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Fond memories of the 5K Awards resurface with this modern spin on the idea
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
Exclaim! explains the audio inspiration for the movie adaption of the graphic novel series
One of my favourite character actors to watch onscreen died on his 61st birthday
"Enter Don Draper, the last John Wayne among a cultural landscape filled with Jon Gosselins"
The brazen legal tactics of CBS succeeded in forcing the indie magazine to change its entire brand
Maybe because this is how I started out, it all makes sense to me
Topics: Web Culture, Journalism
Features a cleaner design, bigger video, and more share tools
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
Eric Meyer argues for vendor prefixes, and proposes an improvement to the standardization of CSS
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
Some advice on what to do as a journalists while covering potentially heated protests
Topics: Journalism, Politics
An overview of how movable type was used commercially up until the past few decades
Topic: Typography
The browser's users demonstrate remarkably consistent use of the various user interface elements
Topics: User Interface, Browsers
Pleased to see msnbc.com make not once, but twice (three times, if you count EveryBlock)
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
Jim Ray creates a simple Safari extension to improve how type is rendered on page
Topics: Browsers, Typography
Using msnbc.com's new design to talk about a way to improve typography
Topics: CSS, Typography
Reporter on being in a public intersection that became a de facto detention centre
Hard to see Toronto looking like this, even if it's a tiny snapshot of what really happened
Say what you will about about the G20, at least it's got American news outlets looking north
Topics: Journalism, Politics
Police use extensive security measures on a veteran, accredited journalist trying cover the summit
Topics: Journalism, Politics
A simple CSS-based media query can help improve the design of the high resolution device
Third developer preview looks amazing, all the more so to those debugging early IE browsers
Comprehensive listing of the laws and how the apply to shooting pictures across Canada
Topics: Journalism, Canada
One of the most interesting actors in Canadian film, television, in theatre is now gone
Fascinating portrait of war as waged by chimpanzees, and possibly, humanity, too
The archive for one of the most influential online magazines is finally back online
Topic: Online Journalism
Seventy years ago, Vanity Fair announced it has toned down its experiment with Modernism
Topics: Typography, Style & Usage
As defined by the U.S. military's own training branch
Canada's national newspaper looks back at 10 years of online news coverage
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
"The iPad ... is a joint venture between editorial, technology and business development"
Topics: Mobile, Online Journalism
Globally things are looking tough for printed newspapers, but the online business shows promise
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Overview of how, when, and why to use Internet Explorer's compatibility features
Clever UI for filtering robots and a few more tweaks would even make it accessible
Topics: Web Design, Accessibility
There's a growing unease about the disparity between the manufacturing and marketing of Apple products
Beta620 will be a parallel site to test new features for the newspaper's site
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Ryerson Review of Journalism publishes another of its trademark critiques, this time on CBC New
Topics: CBC, Journalism
Magazines looking for an app-like experience should consider the HTML5-based Scribd service
The uniquely managed French newspaper (journalists have control and veto rights) confronts bankruptcy
Topic: Newspapers
Stephen Pinker in response to all the talk of how the Web is ruining our brains
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
A seemingly easy way to justify, and nicely hyphenate, text online
Topics: Typography, CSS
Ferry lines seem to extend the city's borders, locals emphasis the hearts of each neighbourhood
Topics: Seattle, Social Media
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
Great analysis of the design problems with online news sites (and a elegant solution, too)
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
The 3-year deal FiveThirtyEight struck with The New York Times suggests a new business option for micro-content companies
The most surprising thing might be how (Web) mainstream his media diet is
Topics: Web Culture, Journalism
Photo essay on about a waning trade, some good lessons to be found in the index typewriter, too
Topics: Typography, Usability
An another argument that fails to convince me why inline article links are bad
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
An interesting (and almost anonymous) response (via Tumblr) to David Carr's piece about Newsweek's future
No one does a design review like Joe Clark, and in Canada, no one (else) does reviews of grad shows
Seems like using IE's conditional comments might slow page loads in that browser
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
According to Google; crazy that Microsoft properties have 1.1 billion visitors a month on the top 30
Topics: Web Culture, Advertising
Apparently, the app is just a series of very big images leaving one to wonder why not HTML?
Pseudo-posters for an imaginary civility campaign on Toronto's transit (so agree with the second)
This time the site goes the minimal approach, possibly inspired by its Tumblr site
Topics: Web Design, Magazine
Overview of an interesting documentary about the Hamilton wood type factory and the legacy of letterpress
Topic: Typography
Need to stay atop of the media gossip? Here's the top 100 sites to start with
Topic: Journalism
Line-up for the June 14, 2010 edition of the the 5-minute talks in Seattle
Topics: Seattle, Web Culture
Understanding how the brain, the visual system, memory, and motivation work helps user experience design
Topics: Web Design, Usability
Business Insider interviews Andrew Golis about his efforts to bring real news reporting to Yahoo News
Topic: Online Journalism
Comprehensive analysis about what direction Ken Whyte may be taking Chatelaine
Officially branded (in its genes) JCVI-syn1.0, this creature - Venter's Frankenbug -- is the first without an ancestor
Topic: Technology
Good reminders on leading and working on a project with a dozen or more people
Nice flow chart showing how and why different browsers and operating systems display type
Topics: Typography, CSS
Sony announced its stopping production on once ubiquitous storage medium no known as the "save" icon
Nice, app-like experience built with just the Web stack (note the radial, menu, too)
Now any site can deliver custom fonts to its audience using the same fallback techniques as Typekit
Topics: Typography, CSS
Google introduces a new API to embed a narrow selection of Web-friendly fonts
Topics: Typography, CSS
Proposal for a term covering the front-end Web technology people are erroneously refer to as "HTML5"
Topic: Web Design
The Guardian’s “developer advocate” talks a bit about the strategy behind a very open API
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Quickly wireframe lower-fidelty concept for iPhone apps with these Illustrator files
Topics: Mobile, Web Design
The $40,000 prize aims to help encourage innovative risks in the Canadian digital media industry
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
Collection of sites showcasing type-heavy design using Typekit's fonts
Topics: Typography, Web Design
MoMA's online collection of for its exhibit on the groundbreaking information design movement
Topics: Typography, Design
Steve Johnson delivers another outstanding piece on the presentation of information online
Topics: Web Culture, Subscriptions & Registration
Excited to hear Scott Boms will be helping publish the first official digital editions of Marshall McLuhan’s work
Topics: Web Culture, Books
Seven patterns for common UI behaviors on Google's mobile platform
Topics: Mobile, Web Patterns
Using wireframes to sketch can help reduce the define the project requirements sooner
Topic: Web Design
In-depth piece profiling a variety of the new online media outlets
Topic: Online Journalism
Reverses typical journalist-to-source relationship in hopes of building a local news service
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
The always conservative usability pundit shares his first findings about the user interface of iPad apps
Vu Nguyen writes about the design thinking behind msnbc.com's new iPhone-optimized site
The rock legends are guest editing The Globe and Mail's special Africa issue in advance of the G8/G20 summit
Topics: Newspapers, Music
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
Impressive demo could help improve discoverability and accessibility of uploaded documents
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
Supreme Court of Canada says journalists can't promise to protect the identity of their sources
Topics: Journalism, Canada
For three major Canadian news organizations, covering the trial of Omar Khadr just became that much harder
Topics: Journalism, Politics
Even if it's used to track down the identity of the person who found the new iPhone in a bar
Topics: Journalism, Mobile
Interesting selector proposed by the Mozilla crew that brings group to CSS selectors
Gizomodo argues the editor who broke the story about the new iPhone is protected from a search warrant
Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile
Lots of good data on the latest trends in the Web design industry
Topic: Web Design
NPR opened its content to everyone via an API and has solved its distribution problem
Topics: Online Journalism, Radio
A comprehensive blueprint defining the de facto UI conventions for touch devices like the iPhone and Surface
Topics: User Interface, Mobile
Freeing access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development stats
Topics: Online Journalism, Politics
Facebook creates an interesting new dynamic for self-identification by linking "liked" products pages to the person actual profile interests
Topic: Social Media
Nice example of what CSS gradients can do with some minimal code.
Joe Clark aims his immeasurable knowledge of type straight at the company loved by designers
Topics: Typography, Computers
A list of the 22 and 44 fonts natively installed on each respective device
Topics: Mobile, Typography
A long overdue service to easily search what was said while the Canadian government was in session
First time an online-only publication has one the prestigious prize for editorial content
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism
Apple approves the Opera mobile browser for use on its iPhone and iPod - could Fennec be next?
A nice little rant about how to structure a friendly URL
Topic: Web Technology
Jobs, not Woz, defines the Apple we know today, and it is all about perfectly closed systems
Cory Doctrow says the "technical and social infrastructure that accompanies" the iPad suppresses creativity
Many of the early designs for apps seem overly inspired by their analogue counter parts
The most influential browser since Mosaic, IE5 Mac set the standard for today's modern browsers
Margaret Atwood talks about her introduction to, and subsequent love of, Twitter in a way only she can
Topics: Social Media, Books
Good discussion in the comment thread about the best ways to distribute fonts on the Web
Topics: Web Standards, Typography
Proposed seal to highlight journalism that is transparent, accountable, and open
Topic: Journalism
Excellent, and very long, tutorial on a still (to me) questionable element (imagine the equivalent for img)
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
Canadians (and North Americans) are spending more time in online than sitting in front of the TV
Topics: Web Culture, TV
Online video is starting to free itself from the television metaphor
Topics: Web Design, TV
Zeldman on how open Web protocols could subvert the Big Brother aspects of ubiquitous computing
Topics: Web Standards, Social Media
Speaking from experience, this is the next design challenge for those in mass media
Topics: TV, Social Media
Literally. Somewhere my past and present self are celebrating
Topics: Writing, Social Media
The man who inspired an entire online style, returns to the landscape from Harper's
Topics: Web Culture, Magazine
Every issue of Bob Guccione Jr.'s Rolling Stone competitor scanned and available online
Built of spans, the design is reminiscent of a bold, Art Deco-style display face
Topics: Typography, CSS
Hnady new term for sluggish and slow moving days; also works for boring meetings
Quick tests of new browser seem to put it almost on par with the latest Firefox and Safari releases
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
Finally, Ork Posters tacles Hogtown
Presentation deflates many myths about reading onscreen
Topics: Typography, Web Design
Focus is on NYTimes and CNN efforts to stay ahead of the curve (anecdotes apply to msnbc.com, too)
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Usage data suggest the iPhone apps are used most during the evenings
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
Cuts to traditional news-gathering outlets may also be hurting loyalty to the online brands
Topic: Journalism
Or at least its employees do, despite the poor phone reception in a lot of the buildings
Topics: Mobile, Web Culture
Suggestions for being aware of the biases of digital media, reminiscent of Technorealism's ideas
Topic: Web Culture
Read Mark Boulton's book online for free, or buy a downloadable PDF
Topic: Web Design
Reuters offers some good advice for its journalist as they work with and on the Internet
Topics: Online Journalism, Style & Usage
In-depth article on working with HTML5 to get video and audio elements working in a page
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
"I'm going to be the organization man, and she's going to be the soulless drone"
A simple one-page site offering an easy way to remember the vendor prefixes for your favourite CSS3 features
A dramatic illustration of how synchronized Canadian bathroom breaks were during the Canada vs. USA Olympic gold medal hockey game
The emergence of the iPad suggests new guidelines about what should actually be printed in book form
Interpreting iPad design conventions, with a focus on UI elements
Topics: Mobile, User Interface
Seattle’s ByDesign series features films by Charles and Ray Eames and some of the best designed title sequences
Insightful, honest, and incredibly detailled review of the process that created the new MIX site
Topic: Web Design
An IE8-only tool that helps identify unused CSS rules
The Atlantic launched a massive redesign, then promptly refined it after vocal audience reaction
Topics: Web Design, Magazine
Jason Epstein's essay on the future of books is one of the most informed you'll read
Most get the from off- and online sources, with the Internet the third most-popular news platform
Topic: Online Journalism
Tremendous essay about how content distribution works in a post-broadcast world
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
Clever bundled subscription idea for independent magazines
Pew Research has done an intensive study of the millennial generation
The powerful suite of online image editing tools is now completely free
Topics: Web Design, Design
The powerful granddady of all image editing tools is now 20
This crazy concept is now possible with Typekit and almost any FontShop typeface
Topics: Typography, Web Design
Learn about Vietnam, motorbikes, arguing and Star Wars on March 4
Looking back on the design decisions made for the pages of the NYT Magazine
Joe Clark reports Vancouver2010.com is almost completely inaccessible
Topic: Accessibility
No major site should be without one, that being said BBC seems to be the only with one
Topics: Web Design, Design
A new, TED-esque, MFA at Parsons The New School for Design
A newspaper designer thinks about an iPad news experience
Topics: Mobile, Newspapers
David Akin explains how the Gordon Lightfoot death rumour started and how to avoid such mistakes
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
The Toronto Star is free at newsstands and everywhere else during the Olympics
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
Josh Quittner delivers an excellent essay on media's fortune, past and present
Topics: Journalism, Mobile
Could Google have been analyzing the effectiveness of SuperBowl's TV ads?
Topics: Advertising, TV
CNN.com trying to quite the AP habit - sensing a emerging trend
Topic: Online Journalism
Newspaper staff will be crammed into the second slower to make way for retail stories
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
Companies like Forrester could be the next to see their business model change
Topic: Subscriptions & Registration
Take a 10-minute survey to help define where the Web design industry is at
Topic: Web Design
When directed to community infrastructure, Canadians don't mind increased taxes
Some data around the surge in mobile data usage
A PSD containing all the UI elements needed to mock-up a iPad design
Topics: User Interface, Mobile
Some of the interaction gestures availble on the iPad
Topics: User Interface, Mobile
Visualizing all the colours of the Crayola crayons
A beautiful concept radio for listening to Canada's public broadcaster
Script allows a Keynote presentation send updates to Twitter
Topic: Social Media
Geo-location game partners with news chain to offer news about a persons current locale
Topics: Mobile, Online Journalism
Special business division formed to managed things like content on Kindle and the Apple tablet
Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile
Some good points about the effects of neglecting the mobile web
Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile
More beautiful data visualizations focusing on everyday life
Topics: Design, Interactive Journalism
Currently only four countries, but it's a unified interface
Topics: Web Technology, World
Dozens of potential laws have been indefinitely delayed
The Web Open Font Format will be used to deliver fonts to Firefox 3.6
Topics: CSS, Typography
An overview of the most notable brand/identity work of the '00s
Magazines-as-apps might be a profitable future, if GQ's singular example can be spun into a trend
Find our what booze is available at the LCBO in JSON
Topics: Web Technology, Ontario
Reallocation of money could kill arts mags, while halving bigger books' budgets
One of North America's pioneering TV stations sad decline at hands of corporate media
New York Magazine suggest the plan could be announced in weeks
The newspaper trade publication resumes publication
Topic: Newspapers
The greatest JavaScript library has a new release
Topic: JavaScript
The new "series opens, reportedly, with Death arriving on a Greyhound bus" -- brilliance
Gordon is runtime using JavaScript and SVG to render Flash movies
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
If you've used Newsvine, you may have earned money that can be donated to Haiti's disaster relief
Topics: World, Social Media
TinEye makes stock photos usage in news stories easier to identify, so be sure to identify the source properly
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
The Tonight Show's current host issues a statement, and in doing so, demonstrates why he shouldn't be bumped
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
The conservative magazine calls the Canadian prime minister's move to again prorogue Parliament a dangerous abuse of power
Good insight about what its like behind-the-scenes when interviewing Canada's PM, Stephen Harper
Topics: Journalism, Politics
Convincing argument that the gossip site points to the future of news sites
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
Likely the last column by one of the first and best commentators about newspapers and the Internet
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Great history on the creation of the icon in the red suit
Topics: Culture, Advertising
Picks from the Guardian's Books blog
Great use of elastics lists to create a interactive archive
Topics: User Interface, Interactive Journalism
Advertising cutting edge technology circa 1936
Topics: Technology, Advertising
The New Yorker has a stunning set of portraits taken by Platon
Topics: Politics, Interactive Journalism
Did you get an unexpected signal 10 from VMFusion that prevented starting a suspended version of Windows? Try this
Huge new redesign of Reuters.com offers a lot of nice details
Topics: CSS, Online Journalism
Seattle Times has a public wave going on the manhunt - crashed my browser
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
Breaking local news happens, Twitter responds - this is how I've been following the story 2100 miles away
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
"In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself"
Amazing time lapse of a 45 hour cross-country drive
Incredible snapshot of one of the most important days in modern history
Topic: Sept. 11, 2001
The Independent Lens series airs an abbreviated version of the industrial design documentary on Nov. 24
The original hipster, as captured in a 1965 NFB documentary
Build your own reference library for Web typefaces
Topics: Typography, Web Design
Using visualizations to help understand who is fighting and dying in Afghanistan
Topics: Interactive Journalism, Sept. 11, 2001
Rounded corners, CSS3 selectors, greatly improved performance
Bryce Johnson collection of 200 tweets from the conference
Topics: Usability, Web Design
Limited edition typography products beautifully designed
Topic: Typography
One browser with three rendering engines means you can quickly check how page looks in IE, Firefox, and Safari
Seven months, most laid-off journalists are making less in very different roles
Topics: Journalism, Newspapers
Nicholas Felton to charts 13 years of CNN.com
Topics: Online Journalism, Sept. 11, 2001
Doug Saunders, and others, look at how the fall of the Berlin Wall affected Europe
Pictures from a cultural moment that is definitively gone...grunge
Worth remembering: "Journalism at its best is a practice, not an industry"
Topic: Journalism
Linking to the original is the only approved way to access reports from Canada's Auditor-General
Topics: Copyright, Online Journalism
Encountering server problems, Canada's national newspaper turns to Facebook and Twitter to get the news out
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
Toronto beginning to release its official data set catalogue
Topics: Toronto, Social Media
The relaunch highlights the new unified assignment desk, argues a former CBC-er
An early discussion about loading pictures on Web pages reveals how some things never change
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
Tom Watson collects desktops backgrounds for the minimalist
Effectively simple, powers of ten style diagram of the scale microscopic objects
Topic: Interactive Journalism
How to sketch out event-based user actions
Topics: Web Design, Web Patterns
The Velvet Revolution in 1989 was fueled by social media, but not the kind we know now
Topics: Social Media, Politics
HTML 5 limits the values for the rel attributes to certain values
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
Conrad Black's dream reduced to being a pawn in bankruptcy negotiations
Topic: Newspapers
Scaling a premium experience could bring much value for online publishers
Topics: Advertising, Online Journalism
Ride the City maps the best or safest route from point A to B
New site appears in the hours before the revamped newscast
Topics: CBC, Web Design
"Any files that you have created are also graphically depicted on your electronic 'desk top.'"
Topic: Technology
As seen through the filter of Google Street View
Topics: Culture, Search Engines
Hint - it wasn't Reagan or "people power"
The bar and restaurant restrictions could be extended city-wide
The look follows the trend of featuring more inline media
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
Mozilla is exploring some new rules to expose type-specific features in CSS
Topics: CSS, Typography
Features a build-your-own online version of The National and a familiar abbreviation
Canadian ISPs allowed to shape traffic if they tell customers about it
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
Not cool at all.
