to change its entire brand
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The Web needs editors
Maybe because this is how I started out, it all makes sense to me
Topics: Web Culture, Journalism
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BBC previews new website
Features a cleaner design, bigger video, and more share tools
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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On CSS prefixes
Eric Meyer argues for vendor prefixes, and proposes an improvement to the standardization of CSS
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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On covering protests
Some advice on what to do as a journalists while covering potentially heated protests
Topics: Journalism, Politics
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Chinese movable type
An overview of how movable type was used commercially up until the past few decades
Topic: Typography
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Firefox heatmap
The browser's users demonstrate remarkably consistent use of the various user interface elements
Topics: User Interface, Browsers
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100 top online publishers
Pleased to see msnbc.com make not once, but twice (three times, if you count EveryBlock)
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
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optimizeLegibility extension
Jim Ray creates a simple Safari extension to improve how type is rendered on page
Topics: Browsers, Typography
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Proportional leading, fluid line length
Using msnbc.com's new design to talk about a way to improve typography
Topics: CSS, Typography
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Kettled in at the G20
Reporter on being in a public intersection that became a de facto detention centre
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Photos of G20 in Toronto
Hard to see Toronto looking like this, even if it's a tiny snapshot of what really happened
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Talking to Canadians
Say what you will about about the G20, at least it's got American news outlets looking north
Topics: Journalism, Politics
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G8 police intimidate reporter
Police use extensive security measures on a veteran, accredited journalist trying cover the summit
Topics: Journalism, Politics
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Targetting iPhone 4
A simple CSS-based media query can help improve the design of the high resolution device
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IE9 and HTML5
Third developer preview looks amazing, all the more so to those debugging early IE browsers
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Photography and Canadian law
Comprehensive listing of the laws and how the apply to shooting pictures across Canada
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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RIP Tracy Wright
One of the most interesting actors in Canadian film, television, in theatre is now gone
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Chimp warfare
Fascinating portrait of war as waged by chimpanzees, and possibly, humanity, too
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FEED Magazine back
The archive for one of the most influential online magazines is finally back online
Topic: Online Journalism
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Notes on typography
Seventy years ago, Vanity Fair announced it has toned down its experiment with Modernism
Topics: Typography, Style & Usage
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Typical American expressions
As defined by the U.S. military's own training branch
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A deacade of the globeandmail.com
Canada's national newspaper looks back at 10 years of online news coverage
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Publishing on the iPad
"The iPad ... is a joint venture between editorial, technology and business development"
Topics: Mobile, Online Journalism
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OECD on newspapers
Globally things are looking tough for printed newspapers, but the online business shows promise
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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IE9 best practices
Overview of how, when, and why to use Internet Explorer's compatibility features
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Sliding captcha
Clever UI for filtering robots and a few more tweaks would even make it accessible
Topics: Web Design, Accessibility
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The price of an iPhone
There's a growing unease about the disparity between the manufacturing and marketing of Apple products
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NYTimes.com creating public beta
Beta620 will be a parallel site to test new features for the newspaper's site
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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CBC...beyond repair
Ryerson Review of Journalism publishes another of its trademark critiques, this time on CBC New
Topics: CBC, Journalism
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Scribd as a low-cost mag-app
Magazines looking for an app-like experience should consider the HTML5-based Scribd service
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Le Monde fin?
The uniquely managed French newspaper (journalists have control and veto rights) confronts bankruptcy
Topic: Newspapers
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Mind over mass media
Stephen Pinker in response to all the talk of how the Web is ruining our brains
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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Hyphenation online
A seemingly easy way to justify, and nicely hyphenate, text online
Topics: Typography, CSS
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Locals and Tourists: Seattle
Ferry lines seem to extend the city's borders, locals emphasis the hearts of each neighbourhood
Topics: Seattle, Social Media
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Locals and Tourists: Toronto
The city's tourist stay downtown, but it's amazing to see how photographed Bloor and Queen streets are by locals
Topics: Toronto, Social Media
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News site readability
Great analysis of the design problems with online news sites (and a elegant solution, too)
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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Emerging business strategies
The 3-year deal FiveThirtyEight struck with The New York Times suggests a new business option for micro-content companies
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What Clay Shirky reads
The most surprising thing might be how (Web) mainstream his media diet is
Topics: Web Culture, Journalism
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The last typewriter repairmen
Photo essay on about a waning trade, some good lessons to be found in the index typewriter, too
Topics: Typography, Usability
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Putting links at the end
An another argument that fails to convince me why inline article links are bad
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
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In defence of a newsweekly
An interesting (and almost anonymous) response (via Tumblr) to David Carr's piece about Newsweek's future
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The OCAD 2010 grad show
No one does a design review like Joe Clark, and in Canada, no one (else) does reviews of grad shows
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Performance of conditional comments
Seems like using IE's conditional comments might slow page loads in that browser
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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Top 1000 sites
According to Google; crazy that Microsoft properties have 1.1 billion visitors a month on the top 30
Topics: Web Culture, Advertising
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Wired app a CD-ROM
Apparently, the app is just a series of very big images leaving one to wonder why not HTML?
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Transit etiquette posters
Pseudo-posters for an imaginary civility campaign on Toronto's transit (so agree with the second)
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Newsweek.com redesigns (again)
This time the site goes the minimal approach, possibly inspired by its Tumblr site
Topics: Web Design, Magazine
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Typeface
Overview of an interesting documentary about the Hamilton wood type factory and the legacy of letterpress
Topic: Typography
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Mediagazer leaderboard
Need to stay atop of the media gossip? Here's the top 100 sites to start with
Topic: Journalism
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Ignite Seattle 10
Line-up for the June 14, 2010 edition of the the 5-minute talks in Seattle
Topics: Seattle, Web Culture
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Psychology and UX design
Understanding how the brain, the visual system, memory, and motivation work helps user experience design
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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Inside The Newsroom
Business Insider interviews Andrew Golis about his efforts to bring real news reporting to Yahoo News
Topic: Online Journalism
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Ken Whyte takes on another magazine
Comprehensive analysis about what direction Ken Whyte may be taking Chatelaine
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Let there be life
Officially branded (in its genes) JCVI-syn1.0, this creature - Venter's Frankenbug -- is the first without an ancestor
Topic: Technology
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Dealing with large teams
Good reminders on leading and working on a project with a dozen or more people
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font-face rendering
Nice flow chart showing how and why different browsers and operating systems display type
Topics: Typography, CSS
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Floppy disks, dead by 30
Sony announced its stopping production on once ubiquitous storage medium no known as the "save" icon
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Sports Illustrated HTML5 app
Nice, app-like experience built with just the Web stack (note the radial, menu, too)
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Typekit releases its type loader
Now any site can deliver custom fonts to its audience using the same fallback techniques as Typekit
Topics: Typography, CSS
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Google does Web fonts
Google introduces a new API to embed a narrow selection of Web-friendly fonts
Topics: Typography, CSS
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The web stack?
Proposal for a term covering the front-end Web technology people are erroneously refer to as "HTML5"
Topic: Web Design
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Chris Thorpe on the Guardian API
The Guardian’s “developer advocate” talks a bit about the strategy behind a very open API
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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iPhone app stencils
Quickly wireframe lower-fidelty concept for iPhone apps with these Illustrator files
Topics: Mobile, Web Design
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The mesh Prize
The $40,000 prize aims to help encourage innovative risks in the Canadian digital media industry
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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Typekit design gallery
Collection of sites showcasing type-heavy design using Typekit's fonts
Topics: Typography, Web Design
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The New Typography
MoMA's online collection of for its exhibit on the groundbreaking information design movement
Topics: Typography, Design
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The commonplace book
Steve Johnson delivers another outstanding piece on the presentation of information online
Topics: Web Culture, Subscriptions & Registration
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McLuhan going digital
Excited to hear Scott Boms will be helping publish the first official digital editions of Marshall McLuhan’s work
Topics: Web Culture, Books
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Design patterns for Android
Seven patterns for common UI behaviors on Google's mobile platform
Topics: Mobile, Web Patterns
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Wireframing design ideas
Using wireframes to sketch can help reduce the define the project requirements sooner
Topic: Web Design
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The business of online journalism
In-depth piece profiling a variety of the new online media outlets
Topic: Online Journalism
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OpenFile really crowd sources the news
Reverses typical journalist-to-source relationship in hopes of building a local news service
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Nielsen on the iPad
The always conservative usability pundit shares his first findings about the user interface of iPad apps
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msnbc.com does the iPhone
Vu Nguyen writes about the design thinking behind msnbc.com's new iPhone-optimized site
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Bono and Geldof: editors?
The rock legends are guest editing The Globe and Mail's special Africa issue in advance of the G8/G20 summit
Topics: Newspapers, Music
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Should online journalism abandon Flash?
Although HTML 5 is a viable option in some cases, it's naive to expect Flash to be totally replaced
Topics: Online Journalism, Interactive Journalism
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Scribd in HTML5
Impressive demo could help improve discoverability and accessibility of uploaded documents
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
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No protection for confidential sources
Supreme Court of Canada says journalists can't promise to protect the identity of their sources
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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Reporters barred from Gitmo trial
For three major Canadian news organizations, covering the trial of Omar Khadr just became that much harder
Topics: Journalism, Politics
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Reporting is alive and well
Even if it's used to track down the identity of the person who found the new iPhone in a bar
Topics: Journalism, Mobile
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-moz-any()
Interesting selector proposed by the Mozilla crew that brings group to CSS selectors
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Is a blogger a journalist, part 73
Gizomodo argues the editor who broke the story about the new iPhone is protected from a search warrant
Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile
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State of the Web 2010
Lots of good data on the latest trends in the Web design industry
Topic: Web Design
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1.1 billion served
NPR opened its content to everyone via an API and has solved its distribution problem
Topics: Online Journalism, Radio
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Touch reference guide
A comprehensive blueprint defining the de facto UI conventions for touch devices like the iPhone and Surface
Topics: User Interface, Mobile
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World Bank opens data
Freeing access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development stats
Topics: Online Journalism, Politics
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Facebook links likes
Facebook creates an interesting new dynamic for self-identification by linking "liked" products pages to the person actual profile interests
Topic: Social Media
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CSS raindrop
Nice example of what CSS gradients can do with some minimal code.
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Where Microsoft beats Apple
Joe Clark aims his immeasurable knowledge of type straight at the company loved by designers
Topics: Typography, Computers
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Fonts on the iPhone and iPad
A list of the 22 and 44 fonts natively installed on each respective device
Topics: Mobile, Typography
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Open Parliament
A long overdue service to easily search what was said while the Canadian government was in session
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SFGate.com cartoonists wins Pulitzer
First time an online-only publication has one the prestigious prize for editorial content
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism
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Opera Mini on the iPhone
Apple approves the Opera mobile browser for use on its iPhone and iPod - could Fennec be next?
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Naming the permalink
A nice little rant about how to structure a friendly URL
Topic: Web Technology
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A tale of two Steves
Jobs, not Woz, defines the Apple we know today, and it is all about perfectly closed systems
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Why the iPad is dangerous
Cory Doctrow says the "technical and social infrastructure that accompanies" the iPad suppresses creativity
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Showcase for iPad apps
Many of the early designs for apps seem overly inspired by their analogue counter parts
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IE5 Mac at 10 years
The most influential browser since Mosaic, IE5 Mac set the standard for today's modern browsers
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Atwood in the Twittersphere
Margaret Atwood talks about her introduction to, and subsequent love of, Twitter in a way only she can
Topics: Social Media, Books
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Rent or own typefaces
Good discussion in the comment thread about the best ways to distribute fonts on the Web
Topics: Web Standards, Typography
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TAO of journalism
Proposed seal to highlight journalism that is transparent, accountable, and open
Topic: Journalism
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Video in HTML5
Excellent, and very long, tutorial on a still (to me) questionable element (imagine the equivalent for img)
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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There's a new favourite screen in house
Canadians (and North Americans) are spending more time in online than sitting in front of the TV
Topics: Web Culture, TV
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Redesigning online video
Online video is starting to free itself from the television metaphor
Topics: Web Design, TV
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The real future of Web standards
Zeldman on how open Web protocols could subvert the Big Brother aspects of ubiquitous computing
Topics: Web Standards, Social Media
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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.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Windows Vista UX Guide
The user experience guidelines for Microsoft's new operating system will help shape many people's interface expecations.
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Take an RSS usage survey
Microsoft is doing an quick snapshot of how people use RSS and will be releasing the results to the public on October 20, 2006.
Topics: Web, Technology
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Spacing's Toronto election Blog
Covering the public spacing issues during the run-up to the November 13 election.
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Final Fantasy takes the first Polaris prize
Best pick overall (and no doubt, the best one politically) from a very loaded field.
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Understanding Objects in JavaScript
After all these years, I finally get it.
Topic: JavaScript
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How to design an online product
In this case, Google Calendar, but the steps showed be followed by any online initiative.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Design
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Why monospace is small
Mr. Hyatt tries to explain why monospaced fonts can look smaller than proportional fonts.
Topics: Web Design, Browsers
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globeandmail.com design tweak
Geoff Teehan adjusts the design of globeandmail.com to improve the homepage design.
Topics: Web Design, Work
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Transparent alert messages
A proposal for making alert messages more usable.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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CSS filter for IE7
The short: ":first-child+html" will only target Internet Explorer 7.
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Standalone IE7 RC1
Once again, it's possible to launch a standalone version of Internet Explorer 7
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Toronto Hydro's WiFi now live
Coverage (in the downtown core) is free for the first 6 months, about C$30/month afterwards.
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
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What newspapers really need to do online
Adrian Holovaty offers a large manifesto to which I can only reply: ditto.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Pageviews are Obsolete
The pageview metric is constant issue as we try to develop smarter Web sites that don't rely on fully reloading pages.
Topics: Web Design, Web Technology
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Survey of Internet use by U.S. newspaper
Lots of data on what newspapers are doing online, with some interesting recommendations
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Sawatsky's interview tips
37 Signals summarizes some of John Sawatsky's famous interview advice.
Topic: Journalism
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Fine Young Journalist signs-off
Nothing left to say for the blog tracking how media is trying to attract a younger audience.
Topic: Journalism
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Finalists for 2006 Online Journalism Awards
No Canadian outlets make the cut.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Hoping for new Web core fonts
Jeff Crofts is aksing Apple and Windows to make the new Vista typefaces available on other platforms, too.
Topics: Web Design, Computers
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Toronto Star offers downloadable afternoon edition
Modeled on The Guardian's offering, this is a very smart initiative.
Topic: Newspapers
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Edit this (Wired) story
Wired News has done a story on wikis, in a wiki, and is inviting users to improve it.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Tips for improving JavaScript
Sure it's for targetted for Internet Explorer 7, but the advice is worth listening to no matter the browser.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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More media, less news
Newspapers now get the Internet (and the dollars from it), but they still may not be doing enough.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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The killing of newspapers
The Economist wonders who killed newspapers and offers some analyis on the various suspects.
