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• 10K Apart

  Fond memories of the 5K Awards resurface with this modern spin on the idea

  Jul 29 2010 at 7:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• The music of Scott Pilgrim

  Exclaim! explains the audio inspiration for the movie adaption of the graphic novel series

  Jul 28 2010 at 8:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Toronto

• Goodbye Maury Chaykin

  One of my favourite character actors to watch onscreen died on his 61st birthday

  Jul 28 2010 at 12:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Canada

• On (Mad) Men

  "Enter Don Draper, the last John Wayne among a cultural landscape filled with Jon Gosselins"

  Jul 22 2010 at 12:53 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Culture

• 48 Hour Magazine now Longshot

  The brazen legal tactics of CBS succeeded in forcing the indie magazine to change its entire brand

  Jul 21 2010 at 11:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, TV

• The Web needs editors

  Maybe because this is how I started out, it all makes sense to me

  Jul 21 2010 at 11:03 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Journalism

• BBC previews new website

  Features a cleaner design, bigger video, and more share tools

  Jul 7 2010 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• On CSS prefixes

  Eric Meyer argues for vendor prefixes, and proposes an improvement to the standardization of CSS

  Jul 6 2010 at 11:26 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• On covering protests

  Some advice on what to do as a journalists while covering potentially heated protests

  Jul 4 2010 at 10:05 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Politics

• Chinese movable type

  An overview of how movable type was used commercially up until the past few decades

  Jul 3 2010 at 10:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Typography

• Firefox heatmap

  The browser's users demonstrate remarkably consistent use of the various user interface elements

  Jul 2 2010 at 11:22 AM EDT

  Topics: User Interface, Browsers

• 100 top online publishers

  Pleased to see msnbc.com make not once, but twice (three times, if you count EveryBlock)

  Jul 1 2010 at 2:01 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• optimizeLegibility extension

  Jim Ray creates a simple Safari extension to improve how type is rendered on page

  Jul 1 2010 at 10:40 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Typography

• Proportional leading, fluid line length

  Using msnbc.com's new design to talk about a way to improve typography

  Jun 30 2010 at 11:58 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Typography

• Kettled in at the G20

  Reporter on being in a public intersection that became a de facto detention centre

  Jun 28 2010 at 10:31 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Politics

• Photos of G20 in Toronto

  Hard to see Toronto looking like this, even if it's a tiny snapshot of what really happened

  Jun 27 2010 at 2:58 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Politics

• Talking to Canadians

  Say what you will about about the G20, at least it's got American news outlets looking north

  Jun 25 2010 at 7:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Politics

• G8 police intimidate reporter

  Police use extensive security measures on a veteran, accredited journalist trying cover the summit

  Jun 25 2010 at 11:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Politics

• Targetting iPhone 4

  A simple CSS-based media query can help improve the design of the high resolution device

  Jun 24 2010 at 8:37 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Mobile

• IE9 and HTML5

  Third developer preview looks amazing, all the more so to those debugging early IE browsers

  Jun 24 2010 at 11:26 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Photography and Canadian law

  Comprehensive listing of the laws and how the apply to shooting pictures across Canada

  Jun 23 2010 at 11:59 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• RIP Tracy Wright

  One of the most interesting actors in Canadian film, television, in theatre is now gone

  Jun 23 2010 at 1:53 AM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Canada

• Chimp warfare

  Fascinating portrait of war as waged by chimpanzees, and possibly, humanity, too

  Jun 22 2010 at 12:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Culture

• FEED Magazine back

  The archive for one of the most influential online magazines is finally back online

  Jun 21 2010 at 11:00 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Notes on typography

  Seventy years ago, Vanity Fair announced it has toned down its experiment with Modernism

  Jun 20 2010 at 8:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Style & Usage

• Typical American expressions

  As defined by the U.S. military's own training branch

  Jun 20 2010 at 12:53 PM EDT

  Topic: Language

• A deacade of the globeandmail.com

  Canada's national newspaper looks back at 10 years of online news coverage

  Jun 19 2010 at 12:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Publishing on the iPad

  "The iPad ... is a joint venture between editorial, technology and business development"

  Jun 19 2010 at 11:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Online Journalism

• OECD on newspapers

  Globally things are looking tough for printed newspapers, but the online business shows promise

  Jun 19 2010 at 11:30 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• IE9 best practices

  Overview of how, when, and why to use Internet Explorer's compatibility features

  Jun 19 2010 at 11:22 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Sliding captcha

  Clever UI for filtering robots and a few more tweaks would even make it accessible

  Jun 18 2010 at 12:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Accessibility

• The price of an iPhone

  There's a growing unease about the disparity between the manufacturing and marketing of Apple products

  Jun 17 2010 at 11:29 AM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Politics

• NYTimes.com creating public beta

  Beta620 will be a parallel site to test new features for the newspaper's site

  Jun 15 2010 at 4:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• CBC...beyond repair

  Ryerson Review of Journalism publishes another of its trademark critiques, this time on CBC New

  Jun 15 2010 at 2:02 AM EDT

  Topics: CBC, Journalism

• Scribd as a low-cost mag-app

  Magazines looking for an app-like experience should consider the HTML5-based Scribd service

  Jun 15 2010 at 1:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Mobile

• Le Monde fin?

  The uniquely managed French newspaper (journalists have control and veto rights) confronts bankruptcy

  Jun 14 2010 at 1:04 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Mind over mass media

  Stephen Pinker in response to all the talk of how the Web is ruining our brains

  Jun 11 2010 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• Hyphenation online

  A seemingly easy way to justify, and nicely hyphenate, text online

  Jun 10 2010 at 8:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, CSS

• Locals and Tourists: Seattle

  Ferry lines seem to extend the city's borders, locals emphasis the hearts of each neighbourhood

  Jun 9 2010 at 8:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Social Media

• Locals and Tourists: Toronto

  The city's tourist stay downtown, but it's amazing to see how photographed Bloor and Queen streets are by locals

  Jun 9 2010 at 8:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Social Media

• News site readability

  Great analysis of the design problems with online news sites (and a elegant solution, too)

  Jun 9 2010 at 12:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Emerging business strategies

  The 3-year deal FiveThirtyEight struck with The New York Times suggests a new business option for micro-content companies

  Jun 4 2010 at 12:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Subscriptions & Registration

• What Clay Shirky reads

  The most surprising thing might be how (Web) mainstream his media diet is

  Jun 3 2010 at 11:18 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Journalism

• The last typewriter repairmen

  Photo essay on about a waning trade, some good lessons to be found in the index typewriter, too

  Jun 1 2010 at 10:50 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Usability

• Putting links at the end

  An another argument that fails to convince me why inline article links are bad

  Jun 1 2010 at 4:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• In defence of a newsweekly

  An interesting (and almost anonymous) response (via Tumblr) to David Carr's piece about Newsweek's future

  Jun 1 2010 at 4:30 PM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• The OCAD 2010 grad show

  No one does a design review like Joe Clark, and in Canada, no one (else) does reviews of grad shows

  May 29 2010 at 12:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Design, Ontario

• Performance of conditional comments

  Seems like using IE's conditional comments might slow page loads in that browser

  May 28 2010 at 5:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• Top 1000 sites

  According to Google; crazy that Microsoft properties have 1.1 billion visitors a month on the top 30

  May 28 2010 at 11:49 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Advertising

• Wired app a CD-ROM

  Apparently, the app is just a series of very big images leaving one to wonder why not HTML?

  May 28 2010 at 11:02 AM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Magazine

• Transit etiquette posters

  Pseudo-posters for an imaginary civility campaign on Toronto's transit (so agree with the second)

  May 27 2010 at 4:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Design

• Newsweek.com redesigns (again)

  This time the site goes the minimal approach, possibly inspired by its Tumblr site

  May 27 2010 at 11:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Magazine

• Typeface

  Overview of an interesting documentary about the Hamilton wood type factory and the legacy of letterpress

  May 26 2010 at 1:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Typography

• Mediagazer leaderboard

  Need to stay atop of the media gossip? Here's the top 100 sites to start with

  May 26 2010 at 1:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Ignite Seattle 10

  Line-up for the June 14, 2010 edition of the the 5-minute talks in Seattle

  May 25 2010 at 2:37 PM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Web Culture

• Psychology and UX design

  Understanding how the brain, the visual system, memory, and motivation work helps user experience design

  May 24 2010 at 12:37 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Inside The Newsroom

  Business Insider interviews Andrew Golis about his efforts to bring real news reporting to Yahoo News

  May 22 2010 at 10:08 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Ken Whyte takes on another magazine

  Comprehensive analysis about what direction Ken Whyte may be taking Chatelaine

  May 21 2010 at 5:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Canada

• Let there be life

  Officially branded (in its genes) JCVI-syn1.0, this creature - Venter's Frankenbug -- is the first without an ancestor

  May 21 2010 at 11:46 AM EDT

  Topic: Technology

• Dealing with large teams

  Good reminders on leading and working on a project with a dozen or more people

  May 21 2010 at 11:00 AM EDT

  Topic: Work

• font-face rendering

  Nice flow chart showing how and why different browsers and operating systems display type

  May 20 2010 at 1:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, CSS

• Floppy disks, dead by 30

  Sony announced its stopping production on once ubiquitous storage medium no known as the "save" icon

  May 20 2010 at 12:54 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Sports Illustrated HTML5 app

  Nice, app-like experience built with just the Web stack (note the radial, menu, too)

  May 19 2010 at 6:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Magazine

• Typekit releases its type loader

  Now any site can deliver custom fonts to its audience using the same fallback techniques as Typekit

  May 19 2010 at 2:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, CSS

• Google does Web fonts

  Google introduces a new API to embed a narrow selection of Web-friendly fonts

  May 19 2010 at 1:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, CSS

• The web stack?

  Proposal for a term covering the front-end Web technology people are erroneously refer to as "HTML5"

  May 19 2010 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Chris Thorpe on the Guardian API

  The Guardian’s “developer advocate” talks a bit about the strategy behind a very open API

  May 18 2010 at 10:14 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• iPhone app stencils

  Quickly wireframe lower-fidelty concept for iPhone apps with these Illustrator files

  May 18 2010 at 2:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Web Design

• The mesh Prize

  The $40,000 prize aims to help encourage innovative risks in the Canadian digital media industry

  May 18 2010 at 1:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Typekit design gallery

  Collection of sites showcasing type-heavy design using Typekit's fonts

  May 17 2010 at 1:57 AM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Web Design

• The New Typography

  MoMA's online collection of for its exhibit on the groundbreaking information design movement

  May 17 2010 at 1:54 AM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Design

• The commonplace book

  Steve Johnson delivers another outstanding piece on the presentation of information online

  May 15 2010 at 11:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Subscriptions & Registration

• McLuhan going digital

  Excited to hear Scott Boms will be helping publish the first official digital editions of Marshall McLuhan’s work

  May 15 2010 at 9:37 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Books

• Design patterns for Android

  Seven patterns for common UI behaviors on Google's mobile platform

  May 13 2010 at 3:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Web Patterns

• Wireframing design ideas

  Using wireframes to sketch can help reduce the define the project requirements sooner

  May 13 2010 at 12:27 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• The business of online journalism

  In-depth piece profiling a variety of the new online media outlets

  May 13 2010 at 12:21 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• OpenFile really crowd sources the news

  Reverses typical journalist-to-source relationship in hopes of building a local news service

  May 12 2010 at 11:09 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Nielsen on the iPad

  The always conservative usability pundit shares his first findings about the user interface of iPad apps

  May 10 2010 at 12:01 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Mobile

• msnbc.com does the iPhone

  Vu Nguyen writes about the design thinking behind msnbc.com's new iPhone-optimized site

  May 9 2010 at 12:04 AM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Work

• Bono and Geldof: editors?