Type foundry unveils a well-rounded collection of Web fonts for use with @font-face
Topics: Typography, CSS
Create impressive data visualizations with this open-source JavaScript library
Topics: Interactive Journalism, JavaScript
Seattle's agency wants to make it easier to develop apps using its transit data, unlike other transit agency (TTC, for example)
An intelligent way to start classifying mobile (read: iPhone) apps
A good step-by-step for mimicking the Webkit Sticky Notes demo
Now writers can enjoy the benefits of market-driven intelligence
Topics: Online Journalism, Usability
Dyson finds inspiration in a hair dryer to reinvent the fan
Topics: Technology, Design
The Guardian was prevented from reporting on a story that the social Web then blew wide open
Topics: Social Media, Journalism
A brief overview of the variety of personal news plays out there
Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism
Mapping where all the parts of product come from
Topics: Social Media, Interactive Journalism
The UX design agency shares its entire proposal to redesign the renowned Swiss newspaper
Topics: Newspapers, Design
Webmonkey explains why the reaction to Boing Boing's redesign may have been more severe than it could have been
Topics: CSS, Typography
Really. (Of course, the feature set is scaled down just a bit)
How to get nice type on Web pages with only some pain
Topics: CSS, Typography
Some good in the trenches critiquing about the potential for social media to save journalism
Topics: Journalism, Social Media
Three Canadian companies, up from one, could be offering iPhones; does this mean AT&T's monopoly is next to fall
If you move get beyond his characteristic pique, Joe Clark makes important points about the insecurities within the Canadian media-verse
Topics: Journalism, Canada
Adobe one-ups Apple by creating a way to automatically convert Flash apps into native iPhone apps
Topics: iPhone, Web Technology
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
Microblogging service long dormant reborn as a TypePad open-sourced service
Topic: Social Media
Some advice on building a successful business publishing online content free
A new feature of the Google Docs API offers an OCR service
Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology
A Web-based O'Reilly reference for developers of the mobile Web
Topics: Web Technology, iPhone
TODAY's Twitter audience share some interesting pics of how & where they watch the show
Topics: TV, Social Media
A lengthy rant about how collaboration can destroy the very design process its intended to help
Google Books makes available an early Life article exposing racists in pre-WWII Canada
Colour patterns for infographics and other visualizations
Topics: Accessibility, Interactive Journalism
Gmail for Mobile hides the scripts in a comment blocks to speed startup
Topic: JavaScript
The name of Libya's leader has 32 spelling variants
Topics: Style & Usage, Politics
well-executed, location-aware map of trending Twitter topics
Topics: Social Media, User Interface
The Globe and Mail's exceptional Talking to the Taliban wins yet another
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
YouTube shows using five stars to rate something is three too many
Topics: Social Media, Web Patterns
Some unique designs and portfolios powered by Google Maps
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
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
The case for CBC bringing Hulu to Canada
Momentous... the U.S. government has pledged that every citizen has access to open and robust broadband
Topics: Web Technology, Politics
The front page from the first edition, printed 158 years ago today
Topic: Newspapers
City Hall asks for software that spells councillor with two "l"s, for example
Topics: Toronto, Style & Usage
But were afraid to ask (answered in the form of 114 slides)
Finalist announced in 20 categories
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
The mobile version shines on the iPhone, where the desktop version feels awkward
Topics: User Interface, iPhone
Joe Clark shares some thoughts that publications would be smart to follow
Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism
Good post on how journalism (and other corporate enterprise) could benefit from getting a little messier
Topics: Journalism, Work
The people behind the Web standards offer some best practices for governments looking to open their data
Topics: Web Standards, Politics
Citizen-journalist news site sold to Denver's Examiner.com
Topics: Social Media, Canada
Some smart standardistas want to help polish HTML5
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
The Canadian mega portal partners are going there separate ways
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
The term will wear out faster than the coolness of the feature
Scott Boms' all-in-one Web development environment is now Snow Leopard ready
Topic: Web Technology
Microsoft and Amazon landmarks are amongst the locations highlighted
Topics: Seattle, Technology
Douglas Rushkoff argues mass media has defeated mass protests
Thinking about how to safely open source contributions on Web-based projects
Topics: Social Media, Copyright
Good description on the making of a great news app for the iPhone
Very pleased to finally be working with Adrian Holovaty
Topics: Work, Online Journalism
The Canadian Press tries to survive obscurity by offering page layout and editing services to newspapers
Topics: Newspapers, Journalism
For some nostalgia-blinded members of the left a name change for the NDP is sacrilegious
Twitter's planning officially supporting the retweet, prepare for another round of explosive growth
Topic: Social Media
Exclusive AP content to be available only on the consortium's own site
Topics: Online Journalism, Email
A Flicker-based collection of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows
Topics: Web Patterns, User Interface
A look at the news business in Seattle, nearly six months after the P-I, stopped printing
Topics: Newspapers, Seattle
John Stackhouse unveils his new, flatter, editorial management team
Topic: Newspapers
Reading between the lines, the official browser blog asks people to stop using IE6
How msnbc.com's new story design can help advertising (based on an interview eMedia Vitals did with me)
Topics: Web Design, Work
NYTimes profiles msnbc.com's efforts in Elkhart (note: I work for msnbc.com)
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
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
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal creates questions about relying on closed-source tools
Topic: Web Technology
And by doing so, fixes the biggest problems with the former newspaper web site
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
Some of the best design talks from TED Global 2009
An insider describes how CBC's new local news program is designed to fail
Removing the iconic tower changes more than the skyline
A jQuery plugin (called jPlayer) enables broader support for embedded audio
Topics: HTML, JavaScript
Peter Morville's collection of search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns
Topics: Web Patterns, Search Engines
Steve Outing has an interesting twist on the typical pay-to-read model
Topic: Subscriptions & Registration
Interesting how-to on promoting ones company to other developers
Topics: Web Technology, Work
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
Dozens of manifestos from some of the century's leading design thinkers
The free daily (called t.o.night) will have the day's actual news
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
Hearing it described as a "coffee & bake shop" sounds off, even if accurate
Clever little jQuery plugin for magnifying images and text
Topic: JavaScript
Some stunning examples of what's possible with real type on the web
Topics: Typography, CSS
Anil Dash examines the new generation push technologies that can actually scale
Topic: Web Technology
Manufacturing local charm with a purposefully rustic renovation and name: 15th Avenue Coffee & Tea
Kenny Yum returns as the site's editor, Anjali Kapoor becomes the ME of digital
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
An XML-based licensing standard (.webfont) has been proposed as a way to embed typefaces
Topics: Typography, Web Standards
Not sure I really understand the point of this other than to experiment with some JavaScript effects
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
Some stunning WebKit-only visual effects previously only possible in Flash
Or at least 25 bits of trivia
Topics: Technology, Journalism
The Font Bureau proposes a way to legally distribute fonts for Web use
Topics: Typography, Web Standards
Zeldman valiantly tries again to refocus the HTML5 debates around standrds
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
An amazing, real-time recreation of the the Apollo 11 mission online
Topic: Interactive Journalism
A brilliant guerrilla typography project to beautify the streets
Topics: Typography, Design
My former colleague (Kathy English) has lambasted a skilled columnist (Antonia Zerbisias) for writing about a protest of a protest
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
Well defined design principles can define the experience without prescribing it
Overview on how the wealth of data available now can revitalize journalism
Topic: Interactive Journalism
Mainstream news still leads on news stories, but blogs are having an influence
Topics: Journalism, Social Media
Maclean's has an in-depth feature about the recent changes at The Globe and Mail
Topic: Newspapers
The news service has posted its core journalistic principles online
Topics: Journalism, Journalism Resources
HNews is a new microformat for marking up news articles
Topics: HTML, Online Journalism
If you're in Toronto this July, help Broken Social Scene and Bruce McDonald make a movie
A jQuery plug-in that obscures all but the last character in a password field
Topics: JavaScript, Usability
An HTML5 parsing engine is now available in nightly Firefox builds
A Dr. Web for the new generation of Web standards
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
Skews more academic than visual design, so there are is some good research here
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
Somehow, it's appropriate Michael Jackson's funeral breaks a number of social media records
Topics: Social Media, Music
Given the prizes intention, this year's list seems strangely disappointing despite the quality of the acts selected
The iconic DJ, recently fired from Toronto's CFNY / Edge 102 radio station after 20 years, has apparently died
In 2010, 90 per cent of the Web could be surfing with standards-compliant browsers
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
Rex Sorgatz explains the the design concepts behind the media gossip site
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
The Globe and Mail has reached a tentative deal with its employees, averting a strike
Topic: Newspapers
A JavaScript solution for detecting CSS3 support in browsers
Kroc Camen has developed a script to enable HTML5's video in any browser
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
HTML5 offers the promise of embedded video, but the reality may not match
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
This is a huge milestone for the company, the Knight Foundation, and online journalism
Topic: Online Journalism
Remember when I said the banner ad was dead, well, prepare for the new ads
Topic: Advertising
July 20: an outdoor screening of the movie; July 21: bowling
Or: why Toronto rocks
A note from the publisher of Canada's national newspaper on a potential June 30 strike by the paper's employees
Topic: Newspapers
The user-friendly experience that attracted customers like me to WaMu is being lost
Great post fleshing out my favourite analogy: early newspapers vs. online news sites
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
Simon Willison details what was involved in Guardian's expense investigation
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Simon Willison details what was involved in Guardian's expense investigation
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
A garbage can in my former neighbourhood's parkette is now a barometer for the Toronto civic workers' strike
Or, A Sublimely Fun Read I'll Likely Do Again
An aggregated page tracking #IranElection acts as a living prototype of the next online news sites
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
Finally, a functional site for Lee Richmond (thanks Tumblr!)
Toronto writer (and former zine-maker and neighbour) Hal Niedzviecki has his The Peep Diaries made as one of Oprah's book picks
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
Thirteen features already implemented by more than one browser
The Polaris 2009 long list has been announced
Seven clips featuring the intros to CBC's national news show during the past 30 years
A photograph of an iconic moment from a new perspective should remind us the full story has still not been told
After I commented on the horrid logotype, a co-worker gave me a sticker saying "u bing?"
Topics: Typography, Search Engines
Joe Clark's new book will focus his singular attention on the foibles of the current copyright debate
For non-commercial use (does that cover blogs with ads?) in the Embedded OpenType format (IE-only)
Topics: Typography, Web Design
Very interesting, and potentially intuitive, response to Facebook and Twitter
Topics: Social Media, Search Engines
A new platform for managing web-only font linking licenses
Topics: CSS, Typography
Kevin Kelly analyzes the digital evolution of collectivism
Topics: Web Culture, Politics
Sees the Web-app friendly direction as the way forward
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
A handy tool for generating Webkit-supported background gradients
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
Great advice on recognizing and resolving burnout symptoms
With an eye to online, John Stackhouse replaces Edward Greenspon as editor-in-chief; Angus Frame becomes VP of Digital
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Zeldman offers a good overview, and collects, pointers to embeddable Web typefaces
Topics: CSS, Typography
A Firebug extension to search HTML using CSS selectors
Topics: Web Resources, Browsers
A simple typewriter-emulator that comes the closest yet to Khoi Vinh's Blockwriter idea
Big images and more video promotions feature large
Topics: Web Design, TV
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
Service parses text on web pages or news feeds and returns geographic data
Topic: Web Technology
Reports are The New York Times is considering two different ways to charge for online content
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
Washington decides to save newspapers with a tax break
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
What goes around, comes around
Topics: Newspapers, CANOE
The big search engine finally supports microformats and RDFa to improve search results
Topic: Search Engines
Use Web pages as applications with this official Mozilla Labs tool
Topics: Browsers, Web Technology
Since it first debuted, I've loved the TimesReader concept - the version overhauls the tech and keeps the elegance
Topics: Newspapers, Web Technology
Contemplating a potentially giant knowledge gap for future historians
Topics: Email, Web Culture
Juitter provides an easy to display a Twitter stream using jQuery
Topics: JavaScript, Social Media
News Corp.'s newspaper sites will begin charging a fee within a year
Brian Fling's collection of resources from his mobile workshops
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
Forrester reveals the dirty details
Making the future CSS happen in browsers now
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
Mobile app reveals cheap alcohol and Seattleites achieve bliss
Interesting comparison of my two cities as a high-tech startup friendly places
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
Khoi Vinh reviews the design aesthetic of the new Muxtape
Topics: Web Design, Music
Rachel Nixon leaves NowPublic to be the director of digital media for CBC News
Topics: Online Journalism, CBC
In the U.S., Google has begun adding microcharts to illustrate public statistics
Topics: Search Engines, Usability
Find out when those cool new Web design features will be available to all
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
Business strategies try to make Twitter lay a golden egg for online news
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
Make your own flattened penny art at the Gladtone Hotel
Boston Globe's Big Picture blog was developed and promoted on Alan Taylor's off-hours
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
How to use text-based data URIs to embed images in Internet Explorer
Topics: Web Technology, Browsers
How to develop and evolve design principles for service-based projects
Topic: Web Design
Typically Google experiment in presenting a new way to look at news
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
An very clever idea from Digg on speeding up Web pages
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
Comic book letter Todd Klein disputes the origins of Comic Sans
Topic: Web Design
Long-deserved nods for the globeandmail.com, one for msnbc.com
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
May 1 will see the debut of a taxonomy for Canadian local news on Twitter
Topics: Social Media, Canada
Once big spenders, movie promotions in newspapers are becoming rarer
Topics: Newspapers, Movies
Valuable points to keep in mind for designers
Topic: Web Design
New music service aims to create a chart of the emerging music tracks
CaptionTube allows people to add and export subtitle information to YouTube videos
Topics: Accessibility, TV
Aim is to create a billing system for online newspapers - wasn't that eMeta?
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Journalism
All the depressing news & data about the newspaper industry collected in one place
Topic: Newspapers
FFFound for type, with a great search UI
Topics: Web Design, User Interface
Umm...good luck? (And please, please date your posts)
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
Just as IE8 catches up, Firefox and Safari sprint ahead
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
The UX event returns with Jared Spool speaking after a few months hiatus
Topics: Web Design, Seattle
For $40 you can have your own a Seattle P-I newspaper box
Topics: Newspapers, Seattle
In many cases, using @import can affect how fast a page loads
HTML5 may not provide the information historians need to tell our stories
Toronto city blog is now locally and independently owned, although still affiliated with Gothamist chain
Topics: Toronto, Online Journalism
Fifteen years later, nothing much remains the same
Everything you wanted to know about the state of the Web design industry right now
Topic: Web Design
Seeds an Investigative reporting fund with $1.75 million - this is a good sign
Topic: Online Journalism
General overview on some client-side things that slow a Web page
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
Good resource site from a SXSW 2009 panel
Topics: Web Design, CSS
Modelled on London's transit maps, this bus map shows the routes centred on one of Seattle neighbourhoods
As experienced by a former reporter
Topics: Newspapers, Seattle
The final indignity against Seattle P-I reporters? They now have to pass a drug test to stay employed
Topics: Newspapers, Seattle
The Museum of Modern Art relaunched with a compelling new design
Topics: Web Design, Culture
A simple mac-based tool for refining grid based layouts
Topic: Web Design
China wants the IMF "SDR" unit to replace the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency (let the conspiracy theories begin)
Danish and Norwegian media sites are campaigning their users to use any browser but IE6
Topics: Browsers, Web Design
In his goodbye post, Doug Bowman articulates the perils of designing for a big company
Topic: Web Design
Stupidly literal name, cool tool: allows you to overlay different renders of a Web page
Topics: Web Design, Browsers
This very good browser does a lot of contortions to not offend anyone, and almost succeeds
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
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
Otherwise known as what fixing your site's bad habits
Twenty years ago today Tim-Berners Lee submitted the proposal that would become the World Wide Web
Topic: Web Technology
What if you started with an idea but only designed 51% of its potential before letting it loose?
Topic: Web Design
City newspapers may, for all practical purposes, disappear in the U.S. by year's end
Topics: Newspapers, U.S.
This inspired a sarcastic tweet from me a little ways back...
Turns out, in real world tests, CSS selectors don't effect the rendering time of Web pages
Simon Willison explains more about the Guardian Open Platform's APIs and the content available
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Time's list of newspapers possibly following the path of Rocky Mountain News or the Seattle P-I
Topics: Newspapers, U.S.
One of the longest-running publications about Web design and development has ceased publication
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
For the city's 175th birthday, Spacing donates 175 iconic pictures to the city archives
Some staff members of the newspaper were offered a chance at continued employment in an online edition
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
An attempt to set and document the best practices for social media platforms
Topic: Social Media
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
The incomparable Christina Wodtke outlines the key patterns for creating successful online communities
Topics: Social Media, Web Patterns
Interesting interface for searching on a set of fixed terms
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
Great summary of all the different experiments in visualizing the words news is literally made of
Topics: Journalism, Web Design
Love how little Ossington and Arglye have changed in 50 years
Thirteen things to not do when developing online video captions
Topics: Accessibility, Search Engines
A huge collection of Web interfaces used as support for an O'Reilly book
Topics: Web Design, User Interface
Simple, dull, but a good pattern to examine
Topics: Interactive Journalism, Web Patterns
Create sparklines that render cross-browser
Topics: JavaScript, Web Design
The last breaths of a newspaper that owns the building two other successful online news company are operating out of
Topics: Newspapers, Work
Don't like the tab bar above the URL bar in Safari 4? Switch it back.
Urban, mobile, news-reading thirtysomethings
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
Karmic payback?
Topic: Journalism
The transition to the streaming of traditional television online just had a big setback
Topics: TV, Web Culture
An interesting title for people who aren't really Web developers
Topics: Web Culture, Work
The CRTC is floating the idea setting up a $100-million fund to Canadian programming online
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
The Electronic Examiner profiled in a 1981 TV news story
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
Canadians know them as Rockets, Americans call this Canadian-made candy Smarties. How bizarre.
The image search service is now open to everyone, not just registered users
Topic: Search Engines
Another 60 take packages at Canada's national newspaper
Topic: Newspapers
Doug Bowman offers a great explanation of the lengths he went to develop a better button for Google
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
Some long held beliefs about Web design actual hurt page performance
Topic: Web Design
NYTimes.com may charge for its site again - I've long argued subscriptions made sense if implemented properly
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
My former boss and a former Walrus editor are launch new "online forum for [Canadian] news and opinion"
Topic: Online Journalism
For many, the real SuperBowl competition is the ads - take a look this years and pick your favourite
Topic: Advertising
One of my most anticipated Web design books has finally been released
Topics: Web Design, Books
The embrace of social media, unconferences and community politics is pushing Toronto into the vanguard of open-source politics.
In the spirit of BarCamp - a celebration of bacon
Topic: Web Culture
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
The best IE browser built to date is now available as a release candidate
Amazing panorama of the U.S. president giving his inauguration speech (try viewing full-screen on a 30" monitor!)
Seattle (seems also to be the most wirelessed, too)
Topics: Seattle, Technology
Doug Bowman unveils a new look for his now, more personal, blog
Topic: Web Design
XUI is library optimized for modern mobile devices
Topics: JavaScript, Mobile
Mathew Ingram joins the Nieman Journalism Lab
Topic: Online Journalism
The Globe and Mail is using Cover It Live technology to do instant community updates on the news story
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
Poynter's collecting screen shots as news sites cover this historic day in U.S. politics
Topics: Online Journalism, U.S.
A critique of GlobalPost turns into an examination of future potential
Topics: Online Journalism, User Interface
CSS's font-weight remains broken in all but one browser variant used today
Subscribers will continue to get the broadsheet - interesting arrangement, not sure I see the savings
Topic: Newspapers
New York features on the interactive journalist at NYTimes.com
Topics: Interactive Journalism, Newspapers
The Seattle Post Intelligencer is being put up for sale, which is the complicated way to stop printing the newspaper
Topic: Newspapers
Canada's national newspaper now facing layoffs
Topic: Newspapers
John Allsopp has released the summary of his extensive survey of professional web designers and developers
Topic: Web Design
Interesting article examining what might happen to the New York Times
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Like Y2K all over again, browser detection software may need an upgrade to support those, like Opera, now in version 10
Ten percent of its workforce will be gone by year's end
Topics: Newspapers, CANOE
Zoetrope concept demonstrates how to browse the past online in very rich ways
Topics: User Interface, Web Technology
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
Tool for creating the markup needed to wrap text around an image
Topic: Web Design
The online magazine that literally changed my life, is now seeking to change itself and wants your thoughts
Topics: Web Culture, Web Design
The contentious second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is now a recommendation
Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards
Chnage.gov is becoming an example of how government's can easily appear more transparent
Topics: Politics, Social Media
Great proposal on how Canada's statistic agency could reshape itself to literally be the Google of that country
Topics: Search Engines, Canada
How you do what you are doing right this instant was inspired by a demo 40 years ago
Topics: Computers, User Interface
He was one of the first people in the industry I worked with and made those night shifts something to enjoy - 30 -
The revered journalism prize is final going to be awarded in an online category (although it must be text-based)
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism
Good overview of both the importance ads play in Web design and the current trends
Topics: Web Design, Advertising
An scarily accurate list of warning signs
Topics: Web Design, Work
EveryBlock replaces the buzzword "hyperlocal" with the more accurate "microlocal"
Topic: Web Culture
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
The new Web development trend: reduce your site's energy footprint
Topics: Web Technology, JavaScript
A resource for everything related to using grids in design
Topic: Web Design
How to apply Agile development concepts to Web design
Topic: Web Design
A great Web-based tool for those who hate regex and need to normalize data
Topic: Web Technology
The potential Twitter-killer has been sold to Six Apart and will be going offline
Topic: Social Media
Discussion about a change in Canadian government grew to 1,200 comments and Mathew Ingram read through them all to find the best ones
Brilliant skin to Google Reader (and love the article sampled, too)
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
Streetview on Google Maps introduces an terrific new interface for the map controls
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
Pseudo-souvenirs of Canada from some country's best emerging designers
Chris Heilmann demonstrates how to use Yahoo's API to uncover related keywords
Topics: Search Engines, JavaScript
One browser, three rendering engines (IE, Firefox, and Safari); great for testing
In-flight Wi-Fi
Topic: Web Technology
Seth Godin has some original ideas to help newspapers survive online.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
A clever script to do projective transformations of Web-based images using canvas and JavaScript
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
Eight questions to ask when debating when to do research
Overview of the current design looks of news sites (include my place of employ)
Topics: Web Design, Work
Good insights from the folks at Flickr about how to design an optimized mobile site
Topics: Web Design, iPhone
Google introduces video chatting to its Gmail messaging service
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
Silverorange launches a new service that allows you to be your own stock photography agency
Topic: Web Technology
Props and costumes from Battlestar Galatica are being auctioned off. Tempting...