Topics: Newspapers, Journalism
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Defining the media shift
Mark Glaser breaks down "oldthink" and "newthink" in the media, and — despite the Orwellian-like terms -- offers some good insight
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
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CSS changes in IE7
Comprehensive change-log of all the CSS fixes to be found in Internet Explorer 7.
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Bringing CANVAS to IE
Some JavaScript libraries that bring the improved vector graphic functionality (already in Firefox and Safari) to Internet Explorer
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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Canadians get news online
Of the 61 percent of Canadian households online, most are using it everyday to get their news.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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CBC lock-out spark for blogs
Blogs about the Mother Corp. were almost non-existence until management locked CBC employees out.
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Flash at 10
I still remember encountering the first pages using FutureSplash...
Topics: Web Design, Web Technology
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Documenting Firebug
Everything you need to know to use JavaScript debugger.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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Microsummaries
Firefox 2 will embed updated information into a site bookmark.
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Pricing a Web project
It's a question everyone has asks, and Blue Flavour provides some good answers.
Topics: Work, Web Design
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Yet another Web colour tool
Colors on the Web looks to be much friendlier than most.
Topic: Web Design
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2006 EPpy Awards finalists
Adrian Holovaty's work at the washingtonpost.com helps it score multiple nominations.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Thank you for everything, Jane Jacobs
The woman who defined modern urban planning died today.
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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 out
This is the official, not preview, of Beta 2.
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Preparing for higher resolutions
Dave Hyatt proposes a new way for Web sites to support both high- and low-resolution displays.
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Seasme Street clips
A massive collection of the clips from Seasme Street video clips for perfect to sink into a retro coma with.
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Is top-posting, shudder, the future?
Reading the comments on a post about fighting top-posting seems to suggest that's become the de facto standard.
Topic: Spam/Virus
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Mike D hacks MySpace
Mr. Whitespace discovers how to make the social networking site more aesthetically pleasing.
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
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Scrivs on MySpace
Mr. Whitespace looks at what makes the social networking site so successful.
Topic: Web Culture
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A DVDzine by the kids of Uxbridge
From the snippet I saw (which was used to show how Cokie copied it), it looks pretty good.
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Accessible maps
A nice demonstration on how a accessible, and standards-based map can be built.
Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards
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Invalid Canadian New Media Awards
Joe Clark rages against the lackluster technical quality of a Canada's wannabe Webby∍s.
Topics: Web Standards, Canada
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Holographic disc drives
Very, very cool.
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Bite Size Standards
Quick, standards-based Web development tips.
Topic: Web Standards
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CRTC clears wireless TV
Television on your cellphone will be a wild realm where the CRTC will not tread.
Topics: TV, Phone/VoIP
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Inside the NYTimes.com redesign
The Online Journalism Review does a Q&A with Len Apcar, the editor in chief of NYTimes.com.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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Slashdot analyzes Google's DNA
An insightful discussion about an interesting article on how Google corporate operates.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Culture
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Time's up for Time Canada
The Canadian edition of Time will be produced without any staff working in Canada.
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Envision Torono
An art project that ties Flickr, Google Maps and Toronto together.
Topics: Web Culture, Toronto
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Antique anatomical illustrations
Anatimoia hosts 4,500 full page plates and illustrations created from 1522 to 1867.
Topic: Web Design
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Syndicating blogs
BlogBurst will begin syndicating commentary from 600 bloggers to newspapers.
Topics: Web Culture, Newspapers
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If newspapers are to survive...
The Globe and Mail calls it reimagination, Tim Porter calls it reinvention.
Topics: Newspapers,
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Prototyping Ajax
A guide to how Particletree develops Ajax apps.
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Disney offering TV free on Web
The shows will be available on the Web the morning after they air and will have unskipable commericals. Could work.
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Google killed the clever news headline
Headline style has been slowly altered by the search agents scouring the digital world.
Topics: Online Journalism, Writing
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The New York Times and blogging
The newspapers public editor comments on the ethics around blogging.
Topics: Online Journalism,
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W3C doing XMLHttpRequest
A draft specification from the W3C for the technology that makes Ajax work
Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards
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Toronto Life goes standard
Nice design, and as valid as valid can be for a commercial site.
Topics: Web Standards, Magazine
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Jack Shafer on NYTimes.com
It's so good, he's cancelling his print subscription.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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CSS support in email
GMail is the worst, and HotMail wants the style to be in the body.
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Really desiging for the printed Web page
Mark Boulton demonstrates how a print-friendly style sheet can be more than just an afterthought.
Topics: Web Design, CSS
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The State of Web 2.0
A detailed overview of where Web 2.0 is at, and where it's heading.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
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CSS Naked Day is coming
On April 5th, see the beauty beneath the skin.
Topics: Web Standards, CSS
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Conservatives won't decriminalize marijuana
Reason #451 to dislike the Harper government.
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NYTimes.com redesigns
Although a bit boxy, the design is - on the whole - a brilliant example of how an online newspaper should look.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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30 years of Apple
Wired has a gallery of Apple’s products over the past three decades.
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From DHTML to DOM scripting
Christian Heilmann writes a treatise on why DHTML is not DOM scripting
Topic: JavaScript
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Firebug 0.3 is brilliant
This release officially replaces my belvoed DOM Inspector as the best Web development tool ever.
Topics: Web Resources, Browsers
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On Morrissey’s boycott of Canada
The beautiful irony of comment from a globeandmail.com reader comment sums it all up.
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Face(bubble)book’s $2 billion (bubble) dream.
After looking a gift horse in mouth someone’s going to end up looking like a mule.
Topic: Web Culture
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CNN.com’s new homepage
It’s wide and fairly minimal.
Topic: Web Design
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Municipal election campaigns 2.0
Social Tech Brewing hosts a conference on how to get the next Toronto election more Web-friendly.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
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Alan Rusbridger on newspapers and blogs
The editor of The Guardian opines on what the newspapers need to do to survive.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Harper limiting reporter access
Bill Doskoch summarizes some of the drastic changes the new Prime Minister wants to enforce on the press gallery.
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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The truth behind retouching
Online demo of how retouching makes the real hyperreal.
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Clark on mesh and Web developement in Toronto
I'm friends with Joe and some of the Mesh organizers, but his attacks on the industry in Toronto ring true.
Topics: Web Culture, Toronto
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Hogtown vs. Cowtown
A Torontonian takes a wander through Calgary; while a Calgarian does the same in Toronto.
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Louie Palu in Afghanistan
Palu, an award-winning photographer with The Globe and Mail, documented his time with Canadian military there.
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“Bugzilla” for Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer Feedback is a bug database for the browser that Redmond built. Good on them for doing this.
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Tim Hortons one of Canada’s biggest IPOs
The donut and coffee chain jumps 40% in its market debut.
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Question the globeandmail.com editors
The editors of globeandmail.com do a questions and answer session with the readers.
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
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Mesh — Canada’s Web *.0 conference
Organized by smart people, with presentations by even smarter ones, mesh looks to be a very good conference.
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
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Cascading Style Shirts
Ringer T-shirts created in Canada with Web standard messages.
Topic: Web Standards
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Toronto Star starts tagging
The online news site dips its toes in the tagging waters by letting users post a story to del.icio.us.
Topic: Online Journalism
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1,000 little icons
Silk Icons offer 1,000 nice icons convering nearly every conceivable need.
Topic: Web Design
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Thunderbird gets a calendar (almost)
Lightning 0.1 is the first release of the calendar for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
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Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 released
This developer release showcases the first tentative steps Firefox is taking as it hits 2.0.
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Internet Explorer 7: MIX06 Build
The IEBlog explains what you need to do to get this rendering-engine complete version installed.
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Prime Minister Ashley MacIsaac?
Well, fiddle me timbers, the Cape Breton fiddler insists he’s making a genuine run for the Liberal leadership.
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Google Finance’s stock quote page
Take this page on IBM. Play with it for about thirty seconds. Ask yourself: why would I go anywhere else?
Topic: Search Engines
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Google may map TTC
Service would offer trip times and station locations for the Toronto transit service.
Topics: Toronto, Search Engines
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Shirkey on groups
An older (2003) essay, but an excellent one examining group dynamics online.
Topic: Web Culture
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CSS compressor
CSS Tweak has a nice interface, but if you already use shorthand properties, the savings aren’t great.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
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My First Google Page
The WYSIWYG Web page editor from Google isn’t that bad…
Topics: Search Engines, Web Design
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BarCampTdot (a.k.a., TorCamp 2.0)
The second TorCamp will be taking place May 13 or May 14, 2006. Sign-up now.
Topics: Web Culture, Toronto
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Bubble 2.0
A categorized list of some of the various Web 2.0 products out there.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture
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Tom Waits’ only commerical
For Purina, done in 1981.
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State of the (American) news media for 2006
Third annual report is an incredibly in-depth report on all the major jounalism media.
Topic: Journalism
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More about Internet Explorer 7
The MIX06 release will be the full-fledged Beta 2 with the final version coming in November.
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Split Microsoft to save it
John Battelle makes the case for an oft heard concept: spin-off Microsoft’s non-traditional assets.
Topics: Technology, Search Engines
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PHP reading list
As complied by Big Blue.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Resources
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CSS Development Shortcut
Chris Casciano offers up an HTML document with all the elements ready for your CSS tests.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
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More on Toronto's wireless plans
The downtown WiFi service will be aimed at business and will likely be available to anyone through a monthly subscription.
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
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Current interface designs
Designs include products from both Mircrosoft and Apple.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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Meet Media 2.0
A interesting analysis of the community and media trend as it relates to Web 2.0.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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Google Mars
Google maps the Red Planet.
Topic: Search Engines
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Opera nightly passes Acid2 test
A first for a Windows browsers, but the browser still does weird things.
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The media feeds the dot-com community bubble
Interesting piece using News Corp. and MySpace as a hook for a larger, emerging trend.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Firefox making big money
Looks like Mozilla Corp. (via Firefox) made tens of millions through its Google search.
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Patrick Dinnen on making Toronto wireless
The Wireless Toronto representative shares his feelings about Toronto Hydro’s WiFi plans.
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
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Will the TTC resurrect Mondex?
Toronto’s transit service proposes a new pass that could double as an e-cash-holding smart card.
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Khoi Vinh on Newsvine
The review is generous yet conflicted, and it echoes my reactions to Newsvine, as well.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Compatibility testing JavaScript libraries
Cross-browser, cross-platform support is accepted in mark-up and styles. Now comes scripting.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards
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Blogging at Canadian newspapers
Mark Hamilton looks at the Canadian newspaper blogging effort and finds it lacking.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Best U.S. newspapers that blogs
The Houston Chronicle gets a lot of praise for its extensive blogging efforts.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Spacing on Wireless Toronto
In light of the news about Toronto Hydro’s plan to offer WiFi hotspots, Spacing recommends Wireless Toronto.
Topics: Web Technology, Toronto
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Toronto made wireless
Rumour has it, this fall Toronto Hydro will turn the city’s entire downtown core into a WiFi hotspot.
Topics: Web Technology, Toronto
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Split the Queen line
Spacing thinks breaking the Queen streetcar line into smaller bits would help improve service.
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Extend Firefox Winners
Reveal, Web Developer and Firefox Showcase take top prizes.
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DOM Helper
A hand built editor and DOM explorer for Internet Explorer
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Maybe there is a bubble
Bell Globemedia looking to do an IPO this fall.
Topic: Convergence
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One template, forty layouts
Alessandro Fulciniti launches Layout Gala: 40 CSS-layouts in one template. Superb.
Topics: CSS, Web Design
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One template, forty layouts
Alessandro Fulciniti launches Layout Gala: 40 CSS-layouts in one template. Superb.
Topics: CSS, Web Design
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The IE7 MIX 06 beta release
A new beta of Internet Explroer 7 is apparently being released and MIX06, and possibly on MSDN later. It sounds very good.
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Microsoft updates for Eolas
Internet Explorer gets an unwanted upgrade thanks to the Eolas patent.
Topics: Browsers, Web Patents
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Da Vinci’s autopsy
Nicholas Campbell and Chris Haddock discuss the death of the Da Vinci franchise.
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Pick your own TV channels
The CRTC will allow Canadians to pick-and-choose they channels they want.
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Wall Street Journal on The Globe and Mail
According to The Wall Street Journal, The Globe is being saved by its crazy front pages.
Topic: Newspapers
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Should Canada be in Afghanistan?
Globeandmail.com is hosting an online debate with its readers and MPs from three of the four parties (the gov't opted out).
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Alice is the brains behind CBC
John Doyle savages the CBC’s recent decisions about TV drama.
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How hard is the blogosphere of Leah McLaren?
Bill Doskoch does some digging to see what turned Ms McLaren off blogs.
Topics: Web Culture, Newspapers
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Joe Clark on TorCamp DesignSlam
Joe sums up the events of the first of what I hope will be many DesignSlams.
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The Times breaks the Social Scene
The New York Times profiles Toronto’s band of bands.
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All rich-media patented
U.S. Patent No. 7,000,180 covers all rich-media technologies accessed over the Net. This includes Flash, Java, and Ajax.
Topic: Web Patents
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Dow Jones merging print and online
The publisher of The Wall Street Journal will merge its print and online operations. Now it’s a real trend.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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MS Paint + too much time
Freakin’ impressive hand-drawn MS Paint image.
Topic: Web Culture
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Newspaper grasp for the young
Salon examines the newspaper industry∍s reach the youth demographic.
Topic: Newspapers
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Is CBC stupid!?
Canada’s public broadcaster has cancelled the only two dramas I watch anymore: This is Wonderland and Da Vinci’s City Hall.
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2006 Juno nominees
Arcade Fire’s 2004 album is nominated, but only for a video and songwriting. Other nods are more comfortably mainstream.
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Google buys Measure Map
The less famous Adaptive Path spin-off (the most famous being the term “Ajax”) is now a Google product.
Topic: Search Engines
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The Firefox memory leak
Apparently its a feature, although the memory doesn’t seem to be freed once tabs are closed.
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Camino 1.0 released
The pre-cursor to Firefox has finally hit 1.0.
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Journalism technological evolutions
Jack Shafer comments on how technology has always forced the newspaper industry to evolve, often unwillingly.
Topic: Newspapers
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Reimagining the news
Jeff Jarvis’s series on how to reshape the newspaper.
Topic: Newspapers
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The real news algorithm
Cost vs. price is the real reason behind the media’s decisions when it comes to its products. The Web is no different.
Topic: Newspapers
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Including SVG inline
Steven Garrity explains how to best include Scalable Vector Graphics in a Web page.