  The rock legends are guest editing The Globe and Mail's special Africa issue in advance of the G8/G20 summit

  May 8 2010 at 11:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Music

• Should online journalism abandon Flash?

  Although HTML 5 is a viable option in some cases, it's naive to expect Flash to be totally replaced

  May 8 2010 at 4:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Interactive Journalism

• Scribd in HTML5

  Impressive demo could help improve discoverability and accessibility of uploaded documents

  May 8 2010 at 1:49 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, HTML

• No protection for confidential sources

  Supreme Court of Canada says journalists can't promise to protect the identity of their sources

  May 7 2010 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• Reporters barred from Gitmo trial

  For three major Canadian news organizations, covering the trial of Omar Khadr just became that much harder

  May 7 2010 at 11:22 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Politics

• Reporting is alive and well

  Even if it's used to track down the identity of the person who found the new iPhone in a bar

  May 2 2010 at 6:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Mobile

• -moz-any()

  Interesting selector proposed by the Mozilla crew that brings group to CSS selectors

  Apr 27 2010 at 6:55 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Is a blogger a journalist, part 73

  Gizomodo argues the editor who broke the story about the new iPhone is protected from a search warrant

  Apr 27 2010 at 11:09 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile

• State of the Web 2010

  Lots of good data on the latest trends in the Web design industry

  Apr 26 2010 at 10:02 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• 1.1 billion served

  NPR opened its content to everyone via an API and has solved its distribution problem

  Apr 20 2010 at 10:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Radio

• Touch reference guide

  A comprehensive blueprint defining the de facto UI conventions for touch devices like the iPhone and Surface

  Apr 20 2010 at 1:24 PM EDT

  Topics: User Interface, Mobile

• World Bank opens data

  Freeing access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development stats

  Apr 20 2010 at 12:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Politics

• Facebook links likes

  Facebook creates an interesting new dynamic for self-identification by linking "liked" products pages to the person actual profile interests

  Apr 19 2010 at 4:51 PM EDT

  Topic: Social Media

• CSS raindrop

  Nice example of what CSS gradients can do with some minimal code.

  Apr 18 2010 at 9:46 AM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Where Microsoft beats Apple

  Joe Clark aims his immeasurable knowledge of type straight at the company loved by designers

  Apr 14 2010 at 9:56 AM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Computers

• Fonts on the iPhone and iPad

  A list of the 22 and 44 fonts natively installed on each respective device

  Apr 13 2010 at 10:58 AM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Typography

• Open Parliament

  A long overdue service to easily search what was said while the Canadian government was in session

  Apr 13 2010 at 10:56 AM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Canada

• SFGate.com cartoonists wins Pulitzer

  First time an online-only publication has one the prestigious prize for editorial content

  Apr 13 2010 at 2:12 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism

• Opera Mini on the iPhone

  Apple approves the Opera mobile browser for use on its iPhone and iPod - could Fennec be next?

  Apr 12 2010 at 8:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Mobile

• Naming the permalink

  A nice little rant about how to structure a friendly URL

  Apr 10 2010 at 10:07 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• A tale of two Steves

  Jobs, not Woz, defines the Apple we know today, and it is all about perfectly closed systems

  Apr 8 2010 at 8:44 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Why the iPad is dangerous

  Cory Doctrow says the "technical and social infrastructure that accompanies" the iPad suppresses creativity

  Apr 2 2010 at 12:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Design, Mobile

• Showcase for iPad apps

  Many of the early designs for apps seem overly inspired by their analogue counter parts

  Apr 1 2010 at 5:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Design, Mobile

• IE5 Mac at 10 years

  The most influential browser since Mosaic, IE5 Mac set the standard for today's modern browsers

  Mar 31 2010 at 1:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Atwood in the Twittersphere

  Margaret Atwood talks about her introduction to, and subsequent love of, Twitter in a way only she can

  Mar 30 2010 at 11:04 AM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Books

• Rent or own typefaces

  Good discussion in the comment thread about the best ways to distribute fonts on the Web

  Mar 23 2010 at 8:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Typography

• TAO of journalism

  Proposed seal to highlight journalism that is transparent, accountable, and open

  Mar 23 2010 at 12:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Video in HTML5

  Excellent, and very long, tutorial on a still (to me) questionable element (imagine the equivalent for img)

  Mar 23 2010 at 12:29 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• There's a new favourite screen in house

  Canadians (and North Americans) are spending more time in online than sitting in front of the TV

  Mar 22 2010 at 8:36 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, TV

• Redesigning online video

  Online video is starting to free itself from the television metaphor

  Mar 22 2010 at 8:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, TV

• The real future of Web standards

  Zeldman on how open Web protocols could subvert the Big Brother aspects of ubiquitous computing

  Mar 22 2010 at 11:11 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Social Media

• Broadcast's future is social

  Speaking from experience, this is the next design challenge for those in mass media

  Mar 19 2010 at 12:18 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Social Media

• Poetry in the comments

  Literally. Somewhere my past and present self are celebrating

  Mar 18 2010 at 9:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Writing, Social Media

• Paul Ford's return to the Web

  The man who inspired an entire online style, returns to the landscape from Harper's

  Mar 18 2010 at 1:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Magazine

• Spin on Google Books

  Every issue of Bob Guccione Jr.'s Rolling Stone competitor scanned and available online

  Mar 18 2010 at 12:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Music

• A CSS typeface named Curtis

  Built of spans, the design is reminiscent of a bold, Art Deco-style display face

  Mar 17 2010 at 12:26 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, CSS

• "Turtle storm"

  Hnady new term for sluggish and slow moving days; also works for boring meetings

  Mar 16 2010 at 9:01 PM EDT

  Topic: Language

• IE9 preview available

  Quick tests of new browser seem to put it almost on par with the latest Firefox and Safari releases

  Mar 16 2010 at 7:50 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• Toronto neighbourhood poster

  Finally, Ork Posters tacles Hogtown

  Mar 16 2010 at 2:48 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Design

• The art, science and technology of reading

  Presentation deflates many myths about reading onscreen

  Mar 16 2010 at 11:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Web Design

• How media outlets mimic tech companies

  Focus is on NYTimes and CNN efforts to stay ahead of the curve (anecdotes apply to msnbc.com, too)

  Mar 16 2010 at 11:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• iPhone a recreation phone

  Usage data suggest the iPhone apps are used most during the evenings

  Mar 16 2010 at 11:52 AM EDT

  Topic: Mobile

• Canada cuts public Internet access

  Libraries and community groups lose funding for free, public access (aside: I remember scrumming with Bill Gates when program first began)

  Mar 15 2010 at 4:46 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• State of the Media for 2010

  Cuts to traditional news-gathering outlets may also be hurting loyalty to the online brands

  Mar 15 2010 at 2:54 PM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Microsoft loves the iPhone

  Or at least its employees do, despite the poor phone reception in a lot of the buildings

  Mar 15 2010 at 3:30 AM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Web Culture

• Rushkoff's 10 Commandments

  Suggestions for being aware of the biases of digital media, reminiscent of Technorealism's ideas

  Mar 12 2010 at 7:58 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Designing for the Web: the book

  Read Mark Boulton's book online for free, or buy a downloadable PDF

  Mar 12 2010 at 1:09 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Reporting the Internet

  Reuters offers some good advice for its journalist as they work with and on the Internet

  Mar 11 2010 at 8:15 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Style & Usage

• How to render video and audio

  In-depth article on working with HTML5 to get video and audio elements working in a page

  Mar 11 2010 at 2:30 PM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Mad Men meet Barbie

  "I'm going to be the organization man, and she's going to be the soulless drone"

  Mar 10 2010 at 8:34 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Culture

• CSS3 Please!

  A simple one-page site offering an easy way to remember the vendor prefixes for your favourite CSS3 features

  Mar 9 2010 at 5:47 PM EST

  Topic: CSS

• The golden flush

  A dramatic illustration of how synchronized Canadian bathroom breaks were during the Canada vs. USA Olympic gold medal hockey game

  Mar 8 2010 at 8:42 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Books in the iPad age

  The emergence of the iPad suggests new guidelines about what should actually be printed in book form

  Mar 8 2010 at 1:16 PM EST

  Topics: Books, Design

• iPad application design

  Interpreting iPad design conventions, with a focus on UI elements

  Mar 6 2010 at 12:14 PM EST

  Topics: Mobile, User Interface

• Movies and graphic design

  Seattle’s ByDesign series features films by Charles and Ray Eames and some of the best designed title sequences

  Mar 5 2010 at 11:00 AM EST

  Topics: Movies, Design

• Web design post-mortem

  Insightful, honest, and incredibly detailled review of the process that created the new MIX site

  Mar 4 2010 at 6:07 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• CSS cleaner

  An IE8-only tool that helps identify unused CSS rules

  Mar 4 2010 at 5:54 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Iterative design repairs

  The Atlantic launched a massive redesign, then promptly refined it after vocal audience reaction

  Mar 4 2010 at 11:24 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Magazine

• Publishing's revolutionary future

  Jason Epstein's essay on the future of books is one of the most informed you'll read

  Mar 3 2010 at 12:04 PM EST

  Topics: Books, Culture

• How Americans get their news

  Most get the from off- and online sources, with the Internet the third most-popular news platform

  Mar 1 2010 at 12:19 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Networked model of information

  Tremendous essay about how content distribution works in a post-broadcast world

  Feb 26 2010 at 1:42 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Stack of magazines

  Clever bundled subscription idea for independent magazines

  Feb 26 2010 at 1:20 AM EST

  Topic: Magazine

• Today's twentysomethings

  Pew Research has done an intensive study of the millennial generation

  Feb 24 2010 at 4:26 PM EST

  Topic: Culture

• Aviary now free

  The powerful suite of online image editing tools is now completely free

  Feb 24 2010 at 12:20 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Design

• Photoshop at 20

  The powerful granddady of all image editing tools is now 20

  Feb 24 2010 at 12:20 PM EST

  Topics: Computers, Design

• Buy a font, use it online

  This crazy concept is now possible with Typekit and almost any FontShop typeface

  Feb 24 2010 at 11:40 AM EST

  Topics: Typography, Web Design

• Ignite Seattle 9 speakers

  Learn about Vietnam, motorbikes, arguing and Star Wars on March 4

  Feb 23 2010 at 1:10 PM EST

  Topic: Seattle

• Deconstructing design

  Looking back on the design decisions made for the pages of the NYT Magazine

  Feb 23 2010 at 1:24 AM EST

  Topics: Design, Magazine

• Olympic accessible failure

  Joe Clark reports Vancouver2010.com is almost completely inaccessible

  Feb 22 2010 at 11:39 PM EST

  Topic: Accessibility

• Designing a visual language

  No major site should be without one, that being said BBC seems to be the only with one

  Feb 20 2010 at 12:23 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Design

• Transdisciplinary Design

  A new, TED-esque, MFA at Parsons The New School for Design

  Feb 19 2010 at 5:15 PM EST

  Topic: Design

• Designing a newspaper app

  A newspaper designer thinks about an iPad news experience

  Feb 19 2010 at 3:04 AM EST

  Topics: Mobile, Newspapers

• Breaking news and Twitter

  David Akin explains how the Gordon Lightfoot death rumour started and how to avoid such mistakes

  Feb 19 2010 at 12:55 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Canada's biggest newspaper free

  The Toronto Star is free at newsstands and everywhere else during the Olympics

  Feb 18 2010 at 11:08 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Toronto

• The future of reading

  Josh Quittner delivers an excellent essay on media's fortune, past and present

  Feb 10 2010 at 8:43 PM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Mobile

• Google's big test

  Could Google have been analyzing the effectiveness of SuperBowl's TV ads?