A "now hiring" sign at American Apparel store sparks an inspired rant
An amazing collection how major news sites looked every 30 minutes on November 4, 2008
Topics: Online Journalism, Politics
The hardest working blogger in Canada is now heading up The Globe and Mail's community efforts
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
The National Post continues to whither in relevance as a relevant newspaper in Canada
Topic: Newspapers
The 100-year-old news organization will cease publication of its printed newspaper in April 2009
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
A simple script to delay the execution of JavaScript when event's fire
Topic: JavaScript
Equating it with reader comments, The New York Times invites readers to create their own visualizations of its data
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
The Toronto police are running an amnesty that offers Nikon Coolpix cameras for illegal handguns
The gestures don't sound intuitive, but its a nice start to browsing the Web with your fingers
A series of images revealing what a typeface really says
Topic: Web Design
Eric Meyer sees JavaScript as a way to boot-strap CSS3 support in browsers
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
Millions of folksonomists rejoice at the availability of tagged NYTimes.com content
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Excellent documenting a lot of the CSS tricks used to serve up style to browsers
Terrific case for having big, onscreen text
Topics: Web Design, Usability
The simple approach could be a foundation for an impressive parallax effect
Topic: JavaScript
Manifesto that uses the phrase "happiness" always concern me, but there are some kernels of potential in this
Topic: Web Design
J-Source looks into this more and more contentious concept
Topics: Journalism, Politics
The Globe and Mail sort of, kind of, backs Stephen Harper for prime minister
Map of the tiny archipelago discovered by English years ago
Topics: Language, Style & Usage
The extended, English-subtitled, of a political video that is, truly, laugh-out-loud, funny
A List Apart is a decade old, and the proprietor looks back on the institution
Topic: Web Design
The entire staff has been laid-off putting the dictionary's future in grave doubt
Mathew Ingram has a honest, introspective piece on the responsibility of journalists on Twitter
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
Jumping to key words in the U.S. debate (like Wall St.) videos exposes how prepped candidates are
"Capitalist free marketers, but believe in collective action, largely through governments, to achieve social, economic, environmental and other aims."
Awkward name for a good service designed to let home buyers discover the amenities in a neighbourhood
Topic: Search Engines
Advice for start-ups is also good for any company/business to consider
Topics: Web Culture, Work
Andy Clarke argues that progressive enhancement is what we should be doing with CSS to move designs beyond IE6
Topics: CSS, Web Design
Map of Canadian ridings uses colours to indicate which party is leading where
The Canadian election as reported on Twitter - very engaging
Topics: Politics, Social Media
Everything the late author wrote for the magazine
A big redesign from a site that hasn't in a long while
Topics: Web Design, Newspapers
Tim Berners-Lee introduces a foundation designed to support the open Web
Topic: Web Culture
With argument like this, it's no wonder HTML5 will take so long
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
The author of Infinite Jest and on of the best novelist of the time apparently committed suicide
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
Andy Baio crunches the numbers on the samples in reveals some interesting details.
Understanding HTML5 issues (e.g., video, alt, 2022) is a lot easier if you know Ian Hickson's online persona
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
A CRTC requested report has some ideas for regulating and funding the Canadian Internet
Topics: Canada, Web Technology
Google plans to scan in old newspapers (including one from Quebec) to make them more publicly available.
Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines
IE8 does include support for some CSS3 properties, and will continue to support filters and extensions - but only in a W3C compliant way.
"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
Wrong sentiment, right questions. Elections sites, though, are hard to do well especially when factoring in extenuating (unspoken) circumstances.
Topic: Online Journalism
* But were afraid to ask
Like Firefox before it, Chrome is a clean attempt to create a browser for today's Web
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
CSS-based box and text shadows should appear in Firefox 3.1
Clever demo of dragging and dropping using a textarea
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
It's called "Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English" and I can't wait
The launch of the iPhone 3G pushes the mobile Safari usage to 0.3%
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
A list of more than 60 of Seattle's tiny companies
Topics: Seattle, Web Technology
A comprehensive list of almost 90 of the GTA's tiny companies
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
Examining the interface of "Quicksilver for the browser"
Topics: Browsers, User Interface
Fan-created Twitter accounts were shutdown until AMC realized the accounts actually was great advertising
Topics: TV, Web Culture
The Stranger has a simple and clever schedule maker for Seattle's annual music & arts fest
Impressive jQuery plugin for creating a dynamic parallax effect
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
Pixar founder writes an insightful (and long) article on Pixar's secret sauce
My old 'hood (and new hipster central) was the location of a four-car gun battle
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
Based on Snook's example, rounded corners with VML, CSS or SVG
The hyper-local site is now covering Seattle (and Boston and Washington D.C.)
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
TTC's new site has competition from a site build by some people who attended TransitCamp
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
Good analysis of how Toronto's media online covered an explosive news story
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
The crazy 8s
A script that helps a page maintain its typographic rhythm
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
Some very simple CSS can create the flick navigation in Safari on the iPhone
Advice on making a search result do what it needs to do
Similar chart as seen in NYTimes infographic, but this is interactive and in HTML
Topic: Web Design
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
Not, not the marketing kind, the JavaScript kind
Delicious has dropped its Web 2.0 spelling and has under went a radical makeover
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
Ladislav Sutnar's 1960 booklet demonstrating letterhead design
Topics: VoIP, Web Design
Some very clever cultural plays in the Canadian Film Festival posters
FontShop's Web-based tool allows you to build simple, modular fonts quickly online
Topic: Web Design
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
Had he lived, the man who inspired Canada with his Marathon of Hope would have been 50 years old today.
And Fake Ouimet (a.k.a., Joe Clark) hit his stride
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
Remarkable photo essay detailing the recovery of hundreds of presumed stolen bikes
Are there more murders in Toronto than in past years?
Being both an Internet and a movie geek lets you create a entertaining review site
Topics: Movies, Web Technology
Only Amazon would sell Paul Westerberg's latest album for 49 cents
An overview of pop art in its classic and modern forms
Topics: Web Design, Culture
From the Blackout to near blackouts, I'll always love the Communist's Daughter
But is now under the management of Fake Ouimet, a.k.a., Joe Clark
Kurt Vonnegut wrote 7 or 8 tips one should consider
Toronto's stolen bikes always seemed to end up at Igor's place on Queen West
More news outlets lifting the skirts on the core of their business
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Interesting take on my home city from a resident of a city I newly appreciate
Works both on iPhones and the desktop versions of Safari
Topic: JavaScript
Outdoor advertising in Toronto hits the bulls eye...or something
Topics: Advertising, Toronto
A very viral map of Walmarts explosive growth across the U.S.
Topics: Culture, Online Journalism
The Toronto Star launches an iPhone enhanced version as the other Canadian papers seem woefully behind
Topics: Online Journalism, VoIP
Based on a beautifully crafted master thesis, this is a brilliant repository of patterns
Topics: Web Patterns, Web Design
Some thoughts about whether Google should take over the publishing duties for newspapers online
Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines
The iPhone shows that, in interface design, less really can be more
Topics: Web Design, Usability
The iPhone API for these new events is thoroughly deconstructed.
Topics: JavaScript, VoIP
Toronto Life has shuttered its blogs and the great Doug Bell signs-off with a brilliantly layered entry
Topics: Online Journalism, Magazine
Chris Mills has done a heroic job developing a massive collection of Web standards-based learning resources
Topics: Web Standards, Web Resources
This comprehensive review was enough to convince me of this usability program's value
Topics: Usability, Technology
Interesting concept for a Twitter replacement (I'm "saila" there) - no API at launch tho
Topic: Web Technology
Colour for each of Canada's cities
Topics: Canada, Web Design
NFB, Roch Carrier, and Maurice Richard
WebKit nightly builds support a much desired CSS feature
When political agendas interfere with the news process, the names of Olympic athletes become schoolyard jokes
Topics: Politics, Journalism
Interesting concept allows you to rent magazines on a subscription
Once North America's most innovative TV station, Rogers is systematically eviscerating the channel
Rogers rate plan means my usage of the iPhone would cost me twice as much in Canada as in the U.S.
Appropriately demonstrated using a Star Wars spacecraft
Topics: Technology, Movies
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
Thirty years ago, the first product ever was checked using the Universal Product Code
Topic: Technology
Andy Rutledge goes throw the skills Web designers should have, and most are not what you would expect
Topics: Web Design, Work
A low-fi documentary about the low-fi pioneers filmed by band member Rick White
All the Lego sets ever made have been saved in one magical place
Appears that the little triangle where I live is being contested by two different neighbourhoods
They have a plan
NYTimes.com talks a bit about how Tim Russert's death was leaked online
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
A jQuery plug-in walks through CSS files to cache images to improve loading time
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
Real, water ice and MarsPhoenix twittered the news
Topics: Technology, Web Culture
June 22 marks on of Canada's darkest moments and people need to know why
Candid discussions about the dramatic new design of a Florida newspaper
Topic: Newspapers
Three videos show how Firefox renders Web pages
Topics: Browsers, Web Design
Video collage of a MySpace security process feels like the shortwave espionage broadcasts
Topic: Web Culture
Within 24 hours, Firefox 3 around a 4% marketshare (Safari has about 6%)
Toronto Web tech don profiles the terrific online invoicing service
Topics: Web Technology, Toronto
The more I look at this logo, the more brilliant I think it is
Topics: Web Design, Social Media
NYTimes.com social reading experiment is now in public beta
Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism
Jon Tangerine loving details the ways to treat a paragraph on a Web page
Topic: Web Design
Also known as the secret St. Patrick's Day
Yeahoo has added nine reputation patterns to its social-design related patterns offering
Topics: Web Patterns, Social Media
AP has got the bloggers mad and if the latter are dedicated the former may really get hurt
Topics: Online Journalism, Copyright
Not being American, the reason to Russert's death surprised me; this helps explain it
Topics: Journalism, Politics
Douglas Brown offers an honest take on the Walrus editor
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
Mathew Ingram looks at the proposed legislation, and weighs it against the U.S.'s DMCA
Wireframe stencils for a wide number of Web design elements
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
Very interesting demo of a mobile Web browsing interface
Topics: User Interface, Browsers
Travelling from Toronto's almost 40C weather to Seattle's low teens has knocked my body for a loop
Think piece from the New York Times about the need to identify oneself as a reporter
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism
On June 14, 2008 there will be about a dozen sales happening throughout the neighbourhood
Hockey Night in Canada will no longer have its iconic theme now that CTV has bought the rights to the song
Looks like a corporate site designed by committee, and lacks any personality
Topics: Web Design, Toronto
My former colleagues put together a very usable interface for browsing an electronic edition of the paper.
Topic: Newspapers
A sizable chunk Toronto's downtown highway will finally be torn down (now if only Seattle could do the same with I-5)
Easily calculate the golden mean
Topic: Web Design
A Web designers dream: four versions of Internet Explorer in one interface
Topics: Browsers, Web Design
The new browser plug-in also reveals a JavaScript API to the system
Topics: JavaScript, Search Engines
Mike Chambers demos the efforts get Flash working with 'video' in HTML5
A solid explanation on why traditional advertising models don't work online
Topic: Advertising
Google volunteers to cache popular JavaScript libraries
Topic: JavaScript
Looks like someone if try to clog the CBC with nuisance information requests
Topics: Journalism, Canada
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
Weezer's new video broken do into its 24 parts
Topics: Music, Web Culture
A clever portrait of a day rendered by the brands (and identifiably Torontonian)
Topics: Advertising, Toronto
Scott Karp shows how true online journalism can work
Topic: Online Journalism
A survey of a news editors throughout the globe on what they think online news trends will be
Topic: Online Journalism
Not really sure how this works, but it could come in very handy
Topic: JavaScript
Bell Canada has stuck a deal that lets Canadians rent movies online for too much money
News.com has a clever parsing of Twitter's explanation of its outages
Topics: Social Media, Web Technology
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
Simple how-to for viewing locally hosted Web sites in a Mac and Windows environment
Topics: Web Technology, Computers
William Morris has launched a new division called Agency 3.0
Topic: Web Culture
Nirvana is reuniting for Sub Pop's 20th anniversary show. In Redmond, WA. Home of Microsoft. No more should be said.
The best Web building site of the '90s has been resurrected
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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
The CHAC is leaving its current location and hoping to buy its own; Crave stays, though
Looking at 1950s era flash cards on Saturday, I wished for a digital version of that printed lettering - here it is.
Topic: Web Design
Explaining the power of type in political campaigns
How to visually present similarity and the relevance of a Web search result set
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
The new one strains my eyes, Bruce Mau did a far better job in 1997
A collection to fit just about any design need
Topic: Web Resources
PaidConent.org notes the amazing domain names CBS gets with its US$1.8B CNET purchase
Topics: Web Culture, Journalism
Build anything with isometric boxes jQuery thanks to Cameron Adams
Topics: JavaScript, Web Culture
One Canadian and one creator of the World Wide Web among the winners
Topic: Online Journalism
Tony Burman joins fellow Canuck Avi Lewis at the news network
Topics: TV, Journalism
Probably one of the best drama's aired on Canadian TV is returning for a couple of hours
An open compendium of the best Web practices, spearheaded by Mark Pilgrim
Topics: Web Standards, Web Resources
Curious little demo showing CSS rules plaed one by one to a plain HTML page
Topics: CSS, Web Design
Finally, the news reader is ported to Mac via Silverlight
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
No mention on the yet of the new design, but it is well promoted on Twitter
Topics: Web Design, Social Media
Impressive research on a method I once used to circumvent cross-site security
Topic: JavaScript
Cataloguing all the places in the world in one open API
Topics: Web Technology, World
But by such a miniscule amount, it is important to remember that better performance != best practice
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
Amazing (and creepy) rendering of what Homer Simpson would look like were he flesh-and-blood
A thought-provoking article on what data portability should mean.
Topics: Social Media, Privacy
Articles and links on UI and RIA design
Topics: Web Design, Usability
Facebook offers to be the holder of all your online identity information
Topics: Social Media, Privacy
The Sub Pop 20th anniversary party now includes on of Canada's best lo-fi bands
Links and resources from a three hour tutorial presented by Simon Willison
Topic: JavaScript
The new Web development tool is still an alpha but is big step forward for Opera
The Zune is finally coming to Canada! (Thus becoming the first non-U.S. market to enjoy Microsoft's iPod clone.)
The man announces his tour in a way only he could
Flickr co-founder offers some excellent advice about build online community
Topic: Social Media
Harper's government has shutdown a free database journalists, politicians and others used to find publicly available documents
BarCamper Karen Fung has posted her honour's on Transit Camp
Topics: Social Media, Toronto
At least in that they now claim to track combined mobile and PC Web use
Topics: Web Culture, Advertising
Imppressive script reads and builds HTML on the client-side
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
Nice to see user experience goals played so prominently
An unbelievable animation of Homer Simpson done in basic HTML and CSS.
Topics: Web Design, CSS
Facebook and Wikipedia do a better job informing the public than the government or traditional media
Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism
So it wasn't just me, heavy traffic did take down the Netfile site
After months of speculation and rumour Canada will get its Roger's enabled iPhone
Yahoo's new strategy should be embraced by more Web companies
Topics: Web Culture, Social Media
Think big, as the new minimum looks to be 240 x 320
Topics: Web Design, VoIP
The average Web page file size is now ore than 312Kb and calls nearly 50 objects.
Topic: Web Technology
The recipe for getting all the good data from the Wikipedia
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
After laying off its online production department, is it a surprise that TheStar.com's news coverage suffers?
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
Torontoist has an excellent overview of the short-lived transit strike.
Most definitely not a W3C proposal, but one every Web designer would love to see implemented.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
Dragonfly will be Opera's delayed response to tools like Firebug
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
nGen's doing it one cartoony face at a time.
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
Good post to counter some negative sentiment, even if 37signals has undeclared bias in the debate
Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture
Good advice on pricing the project management part of design work.
How many layers of irony can you see in the McDonald's espresso ad spotted in Seattle?
Rumours are Tob Curley will be heading to the Django-powered Las vegas Sun.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
The podcasts from the speakers at Web Directions North 2008 at our now online, and offer some great listening.
Topic: Web Design
The entire Internet production staff at the Toronto Star has been laid-off.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Facebook unveils a new service showing comparing what terms people are talking about on the site.
Topic: Social Media
Collect the Newseum's newspaper front pages into one document.
Topic: Newspapers
Similar to the Acid tests, the W3C has unveiled a Web standards test for mobile browsers -- none fully pass it.
The anonymous CBC manager who began by blogging about the strike, signs off
WebKit now does gadients, but at what price inter-operability?
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
A simple script that will dynamically request only the JavaScripts required by the page.
Topic: JavaScript
The American harcore band's coif stylings
ROM-inspired look is better than expected, especially the station name on the walls.
The Globe and Mail and the CBC are both up for one.
Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism
Seattle's amazing music and arts festival unveiled some of the performers scheduled to appear
The Web Standardista's new rap.
Topics: Web Standards, Music
Two great articles from the folks at Holovaty's hyper local company
Topic: Web Design
Good, fiction that experiments with the Web's new user experiences.
Topics: Books, Web Culture
Apparently,there is to be an International Standard for Human Centred Design that codifies user experience.
Differences between Canada and the U.S., number 301
Topics: Newspapers, Canada
Probably not new to most bloggers, but increasingly important for news sites to realize.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
An effective, well-designed Google Map mashup showing transit stops and parking lots in the Toronto area.
Topics: Toronto, Social Media
An early effort to duplicate the Mac OS's TimeMachine effect in JavaScript
Topics: JavaScript, Usability
Stefanie Posavec has created some stunning work inspired by "On The Road"
A comprehensive guide to what is and is not supported in the various versions of Internet Explorer.
Brad Neuberg helps explain what it means and explains why it is important.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Standards
A couple of my co-workers work was chosen as the NPAA's Best of Photojournalism for 2008
Topics: Work, Online Journalism
A visualization about how regions less coverage, the further away it is from the paper's base.
Topic: Newspapers
A little JavaScript that optimizes the presentation of a site on an iPhone
Topics: JavaScript, VoIP
Google leads a bold, truly open-source, community venture aiming to standardize the social graphs online.
Topics: Social Media, Search Engines
BSG prequel will probably be shot in Vancouver, allowing CBC to call it "Canadian made"
The fifth survey of journalism in the U.S. is out
Topic: Journalism
Okay, not all of them, just "Canada's Next Great Prime Minister" but it is a start.
Topics: TV, Web Technology
Four commercials from the 1970s shows how amazing ads could be
Topic: Advertising
A patent filing from Apple showcases some innovative new interface ideas.
Topics: Technology, Patents
Magazine hopes to stave of competitors by opening up decades of articles to the Web
The news site for Canada's public broadcaster finally embraces comments and recommendations.
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
JPod and the outstanding Intelligence are cancelled (the latter will probably appear as a U.S. adaption soon enough, though).
The iPhone Developer program is unveiled.
Topics: Technology, VoIP
The first Beta can now be downloaded
Need a custom icon for your Web app on the iPhone. stress no more.
Topics: Web Design, VoIP
Pownce offers a complete API that now includes the ability to post notes...but is it too late?
Topic: Web Technology
Douglas Bell is bringing his humourous voice to a new blog from TorotntoLife.com
Topics: Journalism, Canada
Tiff Fehr asks the Web standards community to help IE8 developers out for a change.
NYTimes.com demonstrates the ebb and flow of movie revenue.
Topics: Web Design, Movies
Early findings into the effectiveness of come search form layouts.
Where are form labels most effective?
Unbelievable line-up for long-weekend music fest
A new typography term.