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Extend Firefox Contest Finalists
The best extentions for Firefox 1.5. The two I can’t live without are Sage and Web Developer.
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Running a standalone IE7 Beta 2 Preview
Involves making a small batch file, but it seems to make running the new Internet Explorer fine.
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Yahoo! User Interface Library
Nice collection of dynamic events. Perhaps to become the de facto library?
Topic: JavaScript
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Yahoo grades browser support
I like the model of C-, A, and X-support. Been using it for years, but this explains it all.
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Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
Nice patterns established by Yahoo!
Topic: Web Patterns
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Video: “Queen Street Man”
It’s funny #8217;cause it’s true; still no “Spadina Bus”
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Flash Journalism
Behind the loud intro is a wealth of resources for creating multimedia journalism online.
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism Resources
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Q&A on the globeandmail.com’s redesign
Angus Frame, the editor of globeandmail.com, and designer Adrian Norris are taking questions about the new design at 1 p.m. EST, Feb. 7, 2006.
Topics: Web Design, Work
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The Holy Grail of CSS layout
This is a pretty clever solution to the three-column + footer layout test.
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CSS support in IE7
Like the title of the page says, it’s Microsofts record of Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7.
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css-discuss documents IE7
The css-discuss community was set-up a Wiki page to dissect Internet Explorer 7.
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Commenting on the globeandmail.com redesign
Globeandmail.com opens up its popular ocmments feature to let people sound-off on the redesign — so far more than 300 have.
Topics: Web Design, Work
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Mr. Greenspon on redesigning globeandmail.com
The Editor-in-chief of the newspaper introduces the new Web site.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is out
Okay, what do we think?
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He’s not Dave Shea
Ironically, when the CSS Zen Garden launched I (and Doug Bowman, I think) misspelled Shea’s name.
Topics: CSS, Web Culture
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fifth estate online
Watch some of the best documentaries, for free, on the CBC’s fifth estate site
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What we use in our Web pages
Google has analyzed the HTML used to build the Web pages of the world, and the results are quite interesting.
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Google News recommends
Now out of an ridiculously long beta, Google News is now offering recommended news stories.
Topics: Search Engines, Online Journalism
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IE 7 Beta 2 leaked to Web
The latest beta of Internet Explorer (supposedly the one with the fixes) is now in the wild. Officially relase to come?
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Paul Martin resigning as Liberal leader
Let the horse race begin. Will it be Ignatieff, Stronach, a Chrétien-ite?
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NDP make big gains
Looks like the NDP did as good as they were hoping this time, and their members will help keep the Conservatives in check.
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CBC: Conservative minority
Damn, damn, double damn.
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Election 2006 Mashup
Wiki, meets Google Map, meets poll of the Canadian election.
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Results by riding
Track the country, a province, or region by riding during the 2006 Canadian election.
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Track your riding
Follow your riding in the 2006 Canadian election.
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Canadians vote today
And if you need some help picking the best party (ahem, not Conservative) use this tool and discover which party platforms you agree with.
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Firefox Extension: FireBug
FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax.
Topics: Browsers, JavaScript
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Firefox 2.0 Roadmap
Ben Goodger outlines the plans for 2.0, which involve only user-interface enhancements.
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The first failed redesign of 2006?
The Canadian New Media Awards site fails to meet any of Joe Clark’s criteria.
Topic: Web Design
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Enlarging images on the page
Very simple little JavaScript that does exactly whatever I never had the time to build.
Topic: JavaScript
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Safari gets a DOM Inspector
Now if only Opera would follow suit…
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Getting abbreviations right
Years ago I dipped my toes in these waters. Colin Lieberman goes deep.
Topics: HTML, Accessibility
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An expert-based Wikipedia
The Digital Universe feels, in everything, almost a decade late.
Topic: Web Culture
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Peter C. Newman on the Canadian election campaign
His typically colourful analysis argues that our democracy is teetering on the brink.
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JavaScript debugger for Internet Explorer
I am really, really hating IE right now, but this debugger may improve my temperament slightly.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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iWeb makes bad Web code
HTML and CSS output look to be almost as bad as the stuff produced by FrontPage.
Topic: Web Standards
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Behind the myth of newspapers
Michael Kinsley examines newspapers and muses on their future in this excellently written commentary.
Topic: Newspapers
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CBC News to be hip
A logo change and some feature changes are in store Monday on Canada’s public broadcaster to make it more “cool”.
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Eight-year-old reporters?
I know its a PR stunt, but c’mon…
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Irving Layton dead at 93
One of Canada’s greatest 20th century poets has died.
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Online news demographic not the newspaper’s
Some stats to back-up a lot of anecdotal evidence. Those under 40 read online news, not newspapers.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Canvas in IE
Emulating canvas in Internet Explorer.
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Ajax link tracker
This is a very elegant way to do this, a much cheaper than some offerings.
Topic: JavaScript
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Khoi Vinh becoming Design Director for NYTimes.com
His minimal, grid-heavy look could slowly bring some needed improvements to the Grey [sic] Lady’s site.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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Greg Linden’ 2006 predictions
Mainly search related, but still relevant to the general online world.
Topics: Web Culture, Search Engines
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The future of new is people
Hypergene MediaBlog disects tthe latest Niewman Report on citizen journalism.
Topic: Online Journalism
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How to reimagine a newspaper
Although The Globe and Mail got some ribbing about it, this is exactly its doing.
Topic: Newspapers
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Outings’s resolutions for newspapers online
Most Canadian ones are doing one or two, but none are doing all nine, yet.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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E-paper a reality in 2006
I saw a demo of iRex Technologies’ reader (which uses e-Ink) and it is impressive. The business model, though, sucks.
Topic: Technology
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CSS bar graphs
Eric Meyer shows another way to create semantic bar graphs.
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Ingram’s Web 2.0 report card
Overall it gets a C, with eBay seen struggling.
Topic: Web Technology
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Firefox for music
Rob Lord planning potential iTunes-killer to be based on Mozilla
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Media levy to stay
The tax on recordable compact discs and other recordable media will stay until 2006 at least.
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RSS icon
Now that Microsoft has adopted the Mozilla RSS icon, Matt Brett has created a graphic template of it for everyone to use.
Topic: Web Design
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Yahoo! JavaScript Developer Center
Great collection of articles, resources, and tutorials on Yahoo’s products and on JavaScript itself.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Resources
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Designing outside the grid
Molly encourages designers to go beyond the table-inspired grid.
Topics: Web Design, CSS
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CanvasGraph.js
Another nice demo what can be done with the canvas element.
Topic: JavaScript
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thestar.com does GoogleMaps
Not quite ChicagoCrime, but this map of toronto homicides is a start.
Topic: Online Journalism
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thestar.com removes registration
Though I have no love for registration, I can’t see any business reason for doing this other than regrouping after some negative results.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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thestar.com: webmaking
The Toronto Star has launched a ne wblog to speak to its reader about its Web site. Very smart.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Toronto gets some real power
The Ontario government finally allows T-dot to make its own decisions.
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Calling all Canadian Web workers
Kim Seiver and Jay Gilmore have sparked a passionate discussion about creating a Canadian-based Web design conference.
Topics: Web Design, Canada
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Newspapers are mainframes
Interesting comparison of the newspaper business to what has happened to the computer since the mainframe.
Topic: Newspapers
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Improving the blog interface
Luke Wroblewski and Jed Wood come up with intelligent ways to improve the findability of content in blogs.
Topics: Usability, Web Design
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The ultimate Web 2.0 offering
WebTwenny will revolutionize user-focused experiences.
Topic: Web Design
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What CSS browsers support
Covering IE 6, Firefox 1 and 1.5, and Opera 8.5
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The Anatomy of Web Fonts
An comprehensive guide to what makes some fonts better online.
Topic: Web Design
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The Elements of Web Typography
Richard Rutter unveils a beautiful resource about displaying words and letters online.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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Pulitzer will accept online journalism
Online journalism will not compete on par with printed newspapers articles for the first time.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Journalism ethics around the globe
The University of British Columbia’s journalism school launches an ethics watchdog Web site.
Topic: Journalism
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Podcast is the word of the year
No surprise as almost anyone whose anyone is doing it. Bird flu, lifehack, and sudoku were among the runners up.
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E-rights make it to the Supreme Court
Freelance writer Heather Robertson’s case against The Globe and Mail over electronic rights, finally makes it to the Supreme Court.
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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Ajax mistakes
Mistakes in code and design the one can make while building Ajax-based apps.
Topic: JavaScript
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Mobile Web development in Japan
Andreas Bovens argues for Web standards on mobile sites.
Topic: Web Standards
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Community authorship still has hope
The Wikiepedia is under attack; Web 2.0 is under a backlash, but masionneuve argues there is still hope.
Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism
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Mary Meeker on global tech and Net trends
Lots of data crunched into some nice slides. Worth browsing.
Topic: Web Culture
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Eolas patent forces Internet Explorer changes
Microsoft will be changing the way its browser handles embedded multimedia within a few months.
Topics: Browsers, Web Patents
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Where to use DOM scripting
THough Alex Bosworth says Ajax, and means DOM scripts, his advice is solid.
Topic: JavaScript
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Do you prefer Internet Explorer or Firefox?
Rocketboom asks New Yorkers which they prefer — its charming and quirky.
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iPod Zepto
Capable of holding 12 million songs and only one-tenth the size of the head of a needle, the iPod Zepto is a revolution in sound.
Topics: Technology, Music
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WebDrive
WebDrive claims its an FTP client that acts like a virtual drive. Nice.
Topic: Web Technology
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Ingram on the Bell Globemedia deal
Mathew Ingram sounds off on a deal that he feels leaves the company in continued limbo.
Topics: Convergence, Work
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Woodbridge and Torstar are buying Bell Globemedia — I woulda thought the former would have got The Globe, the latter CTV.
Topics: Convergence, Work
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Web design trends for 2006
All of the predictions are safe, although some are a bit dated.
Topic: Web Design
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Ricky Gervais podcasts
The twelve weekly shows will be available through Guardian Unlimited starting December 5.
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Running two versions of Firefox
With Firefox 1.5 out, it’s a bit tricky to run an instance of version 1.0, too. But there is a way (hint: profiles).
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Top 10 JavaScript functions
Use all but the last “bonus” function ” but I may soon.
Topic: JavaScript
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Firefox 1.5 released
And the improvements over version 1.0 are well worth the download.
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Mozilla.com
The commercial site for Mozilla has launched (in time for the 1.5 releases of Firefox)
Topics: Web Design, Browsers
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Tantek on CSS filters and hacks
The man who popularized CSS workarounds sounds-off on the current state of affairs.
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CSS beyond the Web browser
Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie use CSS to create a printed book.
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The 33 hottest bands in Canada
Canada’s music bloggers, writers and critics pick the hottest in 2005. No real surpises, but all quite genuine.
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Really reimagine a newspaper
Ethan Kaplan reimagines a newspaper as a dot-com shop. Radical, but real (for some papers).
Topic: Newspapers
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Really reimagine a newspaper
Ethan Kaplan reimagines a newspaper as a dot-com shop. Radical, but real (for some papers).
Topic: Newspapers
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Web 2.0 Bingo
Buzzword bingo for the new boom.
Topic: Web Culture
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Web 2.0 Checklist
It’s funny ’cause it’s true!
Topic: Web Culture
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Journal of Usability Studies
A peer-reviewed online journal about, well, usability.
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Instant filler text, improved
Now you can specify the number of words or type of elements to be automatically created.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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mashingtonpost.com
Adrian Holovaty makes his mark (again) by open-sourcing the washingtonpost.com site.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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Oh the irony: AOL selling online ads for CBC
Canada’s national broadcaster will enlist America On-Line to become the exclusive seller of advertising to former’s Web site.
Topics: Advertising, Online Journalism
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Realignment: CBS and Google dance
Network may use search engine to distribute video.
Topics: TV, Search Engines
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Paying Visa bill in pennies
Protest over privacy threat results in a nearly 10-metre long credit card statement.
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del.icio.us does command line
A newish feature makes the breadcrumb/page title/navigation bar act like a command line. Not completely intuitive, but works.
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Survey of online journalism skills
The Medill School of Journalism is conducting a brief survey on about the skills that online journalists and producers ought to have.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Is Google the next Wal-Mart?
Robert X. Cringely speculates about the future of Google, its strengths, and why everything may just work out.
Topic: Search Engines
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WebPatterns
John Allsop continues his noble efforts to bring patterns to the wild Web.
Topics: Web Patterns, Web Semantics
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Batelle on a better Boom
John Battelle opines in The New York Times on how to do Web 2.0 right.
Topic: Web Culture
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Tab in a textarea
Tabinta lets Firefox users use the tab key within a textarea.
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Anti-gravity spaceship patented!
No joke: The U.S. Patent Office approved Boris Volfson’s “concept.”
Topic: Web Patents
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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 delayed?
Rumour has it Windows Vista’s Beta 2 is being delayed, meaning the new browser version may be, too.
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Innovation with corporations
Why big companies have a hard time innovating, and how that can be fixed.
Topic: Technology
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CSSVista
In one app, preview and edit CSS in two browsers.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
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Access Copyright: keep your hands off my Web
The non-profit agency that collects royalties on behalf of copyright holders wants to you to pay-to-surf to compensate select copyright holders.
Topics: Copyright, Web Culture
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Digital Think
I think it’s a book supported by a Flash Web site with a McLuhan-follower’s-esque penchant for newspeak. Intersting, though.
Topic: Web Culture
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130,000 actively pay for TimesSelect
In the first two months, the number of people paying to read nytimes.com is huge (even after newspaper subscribers are substracted).
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Newsvine
Mike Davidson’s new project could explode (in a good or bad way) — it has some very smart grounding.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Selling TV episodes
As predicted, more networks are selling old shows on-demand, for cheap. Are you listening, CBC?
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Canada gets m-commerce
The three national wireless service providers have a agreeded to support a standardized system of wireless payments.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada
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The Rabble Podcast Network
Politically progressive webzine rabble.ca launches a hub for like-minded podcasts.
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
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Instant filler text
A clever little script automatically loads up waiting elements with some generic text.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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The Web browser market as a high school party
Maybe it’s jsut funny because I don’t use Opera or maybe it’s perfect satire.
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Use Internet Explorer’s rendering engine in Firefox
Netscape 8 did it first, but now Firefox can, too. With IETab, you can view pages in Firefox the way Internet Explorer would show them.
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Common class and id values
John Allsop crawls the Web and finds some truly odd choices for class and id values.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Sonic Youth gets its gear back
Punk broke in 1991, and eight years later, Sonic Youth’s sound was broken when their equipment was stolen. Now it’s coming back.
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The Ultimate getElementsByClassName
Not sure if it is “the ultimate” but it seems quite comprehensive to me.
Topic: JavaScript
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BBC podcasts with video
This is a smart move, and will be the big trend in media for 2006.