  Feb 10 2010 at 12:59 PM EST

  Topics: Advertising, TV

• CNN AP-less

  CNN.com trying to quite the AP habit - sensing a emerging trend

  Feb 9 2010 at 5:57 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Toronto Sun building sold

  Newspaper staff will be crammed into the second slower to make way for retail stories

  Feb 9 2010 at 11:54 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Toronto

• The pay wall around research

  Companies like Forrester could be the next to see their business model change

  Feb 8 2010 at 1:26 PM EST

  Topic: Subscriptions & Registration

• The State of the Web 2010

  Take a 10-minute survey to help define where the Web design industry is at

  Feb 4 2010 at 12:46 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Canadians and taxes

  When directed to community infrastructure, Canadians don't mind increased taxes

  Feb 3 2010 at 11:01 AM EST

  Topics: Canada, Politics

• Mobile stats

  Some data around the surge in mobile data usage

  Feb 1 2010 at 8:33 PM EST

  Topic: Mobile

• iPad GUI templates

  A PSD containing all the UI elements needed to mock-up a iPad design

  Feb 1 2010 at 4:58 PM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Mobile

• iPad interactions

  Some of the interaction gestures availble on the iPad

  Jan 31 2010 at 4:19 PM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Mobile

• A century of crayons

  Visualizing all the colours of the Crayola crayons

  Jan 28 2010 at 10:44 PM EST

  Topics: Design, Culture

• Radio Canada

  A beautiful concept radio for listening to Canada's public broadcaster

  Jan 28 2010 at 8:31 PM EST

  Topics: Design, CBC

• Let your presentation tweet

  Script allows a Keynote presentation send updates to Twitter

  Jan 26 2010 at 8:19 PM EST

  Topic: Social Media

• Foursquare and Metro

  Geo-location game partners with news chain to offer news about a persons current locale

  Jan 25 2010 at 6:57 PM EST

  Topics: Mobile, Online Journalism

• NYTimes.com e-reader division

  Special business division formed to managed things like content on Kindle and the Apple tablet

  Jan 25 2010 at 6:42 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile

• Ignoring mobile

  Some good points about the effects of neglecting the mobile web

  Jan 25 2010 at 4:06 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile

• Feltron's 2009 Annual Report

  More beautiful data visualizations focusing on everyday life

  Jan 25 2010 at 1:37 PM EST

  Topics: Design, Interactive Journalism

• Search the world’s government data

  Currently only four countries, but it's a unified interface

  Jan 25 2010 at 11:57 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, World

• 36 bills Harper killed

  Dozens of potential laws have been indefinitely delayed

  Jan 22 2010 at 8:28 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Politics

• Typekit supports WOFF

  The Web Open Font Format will be used to deliver fonts to Firefox 3.6

  Jan 21 2010 at 11:10 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Typography

• Brands of the decade

  An overview of the most notable brand/identity work of the '00s

  Jan 21 2010 at 8:39 PM EST

  Topic: Design

• Magapps make money

  Magazines-as-apps might be a profitable future, if GQ's singular example can be spun into a trend

  Jan 21 2010 at 5:51 PM EST

  Topics: Magazine, Mobile

• Liquor store API

  Find our what booze is available at the LCBO in JSON

  Jan 21 2010 at 2:38 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Ontario

• Cdn. magazines face funding cut

  Reallocation of money could kill arts mags, while halving bigger books' budgets

  Jan 20 2010 at 7:16 PM EST

  Topics: Magazine, Canada

• Citytv succumbs

  One of North America's pioneering TV stations sad decline at hands of corporate media

  Jan 20 2010 at 4:20 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Toronto

• NYTimes.com readies the paywall

  New York Magazine suggest the plan could be announced in weeks

  Jan 17 2010 at 4:48 PM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Editor & Publisher back

  The newspaper trade publication resumes publication

  Jan 15 2010 at 10:17 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• JQuery 1.4

  The greatest JavaScript library has a new release

  Jan 15 2010 at 10:00 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• The Kids in Hall come back

  The new "series opens, reportedly, with Death arriving on a Greyhound bus" -- brilliance

  Jan 13 2010 at 8:41 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• Open-source Flash

  Gordon is runtime using JavaScript and SVG to render Flash movies

  Jan 13 2010 at 2:57 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• Newsvine earnings for Haiti

  If you've used Newsvine, you may have earned money that can be donated to Haiti's disaster relief

  Jan 13 2010 at 1:15 PM EST

  Topics: World, Social Media

• Stock photos and news

  TinEye makes stock photos usage in news stories easier to identify, so be sure to identify the source properly

  Jan 12 2010 at 6:50 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines

• Conan says no with class

  The Tonight Show's current host issues a statement, and in doing so, demonstrates why he shouldn't be bumped

  Jan 12 2010 at 4:07 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Culture

• Mathew Ingram joins GigaOM

  Well-deserved congratulations to my former colleague who leads the way when it comes to the journalistic use social media

  Jan 8 2010 at 6:18 PM EST

  Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism

• The Economist slams Harper

  The conservative magazine calls the Canadian prime minister's move to again prorogue Parliament a dangerous abuse of power

  Jan 7 2010 at 1:54 PM EST

  Topics: Politics, Canada

• Interviewing a nation's leader

  Good insight about what its like behind-the-scenes when interviewing Canada's PM, Stephen Harper

  Jan 7 2010 at 1:37 PM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Politics

• TMZ.com as the future

  Convincing argument that the gossip site points to the future of news sites

  Dec 30 2009 at 12:52 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Stop the Presses stops

  Likely the last column by one of the first and best commentators about newspapers and the Internet

  Dec 29 2009 at 3:25 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• The origins of Santa Claus

  Great history on the creation of the icon in the red suit

  Dec 24 2009 at 12:18 PM EST

  Topics: Culture, Advertising

• Best words of the decade

  Picks from the Guardian's Books blog

  Dec 15 2009 at 3:36 PM EST

  Topics: Language, Culture

• Five years of infosthetics

  Great use of elastics lists to create a interactive archive

  Dec 14 2009 at 2:15 PM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Interactive Journalism

• Trained toasters

  Advertising cutting edge technology circa 1936

  Dec 9 2009 at 11:33 AM EST

  Topics: Technology, Advertising

• Portraits of world leaders

  The New Yorker has a stunning set of portraits taken by Platon

  Dec 8 2009 at 4:53 PM EST

  Topics: Politics, Interactive Journalism

• Recovering from the unrecoverable

  Did you get an unexpected signal 10 from VMFusion that prevented starting a suspended version of Windows? Try this

  Dec 6 2009 at 3:36 PM EST

  Topic: Computers

• Reuters redesigns

  Huge new redesign of Reuters.com offers a lot of nice details

  Dec 4 2009 at 12:37 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Online Journalism

• Google Wave and Washington police shooting

  Seattle Times has a public wave going on the manhunt - crashed my browser

  Nov 30 2009 at 4:51 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle

• Twitter and Washington police shooting

  Breaking local news happens, Twitter responds - this is how I've been following the story 2100 miles away

  Nov 30 2009 at 2:09 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle

• California City

  "In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself"

  Nov 29 2009 at 4:50 PM EST

  Topics: Culture, U.S.

• Driving from Toronto to Vancouver in 3 minutes

  Amazing time lapse of a 45 hour cross-country drive

  Nov 25 2009 at 2:09 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• 9/11 pager messages

  Incredible snapshot of one of the most important days in modern history

  Nov 25 2009 at 12:26 PM EST

  Topic: Sept. 11, 2001

• PBS Objectified

  The Independent Lens series airs an abbreviated version of the industrial design documentary on Nov. 24

  Nov 23 2009 at 7:12 PM EST

  Topics: Design, Movies

• Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

  The original hipster, as captured in a 1965 NFB documentary

  Nov 23 2009 at 2:38 PM EST

  Topics: Music, Books

• Web Font Specimen

  Build your own reference library for Web typefaces

  Nov 19 2009 at 2:23 PM EST

  Topics: Typography, Web Design

• Visualizing war

  Using visualizations to help understand who is fighting and dying in Afghanistan

  Nov 19 2009 at 1:57 PM EST

  Topics: Interactive Journalism, Sept. 11, 2001

• IE9 preview

  Rounded corners, CSS3 selectors, greatly improved performance

  Nov 18 2009 at 12:37 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Notes from Canux 2009

  Bryce Johnson collection of 200 tweets from the conference

  Nov 17 2009 at 2:53 PM EST

  Topics: Usability, Web Design

• Ligature, Loop & Stem

  Limited edition typography products beautifully designed

  Nov 17 2009 at 2:14 PM EST

  Topic: Typography

• Lunascape

  One browser with three rendering engines means you can quickly check how page looks in IE, Firefox, and Safari

  Nov 14 2009 at 12:11 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Seattle P-I aftermath

  Seven months, most laid-off journalists are making less in very different roles

  Nov 12 2009 at 8:42 PM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Newspapers

• Online news growth visualized

  Nicholas Felton to charts 13 years of CNN.com

  Nov 11 2009 at 12:48 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Sept. 11, 2001

• The fall of the Wall

  Doug Saunders, and others, look at how the fall of the Berlin Wall affected Europe

  Nov 9 2009 at 11:05 AM EST

  Topics: Politics, World

• Pictures of you(th)

  Pictures from a cultural moment that is definitively gone...grunge

  Nov 6 2009 at 8:21 PM EST

  Topics: Seattle, Music

• Separating the business from journalism

  Worth remembering: "Journalism at its best is a practice, not an industry"

  Nov 6 2009 at 6:09 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• Crown copyright stymies The Globe

  Linking to the original is the only approved way to access reports from Canada's Auditor-General

  Nov 5 2009 at 12:19 PM EST

  Topics: Copyright, Online Journalism

• The Globe and Mail's backup press

  Encountering server problems, Canada's national newspaper turns to Facebook and Twitter to get the news out

  Nov 4 2009 at 12:13 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• OpenTO

  Toronto beginning to release its official data set catalogue

  Nov 3 2009 at 9:53 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Social Media

• Another view of the new CBC

  The relaunch highlights the new unified assignment desk, argues a former CBC-er

  Nov 3 2009 at 4:45 PM EST

  Topics: CBC, TV

• How we got a visual Web

  An early discussion about loading pictures on Web pages reveals how some things never change

  Nov 2 2009 at 10:29 PM EST

  Topics: Web Standards, Browsers

• Simple Desktops

  Tom Watson collects desktops backgrounds for the minimalist

  Oct 30 2009 at 7:46 PM EDT

  Topics: Computers, Design

• Visualizing cell size

  Effectively simple, powers of ten style diagram of the scale microscopic objects

  Oct 30 2009 at 5:55 PM EDT

  Topic: Interactive Journalism

• Interactive sketching notation

  How to sketch out event-based user actions

  Oct 29 2009 at 10:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Patterns

• Social networks and news before Twitter

  The Velvet Revolution in 1989 was fueled by social media, but not the kind we know now

  Oct 29 2009 at 8:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Politics

• Allowed rel values

  HTML 5 limits the values for the rel attributes to certain values

  Oct 29 2009 at 4:48 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• National Post risks closure

  Conrad Black's dream reduced to being a pawn in bankruptcy negotiations

  Oct 29 2009 at 2:32 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Making online premium ads possible

  Scaling a premium experience could bring much value for online publishers

  Oct 27 2009 at 12:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Advertising, Online Journalism

• Mapping bike routes

  Ride the City maps the best or safest route from point A to B

  Oct 26 2009 at 8:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• CBC's The National redesigns

  New site appears in the hours before the revamped newscast

  Oct 26 2009 at 6:18 PM EDT

  Topics: CBC, Web Design

• 1984 Macintosh review

  "Any files that you have created are also graphically depicted on your electronic 'desk top.'"