Topic: Web Design
The screen measurement feature of this little app is worth more than all the other features combined,
Topic: Web Design
Six-alarm fire destroys some of Toronto's great, independent stores.
Rex Sorgatz talks to Adrian Holovaty about the super-hyper-local site
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Reuters' little open-source project sounds almost too good to be true.
Topic: Web Semantics
NYTimes.com has a clever, easily searchable video navigation tool for the 2008 State of the Union
BlogTO.com does a insightful analysis on the "city search" portal
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
The founding editor, Louis Rossetto, responds to a very in-depth review of the magazines first issue.
Topics: Magazine, Web Culture
And who says print is dead?
Topic: Newspapers
AOL's recent redesign shows how good design can lift the bottom line.
Topics: Web Design, Site Redesign
Shiny, and very "x" -- kinda reminds me a certain game console's logo in fact...
Topic: Web Design
Yahoo Board claims the $44.6B undervalues the company. Yeah. Okay.
Topic: Web Culture
Says Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer Platform team.
Smashing assembles some genuinely good advice.
Topic: Web Design
Toronto's new plan seems far more sensible than the one used in Seattle now
This article contains enough interconnected pop cultural references to fry KITT's motherboard.
Not a huge surprise, but IE8 is now officially being previewed this March.
Yahoo! Live enables everyone to be just like Justin.
Topics: Web Culture, TV
An excellent resource for online journalism as its practiced today.
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism Resources
Using microformats to uncover the open social network on the Web.
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
Kottke examines the manipulation o time on linear media.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Design
Holovaty's site, for me and many others, was one of the exemplary Web 2.0 sites.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
The well deserving, TorCamp muse David Crow.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
The successful TransitCamp will be mounted again, and this time will discuss transit issues in the Greater Toronto Area.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
A timely Flickr pool of bugbears in the Mac OS version of Office.
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
Deloitte's second survey on changing media attitudes amongst the generations has some good insight (PDF)
Topics: Web Culture, Advertising
Never expected to see him perform live again.
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
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
Starbucks is experimenting with $1 coffees with free refills in Seattle.
Jeremy Keith exactly sums up mine (and many other peoples) concerns over the plans to lock-in browser compatibility.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
Chris Wilson, Internet Explorer's Platform Architect, explains how IE8 plans to not break the Web.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
Reviewing all the various Microsoft campus cafes.
February 1, 2008 marks the end of AOL's support for the Netscape browser.
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
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
The Canadian Media Guild is concerned that CBC.ca is outsourcing comment moderation to Pluck.
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
The City of Toronto has a huge list of non-profit agencies accepting donations of computer equipment, clothing, and books.
Four ways to help reduce the size of the files delivered from your site.
Topic: Web Technology
Simple URL-based schema renders complex charts for up to 50,000 views a day.
Topics: Web Design, Web Technology
Forget recharging batteries, Bic wants to develop a replaceable fuel cell that can power a cell phone for weeks.
Topic: Technology
It may not be sexy, but Jina Bolton's advice one building a stable CSS suite is worth following.
The globeandmail.com now offers newsfeeds for its most read and recommended articles -- expect the best (content).
Topic: Online Journalism
Molly wonders why Microsoft is being so tight-lipped about IE 8, and Bill promises to look into it.
Quebecor leverages CBC content to prop up its "interactive" TV attempts. Ahh, the minds hired by PPK shine so bright...
Topics: TV, Web Culture
The amazing technology developed by Idée is now being used by Digg to check for duplicate images.
Topics: Web Technology, Social Media
Finally, a decent overview of the next step in the Web's core language.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
The proposed changes to the Canadian copyright law could make Canada one of the most restrictive regions in the democratic world.
"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
Accessibility expert Joe Clark explains why those tools (and, I'd add, others duplicating browser functions) are pointless.
Topics: Accessibility, Usability
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
The new look is an tremendous improvement over the previous design, and not offers comments and widgets.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
Some interesting thoughts about the business of online news from the media owners themselves.
Topics: Online Journalism, Advertising
Jay Goldman dives deep into the code and provides both an summary and an analysis of the new advertising service.
Topics: Advertising, Social Media
Wow, this compelling documentary (and the others available) shows The Globe and Mail doesn't just print words on pulp.
Topic: Online Journalism
A comprehensive survey of browsing habits suggests more than 80% of people browse at a browser width of 1000 pixels.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
Guardian Unlimited squeaked by the nytimes.com to be the top newspaper site in the world.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
Alex Faaborg, member of the Firefox UI team, goes into great and interesting detail about the thinking for the browsers new interface.
An overview of Facebook's Social Ads and Beacon (I've already unexepctedly encountered the latter).
Topics: Advertising, Social Media
Selecting (and copying) separate chunks of text at once.
Tim Berners-Lee sets out his idea on the successor to the Internet and World Wide Web platforms.
Topics: Social Media, Web Technology
Online ad spending will triple its 2006 value by 2011 in Canada, but year-over-year growth will steadily slow.
Topic: Advertising
Digg applies its unique approach to covering the U.S. presidential candidates.
Topics: Politics, Online Journalism
Another take on the current tension with the Web design community (of which Zeldman's essay is an antidote).
Topics: Web Design, CSS
Covering big breaking news via Twitter may be more effective than email/SMS blasts.
Topic: Online Journalism
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
In fine form, Mr Z. defines Web design a definition so apt, it will become the new standard.
Topic: Web Design
Struggling to figure out what to charge? This tool may help.
The new e-reader tremendously improves on other similar offerings, but the interface and display will still disappoint most people.
Topics: Technology, Books
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
Two-thousand come out to have a Friday night light sabre fight in front of the Royal Ontario Museum
Essentially, there is a new defense for lawsuits arising from the publication of a well-researched story in the public interest.
Topics: Journalism, Canada
Fairly obvious conclusion, but worth saving for evidence when needed.
Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism
As chosen by Blender and commented on by Stereogum
Joe Clark: "The more expensive an online system is, the worse its output is."
Topic: Web Technology
Discovering the selfish rules behind swarm behaviour.
Topic: Social Media
Excellent advice for developing JavaScript in a progressive enhancement way.
Topic: JavaScript
Okay not new, but as mentioned in this article, CSS3's media queries are being quickly adopted.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
The video of Tasering of Robert Dziekanski is a demonstration of how effective citizen journalism can be.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
Detailing ten new things in the version of Webkit powering Safari 3
Now Mac OS 10.4 users will enjoy a greatly enhanced browser.
With WSJ.com and FT.com going free, selling news online as a business model has been (wrongly, in my mind) killed.
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
Mathew Ingram explains how journalism can learn from the agile approach to Web development.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
One of the biggest, and oldest, online news sites in the U.S. launches its redesign
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
Internet Explorer will once again be able to run plug-ins without requiring the user to "click to activate"
A blog from the development/design team at MSNBC.com. Watch this space.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
It's not really a phone, but rather a hardware alliance using a mobile platform called Android.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Search Engines
The editor talks about the new design changes and the goals the company has for the newspaper and Web site.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
...in Japan, which could signal a future North American trend (assuming the mobile space gets worked out).
Topics: Computers, Technology
Tucson Newspapers detected banner ads that, surreptitiously, tries to install spyware on a readers computer.
Topics: Advertising, Spam/Virus
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
Nearly a decade of homepages comparing the two search giants' approaches.
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
Ajaxian aggregates the key documents on OpenSocial.
Topics: Social Media, Search Engines
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
Another non-standard extension makes its way into WebKit. Nice, but this is feeling like '97 again.
After a buzz-killingly long delay, Pownce releases the first stable API with promises of more enhancements to come.
Topics: Web Technology, Social Media
A great PHP plug-in that can parse RSS feeds for CodeIdniter among others.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Resources
Toolkit allows Web pages to become desktop applications, without relying on proprietary languages.
Topics: Web Technology, Browsers
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
Patrick Dinnen builds a compelling visualization of the 2003 election results.
The San Fransisco company offers 100% carbon neutral Web hosting service.
Topic: Web Resources
A Molson Export marketing campaign seems to suggest that but everyone involved is denying it.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada
News broke for me on Twitter, still no update on Facebook's news page
Topic: Social Media
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
Smart, simple way to use Google Maps in breaking news without any developer requests needed.
Topic: Online Journalism
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.
Realizing the positively ironic nature of the headline amuses me.
Deconstruct the hype behind widgets (and there is a lot of hype) and you can find some real truths.
Topics: Web Technology, Social Media
Mathew Ingram reality-checks a study by Matthew Gentzkow that essentially says the making news free online costs millions in lost revenue.
Jay Rosen lays out yet more ideas for making a solid online news site.
Topic: Online Journalism
A blog for marketing uses sketchy data and test to justify the worth of "click here".
Topics: Usability, Accessibility
While watching the Leopard preview, I thought about doing something like this tool JavaScript-based prompts and notices.
Topics: JavaScript, Usability
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
W3C says CSS "standard" enccompasses CSS 2.1, CSS 3 Selectors and Colors, and the CSS Namespaces.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
Joe Clark, undoubtedly the most qualified and informed evaluator of the TTC.ca Web site proposals rates the hopeful firms.
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
Gala event sees the Toronto Star win one online journalism award for Canada.
Topic: Online Journalism
Reportedly, less than a month after lifting the paywall on its op-ed section, pageviews doubled.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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
This may be another reason why the NYTimes.com dropped its paid circulation service.
Topics: Newspapers, Subscriptions & Registration
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
Sixty-two interviews with the attendees of the Networked Journalism Summit.
Topic: Online Journalism
Apparently it wants concentrate more on its Web and mobile presence. There's something wrong with that equation/
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Amazing line-up for one of North America's best Web conferences.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
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
The combined area of Wal-Mart's stores take up more space on Earth than the island of Manhattan.
Effectively, this kills the Minimo project and promises to bring the Firefox spirit to mobile browsing.
Election day comes to Ontario and the parties are dull, but the referendum on proportional representation offers hope.
This would be what people are really looking for when making column-based layouts in CSS.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
...comes the concept of a network of sites. I've seen it fail, but it does have promise.
Topics: Advertising, Web Culture
As media consolidation continues, CRTC may ignore the decline in local TV news.
Topics: TV, Journalism
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
On November 3rd, BarCampers from across Canada will descend on Montreal.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
Whether its another admission Vista is doing poorly or not, it's a good thing for Web developers.
Some thoughts against client-side load-balancing.
Topic: Web Technology
Andy Rutledge tries to improve WSJ.com's mess of a homepage.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
Lessons in interface design for mobile devices.
Digital Web has a great new article on load balancing Web 2.0 apps.
Topic: Web Technology
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.
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
FT.com is loosening its pay wall, and letting causal readers view 30 articles a month, for free.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
Sidebar Creative, the freelance co-op (a brilliant idea), talk to Digital Web about their process
Topics: Work, Web Design
Mozilla is creating a new company to better drive the development of its email client.
A new design suggest Amazon might be going back to the past to tame its tabs.
Topics: Web Design, Web Patterns
An early sIFR alternative using Silverlight.
Topic: Web Design
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
Gawker Media is letting readings follow particular commenters on its blogs.
Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism
Thirteen guidelines on how to use tabbed navigation.
Topics: Usability, Web Patterns
Although the Daily Me isn't yet here, it's not stopping news outlets from experimenting.
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
Poke the tires of Idée's amazing visual search tool (iPod for the bst 5 results).
Topic: Web Technology
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
Eleven years before Vannevar Bush's seminal essay, Paul Otlet proposed any even more Web-like vision.
Topic: Web Culture
Mark Evans looks at why investment in Canadian start-ups is dangerously non-existent.
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
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
France's Le Monde has launched an impressive Digg-style news service called "Le Post"
Topic: Online Journalism
When Princess Diana died, CBC experienced the same traffic surged many sites faced six-years ago today.
Topic: Online Journalism
Sometimes, if important information is overly-designed, and poorly placed, it can get lost.
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
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
John Allsopp offers a comprehensive explanation of what semantic mark-up is and how it works.
Topics: Web Semantics, HTML
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
Twelve real lessons from online newspapers as editors reveal the successes and failures.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
Jack Shafer talks about how the inside pages of a newspaper are of more value now.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Clive Thompson riffs on reputation management when it comes to online news.
Topic: Online Journalism
So will Rogers brings an official one to Canada or will we will Canucks need to hack it?
Topics: VoIP, Technology
Let the users play on the secondary pages, but keep the primary ones under in-house control.
Topics: Social Media, Web Culture
The entire 85-game schedule is to be streamed online and will include pre/post-game shows.
Electronic editions of newspaper serve no-one but the circulation figures (possible exception: those like NYTimes Reader)
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Electronic editions of newspaper serve no-one but the circulation figures (possible exception: those like NYTimes Reader)
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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
The Globe and Mail is now embedding contextual GMap within articles.
Topic: Online Journalism
HD View plugin, which allow you to view super-high resolution images, is now available for Firefox
Topics: Browsers, Web Technology
Another excellent tutorial from Simon Willison, this time explaining the strengths of jQuery.
Topic: JavaScript
Code standardizing one's coding style improve the Web for the better?
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
Mini-tutorial for setting up IMAP in Apple Mail
Topic: Spam/Virus
Seems Google is experimenting with a way to allow the subjects of a news story to comment on it.
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
Seems Google is experimenting with a way to allow the subjects of a news story to comment on it.
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
More and less than a template, I think this concept could catch on.
Eric Meyer urges everyone to resist designing mobile Web apps just for the iPhone.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
The New York Times is reported to be ending its online subscription service
Looks like the folks at Mozilla are looking to make scripting languages like JavaScript and Python a browser plug-in.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
The digital music store that, with its selection, prices, and DRM free music, puts iTunes to shame.
Almost there, one more step and CSS 2.1 is official.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
Making Internet Explorer respect the W3C DOM3 Event recommendations.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
An Albertan computer professor has, after 18 years of computations, had proved checkers is impossible to win.
A collection of multi-touch interfaces proposed by Apple over the years.
Blue Flavor creates a very clever iPhone gateway and templates for a number of Web apps.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Web Technology
Joe Hewitt explains a new AAjax framework for use in building native feeling iPhone Web apps.
Topics: Web Technology, Phone/VoIP
Google is letting map-based mash-ups reside on its site, in a clever effort to consolidate traffic.
Topic: Search Engines
An overview of the somewhat surprising (yet excellent) nominees for 2007's Polaris Music Prize.
Nearly 50 million unique visitors went to the site in May, according to Nielsen//NetRankings, ironically.
Topic: Online Journalism
Online metrics to be measured by time spent, not page views, but same problems still apply.
Topics: Advertising, Web Culture
Jakob Nielsen offers some good advice on how to be an expert.
An easy way include "of part of a document into another document by reference" using JavaScript
Topic: JavaScript
A Ruby-based tool that finds all the CSS selectors not used in the specified HTML files or URLs.
Small tutorial on using the Google Gadget's API
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
A Canadian "TechCrunch" reviewing Canadian startups and hoping to build a community around them
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
BlogTO releases its neighbourhood guides as for the offline visitor (map included!)
An extension to the JavaScript Prototype library offering some nice unobtrusive scripting additions.
Topic: JavaScript
Some shows have begun using Skype as an alternative to satellite video feeds
Topics: TV, Web Technology
The formerly Premium Pipeline service is now free, and welcomes user-submitted video
Topics: Online Journalism, TV
Pro version of feed tracker is now available as part of the free, base package
Topic: Web Technology
From some smart minds comes a very killer Web app.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture
The two big American tech reviewers praise the iPhone (which passed the typing test) criticizing only the AT&T network
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Technology
Includes templates for Visio, OmniGraffle, and OpenOffice
Topics: Web Patterns, Usability
Sunir Shah turns profiles of young Canadian tech entrepreneurs into a trading cards series
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
Some demos and explanation about which CSS3 features Safari supports (apparently, 2x as many as Firefox)
There's a new Web Inspector in the nightly builds of WebKit (Safari) that functions a lot like Firebug -- worth a look.
Mobile browser offers some impressive features, and can be installed on any mobile device
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Browsers
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
Ryan Feely and Jakub Labath created a portable version of Toronto restaurant reviews.
Topics: Toronto, General Resource
Journalists and author of "Black Hawk Down" offers some good ideas on where he thinks journalism should be going.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
New site is cleaner, with lots of whitespace and a good effort to bring its disparate parts together.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
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
Or, “Widget Enabled DOM Javascript Embedding” for embedding little apps on third-party sites
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
Rogers and Apple seem to be in no rush to bring the latter's mobile device to Canada
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada
Dave Shea nails the problem with Web apps on mobile devices in Canada
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada
A number of great tips from a very experienced presenter.
Web app and Dashboard widget for suggesting the right entity code based on the character inputted.
Anne van Kesteren has created a draft list of the differences to be found in the new HTML proposal.
Topics: Web Standards, HTML
Jared Spool loves how Yahoo Finance encouraged its users to try its new charting services.
Topics: Usability, Web Design
AGO's online art gallery that encourages user submissions and social networking.
Topics: Web Culture, Ontario
Jeff Jarvis on how to radically reinvent the news sites homepage.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
A Google Map mashup tracking Ireland's DART rail service
Topics: Web Technology, Web Technology
The Web accessibility expert is done being an expert. We all owe Joe more than we will ever acknowledge.
Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards
The proposal is to be finalized in the coming weeks and uses WCAG 1.0 as a foundation.
Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards
Simon Willison explains how to make local news profitable.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
The news sites homepage catches up with the business redesign of a few weeks ago and offers far more content.
Topics: Work, Web Design
Facebook may be opening up to allow companies to offer its services directly to Facebook users.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
A nice overview on "Applegate" and a comment on how we all need to adjust to idea of blogging as journalism.
Topic: Online Journalism
Patrick H. Lauke offers some thoughts on how the Web browsers themselves handle accessibility.
Topics: Browsers, Accessibility
Head of the public broadcaster's Web operations "had achieved what [she] wanted"
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
Though click-through rates may be declining, the ads are excellent at improving brand awareness.
Topic: Advertising
A honest and insightful essay about online community, and what the JPG fallout really indicates.
Topic: Web Culture
Developer release of what could be an official Firefox release with Mac OS X form controls.
David Crow joins the company's Canada arm as a Senior User Experience Advisor.
Another redesign, and this time its Snook with a massive overhaul that is very impressive.
Topic: Web Design
New look and direction all set on a nice grid.
Topic: Web Design
Preview of My Telegraph
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
It's all about POSH
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
Offers a summary of criticism, but ends on an up note.
Topics: Newspapers, Work
What HomeSite coulda been, had HomeSite continued to be developed app, and done so for the Mac.
Topic: Web Technology
Bill Doskoch on the transitional design for the Web site timed to coincide with ReportonBusiness.com
Topics: Work, Web Design
Ironically, the new Web site is getting better props.
Topics: Work, Newspapers
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
Cross-domain RSS mash-ups made possible on the client-side. Where was this nine months ago?!
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
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
Typical mix for Canada's new media awards
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
Simply, intuitive, brilliant. And Paul Ford explains why all the tables.
Topics: Web Design, Magazine
Great article on handling and responding to "unforeseen projects or tasks that tend to come from nowhere"
A technique to reduce HTTP requests by combining multiple CSS or JavaScript calls into one.
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
Apple, Mozilla, and Opera are proposing the WHATWG's HTML5 be the starting point for the W3C's new HTML
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
Google Maps tells you how (with step 26 being key)
Topics: Toronto, Search Engines
JibJab on the state of the news media.
Topic: Journalism
Joe Clark has extracted the renderings of the street furniture proposals and posted them on Flickr.
Finally: some hard data to counter the perception people only scane text while reading online.
Topics: Online Journalism, Usability
Redrawing the world according a range of economic and social measures
Selections include Radio News, World at Six, The House and some podcast-specific offerings
Canada's newspaper readership in the top markets is stable, and more than 17 percent read an online edition.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Excellent overview of the journalism industry as it heads into 2007.
Topic: Journalism
Doc Searls offers some smart advice for improving newspapers fortunes online
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
A comprehensive summary of Apollo (and WPF/E) and what it means for Web app developers.
Topics: Web, Technology
Brian Fling's ebook on Web development for the mobile world is available as a free download.
Topics: Web Technology, Phone/VoIP
A JavaScript library that makes sure every browser does the DOM scripting the W3C way.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards
Snook does an excellent comparision of the two PHP-based MVCs
Topics: Web, Technology
As detected by CSS and JavaScript (this version has a nicer UI than the original)
Topics: JavaScript, CSS
It looks like Quebecor's free, daily newspaper mortally is wounding it's paid-circulation tabloid.