Topics: Web Technology, TV
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The Truth about Internet Explorer 7
Via, via, via, Chris Wilson repsonds bluntly about the expectations around IE 7.
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The new Yahoo! Maps
THe Flash-based map tool is pretty impressive, but the zoom tool (at a certain level) looks like the CN Tower.
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
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Worst breadcrumb ever
The Kingston Whig-Standard’s breadcrumb trail has a nice symmetry. (Thanks Angus)
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CBC Radio 3 plans
The details about the pay-radio satellite service are coming out, as is the little detail about the Web site relaunch being delayed until next year.
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Gomery: Latest developments
Blog-like updates at The Globe and Mail.
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Gomery lays blame
Gomery assigns blame (in Chapter 16 of his first report) to Guité as well as Chrétien, Pelletier and Gagliano. Martin cleared.
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Wan-sabi fundamentals
Yes, it’s another “Eastern philosophy” swallowed by pop culture, but it’s one that reflects Web design’s best practices.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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Brin talks to Battelle
Listen to the half-hour talk which took place during Web 2.0.
Topic: Search Engines
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CBC Radio One going Top 40
To those in charge: CBC Radio is not a commerical enterprise, it is a public broadcaster.
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The Gomery Report coverage
This is it — coverage of a so-called scandal that will be the cause for the next election.
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PM²’s first podcast
Yes, the Prime Minister of Canada is doing a weekly podcast, though they don’t dare call it that. When’s the mash-up appear?
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
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Canadian Web design salaries and rates
Joe Clark opines on a recetn salary survery for Canadian and Torontonian Web folk. Given my experience, the rates seem about right.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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JavaScript libraries
A good overview of the popular Web 2.0 JavaScript libraries (formerly known as DHTML libraries).
Topic: JavaScript
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“I’ve fallen and can’t get up”
CBC president Robert Rabinovitch falls during his Heritage Committee testimony.
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Eye redesigns
For its fourteenth birthday (has it been that long?), Eye gets a full-colour redesign (but the site is awful).
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
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Searching of the “one true layout”
Alex Robinson tackles CSS layouts using floats and builds a totally flexible layout.
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On Montreal and Broken Social Scene
Douglas Bell provides a beautiful takedown of a hilariously misinformed The New York Times review of Broken Social Scene’s latest release.
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Canadian Magazines blog
Yes, a blog about the small, crazy magazine industry in Canada.
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Opera 9 preview
Lots of nice little fixes across the board, with the browser moving closer to the Firefox app behaviour.
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Dean Edward’s addEvent
Don’t really get what’s going on here yet, but others think it rock solid.
Topic: JavaScript
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Saturday Night done, again
The magazine that always seems to die, only to be reborn, is dead again.
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The new “addEvent”
Haven’t played with it at all, but will be using this new way to add events universally.
Topic: JavaScript
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Doing sidenotes
A better solution to presenting footnotes can be easy in CSS.
Topic: Web Design
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Longing for the World Without Web
Some days, I must admit, I agree with Mr. Ford’s stated sentiments.
Topic: Web Culture
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The Globe and Mail a top Google News source
According to survey of Google News, The Globe and Mail is the top Canadian news source, and the 22nd top source overall.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Support the right-of-way for streetcars on St Clair
The Save our St Clair lobby group succeeded in shutting down the construction of a dedicated right-of-way for streetcar; this petition aims to get theproject back-on-track.
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Oh, the irony
IEBlog asks CSS developers to stop using hacks, but the logic seems a bit fuzzy.
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iPod Video
Figures; buy a Nano, and a new iPod comes out. Still not solid on portable video, but buying TV shows for $2 ’ brilliant move that will save movies and TV.
Topics: Technology, TV
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Canada wants to wiretap the Net
A new bill could allow the government to eavesdrop on the email, Net and/or phone use of
more than 8,000 simultaneous interceptions around the clock, every day of the year.
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Does this mean the tide is turning?
This Free iPod banner doesn’t want you to hit the monkey — it invites you to sound of on the war in Iraq.
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Newspapers need their iPod
The music industry benefitted from the iPod — now its the newspaper that needs a hot gadget to help its survival.
Topics: Newspapers, Technology
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The Blooker Prize
The world’s first literary prize devoted to “blooks”: books based on blogs or websites [sic],
says the site.Topics: Books, Web Culture
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New Toronto blog: Paved
Marc Weisblott finally convinced the Toronto Stat to do a real blog covering the city.
Topics: Online Journalism, Friends
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CSS: Specificity Wars
Andy Clarke simplifies CSSselectors for Star Wars fans.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
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The expanding box problem
Another Internet Explorer CSS bug explained and fixed. Posting mainly for its suggestion of word-wrap: break-word.
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Economist redesigns with standards
Also offers a day pass. Interesting stuff.
Topics: Web Design, Web Standards
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CBC back to work Oct. 11
CBC will return in all its beaten glory next Tuesday. Hockey Night in Canada will be back for Saturday, though.
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How to describe Web 2.0
Steven Johnson uses a very apt metaphor to describe the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
Topic: Web Technology
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Yahoo buys Upcoming
Andrew (Waxy) Baio announces Yahoo’s purchase of the event site.
Topic: Search Engines
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Judith Miller freed
Her source (U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff) “voluntarily and personally” released her of her promise of confidentiality.
Topics: Newspapers, U.S.
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Brandless icons for documents
Hate seeing a branded icon for your HTML or MP3 files? Try these.
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Wireless VoIP
Use a “softphone” to transform almost any device into a telephone.
Topic: Phone/VoIP
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A List Apart on columns
Examines how to support CSS3’s multicolumns using JavaScript and how to split lists.
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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In the Hot Zone
Kevin Sites is a one man reporter whose wat coverage has garnered him a lot of well-deserved respect. Now he’s doing it for Yahoo!
Topic: Online Journalism
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2005 Online Journalism Awards Finalists
Good range of nominees, including work by The Globe and Mail’s Stephanie Nolen and Joel Corda.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Solving the onload dilemma
Dean Edwards has crafted a clever way to initialize events before “onload.”
Topic: JavaScript
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PHP Canadian?!
This I did not know: PHP was apparently created by a Canadian (as was Java).
Topics: Web, Technology
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Screen reading and line lengths
Joe Clark digs up some research that says longer may be better.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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Axing journalists
The New York Times is cutting at least 100 journalist from its payroll. This is not the direction the industry should be going (even if we all secretly feel it is).
Topic: Newspapers
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Opera is free
Looks like the trial free registration was no trial. Opera is free, including its newest version, 8.5.
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Improving printed Web pages
Aaron Gustafson riffs on how best to display URLs in a printed Web page.
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Indie Fantasy League
Don’t know which non-music blogger mentioned this, but it was funny then. Pitchfork’s take is scary brillant.
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Truly randomizing a playlist
Dan Goodin explores what random playlists really mean, and whether that’s what we actually want.
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Love the semi-colon
A defence of one of my personal favourite punctuation marks.
Topic: Style & Usage
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Typetester
Marko Dugonjić has built a snazzy online tool for comparing how two differently set types appear online.
Topic: Web Design
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Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Microsoft releases a Web developer toolbar that mimics Chris Pederick’s, and is available for IE 6 and 7.
Topics: Browsers, Web Resources
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Bell, Rogers building wireless network together
Details are a bit sketchy, but it sounds like the two will be creating a WiMax network accessible to the majority of Canadians.
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
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Dose’s Pill
A mob-blog from a free tab? Are they mad, or just buzzing up the same market as Virgin?
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Guardian redesign
The British Guardian unveiled a massive redesign the likes of which may be coming here in the coming years.
Topic: Newspapers
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Editing live Web pages
PPK makes an all the paragraphs on the page editable by transforming them into textareas. Clever and simple.
Topic: JavaScript
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ChicagoCrime.org wins big journalism award
Adrian Holovaty and his ChicagoCrime.org wins $10,000 Batten Award.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Sold! For $2.6 billion to eBay: Skype
The auction site owns PayPal, and just bought skype for a huge sum. VoIP is hot this year.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Web Technology
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The Mayor, the cheque, and the subway
This is why David Miller is the greatest — the mayor of Toronto actually rode the subway back to work carrying a giant promotional cheque.
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Seeking standards-based Web developer
LIke the title says, there’s an opening for a developer in Toronto who breathes Web standards.
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Firefox 1.5 Beta 1
This is a beta beta, but the reviews are pretty solid so far. Developers download and check it out.
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Bell doing VoIP in Toronto
Bell Canada is finally offering VoIP to its Toronto-area customers (like me!). Bah.
Topic: Phone/VoIP
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CanWest spins off papers
As expected, CanWest is turning its newspapers and interactive media into a trust. Missing: the National Post, which spurs further speculation.
Topics: Newspapers, Convergence
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Readers review TIFF films
The Globe and Mail is letting readers submit their reviews of films in the Toronto International Film Festival.
Topics: Movies, Online Journalism
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Rapid Web development with Firefox
Great S5 slideshow explaining how to use Firefox for Web development — includes pointers to some very worthwhile extensions.
Topics: Web Resources, Browsers
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Hell freezes over: Slashdot doing CSS
Just as Firefox is about to render the old site’s horrible HTML properly, Slashdot readies with an all CSS-layout
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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JavaScript Logging
A List Apart publishes a offers a great resource for debugging JavaScript effectively.
Topic: JavaScript
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CanCon in a digital world
Are Canadian content rules even relevant anymore, when every computer gives onregulatable access to a world of music?
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Good writing advice
Some good, and simple, advice about writing; put the ending first.
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New Orleans: Post-Katrina
Google Maps has updated its coverage to include images from the devastated city of New Orleans.
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The new strict mode in IE7
The Internet Explorer development team looks to be adding, wisely, CSS 2.1 support only in strict mode.
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hasLayout explained
Markus Mielke explains what Internet Explorer means when it uses “hasLayout” — quite informative.
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Workopolis redesign
Canada’s biggest job site redesigns and offers a employer/job seeker login option.
Topic: Web Design
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Chatelaine shake-up
Canada’s magazine world is very small, so the story of Kim Pittaway’s resignation from Chatelaine is rich with juicy gossip.
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The 50 Most Toronto
Marc Weisblott is getting a greatest Torontonian-type project underway an wants your help.
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Get yourr Weekly Pass
Finally, the TTC is offering a transferable weekly and monthly pass starting September 1.
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Dean Edwards’ IE7 updated
Version 0.9 is the last feature release before it moves to beta and final.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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Counting FeedBurner
A PHP counter for FeedBurner.
Topic: Web Resources
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Get Opera ad-free
The browser is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is letting people register for an ad-free version (good marketing move, too).
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Andie Barrie and crew returning to airwaves
The former staff of CBC’s Toronto morning show return to the airwaves Labour Day morning.
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CANOE converges again
Sometimes they never learn: PPK tries again to be the master of convergence.
Topics: Convergence, Online Journalism
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The Official Megabin Site!!
The Web imitates life in this unfathanobly awful (official) Web site for Toronto’s new mega garbage bins.
Topics: Web Design, Toronto
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Mark Starowicz on the CBC lockout
The senior executive producer of the CBC Documentary Unit opines on the lockout in a biased, but balanced opinion piece.
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Making a better business magazine
Some advice from Jon Friedman on how to improve on the current host of business magazines. (Canadian Business already does a lot of this.)
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Caught on tape: Finch Avenue collapses!
Nine photos of the massive collapse of Finch Avenue during the recent storm.
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Toronto iPod Subway Maps
Have an iPod that displays photos? Get the map to Toronto’s subway system (or about a dozen others).
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Ninjalicious obit
More details on Jeff Chapman’s life and death. He will be missed.
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Ninjalicious is dead
Ninjalicious , a pioneer of urban exploration, has died. Not sure, not sure when, but he was a underground (pun intended) cultural icon.
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Stealing the Web Developer extension
Some company has completely ripped-off Chris Pederick’s amazingly useful Web Developer extension and is sellingit to Internet Explorer users.
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Google Talk
Scaring Skype, and spreading Gmail to the masses.
Topics: VoIP, Search Engines
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Kottke’s thoughts on a WebOS
He’s put a lot of thought into this and the potential is powerful, but I do have a sense of déjà.
Topic: Web Technology
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Online video news in Canada
The Globe and Mail runs an insightful (if incestuous) article about video online.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Brilliant new A List Apart design
Buzzed-about in pre-launch, this design involved some big, big names: Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, Eric Meyer, Dan Benjamin, Kevin Cornell, and Erin Kissane.
Topic: Web Design
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CBCunplugged
The Tyee has the story about the site the locked-out CBC workers built to keep reporting the news.
Topics: Online Journalism, Radio
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Producing online projects
Designed for the projects with the Virtual Museum Canada, this online guide can be used for developing general online projects, too.
Topic: Web Resources
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Robert A. Moog dies
The man who essentially gave birth to electronica by inventing synthesizers that turned electric currents into sound has died age 71.
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Exploring Internet Explorer
A new MSDN feature that could help give some tips on working with the popular browser.
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WikiPEI
The guys at silverorange muse about governement Web sites, and create a wiki for their home province in the process.
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Single advertisier in New Yorker sparks concern
Jon Friedman applauds the New Yorker’s decision to use Target as its sole advertiser; others moan.
Topics: Magazine, Advertising
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Extending tabindex
Some documentation explaining how tabindex works on every element in Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer.
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Police allowed to spy on Canadians’ Net use
A new law will
give police and national security agencies new powers to eavesdrop on cellphone calls and monitor the Internet activities of Canadians
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Petition to overturn satellite pay radio decisions
The American satellite radio companies got a sweet deal mine Canadians pockets. We, however, got very little in return. Ask PM² to stop it.
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Klymkiw leaving CBC
Slawko Klymkiw, the man behind much of the innovative features on CBC is leaving said Mother Corp.
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Design In-Flight: Web edition
In its previous incarnation, Design In-Flight was a subscription-based PDF magazine. Now it’s been freed into a Web-friendly format.
Topics: Web Design, Subscriptions & Registration
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TTC stations on Google Maps
Ian Stevens puts Toronto’s subway stations on Google Maps.
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New JavaScript Array methods
Gecko 1.8 will provide Firefox’ JavaScript engine with a bunch of new, and helpful, methods for the Array object.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
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Blatchford profile
The Eyeopener has a rare, in-depth profile of fellow alumni, Christie Blatchford.
Topic: Newspapers
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efrank.ca design?
Allegedly, this design (which looks to be very graphic or Flash heavy) shows what the online version of Frank will look like.
Topics: Online Journalism, Magazine
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Cohen broke?!
Maclean’s will be running an article detailing the news that Leonard Cohen is broke.