  Oct 24 2009 at 12:47 AM EDT

  Topic: Technology

• Paris snapshots

  As seen through the filter of Google Street View

  Oct 24 2009 at 12:38 AM EDT

  Topics: Culture, Search Engines

• What really brought down the Eastern Bloc

  Hint - it wasn't Reagan or "people power"

  Oct 23 2009 at 11:21 PM EDT

  Topic: Politics

• Toronto's Ossington experiment

  The bar and restaurant restrictions could be extended city-wide

  Oct 23 2009 at 11:53 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• New CNN.com design

  The look follows the trend of featuring more inline media

  Oct 22 2009 at 6:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Impressive CSS typography controls

  Mozilla is exploring some new rules to expose type-specific features in CSS

  Oct 21 2009 at 8:42 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Typography

• CBC revamps news again

  Features a build-your-own online version of The National and a familiar abbreviation

  Oct 21 2009 at 7:14 PM EDT

  Topics: CBC, TV

• Canada abandons net neutrality

  Canadian ISPs allowed to shape traffic if they tell customers about it

  Oct 21 2009 at 12:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Canada

• Apple to patent CSS animation effects

  Not cool at all.

  Oct 21 2009 at 11:46 AM EDT

  Topics: Patents, CSS

• Typotheque Web Font Service

  Type foundry unveils a well-rounded collection of Web fonts for use with @font-face

  Oct 20 2009 at 2:32 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, CSS

• Protovis

  Create impressive data visualizations with this open-source JavaScript library

  Oct 19 2009 at 1:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Interactive Journalism, JavaScript

• Transit app building workshop

  Seattle's agency wants to make it easier to develop apps using its transit data, unlike other transit agency (TTC, for example)

  Oct 16 2009 at 9:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Toronto

• Grouping mobile apps

  An intelligent way to start classifying mobile (read: iPhone) apps

  Oct 16 2009 at 8:30 PM EDT

  Topic: Mobile

• Good HTML 5 and CSS 3 tutorial

  A good step-by-step for mimicking the Webkit Sticky Notes demo

  Oct 14 2009 at 8:38 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, CSS

• A/B testing headlines

  Now writers can enjoy the benefits of market-driven intelligence

  Oct 14 2009 at 1:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Usability

• Bladeless fan

  Dyson finds inspiration in a hair dryer to reinvent the fan

  Oct 13 2009 at 2:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Design

• Gag order no longer effective

  The Guardian was prevented from reporting on a story that the social Web then blew wide open

  Oct 13 2009 at 12:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Journalism

• DailyMe 2.5

  A brief overview of the variety of personal news plays out there

  Oct 12 2009 at 1:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism

• Sourcemap

  Mapping where all the parts of product come from

  Oct 12 2009 at 1:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Interactive Journalism

• IAs pitch to Tages-Anzeiger

  The UX design agency shares its entire proposal to redesign the renowned Swiss newspaper

  Oct 10 2009 at 12:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Design

• Boing Boing readers and @font-face

  Webmonkey explains why the reaction to Boing Boing's redesign may have been more severe than it could have been

  Oct 10 2009 at 11:23 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Typography

• Photoshop for the iPhone

  Really. (Of course, the feature set is scaled down just a bit)

  Oct 9 2009 at 3:59 PM EDT

  Topic: iPhone

• Font embedding 101

  How to get nice type on Web pages with only some pain

  Oct 8 2009 at 1:54 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Typography

• Debatable social media as a panacea

  Some good in the trenches critiquing about the potential for social media to save journalism

  Oct 8 2009 at 12:13 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Social Media

• iPhone choice for Canadians

  Three Canadian companies, up from one, could be offering iPhones; does this mean AT&T's monopoly is next to fall

  Oct 5 2009 at 10:02 PM EDT

  Topics: iPhone, Canada

• Look inside first

  If you move get beyond his characteristic pique, Joe Clark makes important points about the insecurities within the Canadian media-verse

  Oct 5 2009 at 7:05 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• Flash apps on the iPhone

  Adobe one-ups Apple by creating a way to automatically convert Flash apps into native iPhone apps

  Oct 5 2009 at 6:36 PM EDT

  Topics: iPhone, Web Technology

• Local blog wins national award

  My Ballard (run in part by a co-worker of mine) won a 2009 Online Journalism Award for community collaboration

  Oct 5 2009 at 4:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Pownce reborn

  Microblogging service long dormant reborn as a TypePad open-sourced service

  Oct 1 2009 at 8:41 PM EDT

  Topic: Social Media

• Making the free model work

  Some advice on building a successful business publishing online content free

  Sep 30 2009 at 9:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Google reads your images

  A new feature of the Google Docs API offers an OCR service

  Sep 29 2009 at 8:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology

• Building iPhone apps with Web standards

  A Web-based O'Reilly reference for developers of the mobile Web

  Sep 29 2009 at 4:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, iPhone

• Twitters and TV

  TODAY's Twitter audience share some interesting pics of how & where they watch the show

  Sep 28 2009 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Social Media

• Owning the design

  A lengthy rant about how collaboration can destroy the very design process its intended to help

  Sep 25 2009 at 4:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Design, Work

• Canadian fascists in 1938

  Google Books makes available an early Life article exposing racists in pre-WWII Canada

  Sep 25 2009 at 1:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Magazine

• Patterns for the colour blind

  Colour patterns for infographics and other visualizations

  Sep 24 2009 at 5:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Interactive Journalism

• Optimizing JavaScript rendering time

  Gmail for Mobile hides the scripts in a comment blocks to speed startup

  Sep 24 2009 at 1:26 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Spelling Gadhfi

  The name of Libya's leader has 32 spelling variants

  Sep 23 2009 at 7:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Style & Usage, Politics

• Trendsmap

  well-executed, location-aware map of trending Twitter topics

  Sep 23 2009 at 3:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, User Interface

• Newspaper wins Emmy for online effort

  The Globe and Mail's exceptional Talking to the Taliban wins yet another

  Sep 23 2009 at 11:01 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Five-star rating systems fail

  YouTube shows using five stars to rate something is three too many

  Sep 22 2009 at 5:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Web Patterns

• Design love Google

  Some unique designs and portfolios powered by Google Maps

  Sep 22 2009 at 3:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Search Engines

• Julie Doiron wins NxEW's Shadow Polaris Poll

  My one-time house guest's latest album, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, is picked as the NxEW's readers favourite

  Sep 21 2009 at 4:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• hulu.cbc.ca

  The case for CBC bringing Hulu to Canada

  Sep 21 2009 at 12:12 PM EDT

  Topics: CBC, TV

• Preserving a free and open Internet

  Momentous... the U.S. government has pledged that every citizen has access to open and robust broadband

  Sep 21 2009 at 12:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Politics

• Happy birthday, New York Times

  The front page from the first edition, printed 158 years ago today

  Sep 18 2009 at 2:43 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Toronto wants Canadian English

  City Hall asks for software that spells councillor with two "l"s, for example

  Sep 18 2009 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Style & Usage

• Everything you wanted to know about A/B testing

  But were afraid to ask (answered in the form of 114 slides)

  Sep 17 2009 at 12:09 PM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Canadian Online Publishing Awards

  Finalist announced in 20 categories

  Sep 16 2009 at 12:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• Google's Fast Flip

  The mobile version shines on the iPhone, where the desktop version feels awkward

  Sep 15 2009 at 1:46 PM EDT

  Topics: User Interface, iPhone

• Excellent advice online magazines

  Joe Clark shares some thoughts that publications would be smart to follow

  Sep 13 2009 at 11:07 AM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism

• The down and dirty revolution

  Good post on how journalism (and other corporate enterprise) could benefit from getting a little messier

  Sep 10 2009 at 8:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Work

• W3C on open goverment data

  The people behind the Web standards offer some best practices for governments looking to open their data

  Sep 10 2009 at 5:46 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Politics

• NowPublic finds a buyer

  Citizen-journalist news site sold to Denver's Examiner.com

  Sep 2 2009 at 12:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Canada

• The HTML5 Super Friends

  Some smart standardistas want to help polish HTML5

  Sep 1 2009 at 1:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, HTML

• MSN and Sympatico breakup

  The Canadian mega portal partners are going there separate ways

  Aug 29 2009 at 11:29 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Yelp augments reality

  The term will wear out faster than the coolness of the feature

  Aug 27 2009 at 8:59 PM EDT

  Topic: iPhone

• …And the Kitchen Sink

  Scott Boms' all-in-one Web development environment is now Snow Leopard ready

  Aug 27 2009 at 12:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Geek's guide to Seattle

  Microsoft and Amazon landmarks are amongst the locations highlighted

  Aug 27 2009 at 11:24 AM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Technology

• An end to movements

  Douglas Rushkoff argues mass media has defeated mass protests

  Aug 19 2009 at 12:12 PM EDT

  Topic: Politics

• Open sources thoughts on EveryBlock

  Thinking about how to safely open source contributions on Web-based projects

  Aug 18 2009 at 5:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Copyright

• Making the NPR iPhone app

  Good description on the making of a great news app for the iPhone

  Aug 17 2009 at 2:32 PM EDT

  Topics: iPhone, Usability

• EveryBlock joins msnbc.com

  Very pleased to finally be working with Adrian Holovaty

  Aug 17 2009 at 11:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Work, Online Journalism

• More than a wire service

  The Canadian Press tries to survive obscurity by offering page layout and editing services to newspapers

  Aug 13 2009 at 11:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Journalism

• What's in a name?