Topic: Newspapers
This nails a nasty little trend I've been seeing quite frequently.
An overview of Web-based tools for planning, budgeting, and developing projects.
Topics: Web, General Resource
Useful for any CSS developer looking to figure out what 0.625em actual is.
First draft due this summer, final recommendation 2010. Expected adoption: 2015.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
The browser vendor is proposing a new element for video in HTML5. What OBJECT doesn't work for you?!
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
Three top guns from three top browsers talk DOM in this Yahoo Video.
Topics: Browsers, JavaScript
Bout sums it up
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
More predictions on the death of the newspaper in the face of online news outlets
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Reuters plans on launching a social networking service
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
For all those TextMate users who do JavaScript work, this is for you.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
Canada's "Web 2.0" conference has just been announced for this year.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
A wiki-to-book project documenting how to do unconferences.
Topics: Web Culture, Social Media
Use to rotate images, add drop shadows, and other effects simply.
Topic: Web Design
The unbiased take on video may help newspapers beat television on the Web.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Pretentious, possibly. Illustrative, definitely.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
Smart personalization with tags at Pegasus News
Topic: Online Journalism
The Business Software Alliance sent out about 60,000 "notice and notice" e-mails to Canadian internet users last year
Move from eight DVDs to one, fast hard-drive.
Topics: Magazine, Technology
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
How meta.
Topic: Online Journalism
To be released on Windows, Macintosh and Linux, Netscape 9 will be built by Netscape and based on Firefox.
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
The WaSP presented it's "must-fix" list for IE to Microsoft and the reception was positive.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
iTunes plug-in that generates a concert calendar for your city based on music in your library
Bloggers get the previously closed RFP for revamping the TTC Web site reopened.
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
Clever test to embed audio files using only JavaScript
Topic: JavaScript
Smart people often seen at the BarCamp events put together the best proposal yet for a new TTC.ca
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
One of the best on this arcane, but powerful area I've found.
Topic: Web Technology
If everyone followed these (with possible exception of 14), the Web would be much better.
Topics: Usability, Web Design
The Wired flag run in the magazine and online for years, has been tweaked and "improved"
Topics: Magazine, Web Design
Clever new Web app from Yahoo using Flickr tags to picture a mapped location.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
StatsCan has released a free report analyzing the revenue of flow of newspapers in Canada since
Topics: Newspapers, Canada
Ironically, CBC Radio 3 and Brave New Waves pushed to the for-pay satellite service in effort to attract younger listeners to Radio 2.
Toronto will be saved from the hideous mega garbage bins as they get pulled from the streets in the coming weeks.
The Gladstone Hotel had an open-house to showcase its renovated interior and artist-created rooms.
The Ontario Municipal Board has approved the (West Queen West) soul-destroying condos in Toronto's artist/gallery strip.
Neil Lee asks (and learns) how to get TextMate to use HTML numeric entities instead of the named ones.
Greg Linden puts Findory on autopilot, thereby ending development on the first major personalization news site.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
It's sort of like the Guardian's comment is free, but one that is still getting its legs.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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
CBC’s RealTime was the first Canadian entertainment show streamed over the Internet (coincidentally, using the RealAudio network)
Topics: Online Journalism, Radio
The latest WebKit build now supports CSS3's multi-column properties.
The Globe and Mail profiles one of West Queen West's best little bookstore.
You know what, even if it is retcon, it makes a lot of sense.
Invited local bloggers to discuss ideas for creating a network to host neighbourhood specific content.
Topic: Online Journalism
The beta 3 offers better ability to isolate style rules and smarter source view.
Topics: Browsers, Web Design
Simple and effective Google Map created by CBC.ca of the world's top 15 conflicts
Topics: Online Journalism, Politics
And the HTML/CSS support is abysmal.
Topics: Email, Web Design
Move the noise of the bookmark/history/Sage reader sidebar from the left to the right of the browsing window.
Google Maps mashup shows the best way to get around the city using rail/subway routes.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
This could be the device that finally pulls my into the mobile world.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Technology
Digital Web Magazine is running an article that outlines how to make your HTML the best it can be
Luke Wroblewski collects some examples where a small group of Web users makes most of the content.
Topics: Web Culture, Usability
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
Albert Lai's done it again -- sold a great service for some nice cash.
Topics: Web Culture, Toronto
The big Toronto blogs are collecting suggestions for improvements to the horrible Web site for the city's transit system.
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
Tod Maffin uses Google's spreadsheets to create a calendar of historical CBC events
Hands-down, the best map of city-wide transit anywhere.
Could it be that "Web 3.0" is the implicit Web? There's a good argument to be made.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
A simple comparison of BBC's top stories and the most read ones.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
Customizable, Ajax-y, and packed with good data.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
A Wall Street Journal reader dissects the new design in a video done in the spirit of the unboxing videos.
Topic: Newspapers
Some think Google has gone too far with its new "tips"
Topic: Search Engines
A list of the new tags proposed by WHATWG for HTML5
New site host a site for sharing and finding tips on CSS issues.
Gets rid of its past CMS in favour of something cleaner (called "TOPS"), has user comments, and short URLs!
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
Firefox 3 Alpha 1 now passes the Acid 2 test.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
The Globe and Mail has gotten what may be its first YouTube-based reader response to one of its articles.
Topics: Newspapers, Web Culture
Globeandmail.com commentors react to the surprise choice for the new leader of the Liberal party.
Comedian and political animal Rick Mercer observes the Liberals at the Montreal convention.
The news dep't is refocussing on local news once more.
Jack Shafer explains that the industry new it was in trouble three decades ago.
Topic: Newspapers
An interview with Calvin Tang (Newsvine) about truly personalizing the news
Topic: Online Journalism
Microsoft releases a virtual PC image that doesn't require another copy of Windows license to run the two browsers.
How geeky is this (and, yes, the irony of such a comment is intended)
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
The Antikythera Mechanism was a complex astronomical computing machine from around 100 B.C.E.
Digital Web has a great tutorial on how to encode Flash video for the Web.
Topic: Web Technology
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
NBC's nightly news benefited from it, and now a new TV comedy is being phrased as "branded entertainment".
Topics: TV, Advertising
Steve Outing wonders wear the real video, blogs, classifieds, and interactivity is.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
Applying the broken windows theory to the Web can make a big difference.
Topics: Web Design, Web Technology
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
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
Helpful walk through for what really is a simple process
Topics: Computers, Web Technology
New Brunswicker blogger/journalist was wrongly arrested for obstructing justice.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
For free, unless you're OpenOffice.
A PHP framework that uses Prototype to aid in Ajax development.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology
Digital Web Magazine is giving way a free pass to the conference to the creator of the best snowboard design.
The Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit is available to companies to develop digital extensions of the print versions.
Version 1.0 looks to combine all my most-used extensions into one unbeatable debugging tool.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
Or sometimes not. Kottke looks at how podcasts still feel like radio talk shows.
Topics: Web Technology, Radio
Joe Clark proposes a coherent use of typography for the City of Toronto
The first steps are being taken to make the programming language open-source.
Topic: Web Technology
Aza Raskin argues the Web 2.0 toolkits may actually be hindering interesting developments online.
Topics: Usability, JavaScript
Can an investment portfolio focused on companies with good user-experience beat the indexes?
Test your Web site to see how mobile friend it might be (and love the irony of the TLD used)
Topic: Web Standards
Blake Crosby shows, on a CBC blog how to subvert the site's business model
Topics: Web Design, CSS
Jack Slocum has developed a very clever means to comment on any block of text on a page
Topic: Web Design
IEBlog explains how the new browser and the popular screen readers behave together.
Topics: Browsers, Accessibility
A follow-up to the responses generated by the first article.
Topic: Web Design
Excellent comment on the importance of type in Web design
Topic: Web Design
Technorati tracking 57 million blogs, with 100,000 being added each day
Topic: Web Culture
Google experimenting with putting its ads in the U.S.'s top newspapers
Topics: Advertising, Newspapers
Poynter released a study that confirms a good journalist is a a good journalist, no matter the medium
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
As voted on by a about dozens of Canadian music writers, bloggers and radio hosts.
Some features appeared in Firefox 1.5 to help improve caching and load times.
Topics: Browsers, JavaScript
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
The curtains has been lifted on a Web operating system build by Firefox's key drivers
Topics: Web Technology, Browsers
Browser now an automatic update for Windows users (let's hope they accept it)
Charged with obstructing justice, Charles LeBlanc claims he covering the event like a journalist for his blog.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
Roughly speaking, that's a 100-fold increase in less than a decade.
Topic: Web Technology
Carson Systems experiments with non-Microsoft office products and reports on the results
Topics: Computers, Web Technology
An ambitious plan to document the open-source Web framework online
Topic: Web Technology
The Quebecor-owned cable company for transmission fees to cover digital shipping and handling
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
A great essay and analysis of the prime minister's fight with the press gallery
Topic: Journalism
Canadian newspaper circulation continues to drop while the Web sites visits increase
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
How Web 2.0 is really all about push again, and why it may not be so bad
Topic: Web Technology
Vitamin offers some instructions on (easily) making a searchable Google Map
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
The story behind Massachusetts carpenter winning score of 830
The father of the Web responds to criticisms about the W3C and suggests how standards will evolve.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
Sign-up up for the Vancouver-based conference and save $200.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
Browsershots will take a image of a Web page in nine browser based on a number of different conditions
Topics: Browsers, Web Resources
Adobe's new Apollo software will allow the easy creation of rich Internet applications.
Topics: Web Technology, Computers
Essentially, Bell Globemedia sells to its part-owner Canada's biggest job site (and cash cow) for $115 million
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
BarCamp, BlogTO and Amber MacArthur amongst the picks.
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
According to a industry survey, 7% less Canadians have downloaded music over the past 4 years.
PDF, and now HTML or paper
Topic: Web Culture
The man behind feed (and a few excellent books) is back in the online content business with a new twist on geo-tagging
But you knew that already -- so here's Mitchell Baker's thoughts on the release.
Canada's "Web conference" returns in Toronto on May 30 and 31, 2007
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
Instead of burying Toronto's urban highway, why not embrace it?
The online media news site gets a new, contemporary look.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
The Globe and Mail exposes what was behind the dismissal of the Toronto Star's publisher and editor
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
Covers from the past issues of the magazine about Toronto.
Wired News reporter, Kevin Poulson, has open-sourced his scripts to crawl MySpace looking for sex predators.
Topic: Online Journalism
Release would make two notable browser releases in a month.
Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area can now earn a badge for preaching the evils of downloading.
Canada's TV Guide is closing its print edition to live exclusively online.
Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism
Less than 24 hours after release, Secunia finds a security breach.
...If ever last one of us disappeared right now.
The longtime CBC reporter is leaving to be Global's Washington bureau chief
This is could make things interesting.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology
Install Internet Explorer 7 as your default browser, then use this package to run IE 3 - IE 6
Get the looooong awaited new browser Microsoft.
A Ruby+JavaScript app that can generate heatmaps based on the users clicks
Yahoo offers a simple, yet clever way to identify a login screen as one of its own
Topics: Web Technology, Security
The Mozilla Developer Center documents the new version of JavaScript shipping in Firefox 2
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
Torontoist calls out The Globe and Mail for sneaking some non-WCAG friendly alt text into a photo gallery
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld Heather Robertson's claim The Globe and Mail wrongfully sold her writings to elecrtonic databases.
Topics: Journalism, Canada
Blake Crosby explains how articles are served on the CBC Web site
Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism
Richard Bloom talks to an ad buyer for a unique, and insightful take on the Canadian news industry.
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
The ROM's nascent blog was dead on arrival because, rumour has it, the marketing department didn't get it.
Topics: Web Culture, Ontario
Opera's CTO offers some insight into the future of the number three browser.
Need a Tims? Don't know where one is? Use this. (Works for Starbuck, too.)
Microsoft says it will be released in October with autoupdates being pushed out weeks later.
PaidContent reports on the winners of the online journalism awrds for this year.
Topic: Online Journalism
For 2006 and 2007, Ajax looks to be big.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture
Had a bit of a hand in this site -- which holds a lot of promise.
Topics: Work, Online Journalism
Torontoist's Marc Lostracco quickly designed brilliant some T-shirts inspired by Toronto's transit service.
Clever CSS-based hack to get euqal columns, not sure how extensible it is, but still...
Topics: CSS, Web Design
Yahoo is now allowing other sites to use its user IDs for browser-based authentication.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology
Designed for Firefox interface developers, Leak Monitor also finds things leaks on the Web.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
A spectacular photo taken on September 17.
Looks like a tiny bug got caught in the scanning process used form Google Maps.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Culture
Looks like the Toronto Sun wants to drop the bikini-clad institution
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
The famed Web conference is coming to Vancouver in February 2007.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
Great review of the basics offered one a-ha moment: objects and associative arrays are the same thing.
Topic: JavaScript
Toronto is considering naming the strip of Queen West that runs past CITY-TV, between John and Duncan Streets, Moses Znaimer Way.
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
The user experience guidelines for Microsoft's new operating system will help shape many people's interface expecations.
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
Covering the public spacing issues during the run-up to the November 13 election.
Best pick overall (and no doubt, the best one politically) from a very loaded field.
After all these years, I finally get it.
Topic: JavaScript
In this case, Google Calendar, but the steps showed be followed by any online initiative.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Design
Mr. Hyatt tries to explain why monospaced fonts can look smaller than proportional fonts.
Topics: Web Design, Browsers
Geoff Teehan adjusts the design of globeandmail.com to improve the homepage design.
Topics: Web Design, Work
A proposal for making alert messages more usable.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
The short: ":first-child+html" will only target Internet Explorer 7.
Once again, it's possible to launch a standalone version of Internet Explorer 7
Coverage (in the downtown core) is free for the first 6 months, about C$30/month afterwards.
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
Adrian Holovaty offers a large manifesto to which I can only reply: ditto.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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
Lots of data on what newspapers are doing online, with some interesting recommendations
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
37 Signals summarizes some of John Sawatsky's famous interview advice.
Topic: Journalism
Nothing left to say for the blog tracking how media is trying to attract a younger audience.
Topic: Journalism
No Canadian outlets make the cut.
Topic: Online Journalism
Jeff Crofts is aksing Apple and Windows to make the new Vista typefaces available on other platforms, too.
Topics: Web Design, Computers
Modeled on The Guardian's offering, this is a very smart initiative.
Topic: Newspapers
Wired News has done a story on wikis, in a wiki, and is inviting users to improve it.
Topic: Online Journalism
Sure it's for targetted for Internet Explorer 7, but the advice is worth listening to no matter the browser.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
Newspapers now get the Internet (and the dollars from it), but they still may not be doing enough.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
The Economist wonders who killed newspapers and offers some analyis on the various suspects.
Topics: Newspapers, Journalism
Mark Glaser breaks down "oldthink" and "newthink" in the media, and — despite the Orwellian-like terms -- offers some good insight
Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism
Comprehensive change-log of all the CSS fixes to be found in Internet Explorer 7.
Some JavaScript libraries that bring the improved vector graphic functionality (already in Firefox and Safari) to Internet Explorer
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
Of the 61 percent of Canadian households online, most are using it everyday to get their news.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
Blogs about the Mother Corp. were almost non-existence until management locked CBC employees out.
I still remember encountering the first pages using FutureSplash...
Topics: Web Design, Web Technology
Everything you need to know to use JavaScript debugger.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
Firefox 2 will embed updated information into a site bookmark.
It's a question everyone has asks, and Blue Flavour provides some good answers.
Topics: Work, Web Design
Colors on the Web looks to be much friendlier than most.
Topic: Web Design
Adrian Holovaty's work at the washingtonpost.com helps it score multiple nominations.
Topic: Online Journalism
The woman who defined modern urban planning died today.
This is the official, not preview, of Beta 2.
Dave Hyatt proposes a new way for Web sites to support both high- and low-resolution displays.
A massive collection of the clips from Seasme Street video clips for perfect to sink into a retro coma with.
Reading the comments on a post about fighting top-posting seems to suggest that's become the de facto standard.
Topic: Spam/Virus
Mr. Whitespace discovers how to make the social networking site more aesthetically pleasing.
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
Mr. Whitespace looks at what makes the social networking site so successful.
Topic: Web Culture
From the snippet I saw (which was used to show how Cokie copied it), it looks pretty good.
A nice demonstration on how a accessible, and standards-based map can be built.
Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards
Joe Clark rages against the lackluster technical quality of a Canada's wannabe Webby∍s.
Topics: Web Standards, Canada
Very, very cool.
Quick, standards-based Web development tips.
Topic: Web Standards
Television on your cellphone will be a wild realm where the CRTC will not tread.
Topics: TV, Phone/VoIP
The Online Journalism Review does a Q&A with Len Apcar, the editor in chief of NYTimes.com.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
An insightful discussion about an interesting article on how Google corporate operates.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Culture
The Canadian edition of Time will be produced without any staff working in Canada.
An art project that ties Flickr, Google Maps and Toronto together.
Topics: Web Culture, Toronto
Anatimoia hosts 4,500 full page plates and illustrations created from 1522 to 1867.
Topic: Web Design
BlogBurst will begin syndicating commentary from 600 bloggers to newspapers.
Topics: Web Culture, Newspapers
The Globe and Mail calls it reimagination, Tim Porter calls it reinvention.
Topics: Newspapers,
A guide to how Particletree develops Ajax apps.
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
The shows will be available on the Web the morning after they air and will have unskipable commericals. Could work.
Headline style has been slowly altered by the search agents scouring the digital world.
Topics: Online Journalism, Writing
The newspapers public editor comments on the ethics around blogging.
Topics: Online Journalism,
A draft specification from the W3C for the technology that makes Ajax work
Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards
Nice design, and as valid as valid can be for a commercial site.
Topics: Web Standards, Magazine
It's so good, he's cancelling his print subscription.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
GMail is the worst, and HotMail wants the style to be in the body.
Mark Boulton demonstrates how a print-friendly style sheet can be more than just an afterthought.
Topics: Web Design, CSS
A detailed overview of where Web 2.0 is at, and where it's heading.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology
On April 5th, see the beauty beneath the skin.
Topics: Web Standards, CSS
Reason #451 to dislike the Harper government.
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
Wired has a gallery of Apple’s products over the past three decades.
Christian Heilmann writes a treatise on why DHTML is not DOM scripting
Topic: JavaScript
This release officially replaces my belvoed DOM Inspector as the best Web development tool ever.
Topics: Web Resources, Browsers
The beautiful irony of comment from a globeandmail.com reader comment sums it all up.
After looking a gift horse in mouth someone’s going to end up looking like a mule.
Topic: Web Culture
It’s wide and fairly minimal.
Topic: Web Design
Social Tech Brewing hosts a conference on how to get the next Toronto election more Web-friendly.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
The editor of The Guardian opines on what the newspapers need to do to survive.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Bill Doskoch summarizes some of the drastic changes the new Prime Minister wants to enforce on the press gallery.
Topics: Journalism, Canada
Online demo of how retouching makes the real hyperreal.
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
A Torontonian takes a wander through Calgary; while a Calgarian does the same in Toronto.
Palu, an award-winning photographer with The Globe and Mail, documented his time with Canadian military there.
Internet Explorer Feedback is a bug database for the browser that Redmond built. Good on them for doing this.
The donut and coffee chain jumps 40% in its market debut.
The editors of globeandmail.com do a questions and answer session with the readers.
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
Organized by smart people, with presentations by even smarter ones, mesh looks to be a very good conference.
Topics: Canada, Web Culture
Ringer T-shirts created in Canada with Web standard messages.
Topic: Web Standards
The online news site dips its toes in the tagging waters by letting users post a story to del.icio.us.
Topic: Online Journalism
Silk Icons offer 1,000 nice icons convering nearly every conceivable need.
Topic: Web Design
Lightning 0.1 is the first release of the calendar for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
This developer release showcases the first tentative steps Firefox is taking as it hits 2.0.
The IEBlog explains what you need to do to get this rendering-engine complete version installed.
Well, fiddle me timbers, the Cape Breton fiddler insists he’s making a genuine run for the Liberal leadership.
Take this page on IBM. Play with it for about thirty seconds. Ask yourself: why would I go anywhere else?
Topic: Search Engines
Service would offer trip times and station locations for the Toronto transit service.
Topics: Toronto, Search Engines
An older (2003) essay, but an excellent one examining group dynamics online.