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xajax: a PHP library for Ajax apps
Touted as the
the easiest way to develop asynchronous Ajax applications with PHP
. Filed for future reference.Topic: JavaScript
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Canadian Net penetration levels
New study shows 73% are connected, as they've been for three years. Sixty-four percent of those have high-speeed access.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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Fucking Caps and Spelling
Canadian journalism’s de facto spelling guide, Caps and Spelling, allows “fuck” to be spelled out.
Topics: Style & Usage, Journalism
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It’s gonne be a good fall
Laying aside it also brings an anniversary and a birthday, there are about a dozen solid Canadian releases coming out.
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Bob Rae on universities
The funding system for Canada's education post-secondary education system is a mess and we need desparately to fix them.
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Thinking behind New York Times newsroom merger
Mark Glaser talks with Martin Nisenholtz and Bill Keller about The New York Times dreams and plans.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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CBC to be silenced
CBC could face a long and ugly strike or lock-out of almost all its employees Monday.
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Survey on Toronto’s new garbage bins
Do you like the new bins? Or do you think they’re a billboard retrofitted to collect our waste. Tell the city what you think.
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Two-colour sIFR
Here’s a clever way to do sIFR as a duotone.
Topic: Web Design
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Young Canadians choose Net
Ditching radio and TV in favour of the Net; CANOE, CBC.ca, and CTV.ca most popular sites for Canadians.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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The 911 on VoIP
Canadian police and security services are worried about the difficulties in tracking VoIP calls.
Topic: Phone/VoIP
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Going dry with DSL
The first in a what I hope will be a series detailing my experience trying to set-up VoIP on with a Sympatico DSL service tied to my phone number.
Topic: Phone/VoIP
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Blogging The Amazing Race
Longtime blogger Cam Barret wants to get on The Amazing Race with his brother and they’re using this site to drum up support.
Topics: TV, Web Culture
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Ajax mistakes
They should be obvious, but best to read these mistakes just in case.
Topics: Usability, JavaScript
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YASNS: O’Reilly Connection
This one’s a developer-centric netwrok for jobs, essentially. If you join, add me as a connection.
Topic: Web Culture
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Introducing the Mozilla Corporation
Speculation is that this taxable entity may have been created, in part, to work with Google (and I’d add Nokia).
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Multiple backgrounds in Safari
Surprisingly, Safari already has the support for multiple backgrounds.
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Blogged coverage of air crash
BlogTO does an great job summarizing the news from the air crash in Toronto.
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
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Toronto plane crash audio
A Web search and some careful listening helped me produce this audio file and annotation of the Toronto air crash today.
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What happened to The 360?
BlogTO looks into why the Legion shut its doors to the Toronto music and the Queen West communities.
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Internet Explorer 7 will support CSS 2
Chris Wilson of the Internet Explorer 7 development team lets us know the next beta will be a lot better — which is very good news.
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Place-shifting television
If I didn’t pull my TV signals from the air, this would be a very cool device.
Topics: TV, Technology
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CSS in Internet Explorer 7
Dave Shea checks for CSS improvements in Internet Explorer 7 and finds few.
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The Elements of (Newspaper) Blogging
The editor of Grenboro’s News & Record posts some smart standards and practices for its blogging journalists.
Topics: Online Journalism, Writing
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Introducing Devmo
The Mozilla Foundation’s follow-up to DevEdge is now, finally, online.
Topic: Web Resources
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Tips to speed your Web pages
Microsoft offers some tips — heretofore unkowne to me — on improving page load times.
Topics: HTML, Web Resources
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No Apple on Microsoft’s Earth
Mistake? Prank? Either way Mircosoft’s Virtual Earth shows a small building where Apple’s sprawling campus should be.
Topic: Web Culture
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Windows glyph characters
A collection of Unicode characters supported on Windows, at least.
Topic: Web Design
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CBC faces strike
CBC employees voted in favour of a strike if they don’t have collective agreement by mid-August.
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Frank returning as online rag
Frank is returning this September and looks to be run by someone named Peter Scott, in Newcastle, Ontario.
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Emergency Greasemonkey update
A temporary patch has been issued to disable a serious security vulnerability in Greasemonkey announced yesterday.
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Accessible Web design tips
very week, a new tip to make one’s site accessible is posted on this consultancy site.
Topic: Accessibility
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DOM Scripting Task Force
The WaSP takes on scripting with its new taskforce (and blog).
Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards
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Django
A(nother) Web framework for rapidly devloping complex, database-driven Web sites — this one by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison.
Topic: Web Technology
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India offshoring to Halifax
A California company’s transferring its development lab to Halifax, after finding it too hard to retian staff in India.
Topics: Technology, Canada
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Dunstan’s goodbye gift
Clever coder and designer Dunstan Orchards packs it in while giving it all away.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Resources
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Toronto news in The Globe and Mail
Toronto-based stories in “Canada’s national newspaper”.
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Atom 1.0
The Atom syndication format has been submitted to Internet Engineering Task Force.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Standards
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“Any key” could be a reality
This mock-up of what a keyboard would look like if it dynamically changed based on what function the keys represent is trés cool.
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Nuking Yonge and Dundas
Eric Meyer’s HYDESim illustrates what a Hiroshima-sized nuclear explosion would do to downtown Toronto.
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Deconstructing citizen journalism
Although I think much of this citizen journalism is hype, Doskoch’s deconstruction of Zerbsias critique of the topic is a worthwhile read.
Topic: Online Journalism
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It’s all gonna break
The Internet Archive is being sued for storing copyrighted material. Expect more like this, soon.
Topic: Web Culture
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Toronto⁏s not next
BlogTO has a gutsy (and fate-tempting) post about why Toronto isn’t likely to be on any terrorist hit list soon. I agree with a lot of the points — after all, we refused to join the war in Iraq.
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Will Canada make Google illegal?
Looks like the new Copyright Act could make everything Google does (including pointing to copyrighted documents) illegal.
Topics: Canada, Search Engines
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This picture is worth 1,000 words
For a change, an online news photo perfectly captures the context of a story, i.e, Ralph Klein’s reaction so same-sex marriage.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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CBSNews.com opens the floodgates
The revamped site will offer free access to 25,000 video clips and encourage users to create their own newscast.
Topics: Online Journalism, TV
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Smooth sliders
Almost three-years old, this is the best dynamic, degradable slider I’ve encountered yet.
Topic: JavaScript
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Check your contrast
A slick little tool for check the accessibility of a colour contrast scheme.
Topic: Accessibility
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News report of London bombings using Google Earth
Although still a bit primative, this is exactly the kind of thing online journalism can do exceptionally well.
Topic: Online Journalism
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WSJ.com: 10 years on the Web
On July 11, 1995, the first Web site of The Wall Street Journal launched.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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Ten years of yellow
CNET turns 10 and celebrates by looking back over the past decade.
Topic: Web Culture
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style vs. className
PPK confirms a JavaScript best practice is also the fastest thing to do.
Topics: JavaScript, CSS
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Sparkline generator
A Web service to generate Edward Tufte’s simple word-sized graphics.
Topic: Web Design
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Google Maps Transparencies
A bit rought, but a very clever way to identify exactly what street your looking at in that satellite photo.
Topics: Usability, Search Engines
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Wikinews shines in the face of tragedy
The citizen journalists at Wikinews have produced an astounding amount of in-depth information about the terrorist attack on London this morning.
Topics: Online Journalism, World
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Don’t click it…
Experimental, “clicks considered harmful” interface that makes a good art project but a troublesome user interface.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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Spacing: The Blog
Toronto’s very own public space activists blog the city.
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Remaking Toronto’s streets
Toronto is trying to harmonize its street specs, and is asking for its citizens’ opinions. Spacing Wire explains.
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AIDS in Africa
A spectacular interactive report by Stephanie Nolen about the crisis, and the hope in Africa.
Topics: World, Online Journalism
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Defending freedom of the press
The New York Times speaks out on Judith Miller’s decision and showcases the part of the American landscape I deeply admire — the passionate support of a free press.
Topic: Journalism
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WaSP and Microsoft: working together
The Web Standards Project … is collaborating with Microsoft to promote Web standards and help developers build standards conformant Web applications.
Topic: Web Standards
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del.icio.us direc.tor
This amazing Ajax app showcases what can be done with valid mark-up and some client-side magic.
Topic: JavaScript
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Newspapers welcome public comments
More and more newspapers moving into the citizne journalsim arena. Though it may not provide the expected revenue boost, it certainly isn’t a bad move.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Curley moves on
LJWorld.com’s cyber-savant is heading to Florida to head the Naples Daily News
Topic: Online Journalism
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The Canadian Series of tees
Evokativ has 12 designs encapsulating Canadian history.
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Does sIFR enable piracy?
Jonathan Snook launches FONTSMACK only to realize distributing fonts in Flash for sIFR may be illegal, and mean sIFR users are violating their font licences, too.
Topic: Web Design
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Internet Explorer hasLayout
Ingo Chao (whose site is simple, and elegant) has dissected the cause of many of IE’s layout problems.
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Where (or where not) to buy marijuana in Chicago
ChicagoCrimes shows a disturbing concentration of arrests around, ironically, Humbolt Park.
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The Art and Science of Web Design @ 5
Veen’s second book, which outlined today’s Web design philisophy when tables and font tags ruled the Web, is now available as free download.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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Karla Holomoka’s letters
The Globe and Mail has published Stephen Williams’ correspondence with the killer — the cuteness her letters is macabrely ironic.
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Topix comes to Canada
The news aggregator entry into Canada should make some media companies worried.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Bad brand brings broken band
Broken Social Scene play Dundas Square courtesy of Toronto Unlimited.
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Nvu 1.0
The Gecko-based Web design program (based on the old Mozilla Composer) has officially hit the 1.0 release and is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
Topics: Web Resources, Web Design
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Google opens maps to all
Google has released an API for its GoogleMaps product, opening the door to a whole bunch of oppurtunities like ChicagoCrime.org.
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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Syntax highlighter
Dean Edwards (again) releases his very borad syntax highlighter for code examples on Web pages.
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Packer packs JavaScript
Dean Edwards has a pretty efficient JavaScript compressor available at his site.
Topic: JavaScript
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Great writing in Steven Johnson profile
Written in the second person (difficult to pull off) the intro sucks you into an enagaging profile review of the author and his work.
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Google Earth freely available
Nathan Weinberg reports on some of the features in this program which once cost a bundle.
Topics: Technology, Search Engines
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Getting rid of the QuickTime pop-up
From a Slashdotter comes a helpful tip for a big pet peeve.
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TO Unlimited? Try TO Ugly
The new brandmark for Toronto is unbelievably awful.
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Wikinvestigative journalism
Sure, the wikitorial failed by using a wiki to collabratively do the grunt work of investigative journalism could be interesting.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Every New Yorker published, coming to DVD
Eight DVDs containing searchable electronic reporductions of every New Yorker from February 1925 to February 2005 will be available in September.
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TSN.ca does RSS
Not sure when they launched it, but its one of the few Canadian mainstream media properties to have RSS.
Topic: Web Technology
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TSN.ca embraces Web standards
Worthy of praise even were it not for my rant a few weeks back!
Topic: Web Standards
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Those eyes…
How that iconic photo of murdrer Karla Holmoka came to pass.
Topic: Journalism
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Rick Mercer’s Blog
If you know the name, visit, elsewise you probably won’t get it.
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Grocery Store Wars
Learn the ways of the Farm from Obi-Wan Cannoli.
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Why the wikitorial failed
Clive Thompson nailss the reason why the L.A. Times wikitorial experiment failed.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Ben Kerr dead at 75
The Toronto busking legend and perennial mayoral candidate has died — and just a few days ago I was wondering how much longer he would be around.
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Yawn…Live 8 in Barrie
Will I be rushing to see Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Great Big Sea, Tom Cochrane, and Motley Crue in Molson Park on Canada Day weekend? No.
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microformats.org
Your one-stop shop for microformat specifications (including such hits as XFN and hCard).
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Writing efficient JavaScript
Although targetted for those writing Greasemonkey-like scripts, it has some good tips for normal scripts.
Topic: JavaScript
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Questioning the satellite radio ruling
Sure for CHUM it may be sour grapes, but the point about a lack of exposure to Canadian music rings true.
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Now even less choice of movie theatres!
Cineplex is buying up the Famous Players movie theatres — can you spell monopoly?
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Rico: an open-source Ajax library
Seems to cover a lot of items designers and developers are starting to need.
Topic: JavaScript
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Publishers to sell books online
Smart move to service a need, but booksellers shouldn’t fear.
Topics: Books, Web Culture
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Universal Child Selector
Eric A. Meyer explains a child selector-type rule that works in Internet Explorer
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Lovin’ Loverboy
A fan makes a tribute video to the greatest rawk song ever!
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CBC.ca to run ads
Should be interesting to see how that goes over with its audience.
Topic: Subscriptions & Registration
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The not-so National Post
The National Post will no longer be delivering printed newspapers to the Rock, only those horrible “e-paper“ ones.
Topic: Newspapers
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Webby winners
The New York Times covers the Webby winners for 2005.
Topic: Web Culture
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Base64 images for Internet Explorer
Dean Edwards comes up for a client side solution to yet another Internet Explorer bug.
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Are they selling me?
Eric Reguly thinks BCE is ready to sell the company I work for, Bell Globemedia.
Topic: Convergence
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Jonathan Dube joins CBC.ca
This is a big coup for the Mother Corp. and should help to reinvigorate the online journalism game in Canada.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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Mac OS X already Intel-compatible
Blimey, that's quite clever. Surprised no one found out Apple’s Mac OS X could run on Intel since day one.
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Pedals and paint
Colourizing Toronto’s abandoned bikes.
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Next steps for JavaScript
Web-Graphics surveys what the future holds for JavaScript.
Topic: JavaScript
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Becoming Deep Throat
Bob Woodward explains how Mark Felt Became “Deep Throat”
Topic: Journalism
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Dot-xxx finally a reality
ICANN approves a worthwhile top-level domain.
Topic: Web Technology
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hCard creator
Tantek has created a quick and easy tool for creating to hCards, and points to an hCalendat and hReview creators.
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Vanity Fair drops the online ball
In its Deep Throat scoop, the magazine forgets about the online-side of things in a very 1998 way.
Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism
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2005 Canadian New Media Award winners
Just in case anyone is interested…
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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Happy 10th, Z
Jeffrey Zeldman, the man who brought “Web standards” to the forefront, celebrates 10 years online.
Topic: Web Culture
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Dave’s markup guide
A little style guide designed to show the basics of semantic markup.
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The rationale for XHTML 2.0
The W3C explain the reasoning behind and the features of XHTML 2.0.
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Internet Explorer support end dates
Most versions of the Microsoft browser will no londer by supported by the company after December 21, 2005.
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Review the latest XHTML 2.0 draft
Anne highlights the changes to the latest draft XHTML 2.0 draft — seems a step backwards…
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Replacing the Vomit Comet
Eye asks what I’ve always wondered, too: why do subways still stop before last call?