  For some nostalgia-blinded members of the left a name change for the NDP is sacrilegious

  Aug 13 2009 at 10:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Canada

• Project Retweet

  Twitter's planning officially supporting the retweet, prepare for another round of explosive growth

  Aug 13 2009 at 5:49 PM EDT

  Topic: Social Media

• AP's new distribution plan

  Exclusive AP content to be available only on the consortium's own site

  Aug 12 2009 at 2:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Email

• Design pattern collection

  A Flicker-based collection of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows

  Aug 12 2009 at 12:49 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Patterns, User Interface

• Seattle as a one-newspaper town

  A look at the news business in Seattle, nearly six months after the P-I, stopped printing

  Aug 11 2009 at 1:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Seattle

• The Globe's new editorial team

  John Stackhouse unveils his new, flatter, editorial management team

  Aug 11 2009 at 1:01 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• IEBlog on IE6

  Reading between the lines, the official browser blog asks people to stop using IE6

  Aug 11 2009 at 11:56 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Article page design

  How msnbc.com's new story design can help advertising (based on an interview eMedia Vitals did with me)

  Aug 11 2009 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Work

• Enterprising online journalism

  NYTimes profiles msnbc.com's efforts in Elkhart (note: I work for msnbc.com)

  Aug 10 2009 at 12:46 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• Rupert Murdoch to charge for news sites

  Wants a "a company-wide effort to establish a new economic model to profitably transition [News Corp.'s] print properties to digital"

  Aug 6 2009 at 6:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Yahoo's development tools at risk?

  The Microsoft-Yahoo deal creates questions about relying on closed-source tools

  Aug 5 2009 at 6:12 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Seattlepi.com redesigns

  And by doing so, fixes the biggest problems with the former newspaper web site

  Aug 3 2009 at 2:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• TED's design talks

  Some of the best design talks from TED Global 2009

  Aug 3 2009 at 1:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Design

• Sabotaging the local news

  An insider describes how CBC's new local news program is designed to fail

  Jul 31 2009 at 9:12 PM EDT

  Topics: CBC, TV

• A CN Tower-less Toronto

  Removing the iconic tower changes more than the skyline

  Jul 31 2009 at 5:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Cross-browser HTML5 audio

  A jQuery plugin (called jPlayer) enables broader support for embedded audio

  Jul 30 2009 at 11:46 AM EDT

  Topics: HTML, JavaScript

• Search Patterns

  Peter Morville's collection of search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns

  Jul 30 2009 at 11:46 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Patterns, Search Engines

• NYTimes.com subscription idea

  Steve Outing has an interesting twist on the typical pay-to-read model

  Jul 29 2009 at 7:45 PM EDT

  Topic: Subscriptions & Registration

• The Developer Evangelist Handbook

  Interesting how-to on promoting ones company to other developers

  Jul 28 2009 at 11:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Work

• Limiting HTML5 feeback

  HTML5 WG is "run by tech geeks...And to a geek...the way to filter input is to use technology as a barrier"

  Jul 28 2009 at 12:06 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• 100 years of design

  Dozens of manifestos from some of the century's leading design thinkers

  Jul 28 2009 at 12:25 AM EDT

  Topic: Design

• Resurrecting the afternoon paper

  The free daily (called t.o.night) will have the day's actual news

  Jul 27 2009 at 4:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Toronto

• Rebranding Tim Hortons

  Hearing it described as a "coffee & bake shop" sounds off, even if accurate

  Jul 27 2009 at 1:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Design

• AnythingZoomer

  Clever little jQuery plugin for magnifying images and text

  Jul 27 2009 at 12:12 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Nice Web Type

  Some stunning examples of what's possible with real type on the web

  Jul 24 2009 at 3:53 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, CSS

• Push again: pushbutton web

  Anil Dash examines the new generation push technologies that can actually scale

  Jul 24 2009 at 12:56 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Secretly Starbucks

  Manufacturing local charm with a purposefully rustic renovation and name: 15th Avenue Coffee & Tea

  Jul 24 2009 at 12:20 PM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• Two big hires at the Globe and Mail

  Kenny Yum returns as the site's editor, Anjali Kapoor becomes the ME of digital

  Jul 20 2009 at 12:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Web-friendly fonts, take 2

  An XML-based licensing standard (.webfont) has been proposed as a way to embed typefaces

  Jul 17 2009 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Web Standards

• USA Today's News Deck

  Not sure I really understand the point of this other than to experiment with some JavaScript effects

  Jul 17 2009 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• 3D CSS Transforms

  Some stunning WebKit-only visual effects previously only possible in Flash

  Jul 17 2009 at 11:47 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Everything you didn't know about tech and media

  Or at least 25 bits of trivia

  Jul 17 2009 at 1:42 AM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Journalism

• Web-friendly OpenType fonts

  The Font Bureau proposes a way to legally distribute fonts for Web use

  Jul 17 2009 at 12:47 AM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Web Standards

• Making sense of HTML5

  Zeldman valiantly tries again to refocus the HTML5 debates around standrds

  Jul 16 2009 at 4:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, HTML

• We choose the Moon

  An amazing, real-time recreation of the the Apollo 11 mission online

  Jul 16 2009 at 11:55 AM EDT

  Topic: Interactive Journalism

• Improving "Missing cat" posters

  A brilliant guerrilla typography project to beautify the streets

  Jul 14 2009 at 11:47 AM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Design

• Ethics, blogging, the Star

  My former colleague (Kathy English) has lambasted a skilled columnist (Antonia Zerbisias) for writing about a protest of a protest

  Jul 14 2009 at 11:29 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• Desgin principles

  Well defined design principles can define the experience without prescribing it

  Jul 14 2009 at 11:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Design

• Data and journalism

  Overview on how the wealth of data available now can revitalize journalism

  Jul 13 2009 at 12:13 PM EDT

  Topic: Interactive Journalism

• Examining the news cycle

  Mainstream news still leads on news stories, but blogs are having an influence

  Jul 12 2009 at 11:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Social Media

• Assessing the Globe changes

  Maclean's has an in-depth feature about the recent changes at The Globe and Mail

  Jul 12 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Reuters' Handbook of Journalism

  The news service has posted its core journalistic principles online

  Jul 12 2009 at 12:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Journalism Resources

• Value added news

  HNews is a new microformat for marking up news articles

  Jul 12 2009 at 12:26 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Online Journalism

• This Movie is Broken

  If you're in Toronto this July, help Broken Social Scene and Bruce McDonald make a movie

  Jul 11 2009 at 5:16 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Movies

• iPhone-style password fields

  A jQuery plug-in that obscures all but the last character in a password field

  Jul 9 2009 at 10:32 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Usability

• Parsing HTML5

  An HTML5 parsing engine is now available in nightly Firefox builds

  Jul 8 2009 at 1:39 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, HTML

• HTML5 Doctor

  A Dr. Web for the new generation of Web standards

  Jul 8 2009 at 1:39 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Free book on search UI

  Skews more academic than visual design, so there are is some good research here

  Jul 7 2009 at 5:52 PM EDT

  Topics: User Interface, Search Engines

• 6,000 status updates per minute

  Somehow, it's appropriate Michael Jackson's funeral breaks a number of social media records

  Jul 7 2009 at 3:13 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Music

• Polaris 2009 shortlist

  Given the prizes intention, this year's list seems strangely disappointing despite the quality of the acts selected

  Jul 7 2009 at 12:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Martin Streek reported dead

  The iconic DJ, recently fired from Toronto's CFNY / Edge 102 radio station after 20 years, has apparently died

  Jul 6 2009 at 11:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Radio, Toronto

• The death of IE6 (and 7)

  In 2010, 90 per cent of the Web could be surfing with standards-compliant browsers

  Jul 6 2009 at 10:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• Mediaite from the inside

  Rex Sorgatz explains the the design concepts behind the media gossip site

  Jul 6 2009 at 6:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• No strike at the Globe

  The Globe and Mail has reached a tentative deal with its employees, averting a strike

  Jul 3 2009 at 2:56 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Modernizr

  A JavaScript solution for detecting CSS3 support in browsers

  Jul 2 2009 at 5:47 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Embedded video everywhere

  Kroc Camen has developed a script to enable HTML5's video in any browser

  Jul 2 2009 at 3:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, HTML

• The trouble with video

  HTML5 offers the promise of embedded video, but the reality may not match

  Jul 1 2009 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• EveryBlock source code released

  This is a huge milestone for the company, the Knight Foundation, and online journalism

  Jun 30 2009 at 9:45 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• New online ad units

  Remember when I said the banner ad was dead, well, prepare for the new ads

  Jun 30 2009 at 9:41 PM EDT

  Topic: Advertising

• Lebowski Fest Seattle

  July 20: an outdoor screening of the movie; July 21: bowling

  Jun 30 2009 at 12:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Movies

• 50 reasons to love my hometown

  Or: why Toronto rocks

  Jun 29 2009 at 7:04 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• The Globe and Mail faces strike

  A note from the publisher of Canada's national newspaper on a potential June 30 strike by the paper's employees

  Jun 29 2009 at 4:36 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Chase erases the user experience

  The user-friendly experience that attracted customers like me to WaMu is being lost

  Jun 25 2009 at 10:22 AM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Design

• Newspapers weren't always boring

  Great post fleshing out my favourite analogy: early newspapers vs. online news sites

  Jun 24 2009 at 6:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• How to do crowd-sourced journalism

  Simon Willison details what was involved in Guardian's expense investigation

  Jun 24 2009 at 12:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• How to do crowd-sourced journalism

  Simon Willison details what was involved in Guardian's expense investigation

  Jun 24 2009 at 12:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Garbage cam

  A garbage can in my former neighbourhood's parkette is now a barometer for the Toronto civic workers' strike

  Jun 23 2009 at 2:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Personal

• Infinite Summer

  Or, A Sublimely Fun Read I'll Likely Do Again

  Jun 22 2009 at 4:16 PM EDT

  Topic: Books

• Presenting the new news

  An aggregated page tracking #IranElection acts as a living prototype of the next online news sites

  Jun 22 2009 at 12:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• leerichmond.org

  Finally, a functional site for Lee Richmond (thanks Tumblr!)

  Jun 19 2009 at 1:04 AM EDT

  Topic: Family

• Oprah likes Niedzviecki

  Toronto writer (and former zine-maker and neighbour) Hal Niedzviecki has his The Peep Diaries made as one of Oprah's book picks

  Jun 16 2009 at 5:16 PM EDT

  Topics: Books, Toronto

• Opera Unite

  Essentially, Opera 10 comes with it's own server for sharing files, pictures and content from your computer across the Web

  Jun 16 2009 at 10:31 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Technology

• CSS3 features now

  Thirteen features already implemented by more than one browser

  Jun 15 2009 at 7:22 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Canada's best music for 2009

  The Polaris 2009 long list has been announced

  Jun 15 2009 at 11:46 AM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• The National through the decades

  Seven clips featuring the intros to CBC's national news show during the past 30 years

  Jun 11 2009 at 11:03 AM EDT

  Topics: CBC, TV

• Tiananmen Square, 20 years ago

  A photograph of an iconic moment from a new perspective should remind us the full story has still not been told

  Jun 5 2009 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topic: Politics

• Streching bing

  After I commented on the horrid logotype, a co-worker gave me a sticker saying "u bing?"