Topic: Web Culture
CSS Tweak has a nice interface, but if you already use shorthand properties, the savings aren’t great.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
The WYSIWYG Web page editor from Google isn’t that bad…
Topics: Search Engines, Web Design
The second TorCamp will be taking place May 13 or May 14, 2006. Sign-up now.
Topics: Web Culture, Toronto
A categorized list of some of the various Web 2.0 products out there.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture
For Purina, done in 1981.
Third annual report is an incredibly in-depth report on all the major jounalism media.
Topic: Journalism
The MIX06 release will be the full-fledged Beta 2 with the final version coming in November.
John Battelle makes the case for an oft heard concept: spin-off Microsoft’s non-traditional assets.
Topics: Technology, Search Engines
As complied by Big Blue.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Resources
Chris Casciano offers up an HTML document with all the elements ready for your CSS tests.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
The downtown WiFi service will be aimed at business and will likely be available to anyone through a monthly subscription.
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
Designs include products from both Mircrosoft and Apple.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
A interesting analysis of the community and media trend as it relates to Web 2.0.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
Google maps the Red Planet.
Topic: Search Engines
A first for a Windows browsers, but the browser still does weird things.
Interesting piece using News Corp. and MySpace as a hook for a larger, emerging trend.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Looks like Mozilla Corp. (via Firefox) made tens of millions through its Google search.
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
The Wireless Toronto representative shares his feelings about Toronto Hydro’s WiFi plans.
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
Toronto’s transit service proposes a new pass that could double as an e-cash-holding smart card.
The review is generous yet conflicted, and it echoes my reactions to Newsvine, as well.
Topic: Online Journalism
Cross-browser, cross-platform support is accepted in mark-up and styles. Now comes scripting.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards
Mark Hamilton looks at the Canadian newspaper blogging effort and finds it lacking.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
The Houston Chronicle gets a lot of praise for its extensive blogging efforts.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
In light of the news about Toronto Hydro’s plan to offer WiFi hotspots, Spacing recommends Wireless Toronto.
Topics: Web Technology, Toronto
Rumour has it, this fall Toronto Hydro will turn the city’s entire downtown core into a WiFi hotspot.
Topics: Web Technology, Toronto
Spacing thinks breaking the Queen streetcar line into smaller bits would help improve service.
Reveal, Web Developer and Firefox Showcase take top prizes.
A hand built editor and DOM explorer for Internet Explorer
Bell Globemedia looking to do an IPO this fall.
Topic: Convergence
Alessandro Fulciniti launches Layout Gala: 40 CSS-layouts in one template. Superb.
Topics: CSS, Web Design
Alessandro Fulciniti launches Layout Gala: 40 CSS-layouts in one template. Superb.
Topics: CSS, Web Design
A new beta of Internet Explroer 7 is apparently being released and MIX06, and possibly on MSDN later. It sounds very good.
Internet Explorer gets an unwanted upgrade thanks to the Eolas patent.
Topics: Browsers, Web Patents
Nicholas Campbell and Chris Haddock discuss the death of the Da Vinci franchise.
The CRTC will allow Canadians to pick-and-choose they channels they want.
According to The Wall Street Journal, The Globe is being saved by its crazy front pages.
Topic: Newspapers
Globeandmail.com is hosting an online debate with its readers and MPs from three of the four parties (the gov't opted out).
John Doyle savages the CBC’s recent decisions about TV drama.
Bill Doskoch does some digging to see what turned Ms McLaren off blogs.
Topics: Web Culture, Newspapers
Joe sums up the events of the first of what I hope will be many DesignSlams.
The New York Times profiles Toronto’s band of bands.
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
The publisher of The Wall Street Journal will merge its print and online operations. Now it’s a real trend.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Freakin’ impressive hand-drawn MS Paint image.
Topic: Web Culture
Salon examines the newspaper industry∍s reach the youth demographic.
Topic: Newspapers
Canada’s public broadcaster has cancelled the only two dramas I watch anymore: This is Wonderland and Da Vinci’s City Hall.
Arcade Fire’s 2004 album is nominated, but only for a video and songwriting. Other nods are more comfortably mainstream.
The less famous Adaptive Path spin-off (the most famous being the term “Ajax”) is now a Google product.
Topic: Search Engines
Apparently its a feature, although the memory doesn’t seem to be freed once tabs are closed.
The pre-cursor to Firefox has finally hit 1.0.
Jack Shafer comments on how technology has always forced the newspaper industry to evolve, often unwillingly.
Topic: Newspapers
Jeff Jarvis’s series on how to reshape the newspaper.
Topic: Newspapers
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
Steven Garrity explains how to best include Scalable Vector Graphics in a Web page.
The best extentions for Firefox 1.5. The two I can’t live without are Sage and Web Developer.
Involves making a small batch file, but it seems to make running the new Internet Explorer fine.
Nice collection of dynamic events. Perhaps to become the de facto library?
Topic: JavaScript
I like the model of C-, A, and X-support. Been using it for years, but this explains it all.
Nice patterns established by Yahoo!
Topic: Web Patterns
It’s funny #8217;cause it’s true; still no “Spadina Bus”
Behind the loud intro is a wealth of resources for creating multimedia journalism online.
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism Resources
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
This is a pretty clever solution to the three-column + footer layout test.
Like the title of the page says, it’s Microsofts record of Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7.
The css-discuss community was set-up a Wiki page to dissect Internet Explorer 7.
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
The Editor-in-chief of the newspaper introduces the new Web site.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
Okay, what do we think?
Ironically, when the CSS Zen Garden launched I (and Doug Bowman, I think) misspelled Shea’s name.
Topics: CSS, Web Culture
Watch some of the best documentaries, for free, on the CBC’s fifth estate site
Google has analyzed the HTML used to build the Web pages of the world, and the results are quite interesting.
Now out of an ridiculously long beta, Google News is now offering recommended news stories.
Topics: Search Engines, Online Journalism
The latest beta of Internet Explorer (supposedly the one with the fixes) is now in the wild. Officially relase to come?
Let the horse race begin. Will it be Ignatieff, Stronach, a Chrétien-ite?
Looks like the NDP did as good as they were hoping this time, and their members will help keep the Conservatives in check.
Damn, damn, double damn.
Wiki, meets Google Map, meets poll of the Canadian election.
Track the country, a province, or region by riding during the 2006 Canadian election.
Follow your riding in the 2006 Canadian election.
And if you need some help picking the best party (ahem, not Conservative) use this tool and discover which party platforms you agree with.
FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax.
Topics: Browsers, JavaScript
Ben Goodger outlines the plans for 2.0, which involve only user-interface enhancements.
The Canadian New Media Awards site fails to meet any of Joe Clark’s criteria.
Topic: Web Design
Very simple little JavaScript that does exactly whatever I never had the time to build.
Topic: JavaScript
Now if only Opera would follow suit…
Years ago I dipped my toes in these waters. Colin Lieberman goes deep.
Topics: HTML, Accessibility
The Digital Universe feels, in everything, almost a decade late.
Topic: Web Culture
His typically colourful analysis argues that our democracy is teetering on the brink.
I am really, really hating IE right now, but this debugger may improve my temperament slightly.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
HTML and CSS output look to be almost as bad as the stuff produced by FrontPage.
Topic: Web Standards
Michael Kinsley examines newspapers and muses on their future in this excellently written commentary.
Topic: Newspapers
A logo change and some feature changes are in store Monday on Canada’s public broadcaster to make it more “cool”.
I know its a PR stunt, but c’mon…
One of Canada’s greatest 20th century poets has died.
Some stats to back-up a lot of anecdotal evidence. Those under 40 read online news, not newspapers.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Emulating canvas in Internet Explorer.
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
This is a very elegant way to do this, a much cheaper than some offerings.
Topic: JavaScript
His minimal, grid-heavy look could slowly bring some needed improvements to the Grey [sic] Lady’s site.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
Mainly search related, but still relevant to the general online world.
Topics: Web Culture, Search Engines
Hypergene MediaBlog disects tthe latest Niewman Report on citizen journalism.
Topic: Online Journalism
Although The Globe and Mail got some ribbing about it, this is exactly its doing.
Topic: Newspapers
Most Canadian ones are doing one or two, but none are doing all nine, yet.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
I saw a demo of iRex Technologies’ reader (which uses e-Ink) and it is impressive. The business model, though, sucks.
Topic: Technology
Eric Meyer shows another way to create semantic bar graphs.
Overall it gets a C, with eBay seen struggling.
Topic: Web Technology
Rob Lord planning potential iTunes-killer to be based on Mozilla
The tax on recordable compact discs and other recordable media will stay until 2006 at least.
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
Great collection of articles, resources, and tutorials on Yahoo’s products and on JavaScript itself.
Topics: JavaScript, Web Resources
Molly encourages designers to go beyond the table-inspired grid.
Topics: Web Design, CSS
Another nice demo what can be done with the canvas element.
Topic: JavaScript
Not quite ChicagoCrime, but this map of toronto homicides is a start.
Topic: Online Journalism
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
The Toronto Star has launched a ne wblog to speak to its reader about its Web site. Very smart.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
The Ontario government finally allows T-dot to make its own decisions.
Kim Seiver and Jay Gilmore have sparked a passionate discussion about creating a Canadian-based Web design conference.
Topics: Web Design, Canada
Interesting comparison of the newspaper business to what has happened to the computer since the mainframe.
Topic: Newspapers
Luke Wroblewski and Jed Wood come up with intelligent ways to improve the findability of content in blogs.
Topics: Usability, Web Design
WebTwenny will revolutionize user-focused experiences.
Topic: Web Design
Covering IE 6, Firefox 1 and 1.5, and Opera 8.5
An comprehensive guide to what makes some fonts better online.
Topic: Web Design
Richard Rutter unveils a beautiful resource about displaying words and letters online.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
Online journalism will not compete on par with printed newspapers articles for the first time.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
The University of British Columbia’s journalism school launches an ethics watchdog Web site.
Topic: Journalism
No surprise as almost anyone whose anyone is doing it. Bird flu, lifehack, and sudoku were among the runners up.
Freelance writer Heather Robertson’s case against The Globe and Mail over electronic rights, finally makes it to the Supreme Court.
Topics: Journalism, Canada
Mistakes in code and design the one can make while building Ajax-based apps.
Topic: JavaScript
Andreas Bovens argues for Web standards on mobile sites.
Topic: Web Standards
The Wikiepedia is under attack; Web 2.0 is under a backlash, but masionneuve argues there is still hope.
Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism
Lots of data crunched into some nice slides. Worth browsing.
Topic: Web Culture
Microsoft will be changing the way its browser handles embedded multimedia within a few months.
Topics: Browsers, Web Patents
THough Alex Bosworth says Ajax, and means DOM scripts, his advice is solid.
Topic: JavaScript
Rocketboom asks New Yorkers which they prefer — its charming and quirky.
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
WebDrive claims its an FTP client that acts like a virtual drive. Nice.
Topic: Web Technology
Mathew Ingram sounds off on a deal that he feels leaves the company in continued limbo.
Topics: Convergence, Work
Woodbridge and Torstar are buying Bell Globemedia — I woulda thought the former would have got The Globe, the latter CTV.
Topics: Convergence, Work
All of the predictions are safe, although some are a bit dated.
Topic: Web Design
The twelve weekly shows will be available through Guardian Unlimited starting December 5.
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).
Use all but the last “bonus” function ” but I may soon.
Topic: JavaScript
And the improvements over version 1.0 are well worth the download.
The commercial site for Mozilla has launched (in time for the 1.5 releases of Firefox)
Topics: Web Design, Browsers
The man who popularized CSS workarounds sounds-off on the current state of affairs.
Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie use CSS to create a printed book.
Canada’s music bloggers, writers and critics pick the hottest in 2005. No real surpises, but all quite genuine.
Ethan Kaplan reimagines a newspaper as a dot-com shop. Radical, but real (for some papers).
Topic: Newspapers
Ethan Kaplan reimagines a newspaper as a dot-com shop. Radical, but real (for some papers).
Topic: Newspapers
Buzzword bingo for the new boom.
Topic: Web Culture
It’s funny ’cause it’s true!
Topic: Web Culture
A peer-reviewed online journal about, well, usability.
Now you can specify the number of words or type of elements to be automatically created.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
Adrian Holovaty makes his mark (again) by open-sourcing the washingtonpost.com site.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
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
Network may use search engine to distribute video.
Topics: TV, Search Engines
Protest over privacy threat results in a nearly 10-metre long credit card statement.
A newish feature makes the breadcrumb/page title/navigation bar act like a command line. Not completely intuitive, but works.
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
Robert X. Cringely speculates about the future of Google, its strengths, and why everything may just work out.
Topic: Search Engines
John Allsop continues his noble efforts to bring patterns to the wild Web.
Topics: Web Patterns, Web Semantics
John Battelle opines in The New York Times on how to do Web 2.0 right.
Topic: Web Culture
Tabinta lets Firefox users use the tab key within a textarea.
No joke: The U.S. Patent Office approved Boris Volfson’s “concept.”
Topic: Web Patents
Rumour has it Windows Vista’s Beta 2 is being delayed, meaning the new browser version may be, too.
Why big companies have a hard time innovating, and how that can be fixed.
Topic: Technology
In one app, preview and edit CSS in two browsers.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
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
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
In the first two months, the number of people paying to read nytimes.com is huge (even after newspaper subscribers are substracted).
Mike Davidson’s new project could explode (in a good or bad way) — it has some very smart grounding.
Topic: Online Journalism
As predicted, more networks are selling old shows on-demand, for cheap. Are you listening, CBC?
The three national wireless service providers have a agreeded to support a standardized system of wireless payments.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada
Politically progressive webzine rabble.ca launches a hub for like-minded podcasts.
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
A clever little script automatically loads up waiting elements with some generic text.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
Maybe it’s jsut funny because I don’t use Opera or maybe it’s perfect satire.
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.
John Allsop crawls the Web and finds some truly odd choices for class and id values.
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
Punk broke in 1991, and eight years later, Sonic Youth’s sound was broken when their equipment was stolen. Now it’s coming back.
Not sure if it is “the ultimate” but it seems quite comprehensive to me.
Topic: JavaScript
This is a smart move, and will be the big trend in media for 2006.
Topics: Web Technology, TV
Via, via, via, Chris Wilson repsonds bluntly about the expectations around IE 7.
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
The Kingston Whig-Standard’s breadcrumb trail has a nice symmetry. (Thanks Angus)
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.
Blog-like updates at The Globe and Mail.
Gomery assigns blame (in Chapter 16 of his first report) to Guité as well as Chrétien, Pelletier and Gagliano. Martin cleared.
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
Listen to the half-hour talk which took place during Web 2.0.
Topic: Search Engines
To those in charge: CBC Radio is not a commerical enterprise, it is a public broadcaster.
This is it — coverage of a so-called scandal that will be the cause for the next election.
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
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
A good overview of the popular Web 2.0 JavaScript libraries (formerly known as DHTML libraries).
Topic: JavaScript
CBC president Robert Rabinovitch falls during his Heritage Committee testimony.
For its fourteenth birthday (has it been that long?), Eye gets a full-colour redesign (but the site is awful).
Topics: Newspapers, Toronto
Alex Robinson tackles CSS layouts using floats and builds a totally flexible layout.
Douglas Bell provides a beautiful takedown of a hilariously misinformed The New York Times review of Broken Social Scene’s latest release.
Yes, a blog about the small, crazy magazine industry in Canada.
Lots of nice little fixes across the board, with the browser moving closer to the Firefox app behaviour.
Don’t really get what’s going on here yet, but others think it rock solid.
Topic: JavaScript
The magazine that always seems to die, only to be reborn, is dead again.
Haven’t played with it at all, but will be using this new way to add events universally.
Topic: JavaScript
A better solution to presenting footnotes can be easy in CSS.
Topic: Web Design
Some days, I must admit, I agree with Mr. Ford’s stated sentiments.
Topic: Web Culture
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
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.
IEBlog asks CSS developers to stop using hacks, but the logic seems a bit fuzzy.
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
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.
This Free iPod banner doesn’t want you to hit the monkey — it invites you to sound of on the war in Iraq.
The music industry benefitted from the iPod — now its the newspaper that needs a hot gadget to help its survival.
Topics: Newspapers, Technology
The world’s first literary prize devoted to “blooks”: books based on blogs or websites [sic],
says the site.
Topics: Books, Web Culture
Marc Weisblott finally convinced the Toronto Stat to do a real blog covering the city.
Topics: Online Journalism, Friends
Andy Clarke simplifies CSSselectors for Star Wars fans.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
Another Internet Explorer CSS bug explained and fixed. Posting mainly for its suggestion of word-wrap: break-word.
Also offers a day pass. Interesting stuff.
Topics: Web Design, Web Standards
CBC will return in all its beaten glory next Tuesday. Hockey Night in Canada will be back for Saturday, though.
Steven Johnson uses a very apt metaphor to describe the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
Topic: Web Technology
Andrew (Waxy) Baio announces Yahoo’s purchase of the event site.
Topic: Search Engines
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.
Hate seeing a branded icon for your HTML or MP3 files? Try these.
Use a “softphone” to transform almost any device into a telephone.
Topic: Phone/VoIP
Examines how to support CSS3’s multicolumns using JavaScript and how to split lists.
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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
Good range of nominees, including work by The Globe and Mail’s Stephanie Nolen and Joel Corda.
Topic: Online Journalism
Dean Edwards has crafted a clever way to initialize events before “onload.”
Topic: JavaScript
This I did not know: PHP was apparently created by a Canadian (as was Java).
Topics: Web, Technology
Joe Clark digs up some research that says longer may be better.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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
Looks like the trial free registration was no trial. Opera is free, including its newest version, 8.5.
Aaron Gustafson riffs on how best to display URLs in a printed Web page.
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
Don’t know which non-music blogger mentioned this, but it was funny then. Pitchfork’s take is scary brillant.
Dan Goodin explores what random playlists really mean, and whether that’s what we actually want.
A defence of one of my personal favourite punctuation marks.
Topic: Style & Usage
Marko Dugonjić has built a snazzy online tool for comparing how two differently set types appear online.
Topic: Web Design
Microsoft releases a Web developer toolbar that mimics Chris Pederick’s, and is available for IE 6 and 7.
Topics: Browsers, Web Resources
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
A mob-blog from a free tab? Are they mad, or just buzzing up the same market as Virgin?
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
The British Guardian unveiled a massive redesign the likes of which may be coming here in the coming years.
Topic: Newspapers
PPK makes an all the paragraphs on the page editable by transforming them into textareas. Clever and simple.
Topic: JavaScript
Adrian Holovaty and his ChicagoCrime.org wins $10,000 Batten Award.
Topic: Online Journalism
The auction site owns PayPal, and just bought skype for a huge sum. VoIP is hot this year.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Web Technology
This is why David Miller is the greatest — the mayor of Toronto actually rode the subway back to work carrying a giant promotional cheque.
LIke the title says, there’s an opening for a developer in Toronto who breathes Web standards.
This is a beta beta, but the reviews are pretty solid so far. Developers download and check it out.
Bell Canada is finally offering VoIP to its Toronto-area customers (like me!). Bah.
Topic: Phone/VoIP
As expected, CanWest is turning its newspapers and interactive media into a trust. Missing: the National Post, which spurs further speculation.
Topics: Newspapers, Convergence
The Globe and Mail is letting readers submit their reviews of films in the Toronto International Film Festival.
Topics: Movies, Online Journalism
Great S5 slideshow explaining how to use Firefox for Web development — includes pointers to some very worthwhile extensions.
Topics: Web Resources, Browsers
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
A List Apart publishes a offers a great resource for debugging JavaScript effectively.
Topic: JavaScript
Are Canadian content rules even relevant anymore, when every computer gives onregulatable access to a world of music?
Some good, and simple, advice about writing; put the ending first.
Google Maps has updated its coverage to include images from the devastated city of New Orleans.
The Internet Explorer development team looks to be adding, wisely, CSS 2.1 support only in strict mode.
Markus Mielke explains what Internet Explorer means when it uses “hasLayout” — quite informative.
Canada’s biggest job site redesigns and offers a employer/job seeker login option.
Topic: Web Design
Canada’s magazine world is very small, so the story of Kim Pittaway’s resignation from Chatelaine is rich with juicy gossip.
Marc Weisblott is getting a greatest Torontonian-type project underway an wants your help.
Finally, the TTC is offering a transferable weekly and monthly pass starting September 1.
Version 0.9 is the last feature release before it moves to beta and final.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
A PHP counter for FeedBurner.
Topic: Web Resources
The browser is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is letting people register for an ad-free version (good marketing move, too).