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Frank back?
Ms Z. is suggest the gossip magazine is being resurrected by its former owner as an online publication.
Topics: Online Journalism, Magazine
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Details on tabs in Internet Explorer
Essentially, IE 7’s tabs will behave as Firefox and Safari do.
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Salon’s Site Pass success
The online magazine’s revenue model seems to final have got its groove.
Topic: Subscriptions & Registration
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Nokia 770: the Internet tablet
Although I had an early Palm, I only really used it to read downloaded Web sites. This, though, looks to satisfy my needs…
Topic: Technology
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Unistall Netscape 8 says IE team
The Internet Explorer team suggests users uninstall Netscape 8 because of an XML issue.
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Mixtapes, mash-ups, and Creative Commons
The Globe and Mail sums up the current copyright fight in the music fans world.
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Mr. Y2K tolls the bell for copyright
Peter de Jager, former Y2K consultant, argues for micropayments instead.
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Piracy as a sampler menu
Mark Pesce, in Mindjack makes the arguement that piracy can be good for media.
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MySQL tips
More than thirty tips about the database language.
Topic: Web Resources
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Universal layouts
One HTML file to rule them (i.e., CSS designs) all.
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Finder-style menu
I was thinking about doing something like this myself, but once again A List Apart beats me to the punch.
Topic: JavaScript
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Dean Edwards releases IE7 update
The script now corrects almost all of Internet Explorer’s CSS bugs.
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Enter stage left: Kerouac
An unpublished play by Jack Kerouac has been discovered.
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Bias in Google News
Non-traditional news sources seem to tilt Google News’ biases left.
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
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“My” Google a let down
This is personalization circa ’96 with nothing more than a smoother interface. And Canadian info is hard to get.
Topic: Search Engines
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TTC Rider Efficiency Guide
A mini-map to each subway station in the TTC.
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Canadians can be sued by music industry
A Canadian Federal Court of Appeal decision says the industry can sue people who share music online, but it won’t be easy.
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Netflix beats Wal-Mart
Online DVD rental business goes to the little guy.
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Netscape 8 released
The browser that won’t die now has two heads.
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Using hCalendar to fill your calendar
Eric Meyer explains how the microformat can be changed into an iCalendar file.
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Online news survey
Questions are a bit skewed, but worth taking to see the results.
Topic: Online Journalism
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NYTimes.com redesigns story pages
In anticipation of subscription content, the site tweaks it pages and, visually, makes them worse.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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Custom DTDs not so good
Making you own DTD may not be such a good idea after all.
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The New York Times follows The Globe and Mail
…in the sense it will be putting some of its content behind a paywall. However, they are letting paper subscribers in for free — smart.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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Toronto Star blogs and podcasts
Antonia Zerbisas does the media blog thing and John Sakamoto’s Anti-Hit List is part of the podcasts.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Globeandmail.com tweaks its look
Updates includes some changes to the bottom of the homepage (standards-based structure); great improvements to the story bundles; and a Flash-edition of a print-based golf guide.
Topic: Web Design
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On the release of IE7’s user-agent string
Simon Willison has some concerns about the release of IE 7’s user agent string.
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sIFR 2.0 finally released
With this release, the image replacement technique also gets its own page on Mike Davidson’s site.
Topics: Accessibility, Web Design
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Safari passes Acid2
The browser can now claim the one with the best standards support.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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The Globe and Gmail?
Or as the headline of this column speculating on newspapers being bought by dot-com companies suggests, The Google Street Journal.
Topic: Newspapers
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Bye bye RadioShack
In Canada, the RadioShack brand is being replaced by a clunky new name: The Source By Circuit City.
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Layton wins concessions from Martin
The NDP now (almost) hold the balance-of-power.
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Making a newspaper business online
Bill Doskoch offers his insight on The Globe and Mail’s article on the struggle with online newspaper revenue.
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Mapping New York’s literary locales
This idea floated in The New York Times cries for a Google Maps Greasemonkey script.
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Aardvark: a Firefox extension for Web designers
Intuitively highlights elements, and lets you manipulate them on a page.
Topic: Web Design
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Tom Waits upset over commercial
Commercials are an unnatural use of my work,
he said.It’s like having a cow’s udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating.
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Opera CEO takes a bath
Jon S. von Tetzchner has begun what will likley be an uncompleted trans-Atlantic swim.
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Problems wiki-ing the news
True it is still finding it’s legs, but the problems Wikinews is encountering won’t surprise the skeptics.
Topic: Online Journalism
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The blog-friendly U.S. papers
Interesting survey of shows The Wall Street Journal really is ignored by the blogosphere. Maybe someone do a similar survey for Canada…?
Topics: Newspapers, Subscriptions & Registration
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Some IE7 fixes revealed
Chris Wilson says PNG transparency support is in place, as are fixes to a couple of notable CSS bugs.
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Who do you want for Prime Minister?
Based on the 2004 poll (issues which are still true in a 2005/6 election), I scored 100% for Jack Layton Leader, 74% for Gilles Duceppe, 48% for Paul Martin and a whopping 7% for Stephen Harper. Pretty accurate.
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The article page as a news hub
Steve Outing uses globeandmail.com’s phenomenally successful article redesign as a jumping-off point for new ways to navigate a news site.
Topics: Online Journalism, Usability
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HTML 5
A.k.a., Web Applications 1.0, the spec may one day be the future.
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Canadians get number portability
Not a cellphone user, but this good news is something I didn’t think the Canadian telecoms would cave on so quickly.
Topics: Technology, Canada
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Layton’s response to Martin
[E]ducation, training for workers, and the environment are more important than this scandal
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The next 20hz
After a troublesome takeover (and subsequent censorship), the Canadian indie crowd leaves 20hz en masse.
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Steps to better typography
One of the most valuable seminars I had in j-school was in typography and this is a great refresher.
Topic: Web Design
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Google remembers what you searched
Let the privacy nuts sound off, but this is very, very smart of Google.
Topic: Search Engines
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2005 Canadian New Media Awards’ finalists
If this is the cream of new media in Canada, then maybe multimedia CD-ROMs will be the next big thing.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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Online sales quintupled since 2000
Looks like this e-commerce thing has finally caught on in Canada.
Topic: Web Culture
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Finally, transerfable metropasses
In September, Torontonians will be able to share monthly and weekly transit passes.
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Camper Van Beethoven live in the Archive
A slightly inside joke for those that know my dog, for the rest, some good, free music.
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DevEdge resurrection plans
A temporary mirror of this great resource is now online.
Topic: Web Resources
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Opera 8 released
Been playing with the beta for a while, and can safely say this is a very good release.
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Toronto’s Pitchfork?
The guy who “transformed” the El Mo plans to overhaul 20hz
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AP’s plans
Tagging and better online stock data coming from AP.
Topic: Online Journalism
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AP finally realizes it can make money online
Print and broadcast suscribers will now have to pay for the AP feeds they have received free for a decade.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Globe on Firefox
The Globe and Mail presents a glowing overview of Firefox and Thunderbird.
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Go Jack!
Jack Layton offers Paul Martin a shoulder for support.
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How to destroy the Earth
Recipes for obliterating the planet Earth.
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Adobe to buy Macromedia
Holy graphics powerhouse, Batman. Your one-stop monopoly for your pixel pushing needs.
Topic: Web Design
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PPK on Safari 1.3
Peter-Paul Koch notes the bug fixes in the latest Safari upgrade.
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Is this Area 51?
Google Maps may reveal what Mulder and Scully long searched for.
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Google Maps meets craigslist
Nice effective real estate Web app combining the best of both sites.
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Solving transit woes
John Barber advocates downtown tolls to help pay for the expansion of the TTC.
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CAJ awards finalists
Nominees include the late Bill Cameron’s piece on Guantanamo Bay, the Globe’s Louis Palu for photojournalism, and David Akin for his story on the CIBC faxes.
Topic: Journalism
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Asterisk 2
Mr. Robinson redesigns his entire site and produces something I like much better.
Topic: Web Design
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Browsers’ standards support
According to this survey, Opera, surprisingly, comes out on top.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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Yahoo News beta
As promised the new site is coming, and it looks very nice — clean, open, and standards-based.
Topic: Web Design
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Al Gore stealing from ZeD!
His new cable channel (formerly CBC’s NWI) will be heavily based on the “open-source” television show, ZeD.
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The Pugly Awards announced
The tremendous renovation that resulted in the home of Toronto’s 51 Division wins.
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An accidental reprint
Google News gets a story Mark Washburn wrote published in The New York Times.
Topic: Newspapers
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Meetup charging $19/month
At almost $240 a year (U.S. I presume), watch a lot of the little groups whither.
Topic: Web Culture
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The Acid2 test
No browser I’ve seen comes close to rendering it.
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
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2005 Webby nominees
The late CBC Radio 3 is amongst the nominees, as is the Subservient Chicken and BCE.
Topic: Web Culture
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Ryerson Review of Journalism Online relaunches
The Web site I helped launch nine years ago, relaunches.
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Eyeopener at risk
My alma mater’s infamous (and best) school paper, the Eyeopener, is being threatened with “third-party oversight.”
Topic: Newspapers
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TTC strike
The TTC, and much of Toronto, looks like it will be shutdown come Monday.
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On media events…
Russell Smith nails it when he speaks of the media’s reaction to Pope John Paul II’s death (or the Gomery inquiry).
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Google Maps: Power and responsibility
Jeff Veen talks about how Big Brother is us and we best be smart about what we do with the power.
Topic: Web Culture
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Gomery lifts publication ban
Jean Brault’s testimony legally published at globeandmail.com
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Journalism != blogging
Derek Powazek explains (and he being a non-MSMer, may it carry some weight).
Topic: Online Journalism
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Canada the best in “eGovernment”
Tops the U.S. and twenty others; myself, I’m pretty satisifed, too.
Topics: Canada, Web Technology
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Updating Access to Information
Canada’ ATIA needs updating; let’s hope it’s for the better.
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Man am I glad I got my passport
But this kind of move is what makes me reticent to visit the U.S.
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“In the Mood,” ̶Smells Like Teen Spirit” preserved
Songs are among 50 recordings marked for special preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress.
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I work here
Not like I should be surprised, but wow… Google Maps now uses Keyhole’s satellite imagery,
Topic: Search Engines
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The Annotated New York Times
Combining the Times’ RSS feed with comments from the blogosphere. Clever.
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Glowing profile of ExtendMedia
Toronto’s one-time new-media darling (a.k.a., Digital Renaissance) gets the full-treatment at globetechnology.
Topics: Web Culture, Toronto
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All about JavaScript’s closures
New to me, too. Noticed sIFR uses this, so I figured I best get up to speed.
Topic: JavaScript
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Inside Yahoo News
Mark Glaser exposes how the newsie Yahooligans operate.
Topics: Search Engines, Online Journalism
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The future of news
Five pages on how the next generations news consumption habits will change what news is.
Topic: Journalism
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Water on Mars
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day proves it.
Topic: Technology
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Pop-ups begone, part 2
A new extension/patch for Firefox to block all pop-ups — help’em test.
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Gmail: to infinity and beyond
Watch your Gmail limit climb throughout the day to 2GB and beyond.
Topic: Search Engines
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Canadians watch TV…news
Drama and sports watching drops, and young people seem to prefer being online rather than watching television.
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Browser stickies
A rough Web mini-application for creating Post-It-like Notes. Some tweaks could make this very useful.
Topic: JavaScript
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Drag-and-drop sortable lists
This little JavaScript + CSS demonstration could greatly improve Web applications.
Topic: JavaScript
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Using CSS columns
One of the developers Gecko#8217;s implementation explains the ins and outs of columnized layouts.
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Interactive graffiti
Art school-esque experiment “blurs the boundaries of the Web and real life.”
Topic: Web Culture
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What happened to “way new journalism”
Ten years on, online journalism hasn’t reached its imagined potential.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Ink-stained wretch swears off newspapers
An ABC columnists talks about why he doesn’t miss the printed newspaper.
Topic: Newspapers
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Dallaire, Eggleton senators
Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) Roméo Dallaire, former T.O. mayor Art Eggleton as well as a few Conservatives become PM²’s first
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Canada’s new copyright laws revealed
From a brief glance, it looks like the act will tone-down a lot of the rhetoric suggested by the Canadian Heritage Standing Committee.
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NowPublic tackles citizen journalism
The spawling site has an idea that seems to difficult to implement.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Firefox 1.0.2 released
The Firefox browser’s security update is released.
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Creative Commons search engine
Yahoo has a version of its search that targets Creative Commons licensed material.
Topic: Search Engines
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Slashdot going XHTML/CSS?!
Could it be, the geek news behometh is entering the standards-age?
Topic: Web Standards
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Speeding up XML
The W3C considers making a binary XML format.
Topic: Web Standards
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Thunderbird 1.0.2 released
This is a minor update, covering security fixes.
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Tagging as the new world order
An analysis of how Yahoo’s Flickr purchase may change the whole search game.
Topic: Search Engines
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Kofi Annan on fighting terrorism
The Secretary-General of the United Nations explains the five Ds.
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Sharing your open-licensed media online
OurMedia will host open-licensed videos, music, photos, and other rich media content for you.
Topic: Web Culture
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Greasemonkey script: Google Suggest
Only works on Google.com, but a great enhancement from Adrian Holovaty.
Topics: Search Engines, Browsers
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Flickr goes Yahoo!
The little Vancity Web app goes bigtime.
Topic: Web Technology
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Why Micorsoft can⁏t support standards
Dean Edwards explains that the problem lies within the Trident rendering engine.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
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A “Candidate Recommendation” is the recommendation
Hixie explains the changed status of recommendation titles.
Topic: Web Standards
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CSS 2.1 not part of IE7
Rumours are flying, but it looks like IE 7 wil lcontinue to eb the only major browser not supporting CSS 2.1.
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New typefaces from Microsoft
Some very nice serif, sans-serif, and monospaced faces to be released in 2006.
Topic: Web Design
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Google X
An homage to MacOSX’s Dock.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Design
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The Acid2 Test
Ensuring IE7 does what it’s supposed to.
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Newspapapers stuggle with pay models
The New York Times has a pretty open anyalysis of the problems facing newspapers in print and online.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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SXSW presentation: Emergent Semantics
http://complexspiral.com/events/archive/2005/sxsw/
Topic: Web Resources
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Firefox extension: HTML Validator
Go now, Web developer, and download this wonderous tool.
Topics: Web Resources, Browsers
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Bill Cameron: 1943 – 2005
CBC Archives remebers was one of my favourite, and most personable anchors.
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Microsoft does del.icio.us
Microsoft developers play some more with a social bookmark manager.
Topic: Web Technology
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Microsoft does Bloglines
Microsoft developers play a Web-based RSS reader. Interesting...