  Jun 3 2009 at 1:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Search Engines

• The Cranky Copyright Book

  Joe Clark's new book will focus his singular attention on the foibles of the current copyright debate

  Jun 2 2009 at 1:49 PM EDT

  Topics: Copyright, Books

• Monotype permits Web use of typefaces

  For non-commercial use (does that cover blogs with ads?) in the Embedded OpenType format (IE-only)

  Jun 2 2009 at 12:40 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Web Design

• Google Wave

  Very interesting, and potentially intuitive, response to Facebook and Twitter

  May 28 2009 at 1:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Search Engines

• Typekit

  A new platform for managing web-only font linking licenses

  May 28 2009 at 11:54 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Typography

• The new socialism is online

  Kevin Kelly analyzes the digital evolution of collectivism

  May 27 2009 at 4:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Politics

• Google pushing HTML5

  Sees the Web-app friendly direction as the way forward

  May 27 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• CSS-based gradients

  A handy tool for generating Webkit-supported background gradients

  May 27 2009 at 1:10 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Resources

• Must read piece on burnout

  Great advice on recognizing and resolving burnout symptoms

  May 26 2009 at 7:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Personal

• Big leadership changes at The Globe and Mail

  With an eye to online, John Stackhouse replaces Edward Greenspon as editor-in-chief; Angus Frame becomes VP of Digital

  May 25 2009 at 3:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Web fonts 101

  Zeldman offers a good overview, and collects, pointers to embeddable Web typefaces

  May 23 2009 at 10:17 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Typography

• Firefinder

  A Firebug extension to search HTML using CSS selectors

  May 22 2009 at 12:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Resources, Browsers

• Typewriter

  A simple typewriter-emulator that comes the closest yet to Khoi Vinh's Blockwriter idea

  May 22 2009 at 10:45 AM EDT

  Topics: Writing, Computers

• ABC News redesigns

  Big images and more video promotions feature large

  May 21 2009 at 10:36 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, TV

• New look for The Globe and Mail online

  Canada's national newspaper showcases a bold, new design with clean and readable story pages framed by a more cohesive organizational structure

  May 21 2009 at 1:41 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Newspapers

• Yahoo's Placemaker

  Service parses text on web pages or news feeds and returns geographic data

  May 20 2009 at 8:13 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• New suubscription models

  Reports are The New York Times is considering two different ways to charge for online content

  May 20 2009 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Tax breaks for newspapers, but not news sites

  Washington decides to save newspapers with a tax break

  May 13 2009 at 11:58 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Canoe and Sun Media merging

  What goes around, comes around

  May 13 2009 at 9:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, CANOE

• Google and microformats

  The big search engine finally supports microformats and RDFa to improve search results

  May 13 2009 at 12:56 PM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• Mozilla Prism

  Use Web pages as applications with this official Mozilla Labs tool

  May 11 2009 at 7:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Technology

• TimesReader 2.0

  Since it first debuted, I've loved the TimesReader concept - the version overhauls the tech and keeps the elegance

  May 11 2009 at 7:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Web Technology

• Inheriting email

  Contemplating a potentially giant knowledge gap for future historians

  May 11 2009 at 3:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Email, Web Culture

• jQuery Twitter search plugin

  Juitter provides an easy to display a Twitter stream using jQuery

  May 7 2009 at 12:48 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Social Media

• Rupert to charge for content

  News Corp.'s newspaper sites will begin charging a fee within a year

  May 7 2009 at 12:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Mobile design and development assets

  Brian Fling's collection of resources from his mobile workshops

  May 4 2009 at 7:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• Big companies love IE6

  Forrester reveals the dirty details

  May 1 2009 at 1:38 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• eCSStender

  Making the future CSS happen in browsers now

  Apr 30 2009 at 9:09 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, JavaScript

• Happy Hour app

  Mobile app reveals cheap alcohol and Seattleites achieve bliss

  Apr 30 2009 at 7:50 PM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, iPhone

• Imagining Toronto as Seattle

  Interesting comparison of my two cities as a high-tech startup friendly places

  Apr 30 2009 at 2:59 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Seattle

• Video still seen on TV

  CBC finds only 10% of video is watched online and user-generated video viewing has plateaued (do consider the source, tho...)

  Apr 30 2009 at 1:50 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Technology

• The Anti-MySpace

  Khoi Vinh reviews the design aesthetic of the new Muxtape

  Apr 30 2009 at 12:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Music

• CBC gets a new online boss

  Rachel Nixon leaves NowPublic to be the director of digital media for CBC News

  Apr 30 2009 at 10:33 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, CBC

• Google visualizations

  In the U.S., Google has begun adding microcharts to illustrate public statistics

  Apr 29 2009 at 2:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Usability

• When can I use...

  Find out when those cool new Web design features will be available to all

  Apr 28 2009 at 3:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Browsers

• News and Twitter

  Business strategies try to make Twitter lay a golden egg for online news

  Apr 28 2009 at 3:35 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• The Pennysmash Machine

  Make your own flattened penny art at the Gladtone Hotel

  Apr 26 2009 at 5:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Culture, Toronto

• Big Picture a side project

  Boston Globe's Big Picture blog was developed and promoted on Alan Taylor's off-hours

  Apr 24 2009 at 12:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Embedding images

  How to use text-based data URIs to embed images in Internet Explorer

  Apr 24 2009 at 12:31 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Browsers

• Service design principles

  How to develop and evolve design principles for service-based projects

  Apr 23 2009 at 11:53 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• News timeline

  Typically Google experiment in presenting a new way to look at news

  Apr 23 2009 at 11:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines

• Digg's multipart XHR

  An very clever idea from Digg on speeding up Web pages

  Apr 22 2009 at 4:31 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology

• Comic Sans and the Watchmen

  Comic book letter Todd Klein disputes the origins of Comic Sans

  Apr 22 2009 at 11:32 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• 2009 EPpy Awards finalists

  Long-deserved nods for the globeandmail.com, one for msnbc.com

  Apr 20 2009 at 2:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• CanTags project

  May 1 will see the debut of a taxonomy for Canadian local news on Twitter

  Apr 20 2009 at 2:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Canada

• Vanishing movie ads

  Once big spenders, movie promotions in newspapers are becoming rarer

  Apr 17 2009 at 3:35 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Movies

• 11 graphic design paradoxes

  Valuable points to keep in mind for designers

  Apr 17 2009 at 12:56 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Aggregating the buzz

  New music service aims to create a chart of the emerging music tracks

  Apr 17 2009 at 12:48 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Citzen captioning

  CaptionTube allows people to add and export subtitle information to YouTube videos

  Apr 17 2009 at 12:32 AM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, TV

• Journalism Online announced

  Aim is to create a billing system for online newspapers - wasn't that eMeta?

  Apr 16 2009 at 4:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Journalism

• Paper Cuts

  All the depressing news & data about the newspaper industry collected in one place

  Apr 15 2009 at 6:07 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• We Love Typography

  FFFound for type, with a great search UI

  Apr 15 2009 at 1:07 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, User Interface

• Seattle Post Globe launches

  Umm...good luck? (And please, please date your posts)

  Apr 14 2009 at 7:49 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle

• Web design features in Firefox 3.5

  Just as IE8 catches up, Firefox and Safari sprint ahead

  Apr 13 2009 at 4:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Browsers

• Refresh Seattle's back

  The UX event returns with Jared Spool speaking after a few months hiatus

  Apr 13 2009 at 11:08 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Seattle

• Buy a newspaper box

  For $40 you can have your own a Seattle P-I newspaper box

  Apr 10 2009 at 2:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Seattle

• Web loading time hurt by @import

  In many cases, using @import can affect how fast a page loads

  Apr 9 2009 at 2:17 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Past-proof HTML

  HTML5 may not provide the information historians need to tell our stories

  Apr 8 2009 at 2:50 PM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Torontoist lives on

  Toronto city blog is now locally and independently owned, although still affiliated with Gothamist chain

  Apr 8 2009 at 1:46 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Online Journalism

• Kurt Cobain is dead

  Fifteen years later, nothing much remains the same

  Apr 8 2009 at 12:40 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Seattle

• A List Apart 2008 Survey

  Everything you wanted to know about the state of the Web design industry right now

  Apr 7 2009 at 2:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Huffington Post steps up

  Seeds an Investigative reporting fund with $1.75 million - this is a good sign

  Mar 30 2009 at 7:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Reflow and repaint performance issues

  General overview on some client-side things that slow a Web page

  Mar 30 2009 at 2:20 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, JavaScript

• Web typography

  Good resource site from a SXSW 2009 panel

  Mar 30 2009 at 2:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, CSS

• Capitol Hill bus map

  Modelled on London's transit maps, this bus map shows the routes centred on one of Seattle neighbourhoods

  Mar 26 2009 at 11:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Usability

• The Strange Final Days Of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  As experienced by a former reporter

  Mar 26 2009 at 4:19 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Seattle

• Drug testing reporters

  The final indignity against Seattle P-I reporters? They now have to pass a drug test to stay employed

  Mar 24 2009 at 11:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Seattle

• Exploring MoMA online

  The Museum of Modern Art relaunched with a compelling new design

  Mar 24 2009 at 3:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Culture

• Grid overlay

  A simple mac-based tool for refining grid based layouts

  Mar 23 2009 at 4:54 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Proposing a new global currency

  China wants the IMF "SDR" unit to replace the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency (let the conspiracy theories begin)

  Mar 23 2009 at 1:34 PM EDT

  Topics: World, Politics

• Scandinavian news sites protest IE6

  Danish and Norwegian media sites are campaigning their users to use any browser but IE6

  Mar 20 2009 at 5:26 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Design

• Bowman leaves Google

  In his goodbye post, Doug Bowman articulates the perils of designing for a big company

  Mar 20 2009 at 4:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• SuperPreview

  Stupidly literal name, cool tool: allows you to overlay different renders of a Web page

  Mar 19 2009 at 3:53 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Browsers

• Micrsoft releases Internet Explorer 8

  This very good browser does a lot of contortions to not offend anyone, and almost succeeds

  Mar 19 2009 at 1:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• March 17, 2009 - the end of the P-I

  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the city's oldest business, will roll off the presses for the last time St. Patrick's Day

  Mar 16 2009 at 6:32 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Seattle

• Newspapers: a revolutionary victim

  Clay Shirky writes one of the most insightful essays on the what is really happening to newspapers and what we mean when we want to save them.

  Mar 14 2009 at 10:59 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Journalism

• Site Compatibility and IE8

  Otherwise known as what fixing your site's bad habits

  Mar 13 2009 at 2:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• The Web at 20

  Twenty years ago today Tim-Berners Lee submitted the proposal that would become the World Wide Web

  Mar 13 2009 at 1:16 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• 51% design

  What if you started with an idea but only designed 51% of its potential before letting it loose?

  Mar 12 2009 at 11:18 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Hometown newspapers no more

  City newspapers may, for all practical purposes, disappear in the U.S. by year's end

  Mar 12 2009 at 1:32 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, U.S.

• Joys of being Gen X

  This inspired a sarcastic tweet from me a little ways back...

  Mar 11 2009 at 3:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Culture

• CSS selectors and page performance

  Turns out, in real world tests, CSS selectors don't effect the rendering time of Web pages

  Mar 11 2009 at 12:51 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Guardian frees its content

  Simon Willison explains more about the Guardian Open Platform's APIs and the content available

  Mar 10 2009 at 11:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• 10 at-risk U.S. newspapers

  Time's list of newspapers possibly following the path of Rocky Mountain News or the Seattle P-I

  Mar 9 2009 at 2:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, U.S.