The former staff of CBC’s Toronto morning show return to the airwaves Labour Day morning.
Sometimes they never learn: PPK tries again to be the master of convergence.
Topics: Convergence, Online Journalism
The Web imitates life in this unfathanobly awful (official) Web site for Toronto’s new mega garbage bins.
Topics: Web Design, Toronto
The senior executive producer of the CBC Documentary Unit opines on the lockout in a biased, but balanced opinion piece.
Some advice from Jon Friedman on how to improve on the current host of business magazines. (Canadian Business already does a lot of this.)
Nine photos of the massive collapse of Finch Avenue during the recent storm.
Have an iPod that displays photos? Get the map to Toronto’s subway system (or about a dozen others).
More details on Jeff Chapman’s life and death. He will be missed.
Ninjalicious , a pioneer of urban exploration, has died. Not sure, not sure when, but he was a underground (pun intended) cultural icon.
Some company has completely ripped-off Chris Pederick’s amazingly useful Web Developer extension and is sellingit to Internet Explorer users.
Scaring Skype, and spreading Gmail to the masses.
Topics: VoIP, Search Engines
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
The Globe and Mail runs an insightful (if incestuous) article about video online.
Topic: Online Journalism
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
The Tyee has the story about the site the locked-out CBC workers built to keep reporting the news.
Topics: Online Journalism, Radio
Designed for the projects with the Virtual Museum Canada, this online guide can be used for developing general online projects, too.
Topic: Web Resources
The man who essentially gave birth to electronica by inventing synthesizers that turned electric currents into sound has died age 71.
A new MSDN feature that could help give some tips on working with the popular browser.
The guys at silverorange muse about governement Web sites, and create a wiki for their home province in the process.
Jon Friedman applauds the New Yorker’s decision to use Target as its sole advertiser; others moan.
Topics: Magazine, Advertising
Some documentation explaining how tabindex works on every element in Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer.
A new law will give police and national security agencies new powers to eavesdrop on cellphone calls and monitor the Internet activities of Canadians
.
The American satellite radio companies got a sweet deal mine Canadians pockets. We, however, got very little in return. Ask PM² to stop it.
Slawko Klymkiw, the man behind much of the innovative features on CBC is leaving said Mother Corp.
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
Ian Stevens puts Toronto’s subway stations on Google Maps.
Gecko 1.8 will provide Firefox’ JavaScript engine with a bunch of new, and helpful, methods for the Array object.
Topics: JavaScript, Browsers
The Eyeopener has a rare, in-depth profile of fellow alumni, Christie Blatchford.
Topic: Newspapers
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
Maclean’s will be running an article detailing the news that Leonard Cohen is broke.
Touted as the the easiest way to develop asynchronous Ajax applications with PHP
. Filed for future reference.
Topic: JavaScript
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
Canadian journalism’s de facto spelling guide, Caps and Spelling, allows “fuck” to be spelled out.
Topics: Style & Usage, Journalism
Laying aside it also brings an anniversary and a birthday, there are about a dozen solid Canadian releases coming out.
The funding system for Canada's education post-secondary education system is a mess and we need desparately to fix them.
Mark Glaser talks with Martin Nisenholtz and Bill Keller about The New York Times dreams and plans.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
CBC could face a long and ugly strike or lock-out of almost all its employees Monday.
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.
Here’s a clever way to do sIFR as a duotone.
Topic: Web Design
Ditching radio and TV in favour of the Net; CANOE, CBC.ca, and CTV.ca most popular sites for Canadians.
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
Canadian police and security services are worried about the difficulties in tracking VoIP calls.
Topic: Phone/VoIP
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
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
They should be obvious, but best to read these mistakes just in case.
Topics: Usability, JavaScript
This one’s a developer-centric netwrok for jobs, essentially. If you join, add me as a connection.
Topic: Web Culture
Speculation is that this taxable entity may have been created, in part, to work with Google (and I’d add Nokia).
Surprisingly, Safari already has the support for multiple backgrounds.
BlogTO does an great job summarizing the news from the air crash in Toronto.
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
A Web search and some careful listening helped me produce this audio file and annotation of the Toronto air crash today.
BlogTO looks into why the Legion shut its doors to the Toronto music and the Queen West communities.
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.
If I didn’t pull my TV signals from the air, this would be a very cool device.
Topics: TV, Technology
Dave Shea checks for CSS improvements in Internet Explorer 7 and finds few.
The editor of Grenboro’s News & Record posts some smart standards and practices for its blogging journalists.
Topics: Online Journalism, Writing
The Mozilla Foundation’s follow-up to DevEdge is now, finally, online.
Topic: Web Resources
Microsoft offers some tips — heretofore unkowne to me — on improving page load times.
Topics: HTML, Web Resources
Mistake? Prank? Either way Mircosoft’s Virtual Earth shows a small building where Apple’s sprawling campus should be.
Topic: Web Culture
A collection of Unicode characters supported on Windows, at least.
Topic: Web Design
CBC employees voted in favour of a strike if they don’t have collective agreement by mid-August.
Frank is returning this September and looks to be run by someone named Peter Scott, in Newcastle, Ontario.
A temporary patch has been issued to disable a serious security vulnerability in Greasemonkey announced yesterday.
very week, a new tip to make one’s site accessible is posted on this consultancy site.
Topic: Accessibility
The WaSP takes on scripting with its new taskforce (and blog).
Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards
A(nother) Web framework for rapidly devloping complex, database-driven Web sites — this one by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison.
Topic: Web Technology
A California company’s transferring its development lab to Halifax, after finding it too hard to retian staff in India.
Topics: Technology, Canada
Clever coder and designer Dunstan Orchards packs it in while giving it all away.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Resources
Toronto-based stories in “Canada’s national newspaper”.
The Atom syndication format has been submitted to Internet Engineering Task Force.
Topics: Web Technology, Web Standards
This mock-up of what a keyboard would look like if it dynamically changed based on what function the keys represent is trés cool.
Eric Meyer’s HYDESim illustrates what a Hiroshima-sized nuclear explosion would do to downtown Toronto.
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
The Internet Archive is being sued for storing copyrighted material. Expect more like this, soon.
Topic: Web Culture
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.
Looks like the new Copyright Act could make everything Google does (including pointing to copyrighted documents) illegal.
Topics: Canada, Search Engines
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
The revamped site will offer free access to 25,000 video clips and encourage users to create their own newscast.
Topics: Online Journalism, TV
Almost three-years old, this is the best dynamic, degradable slider I’ve encountered yet.
Topic: JavaScript
A slick little tool for check the accessibility of a colour contrast scheme.
Topic: Accessibility
Although still a bit primative, this is exactly the kind of thing online journalism can do exceptionally well.
Topic: Online Journalism
On July 11, 1995, the first Web site of The Wall Street Journal launched.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
CNET turns 10 and celebrates by looking back over the past decade.
Topic: Web Culture
PPK confirms a JavaScript best practice is also the fastest thing to do.
Topics: JavaScript, CSS
A Web service to generate Edward Tufte’s simple word-sized graphics.
Topic: Web Design
A bit rought, but a very clever way to identify exactly what street your looking at in that satellite photo.
Topics: Usability, Search Engines
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
Experimental, “clicks considered harmful” interface that makes a good art project but a troublesome user interface.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
Toronto’s very own public space activists blog the city.
Toronto is trying to harmonize its street specs, and is asking for its citizens’ opinions. Spacing Wire explains.
A spectacular interactive report by Stephanie Nolen about the crisis, and the hope in Africa.
Topics: World, Online Journalism
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
The Web Standards Project … is collaborating with Microsoft to promote Web standards and help developers build standards conformant Web applications.
Topic: Web Standards
This amazing Ajax app showcases what can be done with valid mark-up and some client-side magic.
Topic: JavaScript
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
LJWorld.com’s cyber-savant is heading to Florida to head the Naples Daily News
Topic: Online Journalism
Evokativ has 12 designs encapsulating Canadian history.
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
Ingo Chao (whose site is simple, and elegant) has dissected the cause of many of IE’s layout problems.
ChicagoCrimes shows a disturbing concentration of arrests around, ironically, Humbolt Park.
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
The Globe and Mail has published Stephen Williams’ correspondence with the killer — the cuteness her letters is macabrely ironic.
The news aggregator entry into Canada should make some media companies worried.
Topic: Online Journalism
Broken Social Scene play Dundas Square courtesy of Toronto Unlimited.
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
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
Dean Edwards (again) releases his very borad syntax highlighter for code examples on Web pages.
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
Dean Edwards has a pretty efficient JavaScript compressor available at his site.
Topic: JavaScript
Written in the second person (difficult to pull off) the intro sucks you into an enagaging profile review of the author and his work.
Nathan Weinberg reports on some of the features in this program which once cost a bundle.
Topics: Technology, Search Engines
From a Slashdotter comes a helpful tip for a big pet peeve.
The new brandmark for Toronto is unbelievably awful.
Sure, the wikitorial failed by using a wiki to collabratively do the grunt work of investigative journalism could be interesting.
Topic: Online Journalism
Eight DVDs containing searchable electronic reporductions of every New Yorker from February 1925 to February 2005 will be available in September.
Not sure when they launched it, but its one of the few Canadian mainstream media properties to have RSS.
Topic: Web Technology
Worthy of praise even were it not for my rant a few weeks back!
Topic: Web Standards
How that iconic photo of murdrer Karla Holmoka came to pass.
Topic: Journalism
If you know the name, visit, elsewise you probably won’t get it.
Learn the ways of the Farm from Obi-Wan Cannoli.
Clive Thompson nailss the reason why the L.A. Times wikitorial experiment failed.
Topic: Online Journalism
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.
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.
Your one-stop shop for microformat specifications (including such hits as XFN and hCard).
Although targetted for those writing Greasemonkey-like scripts, it has some good tips for normal scripts.
Topic: JavaScript
Sure for CHUM it may be sour grapes, but the point about a lack of exposure to Canadian music rings true.
Cineplex is buying up the Famous Players movie theatres — can you spell monopoly?
Seems to cover a lot of items designers and developers are starting to need.
Topic: JavaScript
Smart move to service a need, but booksellers shouldn’t fear.
Topics: Books, Web Culture
Eric A. Meyer explains a child selector-type rule that works in Internet Explorer
A fan makes a tribute video to the greatest rawk song ever!
Should be interesting to see how that goes over with its audience.
Topic: Subscriptions & Registration
The National Post will no longer be delivering printed newspapers to the Rock, only those horrible “e-paper“ ones.
Topic: Newspapers
The New York Times covers the Webby winners for 2005.
Topic: Web Culture
Dean Edwards comes up for a client side solution to yet another Internet Explorer bug.
Eric Reguly thinks BCE is ready to sell the company I work for, Bell Globemedia.
Topic: Convergence
This is a big coup for the Mother Corp. and should help to reinvigorate the online journalism game in Canada.
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
Blimey, that's quite clever. Surprised no one found out Apple’s Mac OS X could run on Intel since day one.
Colourizing Toronto’s abandoned bikes.
Web-Graphics surveys what the future holds for JavaScript.
Topic: JavaScript
Bob Woodward explains how Mark Felt Became “Deep Throat”
Topic: Journalism
ICANN approves a worthwhile top-level domain.
Topic: Web Technology
Tantek has created a quick and easy tool for creating to hCards, and points to an hCalendat and hReview creators.
In its Deep Throat scoop, the magazine forgets about the online-side of things in a very 1998 way.
Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism
Just in case anyone is interested…
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
Jeffrey Zeldman, the man who brought “Web standards” to the forefront, celebrates 10 years online.
Topic: Web Culture
A little style guide designed to show the basics of semantic markup.
The W3C explain the reasoning behind and the features of XHTML 2.0.
Most versions of the Microsoft browser will no londer by supported by the company after December 21, 2005.
Anne highlights the changes to the latest draft XHTML 2.0 draft — seems a step backwards…
Eye asks what I’ve always wondered, too: why do subways still stop before last call?
Ms Z. is suggest the gossip magazine is being resurrected by its former owner as an online publication.
Topics: Online Journalism, Magazine
Essentially, IE 7’s tabs will behave as Firefox and Safari do.
The online magazine’s revenue model seems to final have got its groove.
Topic: Subscriptions & Registration
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
The Internet Explorer team suggests users uninstall Netscape 8 because of an XML issue.
The Globe and Mail sums up the current copyright fight in the music fans world.
Peter de Jager, former Y2K consultant, argues for micropayments instead.
Mark Pesce, in Mindjack makes the arguement that piracy can be good for media.
More than thirty tips about the database language.
Topic: Web Resources
One HTML file to rule them (i.e., CSS designs) all.
I was thinking about doing something like this myself, but once again A List Apart beats me to the punch.
Topic: JavaScript
The script now corrects almost all of Internet Explorer’s CSS bugs.
An unpublished play by Jack Kerouac has been discovered.
Non-traditional news sources seem to tilt Google News’ biases left.
Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines
This is personalization circa ’96 with nothing more than a smoother interface. And Canadian info is hard to get.
Topic: Search Engines
A mini-map to each subway station in the TTC.
A Canadian Federal Court of Appeal decision says the industry can sue people who share music online, but it won’t be easy.
Online DVD rental business goes to the little guy.
The browser that won’t die now has two heads.
Eric Meyer explains how the microformat can be changed into an iCalendar file.
Questions are a bit skewed, but worth taking to see the results.
Topic: Online Journalism
In anticipation of subscription content, the site tweaks it pages and, visually, makes them worse.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
Making you own DTD may not be such a good idea after all.
…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
Antonia Zerbisas does the media blog thing and John Sakamoto’s Anti-Hit List is part of the podcasts.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
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
Simon Willison has some concerns about the release of IE 7’s user agent string.
With this release, the image replacement technique also gets its own page on Mike Davidson’s site.
Topics: Accessibility, Web Design
The browser can now claim the one with the best standards support.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
Or as the headline of this column speculating on newspapers being bought by dot-com companies suggests, The Google Street Journal.
Topic: Newspapers
In Canada, the RadioShack brand is being replaced by a clunky new name: The Source By Circuit City.
The NDP now (almost) hold the balance-of-power.
Bill Doskoch offers his insight on The Globe and Mail’s article on the struggle with online newspaper revenue.
This idea floated in The New York Times cries for a Google Maps Greasemonkey script.
Intuitively highlights elements, and lets you manipulate them on a page.
Topic: Web Design
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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Jon S. von Tetzchner has begun what will likley be an uncompleted trans-Atlantic swim.
True it is still finding it’s legs, but the problems Wikinews is encountering won’t surprise the skeptics.
Topic: Online Journalism
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
Chris Wilson says PNG transparency support is in place, as are fixes to a couple of notable CSS bugs.
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.
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
A.k.a., Web Applications 1.0, the spec may one day be the future.
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
[E]ducation, training for workers, and the environment are more important than this scandal
.
After a troublesome takeover (and subsequent censorship), the Canadian indie crowd leaves 20hz en masse.
One of the most valuable seminars I had in j-school was in typography and this is a great refresher.
Topic: Web Design
Let the privacy nuts sound off, but this is very, very smart of Google.
Topic: Search Engines
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
Looks like this e-commerce thing has finally caught on in Canada.
Topic: Web Culture
In September, Torontonians will be able to share monthly and weekly transit passes.
A slightly inside joke for those that know my dog, for the rest, some good, free music.
A temporary mirror of this great resource is now online.
Topic: Web Resources
Been playing with the beta for a while, and can safely say this is a very good release.
The guy who “transformed” the El Mo plans to overhaul 20hz
Tagging and better online stock data coming from AP.
Topic: Online Journalism
Print and broadcast suscribers will now have to pay for the AP feeds they have received free for a decade.
Topic: Online Journalism
The Globe and Mail presents a glowing overview of Firefox and Thunderbird.
Jack Layton offers Paul Martin a shoulder for support.
Recipes for obliterating the planet Earth.
Holy graphics powerhouse, Batman. Your one-stop monopoly for your pixel pushing needs.
Topic: Web Design
Peter-Paul Koch notes the bug fixes in the latest Safari upgrade.
Google Maps may reveal what Mulder and Scully long searched for.
Nice effective real estate Web app combining the best of both sites.
John Barber advocates downtown tolls to help pay for the expansion of the TTC.
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
Mr. Robinson redesigns his entire site and produces something I like much better.
Topic: Web Design
According to this survey, Opera, surprisingly, comes out on top.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
As promised the new site is coming, and it looks very nice — clean, open, and standards-based.
Topic: Web Design
His new cable channel (formerly CBC’s NWI) will be heavily based on the “open-source” television show, ZeD.
The tremendous renovation that resulted in the home of Toronto’s 51 Division wins.
Google News gets a story Mark Washburn wrote published in The New York Times.
Topic: Newspapers
At almost $240 a year (U.S. I presume), watch a lot of the little groups whither.
Topic: Web Culture
No browser I’ve seen comes close to rendering it.
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
The late CBC Radio 3 is amongst the nominees, as is the Subservient Chicken and BCE.
Topic: Web Culture
The Web site I helped launch nine years ago, relaunches.
My alma mater’s infamous (and best) school paper, the Eyeopener, is being threatened with “third-party oversight.”
Topic: Newspapers
The TTC, and much of Toronto, looks like it will be shutdown come Monday.
Russell Smith nails it when he speaks of the media’s reaction to Pope John Paul II’s death (or the Gomery inquiry).
Jeff Veen talks about how Big Brother is us and we best be smart about what we do with the power.
Topic: Web Culture
Jean Brault’s testimony legally published at globeandmail.com
Derek Powazek explains (and he being a non-MSMer, may it carry some weight).
Topic: Online Journalism
Tops the U.S. and twenty others; myself, I’m pretty satisifed, too.
Topics: Canada, Web Technology
Canada’ ATIA needs updating; let’s hope it’s for the better.
But this kind of move is what makes me reticent to visit the U.S.
Songs are among 50 recordings marked for special preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress.
Not like I should be surprised, but wow… Google Maps now uses Keyhole’s satellite imagery,
Topic: Search Engines
Combining the Times’ RSS feed with comments from the blogosphere. Clever.
Toronto’s one-time new-media darling (a.k.a., Digital Renaissance) gets the full-treatment at globetechnology.
Topics: Web Culture, Toronto
New to me, too. Noticed sIFR uses this, so I figured I best get up to speed.
Topic: JavaScript
Mark Glaser exposes how the newsie Yahooligans operate.
Topics: Search Engines, Online Journalism
Five pages on how the next generations news consumption habits will change what news is.
Topic: Journalism
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day proves it.
Topic: Technology
A new extension/patch for Firefox to block all pop-ups — help’em test.
Watch your Gmail limit climb throughout the day to 2GB and beyond.
Topic: Search Engines
Drama and sports watching drops, and young people seem to prefer being online rather than watching television.
A rough Web mini-application for creating Post-It-like Notes. Some tweaks could make this very useful.
Topic: JavaScript
This little JavaScript + CSS demonstration could greatly improve Web applications.
Topic: JavaScript
One of the developers Gecko#8217;s implementation explains the ins and outs of columnized layouts.
Art school-esque experiment “blurs the boundaries of the Web and real life.”
Topic: Web Culture
Ten years on, online journalism hasn’t reached its imagined potential.
Topic: Online Journalism
An ABC columnists talks about why he doesn’t miss the printed newspaper.
Topic: Newspapers
Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) Roméo Dallaire, former T.O. mayor Art Eggleton as well as a few Conservatives become PM²’s first
From a brief glance, it looks like the act will tone-down a lot of the rhetoric suggested by the Canadian Heritage Standing Committee.
The spawling site has an idea that seems to difficult to implement.
Topic: Online Journalism
The Firefox browser’s security update is released.
Yahoo has a version of its search that targets Creative Commons licensed material.
Topic: Search Engines
Could it be, the geek news behometh is entering the standards-age?
Topic: Web Standards
The W3C considers making a binary XML format.
Topic: Web Standards
This is a minor update, covering security fixes.
An analysis of how Yahoo’s Flickr purchase may change the whole search game.
Topic: Search Engines
The Secretary-General of the United Nations explains the five Ds.
OurMedia will host open-licensed videos, music, photos, and other rich media content for you.
Topic: Web Culture
Only works on Google.com, but a great enhancement from Adrian Holovaty.
Topics: Search Engines, Browsers
The little Vancity Web app goes bigtime.
Topic: Web Technology
Dean Edwards explains that the problem lies within the Trident rendering engine.
Topics: Browsers, Web Standards
Hixie explains the changed status of recommendation titles.
Topic: Web Standards
Rumours are flying, but it looks like IE 7 wil lcontinue to eb the only major browser not supporting CSS 2.1.