Topic: Web Technology
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Banning postering
Toronto, bizarrely, is on the way to bar postering in the city.
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The Globe and Mail has RSS!
A year-long lobbying effort has paid off: the Globe has finally launched a pretty decent RSS service.
Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism
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The Billionaires Club
Theres more of them and generally, their even richer, Forbes finds.
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Mozilla 1.8 will never be
The Mozilla Suite transition plan will surely ruffle some feathers, but it makes sense (this from a longtime Suite defender).
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Slashdot on Net libel⁏s global reach
Yes, I submitted it (only my second ever story), but hey, it made it to the frontpage — and they slam my grammar!
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
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Customized Google News
Reorder the pages or add your own section.
Topic: Search Engines
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J-school launches online magazine
The publication will be a show case for the school’s online-journalists-in-training.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Wikis on journalism skills
The Online Journalism Review launched a series of wikies targetted to non-professional journalists.
Topic: Journalism Resources
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Net libel’s global reach
Media appeal an Ontario court ruling that could
threaten free speech and [the] development of the Internet
Topics: Web Culture, Ontario
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Takedown: TO-style
Toronto cops drive into a knife-welding assailant (Windows Media video).
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Battelle on Google Desktop Search
Comments on what really makes the search tool shine (three letters: A-P-I)
Topic: Search Engines
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Google Desktop Search for Thunderbird
Google’s (non-beta) desktop search tool handles Thunderbird — welcome back Google.
Topic: Search Engines
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Netscape 8.0 Beta released
The franken-browser has its first public beta.
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Toronto panorama
This amazing photograph shows all of Toronto as seen from the top of the CN Tower.
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The Pugsly Awards
Recognizing, with Flash(!), the best and worst of Toronto’s urban landscape.
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Desktop search for Thunderbird
Copernic’s desktop search tool now handles Thunderbird — so long Google.
Topic: Search Engines
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Watch Battlestar Galactica online
The entire, commercial-free first episode is available online.
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Yahoo @ 10
The original eccentric search service turns ten today.
Topic: Search Engines
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Jef Raskin dies
The man how developed the Mac interface has died.
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Newspaper runs embedded text ads
The New York Post IntelliTXT ads test go public.
Topics: Advertising, Newspapers
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WSJ faces irrelevance, too
Adam Penenberg (weakly) argues Wall Street Journal needs drop subscription.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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Number portability coming to Canada
Finally mobile customers will be able to dump their carriers but keep their numbers
Topics: Technology, Canada
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$9/hour for Wifi!?
Second Cup and Rogers will charge 15¢ a minute in great this infobahn robbery.
Topic: Web Technology
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Canada blocks Firefox users?
Good news: Canada wants its citizens to connect with federal departments online in a secure and a consistent manner. Bad news: only Internet Explorer on Windows seems to be supported.
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Thomson offers $1.5B for Bell Globemedia
This is either a low-ball offer for Bell Globemedia, or a rich offer for The Globe and Mail.
Topic: Newspapers
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XForms vs. Web Forms
A in-depth explanation of the fight to find the best way to mark-up forms.
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Codename: Ajax
JJG describes the new Web application interface model.
Topic: Web Technology
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The Doctor is dead
Hunter S. Thompson has ended his gonzo life.
Topic: Journalism
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Wikinews design contest
Could be worth watching to see what the collective consciousness of the Web comes up with.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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New Washintonpost.com homepage
Clean look, and notably, the left navigation is gone in place of the top nav.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Interview with Salon’s new editor
Founding editor David Talbot has stepped-down, and Joan Walsh explains what she’ll bring the magazine.
Topic: Online Journalism
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No nostalgia for us, we’re Gen-X
Nice little piece from The New York Times on eighties “nostalgia”
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We are the bunny-earred
Over-the-air TV is the new cool.
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XMLHttpRequest tutorial
The basics on building very dynamic Web interfaces.
Topic: JavaScript
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RSS big driver for NYTimes.com
The NYTimes.com site got more than 4.5 million page views in Janaury from RSS.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Google maps
Consider this the first wave. Mix this, keyhole, and local (or news) and you got one fine mapping tool. (U.S. only.)
Topic: Search Engines
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Watch Chrétien testify
Canada’s ousted PM defends his role in the sponsorship inquiry.
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The New York Times: “Smaller Than a Pushpin, More Powerful Than a PC”
Crazy-small 64-bit processor could reshape the home computing landscape.
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CTV wins Olympic broadcast rights
CBC loses big: the Vancouver Olympic broadcast rights go to CTV-Rogers
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Standards-based phishing exploit
This one is nasty, and affects standard-compliant browsers but leaves IE unaffected.
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O’Reilly’s Web design books online
The full-text of early classics on HTML, CSS, and IA.
Topic: Web Resources
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SXSW’s 2005 Web Awards Finalists
Finalists include Digital Web Magazine, a redesign I worked on.
Topic: Web Design
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Picking a pope
A old, yet timely Slate article on the process involved in selecting the next Catholic pope.di
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The Esquire covers
Watch the magazine go from cutesy to classy to trashy.
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Creating a custom DTD
A List Apart reveals how to create and validate a custom DTD.
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Rosen questions Akin
David Akin reveals how blogging has changed his journalism.
Topic: Journalism
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MSN picks the “worst browser”
Guess which browser Microsoft thinks is the worst?
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Interview with the other Craig
Craigslist founder ponders citizen journalism and more.
Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism
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MSN redesigns
The very, very dull page at least uses a semantic, CSS-based layout/
Topic: Web Design
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Media Bistro redesigns
Now includes five Denton-fighting blogs.
Topic: Web Design
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CBC.ca Arts redesigns
Stylish standards-based, CSS layout holds the promise of good content.
Topic: Web Design
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Blogs won’t change the world
Jack Shafer says what the open-source journalists/bloggers don’t want to hear.
Topic: Online Journalism
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RSS recommendation reader
This Web-based RSS aggregator also acts as a simple recommendation service.
Topic: Web Technology
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Best American online newspapers
The Newspaper Association of America just released its 2005 Digital Edge Award Finalists.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Giving them what they want
A List Apart offers some ideas for pleasing Web site visitors.
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Goodger goes to Google
Google will fund his Firefox work. GBrowser = Goodger?
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Scrivs sells CSS Vault
The price is cited, in his enigmatic way, as $XX,XXX. If true, that’s a hefy bit of cash for a gallery site.
Topics: Web Culture, CSS
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People’s search behaviour
Pew asks people how they feel about and use search engines.
Topic: Search Engines
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Canadian New Media Awards return
No mention on the site, but an email suggested they were looking for nominations.
Topic: Web Culture
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Amazon.ca opens to Web services
The Canada site releases its API.
Topic: Web Technology
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Akin to the Hill
Long-time technology reporter moves to CTV’s Parliamentary bureau.
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GeoCities or CSS Zen Garden?
Scarily enough, it’s all real…
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Quoting in Canada
Joe Clark covers everything you need to know about citing other work in Canada online.
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Gillmor on the end of objectivity
Dan Gillmor posts a draft of an essay on the irrelevance of objectivity in journalism.
Topic: Journalism
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Ta-da: a to-do list
37signals release a sub-component of Basecamp: a Web-based to-do list that’s brilliantly simple.
Topic: Web Technology
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Carnivore dies
American law enforcement has abadoned its Internet surveillance technology.
Topic: Web Technology
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News and blogger comment
This news aggregator appends blogger’s comments about each story.
Topic: Online Journalism
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rel="nofollow"
Will this end up killing the notion of a reputation engine? Not sure if the ends justify the means here.
Topic: Search Engines
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Choosing the Word of the Year
A story only a language obsessive could enjoy.
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Copyright killing culture
The Globe and Mail has a provocative article on how copyright is destroying documentaries.
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Musical pablum
Using AI, music labels are now able to predict the next charting-topping track.
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Slashdot on the future of online news
The uber-geeks riff on what the future of news on the Internet will be like.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Real-world accessibility guidelines
A fantastic collection of guidelines built after watching people who actually work with screen readers regularly.
Topic: Accessibility
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Anti-Hit List Star-bound?
Seems like my former co-worker is going to our former competition. Good on, Sakamoto.
Topics: Newspapers, Music
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The 2004 Canadian Blog Award winners
Like a high school election, it’s all about popularity.
Topic: Web Culture
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Bill Doskoch on Canada’'s first maga-paper
The Sunday Toronto Star rejigged itself to be more like a magazine.
Topic: Newspapers
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Find contributions to Canadian political parties
Find out who your boss (or family) is giving to.
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The future of the Internet
Experts tell Pew what they thik the Net will be like for us in a decade.
Topic: Web Culture
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Village Voice embraces online
Weekly print publication now publishing daily online.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Editor of Maclean's resigns
Anthony Wilson-Smith decides to leave the magazine after a series of high-level shake-ups.
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How online newspapers are remaking themselves
Online newspapers are reshaping themselves to better accomadate blogs and RSS.
Topic: Online Journalism
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A National Web library
Michael Geist proposes Canada be
the first country in the world to create a comprehensive national digital library
.Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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The creators of CSS
A mini-history lesson on the origins CSS
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Zed now open source
The software built to power CBC TV’s great, late night show is now open source.
Topics: Web Technology, TV
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Steps to open online newspapers
Greensboro News & Record gets some great advice on how to make its Web site more “open source”
Topic: Online Journalism
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Technorati tracks keywords
The innovation improves Technorati’s service tremendously.
Topic: Web Technology
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Complex table inspector
Ever since I diteched tables for layout, I’ve tried to make true tables as accessible as possible. This bookmarklet exposes the metadata of those tables.
Topic: Web Resources
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Wikipedia defence
Clay Shirky rebuts anti-elitism criticism.
Topic: Web Culture
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CanWesties paid to advertise
Employees at CanWest get up to $3,600 a year to turn their car into a moving ad.
Topics: Advertising, TV
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Wikipedia criticism
The “anti-elitism” issues reflect my concerns about citizen journalism.
Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism
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2004 Canadian blog awards
Most of those I don’t even know, but hey…
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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The 2005 colour forecast
Purples, browns, desaturateds, and trippy tints.
Topic: Web Design
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BLC’s Year in Review
Better Living Centre reviews the media year that was.
Topics: Toronto, Journalism
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Banished words for 2005
Includes election jargon, “blog,” and “safe and effective.”
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Installing Acrobat Reader 7
Asa Dotzler explains how to best to install this speed-increasing upgrade.
Topic: Technology
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Chapters blocks validator
Joe Clark discovers the book store’s Web site blocks any attempts to balidate its mangled code.
Topic: Web Standards
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eBay best Net stock
The auction site was the only one of the big five to improve upon its price at the bubble’s height.
Topic: Web Culture
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PressThink’'s Top Ten Ideas for 2004
From the legacy media to the Pajamahadeen and more.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Opera betas version 8
The browser was to 7.6, but the amount of enhancements boosted it a whole number.
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Kensington Market Festival of Lights
Always a great way to celebrate the beginning of the end of winter darkness.
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More Toronto tabloids?
Rumours abound that the National Post, and maybe one day the Toronto Star, may go tabloid.
Topic: Newspapers
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Slate sold to Washington Post
The sale should be done by mid-January, and no major editorial changes are planned.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Smart, wireless transit ads
The TTC will carry location-specific digital ads served using a wireless network. Could true WiFi be next?
Topics: Toronto, Technology
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New media timeline
Despite the poor interface, this comprehensive timeline covers 35 years of American new media history.
Topic: Online Journalism
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MP3 player levy quashed
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that the copyright levvies applied to digital music players aren’t legal.
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The New York Times Firefox ad
Somewhere in the blur you’ll find my name amongst the 10,000 or so donors.
Topics: Browsers, Advertising
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Canadian journalism a stagnant pool?
John Miller argues the media here is could care less…
Topic: Journalism
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CSS needs fixing
Daniel Glazman weighs in with a mea culpa on the curent state of CSS.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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Dude
Clive Thompson on dude’s current usage.
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CBC does RSS
CBC now has support for a variety of RSS feeds. Wonder who will be next…?
Topic: Online Journalism
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Canadians are going digital
We’re dropping analog media in favour of its digital equivalent at an increasing rate.
Topics: Technology, Canada
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Details on the AOL Browser
It will use IE, but will included tabbed browsing. Why they don’t use the Netscape Browser still confounds me.
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Gary Webb is dead
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who tied the CIA to crack cocaine-trafficking in Los Angeles has committed suicide.
Topic: Newspapers
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Citytv news bests CBC, CTV
Toronto’s own CityPulse at Six won a Gemini Award for best newscast beating out CBC’s The National and CTV News
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What to do about writer’s block
The return of the (content as) king.
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Ontario stops censoring movies
Next year, the Ontario Film Review Board will likely lose its powers to censor film in the province.
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Will citizen journalists hurt journalism?
Bill Doskoch points voice to some concerns I have over the buzz around “citizen journalism.”
Topic: Journalism
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Testing all copy editors
The Toronto Star’s ombusman Nitpicker’s Quiz tests ones editing skills.
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Google Suggest
Google dynamically tries to predict what you’re search will be. Amazingly effective.
Topic: Search Engines
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Google News en français
The French edition of Google News Canada enables searches and browsing news items from more than 500 French news sources.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Wireless in Montreal
Île Sans Fil helps
businesses and local institutions give Internet access away free
.Topic: Web Technology
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Supreme Court rules in favour of same-sex marriage
Canada’s top court has ruled same-sex marriage is constitutional, now the Liberals have to make good on their promising to change the legal definition.
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Tog’s list of persistent design bugs
The top ten list is only seven items right now, but expect more.
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Firefox’s effect on news sites
Mark Glaser takes a look at the browser from an online news perspective (and quotes me in the process).
Topics: Browsers, Online Journalism
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Mozilla’s developer FAQ
Mozilla answers some common questions about the Gecko rendering engine, including how to use XHTML.
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Coulter on Carlson elucidate on Canada
The pundits of conservative America demonstarte their skills.
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Could humans fix Google?
Greg Linden riffs on the notion that people are needed to improve search engine results.
Topic: Search Engines
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Time for a new Net?
The Christian Science Monitor wonders if the 35-year-old Internet needs a facelift.
Topic: Technology
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XStandard supports Firefox
The XHTML WYSIWYG is now Firefox-friendly.
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
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Advertising without hockey
The New York Times, of all places explains how the lock-out has hurt the TV industry.
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As if it wasn’t conservative enough…
Clear Channel Communications (who banned the Dixie Chicks) will use
Fox News Radio to provide national news for most of its news and talk stations
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The future of RSS advertising
Jason Kottke surveys the users and developers of RSS aggregators to find out.
Topic: Technology
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Firefox users don’t click on ads
Of course there’s a litany of reasons for this, savviness being just one.