• Digital Web done

  One of the longest-running publications about Web design and development has ceased publication

  Mar 8 2009 at 3:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• Happy birthday Toronto

  For the city's 175th birthday, Spacing donates 175 iconic pictures to the city archives

  Mar 6 2009 at 12:29 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Seattle P-I going online only

  Some staff members of the newspaper were offered a chance at continued employment in an online edition

  Mar 6 2009 at 12:36 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• The Media 2.0 Best Practices

  An attempt to set and document the best practices for social media platforms

  Mar 3 2009 at 11:23 AM EST

  Topic: Social Media

• Hearst tries to figure out the pay-wall

  Having been on the ground for practical discussions of the same issues years ago, I'm amazed how many lessons have not been learned

  Mar 3 2009 at 11:19 AM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• The Elements of Social Architecture

  The incomparable Christina Wodtke outlines the key patterns for creating successful online communities

  Mar 3 2009 at 1:49 AM EST

  Topics: Social Media, Web Patterns

• Elastic lists and search

  Interesting interface for searching on a set of fixed terms

  Mar 3 2009 at 1:13 AM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Search Engines

• The first sketches of history

  Great summary of all the different experiments in visualizing the words news is literally made of

  Mar 3 2009 at 1:07 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Web Design

• Toronto then & now images

  Love how little Ossington and Arglye have changed in 50 years

  Mar 2 2009 at 6:52 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Clark on Google's caption idea

  Thirteen things to not do when developing online video captions

  Mar 2 2009 at 1:02 AM EST

  Topics: Accessibility, Search Engines

• Designing Web Interfaces' photostream

  A huge collection of Web interfaces used as support for an O'Reilly book

  Feb 27 2009 at 5:59 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, User Interface

• Guardian's Oscar interactive

  Simple, dull, but a good pattern to examine

  Feb 27 2009 at 4:24 PM EST

  Topics: Interactive Journalism, Web Patterns

• jQuery Sparklines

  Create sparklines that render cross-browser

  Feb 27 2009 at 4:24 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Design

• Online dreams for the P-I

  The last breaths of a newspaper that owns the building two other successful online news company are operating out of

  Feb 27 2009 at 3:04 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Work

• Reseting Safari 4

  Don't like the tab bar above the URL bar in Safari 4? Switch it back.

  Feb 25 2009 at 7:08 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Who uses Twitter?

  Urban, mobile, news-reading thirtysomethings

  Feb 23 2009 at 4:49 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology

• CanWest faces bankruptcy

  Karmic payback?

  Feb 20 2009 at 12:37 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• Boxee and Hulu

  The transition to the streaming of traditional television online just had a big setback

  Feb 19 2009 at 1:06 AM EST

  Topics: TV, Web Culture

• Design Technologist

  An interesting title for people who aren't really Web developers

  Feb 19 2009 at 12:40 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Work

• CanCon rules coming to the Web?

  The CRTC is floating the idea setting up a $100-million fund to Canadian programming online

  Feb 18 2009 at 3:03 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Ealy online newspapers

  The Electronic Examiner profiled in a 1981 TV news story

  Feb 10 2009 at 4:50 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• U.S. vs. Canadian Smarties

  Canadians know them as Rockets, Americans call this Canadian-made candy Smarties. How bizarre.

  Feb 6 2009 at 2:53 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, U.S.

• TinEye open

  The image search service is now open to everyone, not just registered users

  Feb 5 2009 at 11:42 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• The Globe and Mail lays off 30

  Another 60 take packages at Canada's national newspaper

  Feb 4 2009 at 7:09 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Making buttons

  Doug Bowman offers a great explanation of the lengths he went to develop a better button for Google

  Feb 4 2009 at 7:09 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Search Engines

• Optimizing page load times

  Some long held beliefs about Web design actual hurt page performance

  Feb 3 2009 at 9:18 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Irony

  NYTimes.com may charge for its site again - I've long argued subscriptions made sense if implemented properly

  Feb 3 2009 at 3:53 PM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Canadian news digest launching

  My former boss and a former Walrus editor are launch new "online forum for [Canadian] news and opinion"

  Feb 2 2009 at 6:53 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• SuperBowl ad showdown

  For many, the real SuperBowl competition is the ads - take a look this years and pick your favourite

  Feb 2 2009 at 1:28 PM EST

  Topic: Advertising

• Five Simple Steps released

  One of my most anticipated Web design books has finally been released

  Feb 2 2009 at 1:03 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Books

• Open-source politics

  The embrace of social media, unconferences and community politics is pushing Toronto into the vanguard of open-source politics.

  Jan 31 2009 at 4:12 PM EST

  Topics: Politics, Toronto

• BaconCamp

  In the spirit of BarCamp - a celebration of bacon

  Jan 29 2009 at 11:24 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Fluid grid template

  Up to 16-column grid design that is flexible and fluid. Remember when this used to be almost impossible in CSS?

  Jan 27 2009 at 4:59 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Design

• IE8 almost done

  The best IE browser built to date is now available as a release candidate

  Jan 27 2009 at 11:10 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Gigapixel image: Where's Obama?

  Amazing panorama of the U.S. president giving his inauguration speech (try viewing full-screen on a 30" monitor!)

  Jan 23 2009 at 4:49 PM EST

  Topics: U.S., Politics

• Most wired U.S. city

  Seattle (seems also to be the most wirelessed, too)

  Jan 23 2009 at 12:02 PM EST

  Topics: Seattle, Technology

• New stopdesign

  Doug Bowman unveils a new look for his now, more personal, blog

  Jan 23 2009 at 11:34 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Mobile JavaScript library

  XUI is library optimized for modern mobile devices

  Jan 22 2009 at 11:49 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, Mobile

• Ingram and Nieman

  Mathew Ingram joins the Nieman Journalism Lab

  Jan 22 2009 at 10:41 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Live web coverage of subway shooting

  The Globe and Mail is using Cover It Live technology to do instant community updates on the news story

  Jan 22 2009 at 1:21 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto

• Obama's inauguration

  Poynter's collecting screen shots as news sites cover this historic day in U.S. politics

  Jan 20 2009 at 3:10 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, U.S.

• Pushing the news UI

  A critique of GlobalPost turns into an examination of future potential

  Jan 13 2009 at 2:36 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, User Interface

• Broken font-weight

  CSS's font-weight remains broken in all but one browser variant used today

  Jan 13 2009 at 2:21 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Chicago Tribune goes tabloid

  Subscribers will continue to get the broadsheet - interesting arrangement, not sure I see the savings

  Jan 13 2009 at 12:57 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Promoting the new, new journalism

  New York features on the interactive journalist at NYTimes.com

  Jan 12 2009 at 2:57 PM EST

  Topics: Interactive Journalism, Newspapers

• Seattle P-I: bye-bye?

  The Seattle Post Intelligencer is being put up for sale, which is the complicated way to stop printing the newspaper

  Jan 9 2009 at 4:52 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• And now the Globe

  Canada's national newspaper now facing layoffs

  Jan 9 2009 at 2:22 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• The State of the Web 2008

  John Allsopp has released the summary of his extensive survey of professional web designers and developers

  Jan 9 2009 at 12:56 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• The world with the Times

  Interesting article examining what might happen to the New York Times

  Jan 6 2009 at 8:43 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Browser 10 bug

  Like Y2K all over again, browser detection software may need an upgrade to support those, like Opera, now in version 10

  Dec 19 2008 at 10:00 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Sun Media cutting 600 jobs

  Ten percent of its workforce will be gone by year's end

  Dec 16 2008 at 12:53 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, CANOE

• Adding the fourth dimension

  Zoetrope concept demonstrates how to browse the past online in very rich ways

  Dec 15 2008 at 7:35 PM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Web Technology

• Stephanie Nolen: Out of Africa

  One of Canada's, if not the world's, best foreign correspondents says farewell to the continent she covered for five years

  Dec 15 2008 at 11:28 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Newspapers

• CSS Text Wrapper

  Tool for creating the markup needed to wrap text around an image

  Dec 11 2008 at 12:50 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Digital Web seeks new direction

  The online magazine that literally changed my life, is now seeking to change itself and wants your thoughts

  Dec 11 2008 at 11:13 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Design

• WCAG 2.0 official

  The contentious second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is now a recommendation

  Dec 11 2008 at 11:12 AM EST

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards

• Government 2.0 - really

  Chnage.gov is becoming an example of how government's can easily appear more transparent

  Dec 11 2008 at 11:01 AM EST

  Topics: Politics, Social Media

• StatCan as Google

  Great proposal on how Canada's statistic agency could reshape itself to literally be the Google of that country

  Dec 9 2008 at 8:16 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Canada

• The beginning of it all

  How you do what you are doing right this instant was inspired by a demo 40 years ago

  Dec 9 2008 at 11:22 AM EST

  Topics: Computers, User Interface

• Adrian Bromley, 1971-2008

  He was one of the first people in the industry I worked with and made those night shifts something to enjoy - 30 -

  Dec 8 2008 at 11:04 PM EST

  Topics: CANOE, Personal

• A Putlizer for online

  The revered journalism prize is final going to be awarded in an online category (although it must be text-based)

  Dec 8 2008 at 10:45 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism

• Online ads & Web design

  Good overview of both the importance ads play in Web design and the current trends

  Dec 4 2008 at 8:41 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Advertising

• 20 signs you don’t want that web design project

  An scarily accurate list of warning signs

  Dec 4 2008 at 11:19 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Work

• Microlocal

  EveryBlock replaces the buzzword "hyperlocal" with the more accurate "microlocal"

  Dec 4 2008 at 11:17 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• * o GlobeAuto o Careers o Classifieds o Newspaper Ads o Personals o Real Estate Click here to find out more! Canadians react

  Interactive showing how Canadian premiers and Globe and Mail readers feel about the crisis of confidence in the House of Commons

  Dec 3 2008 at 4:30 PM EST

  Topics: Politics, Interactive Journalism

• Green browsing

  The new Web development trend: reduce your site's energy footprint

  Dec 3 2008 at 4:24 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, JavaScript

• The Grid System

  A resource for everything related to using grids in design

  Dec 3 2008 at 4:24 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Agile for design

  How to apply Agile development concepts to Web design

  Dec 3 2008 at 4:22 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Data cleaner

  A great Web-based tool for those who hate regex and need to normalize data

  Dec 1 2008 at 7:25 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Pownce says goodbye

  The potential Twitter-killer has been sold to Six Apart and will be going offline

  Dec 1 2008 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topic: Social Media

• Summarizing the poitical sentiment

  Discussion about a change in Canadian government grew to 1,200 comments and Mathew Ingram read through them all to find the best ones

  Dec 1 2008 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Politics

• Helvetireader

  Brilliant skin to Google Reader (and love the article sampled, too)

  Nov 26 2008 at 6:37 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Search Engines

• New Google Map controls

  Streetview on Google Maps introduces an terrific new interface for the map controls

  Nov 26 2008 at 4:17 PM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Search Engines

• The Souvenir Shop

  Pseudo-souvenirs of Canada from some country's best emerging designers

  Nov 26 2008 at 1:11 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Culture

• Discover related keywords

  Chris Heilmann demonstrates how to use Yahoo's API to uncover related keywords

  Nov 26 2008 at 1:11 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, JavaScript

• All-in-one browser

  One browser, three rendering engines (IE, Firefox, and Safari); great for testing

  Nov 25 2008 at 4:55 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Reason #80211 why I like Virgin America

  In-flight Wi-Fi

  Nov 25 2008 at 12:54 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• New ideas for newspapers

  Seth Godin has some original ideas to help newspapers survive online.