Some very nice serif, sans-serif, and monospaced faces to be released in 2006.
Topic: Web Design
An homage to MacOSX’s Dock.
Topics: Search Engines, Web Design
Ensuring IE7 does what it’s supposed to.
The New York Times has a pretty open anyalysis of the problems facing newspapers in print and online.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
http://complexspiral.com/events/archive/2005/sxsw/
Topic: Web Resources
Go now, Web developer, and download this wonderous tool.
Topics: Web Resources, Browsers
CBC Archives remebers was one of my favourite, and most personable anchors.
Microsoft developers play some more with a social bookmark manager.
Topic: Web Technology
Microsoft developers play a Web-based RSS reader. Interesting...
Topic: Web Technology
Toronto, bizarrely, is on the way to bar postering in the city.
A year-long lobbying effort has paid off: the Globe has finally launched a pretty decent RSS service.
Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism
Theres more of them and generally, their even richer, Forbes finds.
The Mozilla Suite transition plan will surely ruffle some feathers, but it makes sense (this from a longtime Suite defender).
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
Reorder the pages or add your own section.
Topic: Search Engines
The publication will be a show case for the school’s online-journalists-in-training.
Topic: Online Journalism
The Online Journalism Review launched a series of wikies targetted to non-professional journalists.
Topic: Journalism Resources
Media appeal an Ontario court ruling that could threaten free speech and [the] development of the Internet
Topics: Web Culture, Ontario
Toronto cops drive into a knife-welding assailant (Windows Media video).
Comments on what really makes the search tool shine (three letters: A-P-I)
Topic: Search Engines
Google’s (non-beta) desktop search tool handles Thunderbird — welcome back Google.
Topic: Search Engines
The franken-browser has its first public beta.
This amazing photograph shows all of Toronto as seen from the top of the CN Tower.
Recognizing, with Flash(!), the best and worst of Toronto’s urban landscape.
Copernic’s desktop search tool now handles Thunderbird — so long Google.
Topic: Search Engines
The entire, commercial-free first episode is available online.
The original eccentric search service turns ten today.
Topic: Search Engines
The man how developed the Mac interface has died.
The New York Post IntelliTXT ads test go public.
Topics: Advertising, Newspapers
Adam Penenberg (weakly) argues Wall Street Journal needs drop subscription.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
Finally mobile customers will be able to dump their carriers but keep their numbers
Topics: Technology, Canada
Second Cup and Rogers will charge 15¢ a minute in great this infobahn robbery.
Topic: Web Technology
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.
This is either a low-ball offer for Bell Globemedia, or a rich offer for The Globe and Mail.
Topic: Newspapers
A in-depth explanation of the fight to find the best way to mark-up forms.
JJG describes the new Web application interface model.
Topic: Web Technology
Hunter S. Thompson has ended his gonzo life.
Topic: Journalism
Could be worth watching to see what the collective consciousness of the Web comes up with.
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
Clean look, and notably, the left navigation is gone in place of the top nav.
Topic: Online Journalism
Founding editor David Talbot has stepped-down, and Joan Walsh explains what she’ll bring the magazine.
Topic: Online Journalism
Nice little piece from The New York Times on eighties “nostalgia”
Over-the-air TV is the new cool.
The basics on building very dynamic Web interfaces.
Topic: JavaScript
The NYTimes.com site got more than 4.5 million page views in Janaury from RSS.
Topic: Online Journalism
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
Canada’s ousted PM defends his role in the sponsorship inquiry.
Crazy-small 64-bit processor could reshape the home computing landscape.
CBC loses big: the Vancouver Olympic broadcast rights go to CTV-Rogers
This one is nasty, and affects standard-compliant browsers but leaves IE unaffected.
The full-text of early classics on HTML, CSS, and IA.
Topic: Web Resources
Finalists include Digital Web Magazine, a redesign I worked on.
Topic: Web Design
A old, yet timely Slate article on the process involved in selecting the next Catholic pope.di
Watch the magazine go from cutesy to classy to trashy.
A List Apart reveals how to create and validate a custom DTD.
David Akin reveals how blogging has changed his journalism.
Topic: Journalism
Guess which browser Microsoft thinks is the worst?
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
Craigslist founder ponders citizen journalism and more.
Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism
The very, very dull page at least uses a semantic, CSS-based layout/
Topic: Web Design
Now includes five Denton-fighting blogs.
Topic: Web Design
Stylish standards-based, CSS layout holds the promise of good content.
Topic: Web Design
Jack Shafer says what the open-source journalists/bloggers don’t want to hear.
Topic: Online Journalism
This Web-based RSS aggregator also acts as a simple recommendation service.
Topic: Web Technology
The Newspaper Association of America just released its 2005 Digital Edge Award Finalists.
Topic: Online Journalism
A List Apart offers some ideas for pleasing Web site visitors.
Google will fund his Firefox work. GBrowser = Goodger?
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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
Pew asks people how they feel about and use search engines.
Topic: Search Engines
No mention on the site, but an email suggested they were looking for nominations.
Topic: Web Culture
The Canada site releases its API.
Topic: Web Technology
Long-time technology reporter moves to CTV’s Parliamentary bureau.
Scarily enough, it’s all real…
Joe Clark covers everything you need to know about citing other work in Canada online.
Dan Gillmor posts a draft of an essay on the irrelevance of objectivity in journalism.
Topic: Journalism
37signals release a sub-component of Basecamp: a Web-based to-do list that’s brilliantly simple.
Topic: Web Technology
American law enforcement has abadoned its Internet surveillance technology.
Topic: Web Technology
This news aggregator appends blogger’s comments about each story.
Topic: Online Journalism
Will this end up killing the notion of a reputation engine? Not sure if the ends justify the means here.
Topic: Search Engines
A story only a language obsessive could enjoy.
The Globe and Mail has a provocative article on how copyright is destroying documentaries.
Using AI, music labels are now able to predict the next charting-topping track.
The uber-geeks riff on what the future of news on the Internet will be like.
Topic: Online Journalism
A fantastic collection of guidelines built after watching people who actually work with screen readers regularly.
Topic: Accessibility
Seems like my former co-worker is going to our former competition. Good on, Sakamoto.
Topics: Newspapers, Music
Like a high school election, it’s all about popularity.
Topic: Web Culture
The Sunday Toronto Star rejigged itself to be more like a magazine.
Topic: Newspapers
Find out who your boss (or family) is giving to.
Experts tell Pew what they thik the Net will be like for us in a decade.
Topic: Web Culture
Weekly print publication now publishing daily online.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
Anthony Wilson-Smith decides to leave the magazine after a series of high-level shake-ups.
Online newspapers are reshaping themselves to better accomadate blogs and RSS.
Topic: Online Journalism
Michael Geist proposes Canada be the first country in the world to create a comprehensive national digital library
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Topics: Web Culture, Canada
A mini-history lesson on the origins CSS
The software built to power CBC TV’s great, late night show is now open source.
Topics: Web Technology, TV
Greensboro News & Record gets some great advice on how to make its Web site more “open source”
Topic: Online Journalism
The innovation improves Technorati’s service tremendously.
Topic: Web Technology
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
Clay Shirky rebuts anti-elitism criticism.
Topic: Web Culture
Employees at CanWest get up to $3,600 a year to turn their car into a moving ad.
Topics: Advertising, TV
The “anti-elitism” issues reflect my concerns about citizen journalism.
Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism
Most of those I don’t even know, but hey…
Topics: Web Culture, Canada
Purples, browns, desaturateds, and trippy tints.
Topic: Web Design
Better Living Centre reviews the media year that was.
Topics: Toronto, Journalism
Includes election jargon, “blog,” and “safe and effective.”
Asa Dotzler explains how to best to install this speed-increasing upgrade.
Topic: Technology
Joe Clark discovers the book store’s Web site blocks any attempts to balidate its mangled code.
Topic: Web Standards
The auction site was the only one of the big five to improve upon its price at the bubble’s height.
Topic: Web Culture
From the legacy media to the Pajamahadeen and more.
Topic: Online Journalism
The browser was to 7.6, but the amount of enhancements boosted it a whole number.
Always a great way to celebrate the beginning of the end of winter darkness.
Rumours abound that the National Post, and maybe one day the Toronto Star, may go tabloid.
Topic: Newspapers
The sale should be done by mid-January, and no major editorial changes are planned.
Topic: Online Journalism
The TTC will carry location-specific digital ads served using a wireless network. Could true WiFi be next?
Topics: Toronto, Technology
Despite the poor interface, this comprehensive timeline covers 35 years of American new media history.
Topic: Online Journalism
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that the copyright levvies applied to digital music players aren’t legal.
Somewhere in the blur you’ll find my name amongst the 10,000 or so donors.
Topics: Browsers, Advertising
John Miller argues the media here is could care less…
Topic: Journalism
Daniel Glazman weighs in with a mea culpa on the curent state of CSS.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
Clive Thompson on dude’s current usage.
CBC now has support for a variety of RSS feeds. Wonder who will be next…?
Topic: Online Journalism
We’re dropping analog media in favour of its digital equivalent at an increasing rate.
Topics: Technology, Canada
It will use IE, but will included tabbed browsing. Why they don’t use the Netscape Browser still confounds me.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who tied the CIA to crack cocaine-trafficking in Los Angeles has committed suicide.
Topic: Newspapers
Toronto’s own CityPulse at Six won a Gemini Award for best newscast beating out CBC’s The National and CTV News
The return of the (content as) king.
Next year, the Ontario Film Review Board will likely lose its powers to censor film in the province.
Bill Doskoch points voice to some concerns I have over the buzz around “citizen journalism.”
Topic: Journalism
The Toronto Star’s ombusman Nitpicker’s Quiz tests ones editing skills.
Google dynamically tries to predict what you’re search will be. Amazingly effective.
Topic: Search Engines
The French edition of Google News Canada enables searches and browsing news items from more than 500 French news sources.
Topic: Online Journalism
Île Sans Fil helps businesses and local institutions give Internet access away free
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Topic: Web Technology
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.
The top ten list is only seven items right now, but expect more.
Mark Glaser takes a look at the browser from an online news perspective (and quotes me in the process).
Topics: Browsers, Online Journalism
Mozilla answers some common questions about the Gecko rendering engine, including how to use XHTML.
The pundits of conservative America demonstarte their skills.
Greg Linden riffs on the notion that people are needed to improve search engine results.
Topic: Search Engines
The Christian Science Monitor wonders if the 35-year-old Internet needs a facelift.
Topic: Technology
The XHTML WYSIWYG is now Firefox-friendly.
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
The New York Times, of all places explains how the lock-out has hurt the TV industry.
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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Jason Kottke surveys the users and developers of RSS aggregators to find out.
Topic: Technology
Of course there’s a litany of reasons for this, savviness being just one.
Paying bloggers to create a buzz about a product could backfire.
Topic: Online Journalism
Mozilla’s excellent mail client is ready for its close up.
Topics: Browsers, Spam/Virus
Predictions for next year’s Web design trends.
Topic: Web Design
The Financial Times looks to its Web logs for tips on news trends.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
Toronto’s alterna-weekly gets a blog.
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
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
Well, actually it’s pay-by-phone-to-park, but still…
Topics: Technology, Toronto
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
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.
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
Mark Glaser describes the ideal online journalism outfit. Sign me up.
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
So says Microsoft, although Tristan Nitot deflects that dose of FUD.
Topics: Web Standards, Browsers
Wired News has an overview of the first steps of the open-source news site.
Topic: Online Journalism
Apple plans on finally launching the service before the end of December.
Topic: Web Culture
Radio I agree with, and sadly I only know of two of the “blogs” cited.
Topics: Toronto, Journalism
BitTorrent for your blog
Topic: Technology
Opera 7.60 (a preview release right now) dynamically resizes wide pages to fit a narrow browser window.
The Globe and Mail engages in some schadenfreude over the fate of Frank.
And trust me, they are, and some are even trying to change.
Topic: Newspapers
A database dedicated to dedicated to finding, mending and publishing CSS and JavaScript browser bugs
Roger Johansson covers almost everything you know about the q, blockquote, and cite.
CBS’s only post-Cronkite anchor is resigning with the taste of scandal to remember him by.
A New York Times essay wonders whether computers will ever be able to write novels as good as we can.
Online companion to Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Topic: Web Design
A css-discuss Wiki entry discussing the latest trends in handheld support for CSS.
Kevin Sites explains to the marines how his story of the mosque shooting happened
Robert Sloan’s prediction of EPIC in 2014.
Topics: Online Journalism, Technology
Findory will now make recommendations in your search results based on past searches.
Topic: Search Engines
Want to make sure your XHTML is really really valid, try this.
Topic: Web Standards
Adam Bosworth’s transcript of his ISCOC04 Talk on accommodating really simple user and programmer models
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Topic: Technology
A Windows-like file manager for a remote computer using XUL.
Famous email addresses and their spam count.
Topic: Spam/Virus
Bell Canada finally gets the rights to send television over its phone lines.
Topic: Convergence
Goto Guides offer a number of helpful and downloadable resources for Web development projects.
Topic: Web Resources
The Christian Science Monitor explains what that means.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
Every mecredi the city blog will be offering Toronto-inspired downloads.
Interstitails could be the way to make RSS ads more effective.
Topic: Technology
Though no Canadian sites are listed, per captia many would few handily beat their American competitors.
Topic: Online Journalism
This time, the company that killed Netscape is looking for testers.
Can a marching band be composed of anarchists?
My ultimate boss, Philip Crawley, has lead the Globe’s possibly unwinnable fight against the Post.
Topic: Newspapers
Proof that Jim Morrison’s dead, because if he was alive, he’d smash a bottle of Jack over all their heads.
Wilco proves that online music-sharing can be a good thing.
Topic: Web Culture
The new version will allow you to edit PDF files.
Softchoice and EDS.com both launched valid, CSS-based redeigns on the weekend.
Topic: Web Standards
The New York Times reports the site was sold for almost half-a-billion dollars.
Topic: Online Journalism
Rumours are it's looking at CBS Marketwatch, too.
Topic: Online Journalism
The trade magazine for Canada’s magazine industry will be closing its site to non-subscribers come December.
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Magazine
Unlike the, albeit misguided, blank CD levy, we’d pay an tax but get no rights in return.
And John Battelle’s analysis the beat product in his Searchblog.
Topic: Search Engines
A dynymaic search using xmlhttprequest and inspired by Apple’s upcoming Spotlight feature.
Topic: JavaScript
Is this the next big cash-in trend?
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture
Google’s Web-based email now supports POP just as Hotmail begins charging for it.
Topic: Search Engines
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
Mark Glaser tries to explain why the newly profitable news sites are being sold.
Topic: Online Journalism
Jeff Jarvis prognosticates on the changes in store for media
Topic: Online Journalism
The Northwest Voice prints articles from submitted online from the community and published on the Web.
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
Molly sings Firefox’s praises to the tune of “Beautiful dreamer.”
The first magazine I brought online, the Ryerson Review of Journalism is hosting a fund raiser at DNA Lounge.
Seen Flicker? Well, this adds notes to images in a similar same way.
Topic: JavaScript
Joe rips into the latest Indigo redesign and includes a “Saila reference”.
Topic: Web Design
A printable petition urging Canada not to adopt the WIPO’s Internet Treaties.
A virtual petition urging Canada not to ratify the treaty.
Boing Boing explains the dangers of the WIPO “Internet Treaties”
Robert Rabinovitch gets to stay on as CBC president for another three years.
Joshua Porter’s follow-up to his Digital Web Magazine article on content aggregation.
Topic: Web Design
The chart shows all CSS1, CSS2 and Internet Explorer CSS extensions and grades the level of support each recieves in a given browser
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Topics: CSS, Web Resources
Joshua Porter, in Digital Web Magazine, explains how content aggregators are changing navigation styles.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
Eric A. Meyer explains how to reverse the margin collapse.
May your vote for president (cough, not Bush, cough) be easier than depicted in this video.
Mike Davidson compares Flash to browsers and comes up with some thought provoking ideas.
Topics: Browsers, Web Culture
The news site spiffs-up the look, and enhances its offerings
Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism
An inaccessible, standards-unfriendly, Amazon.ca rip-off that I date not even link to directly.
Topic: Web Design
Today is the 35th anniversary of the first Internet message was sent from Len Kleinrock’s laboratory at UCLA
Topic: Web Culture
The Web-based finance news behemoth might go to Dow Jones or even Yahoo.
Topic: Online Journalism
Roger Johansson explains how to build data tables.
Reader’s picks are typically typical, but the critique’s picks hit the mark.
B.C. asked its citizens to come up with a better election process, and they’ve chosen wisely.
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
I don’t think I’ll ever get ICANN’s thinking.
Topic: Technology
Works even in browser that don’t support fixed positioning
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
Andy King’s collection of tips for speeding up your site’s performance.
Topic: Web Resources
Why isn’t every journalism school encouaging its students to blog?
Topic: Online Journalism
A proposed project from the Wikipedia folk is running about 3:1 in favour of getting underway
Topic: Online Journalism
Didier Hilhorst and Marcos Weskamp are collecting feelings, images, and memories related to songs.
Topic: Web Culture
The Tyee follows the trend of loving the Wiki-powered encyclopedia as a model for journalism.
Topic: Online Journalism
Mark Glaser, in the OJR, writes about mainstream news sites opening up to the rest of the Web.
Topic: Online Journalism
There's going to be a launch party (likely November 20) for the browser here in Toronto after the browser officially hits 1.0.
Sfeve Clay demos a simple way to style multiple lists to look like a directory tree.
Mark Hadley finds a way to fix a nasty float bug that has plagued IE 5 on the Macintosh
As clunky as the mark-up looks today, it’s impressive how much of Siegel’s wishes came to be.
Topic: Web Design
Eric Meyer’s dHTML slide show tool is presntation ready.
Firefox creator shares some insight with News.com
A blog commenting on corrections appearing in North American newspaper
Topic: Newspapers
An interview with ex-Amazoner Greg Linden about his personalized news site.
Topic: Online Journalism
Probably not, the house that Moore built has killed planes to release 4GHz Pentium 4 processor.
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.
Ingram has always been willing to produce Web-exclusive content as he previously illustrated with globetechnology’s Geek Watch.
Topics: Online Journalism, Work
Although it doesn’t search Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla history/email you can “vote” for the feature.
Topic: Search Engines
Great. Internet Explorer 6 is different between Windows XP and Windows XP SP2. Let the fun begin.
Until the Mozilla Foundation can get the the rights to DevEdge material, you can download these from TnTLuoma.com.
Topic: Web Resources
News.com looks back at the browser’s storied life, and reports of a possible resurrection.
AOL plans to release a browser based on IE, despite the company’s ties with Netscape and Mozilla.
A listing of all (?) the Web versions of world⁏ newspapers
Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers
A very rough looking site for computer-assisted reporting in Canada, with links to database material.
Topic: Journalism Resources
Targetting Windows Media Player, this is another demonstration of BBC’s excellent foresight.
Topic: Technology
Redesign the Gmail interface with a custom stylesheet. Just the beginning of what will be a quick trend.
Mike Davidson and Mark Wubben unveil what could be the final version of a pretty impressive image replacement technique.
Ryan Singer, from 37signals, offers a simple introduction to patterns.
Topic: Web Design
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).
Apparently, it’s not enough of a nuisance…
Stef Magdalinski has built a proxy to turn proper nouns into links.
Topic: Online Journalism
The winners from 2004—s Society for News Design multimedia awards, the SNDies.
Topics: JavaScript, Online Journalism
The WaSP’s message can be found all across T-dot (thanks for the tip Rudy).
Topics: Web Standards, Toronto
The hed, the lede, all brilliant.
Topic: Journalism
Creative Commons licences for use under Canadian law.
News.com assembles a huge package on the limping IE and its energized competitors in the browser business
Roger Johansson demonstrates how eight of today’s browsers render styled from elements.
The new Yahoo and My Yahoo homepages use semantic mark-up and styles. Come on Google.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
The new My Yahoo will use RSS and Atom
Topic: Technology
Molly writes a comprehensive article on how to work with and manage CSS hacks and filters in real style sheets.
Brilliant move by the public broadcaster, but don’t expect traditional news sites to do this any time soon…
Topic: Online Journalism
Mr. Meyer builds an dHTML-based slideshow tool.
Topics: CSS, Web Resources
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The new msnbc.com design represents a whole new way for editors to report the news online
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.
The latest upgrade to Apple's Web browser brings a promising set of new features.
Toronto reveals its true face in a trio of movies released in 2010
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.
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