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Marqui on a slippery slope
Paying bloggers to create a buzz about a product could backfire.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Thunderbird 1.0
Mozilla’s excellent mail client is ready for its close up.
Topics: Browsers, Spam/Virus
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Web design forecast for 2005
Predictions for next year’s Web design trends.
Topic: Web Design
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Editorial judgement by log analysis
The Financial Times looks to its Web logs for tips on news trends.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Eye blog
Toronto’s alterna-weekly gets a blog.
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
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Why blogging as journalism is a pipe dream
Jason Kottke posts scoops about a Jeporady whiz Ken Jennings, and Sony threatens to sue him — but not the Washington Post, which did the same thing.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Park-by-phone
Well, actually it’s pay-by-phone-to-park, but still…
Topics: Technology, Toronto
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Editorial judgement by click
A newspaper is tracking every click on a story and using that to help determine the content of the next day’s paper.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Why Google News is still “beta”
The WSJ’s Online Journal caught Google News link, as its top story, to a satirical article claiming Canada had arrested U.S. President Georg
Topics: Online Journalism, U.S.
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Joe Gillespie retires
Joe Gillespie is retiring from his pioneering work as a Web designer and publisher of Web Page Design for Designers.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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The media company I want to work for
Mark Glaser describes the ideal online journalism outfit. Sign me up.
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
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Supporting standards would break the Web
So says Microsoft, although Tristan Nitot deflects that dose of FUD.
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
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Wikinews a go
Wired News has an overview of the first steps of the open-source news site.
Topic: Online Journalism
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ITunes Canada days away
Apple plans on finally launching the service before the end of December.
Topic: Web Culture
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Eye readers pick Toronto’s best media
Radio I agree with, and sadly I only know of two of the “blogs” cited.
Topics: Toronto, Journalism
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Blog Torrent
BitTorrent for your blog
Topic: Technology
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New Opera resizes pages
Opera 7.60 (a preview release right now) dynamically resizes wide pages to fit a narrow browser window.
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The life and times of Frank
The Globe and Mail engages in some schadenfreude over the fate of Frank.
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Why newspapers should worry
And trust me, they are, and some are even trying to change.
Topic: Newspapers
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Browser bug report
A database dedicated to
dedicated to finding, mending and publishing CSS and JavaScript browser bugs
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Mind your cites and Qs
Roger Johansson covers almost everything you know about the q, blockquote, and cite.
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Rather resigning
CBS’s only post-Cronkite anchor is resigning with the taste of scandal to remember him by.
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The computer as novelist
A New York Times essay wonders whether computers will ever be able to write novels as good as we can.
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Typography tips
Online companion to Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Topic: Web Design
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Style sheets for handheld devices
A css-discuss Wiki entry discussing the latest trends in handheld support for CSS.
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Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1
Kevin Sites explains to the marines how his story of the mosque shooting happened
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The future of online news is EPIC
Robert Sloan’s prediction of EPIC in 2014.
Topics: Online Journalism, Technology
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Findory personalizes search results
Findory will now make recommendations in your search results based on past searches.
Topic: Search Engines
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Semantic and XHTML validator
Want to make sure your XHTML is really really valid, try this.
Topic: Web Standards
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Keeping it simple
Adam Bosworth’s transcript of his ISCOC04 Talk on accommodating
really simple user and programmer models
.Topic: Technology
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XUL file manager
A Windows-like file manager for a remote computer using XUL.
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Four million daily emails for Bill Gates
Famous email addresses and their spam count.
Topic: Spam/Virus
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TV over the phone
Bell Canada finally gets the rights to send television over its phone lines.
Topic: Convergence
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Handy Web project guides
Goto Guides offer a number of helpful and downloadable resources for Web development projects.
Topic: Web Resources
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People read online!
The Christian Science Monitor explains what that means.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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Torontoist songs for a Wednesday
Every mecredi the city blog will be offering Toronto-inspired downloads.
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Overture’s RSS ads
Interstitails could be the way to make RSS ads more effective.
Topic: Technology
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Top news sites for October 2004
Though no Canadian sites are listed, per captia many would few handily beat their American competitors.
Topic: Online Journalism
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More AOL using Mozilla rumours
This time, the company that killed Netscape is looking for testers.
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Stanford marches with madness
Can a marching band be composed of anarchists?
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Crawley’s crusade
My ultimate boss, Philip Crawley, has lead the Globe’s possibly unwinnable fight against the Post.
Topic: Newspapers
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Videogame to debut Snoop Dogg/Doors “Riders on the Storm” cover
Proof that Jim Morrison’s dead, because if he was alive, he’d smash a bottle of Jack over all their heads.
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“Music is not a loaf of bread”
Wilco proves that online music-sharing can be a good thing.
Topic: Web Culture
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Acrobat Reader 7 coming
The new version will allow you to edit PDF files.
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Two IT sites launch standards-based sites
Softchoice and EDS.com both launched valid, CSS-based redeigns on the weekend.
Topic: Web Standards
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Dow Jones buys MarketWatch
The New York Times reports the site was sold for almost half-a-billion dollars.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Yahoo hires WSJ.com founding editor
Rumours are it's looking at CBS Marketwatch, too.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Masthead putting up a wall
The trade magazine for Canada’s magazine industry will be closing its site to non-subscribers come December.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Magazine
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Internet tax for Canada
Unlike the, albeit misguided, blank CD levy, we’d pay an tax but get no rights in return.
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MSN search launches
And John Battelle’s analysis the beat product in his Searchblog.
Topic: Search Engines
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Saerch results on the fly
A dynymaic search using xmlhttprequest and inspired by Apple’s upcoming Spotlight feature.
Topic: JavaScript
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Military(.com) buys blog
Is this the next big cash-in trend?
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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Gmail POPs
Google’s Web-based email now supports POP just as Hotmail begins charging for it.
Topic: Search Engines
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Microsoft searches for dominance
Will develop “Google-killing” service, then leave it dormant with new features only available to those who buy the latest version of Windows.
Topic: Search Engines
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Spinning-off online journalism
Mark Glaser tries to explain why the newly profitable news sites are being sold.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Future of digital media
Jeff Jarvis prognosticates on the changes in store for media
Topic: Online Journalism
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Open source newspapers
The Northwest Voice prints articles from submitted online from the community and published on the Web.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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Beautiful browser…
Molly sings Firefox’s praises to the tune of “Beautiful dreamer.”
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November 25: RRJ fund raiser
The first magazine I brought online, the Ryerson Review of Journalism is hosting a fund raiser at DNA Lounge.
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Dynamic image notation
Seen Flicker? Well, this adds notes to images in a similar same way.
Topic: JavaScript
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Clark on Indigo
Joe rips into the latest Indigo redesign and includes a “Saila reference”.
Topic: Web Design
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Another petition for Internet users’s rights
A printable petition urging Canada not to adopt the WIPO’s Internet Treaties.
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Petition against WIPO Copyright Treaty
A virtual petition urging Canada not to ratify the treaty.
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Keep Canada’s Internet free
Boing Boing explains the dangers of the WIPO “Internet Treaties”
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Some stability for the CBC
Robert Rabinovitch gets to stay on as CBC president for another three years.
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The homepage is obsolete, part II
Joshua Porter’s follow-up to his Digital Web Magazine article on content aggregation.
Topic: Web Design
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CSS property compatibility chart
The
chart shows all CSS1, CSS2 and Internet Explorer CSS extensions and grades the level of support each recieves in a given browser
.Topics: CSS, Web Resources
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The homepage is obsolete
Joshua Porter, in Digital Web Magazine, explains how content aggregators are changing navigation styles.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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Uncollapsing margins
Eric A. Meyer explains how to reverse the margin collapse.
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Best of luck today, neighbours
May your vote for president (cough, not Bush, cough) be easier than depicted in this video.
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Speeding up browser evolution
Mike Davidson compares Flash to browsers and comes up with some thought provoking ideas.
Topics: Browsers, Web Culture
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A pleasant Findory redesign
The news site spiffs-up the look, and enhances its offerings
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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A horrendous chapters.indigo.ca redesign
An inaccessible, standards-unfriendly, Amazon.ca rip-off that I date not even link to directly.
Topic: Web Design
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The Internet at 35 (or so)
Today is the 35th anniversary of the first Internet message was sent from Len Kleinrock’s laboratory at UCLA
Topic: Web Culture
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MarketWatch for sale
The Web-based finance news behemoth might go to Dow Jones or even Yahoo.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Reviving on the tables
Roger Johansson explains how to build data tables.
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Best of (Now’s) Toronto
Reader’s picks are typically typical, but the critique’s picks hit the mark.
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Re-imagining democratic elections
B.C. asked its citizens to come up with a better election process, and they’ve chosen wisely.
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Indigo relaunch coming
Might the also ran online bookstore actually abadon fonts and tables in favour of CSS (which as far as I can, it doesn’t use at all)?
Topic: Web Design
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Dot-post? Dot-travel?
I don’t think I’ll ever get ICANN’s thinking.
Topic: Technology
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Scrollable tables
Works even in browser that don’t support fixed positioning
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Prototype for MSN’s new search?
Noticing, with the advent of Mac OSX, it’s becoming popular to have the options box appear underneath, but associated with the masthead (like Site Builder function on this demo).
Topics: Search Engines, Web Design
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Speed tweaks
Andy King’s collection of tips for speeding up your site’s performance.
Topic: Web Resources
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A yeat in J-School
Why isn’t every journalism school encouaging its students to blog?
Topic: Online Journalism
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Wikinews could be coming
A proposed project from the Wikipedia folk is running about 3:1 in favour of getting underway
Topic: Online Journalism
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Memories mapped to music
Didier Hilhorst and Marcos Weskamp are collecting feelings, images, and memories related to songs.
Topic: Web Culture
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Wikipedia as journalism
The Tyee follows the trend of loving the Wiki-powered encyclopedia as a model for journalism.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Online news opening up
Mark Glaser, in the OJR, writes about mainstream news sites opening up to the rest of the Web.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Toronto to welcome Firefox
There's going to be a launch party (likely November 20) for the browser here in Toronto after the browser officially hits 1.0.
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Directory tree styling
Sfeve Clay demos a simple way to style multiple lists to look like a directory tree.
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“display:inline-block” a panacea for IE 5/Mac
Mark Hadley finds a way to fix a nasty float bug that has plagued IE 5 on the Macintosh
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Back in the day’
As clunky as the mark-up looks today, it’s impressive how much of Siegel’s wishes came to be.
Topic: Web Design
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S5 version 1.0
Eric Meyer’s dHTML slide show tool is presntation ready.
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Ben Goodger interview
Firefox creator shares some insight with News.com
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Compiling corrections
A blog commenting on corrections appearing in North American newspaper
Topic: Newspapers
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Inside the mind behind Findory
An interview with ex-Amazoner Greg Linden about his personalized news site.
Topic: Online Journalism
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The end of Moore’s Law?
Probably not, the house that Moore built has killed planes to release 4GHz Pentium 4 processor.
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Implanting identity chips
The New York Times discusses the ramifications surrounding the approval of a RFID-like chip for storing a 16-digit number used to retreive medical records.
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Mathew Ingram’s second blog at globeandmail.com
Ingram has always been willing to produce Web-exclusive content as he previously illustrated with globetechnology’s Geek Watch.
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
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Google can now search your computer
Although it doesn’t search Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla history/email you can “vote” for the feature.
Topic: Search Engines
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PPK finds a XP SP2 CSS bug
Great. Internet Explorer 6 is different between Windows XP and Windows XP SP2. Let the fun begin.
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Offline versions of DevEdge’s sidebars
Until the Mozilla Foundation can get the the rights to DevEdge material, you can download these from TnTLuoma.com.
Topic: Web Resources
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Netscape browser at 10
News.com looks back at the browser’s storied life, and reports of a possible resurrection.
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WTF: an AOL IE?
AOL plans to release a browser based on IE, despite the company’s ties with Netscape and Mozilla.
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Online newspaper index
A listing of all (?) the Web versions of world⁏ newspapers
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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New CAR site
A very rough looking site for computer-assisted reporting in Canada, with links to database material.
Topic: Journalism Resources
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BBC unveils open-source video tool
Targetting Windows Media Player, this is another demonstration of BBC’s excellent foresight.
Topic: Technology
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Skinning Gmail
Redesign the Gmail interface with a custom stylesheet. Just the beginning of what will be a quick trend.
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sIFR 2.0 RC 1
Mike Davidson and Mark Wubben unveil what could be the final version of a pretty impressive image replacement technique.
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Using patterns in Web design
Ryan Singer, from 37signals, offers a simple introduction to patterns.
Topic: Web Design
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Kapica on Firefox
He doesn’t like it, because it won’t work with the Globe and Mail’s publishing tools. Let’s see if I can fix that…(subscription only link).
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CRTC: Voicemail spam A-OK
Apparently, it’s not enough of a nuisance…
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Remaking BBC News with Wikipedia links
Stef Magdalinski has built a proxy to turn proper nouns into links.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Online news design winners
The winners from 2004—s Society for News Design multimedia awards, the SNDies.
Topics: JavaScript, Online Journalism
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“Web standards” near “Toronto, ON”
The WaSP’s message can be found all across T-dot (thanks for the tip Rudy).
Topics: Web Standards, Toronto
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The perfect news story
The hed, the lede, all brilliant.
Topic: Journalism
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Introducing CreativeCommons.ca
Creative Commons licences for use under Canadian law.
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Browser wars reignited
News.com assembles a huge package on the limping IE and its energized competitors in the browser business
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Styled form elements
Roger Johansson demonstrates how eight of today’s browsers render styled from elements.
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Yahoo does CSS…
The new Yahoo and My Yahoo homepages use semantic mark-up and styles. Come on Google.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
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Yahoo does RSS…
The new My Yahoo will use RSS and Atom
Topic: Technology
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Managing CSS hacks
Molly writes a comprehensive article on how to work with and manage CSS hacks and filters in real style sheets.
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BBC News launches aggregation service
Brilliant move by the public broadcaster, but don’t expect traditional news sites to do this any time soon…
Topic: Online Journalism
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Eric’s slideshow tool
Mr. Meyer builds an dHTML-based slideshow tool.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
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New designs on news
The new msnbc.com design represents a whole new way for editors to report the news online
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Saila CSS layouts, revisited
An update to the tableless CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout that uses HTML 5 and CSS 3 selectors, and works in Internet Explorer 7 and up; Gecko-based browsers like Firefox; Webkit browsers like Safari and Chrome; as well as the Opera browser.
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Safari fine
The latest upgrade to Apple's Web browser brings a promising set of new features.
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The summer of the city
Toronto reveals its true face in a trio of movies released in 2010
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Lessons from working with Web standards, revisited
Four years later, I look back at some of the lessons learned about designing a news Web site using Web standards to see what still applies.