  Nov 24 2008 at 12:30 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Skewing images with JavaScript

  A clever script to do projective transformations of Web-based images using canvas and JavaScript

  Nov 13 2008 at 3:51 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML

• Making decisions about user research

  Eight questions to ask when debating when to do research

  Nov 12 2008 at 6:52 PM EST

  Topic: Usability

• News site design trends

  Overview of the current design looks of news sites (include my place of employ)

  Nov 11 2008 at 4:59 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Work

• Lessons learned about iPhone sites

  Good insights from the folks at Flickr about how to design an optimized mobile site

  Nov 11 2008 at 4:42 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, iPhone

• Gmail vs. Skype

  Google introduces video chatting to its Gmail messaging service

  Nov 11 2008 at 4:06 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines

• ClusterShot

  Silverorange launches a new service that allows you to be your own stock photography agency

  Nov 10 2008 at 12:41 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Buy pieces of BSG

  Props and costumes from Battlestar Galatica are being auctioned off. Tempting...

  Nov 6 2008 at 8:53 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• Hipster apocalypse

  A "now hiring" sign at American Apparel store sparks an inspired rant

  Nov 6 2008 at 7:18 PM EST

  Topics: Culture, Toronto

• U.S. election night homepages

  An amazing collection how major news sites looked every 30 minutes on November 4, 2008

  Nov 6 2008 at 1:18 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Politics

• Mathew Ingram and community

  The hardest working blogger in Canada is now heading up The Globe and Mail's community efforts

  Nov 4 2008 at 1:55 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Less national Post

  The National Post continues to whither in relevance as a relevant newspaper in Canada

  Nov 4 2008 at 1:55 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• CS Monitor replacing print with Web

  The 100-year-old news organization will cease publication of its printed newspaper in April 2009

  Oct 28 2008 at 3:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Delaying JavaScript execution

  A simple script to delay the execution of JavaScript when event's fire

  Oct 28 2008 at 11:33 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• NYTimes.com visualization lab

  Equating it with reader comments, The New York Times invites readers to create their own visualizations of its data

  Oct 28 2008 at 11:26 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Cameras for guns

  The Toronto police are running an amnesty that offers Nikon Coolpix cameras for illegal handguns

  Oct 23 2008 at 9:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Multi-touch Firefox

  The gestures don't sound intuitive, but its a nice start to browsing the Web with your fingers

  Oct 22 2008 at 1:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Usability

• Typocalypse

  A series of images revealing what a typeface really says

  Oct 22 2008 at 1:27 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• CSS3 via JavaScript

  Eric Meyer sees JavaScript as a way to boot-strap CSS3 support in browsers

  Oct 22 2008 at 10:27 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, JavaScript

• TimesTags

  Millions of folksonomists rejoice at the availability of tagged NYTimes.com content

  Oct 21 2008 at 9:37 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Progressive Enhancement with CSS

  Excellent documenting a lot of the CSS tricks used to serve up style to browsers

  Oct 21 2008 at 12:35 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• 100E2R

  Terrific case for having big, onscreen text

  Oct 20 2008 at 6:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• 3D cube in JavaScript

  The simple approach could be a foundation for an impressive parallax effect

  Oct 20 2008 at 6:27 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Experience Design Manifesto

  Manifesto that uses the phrase "happiness" always concern me, but there are some kernels of potential in this

  Oct 13 2008 at 11:54 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Why newspapers endorse political parties

  J-Source looks into this more and more contentious concept

  Oct 13 2008 at 11:23 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Politics

• Is that an endorsement?

  The Globe and Mail sort of, kind of, backs Stephen Harper for prime minister

  Oct 10 2008 at 6:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Canada

• Sans Seriffee

  Map of the tiny archipelago discovered by English years ago

  Oct 8 2008 at 4:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Language, Style & Usage

• Culture in Danger

  The extended, English-subtitled, of a political video that is, truly, laugh-out-loud, funny

  Oct 8 2008 at 12:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Canada

• ALA@10

  A List Apart is a decade old, and the proprietor looks back on the institution

  Oct 7 2008 at 11:30 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Canadian Oxford Dictionary: RIP

  The entire staff has been laid-off putting the dictionary's future in grave doubt

  Oct 3 2008 at 8:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Language, Canada

• Twittering rumours

  Mathew Ingram has a honest, introspective piece on the responsibility of journalists on Twitter

  Oct 3 2008 at 5:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Poitical sound bites

  Jumping to key words in the U.S. debate (like Wall St.) videos exposes how prepped candidates are

  Oct 3 2008 at 11:45 AM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Work

• The Canadian political view

  "Capitalist free marketers, but believe in collective action, largely through governments, to achieve social, economic, environmental and other aims."

  Oct 3 2008 at 11:22 AM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Canada

• Homezilla

  Awkward name for a good service designed to let home buyers discover the amenities in a neighbourhood

  Oct 1 2008 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• 10 tips to solidify your business

  Advice for start-ups is also good for any company/business to consider

  Oct 1 2008 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Work

• The case for designing differently

  Andy Clarke argues that progressive enhancement is what we should be doing with CSS to move designs beyond IE6

  Oct 1 2008 at 11:06 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Design

• Canadian electoral map

  Map of Canadian ridings uses colours to indicate which party is leading where

  Sep 25 2008 at 1:13 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Canada

• electopinion.ca

  The Canadian election as reported on Twitter - very engaging

  Sep 25 2008 at 12:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Social Media

• David Foster Wallace in Harper's

  Everything the late author wrote for the magazine

  Sep 22 2008 at 11:58 AM EDT

  Topics: Books,

• WSJ.com redesigns

  A big redesign from a site that hasn't in a long while

  Sep 16 2008 at 12:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Newspapers

• Announcing the "Web Foundation"

  Tim Berners-Lee introduces a foundation designed to support the open Web

  Sep 16 2008 at 11:20 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• All about HTML's alt

  With argument like this, it's no wonder HTML5 will take so long

  Sep 16 2008 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• David Foster Wallace dead

  The author of Infinite Jest and on of the best novelist of the time apparently committed suicide

  Sep 13 2008 at 10:06 PM EDT

  Topic: Books

• ONA win for The Globe and Mail

  Ironically, the news is nowhere to be found online yet (even the Twitter account is quiet - I learned via email)

  Sep 13 2008 at 9:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Interactive Journalism

• Sample dating pop-culture

  Andy Baio crunches the numbers on the samples in reveals some interesting details.

  Sep 13 2008 at 5:26 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• The logic of HTML5

  Understanding HTML5 issues (e.g., video, alt, 2022) is a lot easier if you know Ian Hickson's online persona

  Sep 12 2008 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Regulating the Internet

  A CRTC requested report has some ideas for regulating and funding the Canadian Internet

  Sep 10 2008 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Technology

• Resurfacing newspapers

  Google plans to scan in old newspapers (including one from Quebec) to make them more publicly available.

  Sep 9 2008 at 10:42 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines

• Microsoft's CSS extensions

  IE8 does include support for some CSS3 properties, and will continue to support filters and extensions - but only in a W3C compliant way.

  Sep 9 2008 at 10:24 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Publish2: The Web’s Newswire

  "A Web-based newswire that makes it easy for journalists and newsrooms to gather, publish, and distribute links to the best news on the Web"

  Sep 8 2008 at 10:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Globe's election site critiqued

  Wrong sentiment, right questions. Elections sites, though, are hard to do well especially when factoring in extenuating (unspoken) circumstances.

  Sep 8 2008 at 10:32 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Everything you wanted to know about browser user-agent strings*

  * But were afraid to ask

  Sep 8 2008 at 2:18 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Google Chrome's story

  Like Firefox before it, Chrome is a clean attempt to create a browser for today's Web

  Sep 4 2008 at 8:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Search Engines

• Shadows coming to Firefox

  CSS-based box and text shadows should appear in Firefox 3.1

  Sep 3 2008 at 12:24 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Drag and drop with canvas

  Clever demo of dragging and dropping using a textarea

  Sep 3 2008 at 11:48 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML

• Joe Clark's book on Canadian spelling

  It's called "Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English" and I can't wait

  Sep 3 2008 at 11:48 AM EDT

  Topics: Books, Canada

• Mobile Safari doubles usage

  The launch of the iPhone 3G pushes the mobile Safari usage to 0.3%

  Sep 2 2008 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, VoIP

• Google Chrome

  Google's browser means there's a good chance one more test case will have to be run on future Web sites

  Sep 2 2008 at 11:23 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Search Engines

• Seattle tech start-ups

  A list of more than 60 of Seattle's tiny companies

  Sep 2 2008 at 11:07 AM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Web Technology

• Toronto-area tech start-ups

  A comprehensive list of almost 90 of the GTA's tiny companies

  Sep 2 2008 at 11:04 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Web Technology

• Ubiquity in depth

  Examining the interface of "Quicksilver for the browser"

  Aug 27 2008 at 1:01 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, User Interface

• Mad Men Twittering

  Fan-created Twitter accounts were shutdown until AMC realized the accounts actually was great advertising

  Aug 27 2008 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Culture

• DIY Bumbershoot schedule

  The Stranger has a simple and clever schedule maker for Seattle's annual music & arts fest

  Aug 27 2008 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• jParallax

  Impressive jQuery plugin for creating a dynamic parallax effect

  Aug 26 2008 at 4:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• Fostering creativity

  Pixar founder writes an insightful (and long) article on Pixar's secret sauce

  Aug 26 2008 at 11:08 AM EDT

  Topics: Work, Movies

• Bullets over Osssington

  My old 'hood (and new hipster central) was the location of a four-car gun battle

  Aug 23 2008 at 4:31 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Dube leaves CBC for ABC News

  CBC may have been a farm team for Jonathan Dube as he returns to ABC as a Vice President of its new site

  Aug 19 2008 at 4:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• Experimental rounded corners

  Based on Snook's example, rounded corners with VML, CSS or SVG

  Aug 19 2008 at 12:41 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, HTML

• EveryBlock in eight cities

  The hyper-local site is now covering Seattle (and Boston and Washington D.C.)

  Aug 18 2008 at 4:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle

• The Better Way

  TTC's new site has competition from a site build by some people who attended TransitCamp

  Aug 13 2008 at 11:10 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Web Design

• How to cover breaking news

  Good analysis of how Toronto's media online covered an explosive news story

  Aug 12 2008 at 1:39 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto

• 08/08/08

  The crazy 8s

  Aug 8 2008 at 5:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Culture

• jMetronome

  A script that helps a page maintain its typographic rhythm

  Aug 7 2008 at 1:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• Flick navigation on the iPhone

  Some very simple CSS can create the flick navigation in Safari on the iPhone

  Aug 7 2008 at 1:12 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, VoIP

• Creating great search results

  Advice on making a search result do what it needs to do

  Aug 5 2008 at 11:12 AM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Box office for 2008 visualized

  Similar chart as seen in NYTimes infographic, but this is interactive and in HTML

  Aug 4 2008 at 12:50 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Implementing canvas

  There looks to be a simple way to get the CANVAS element to work on Internet Explorer allowing for a lot more interesting design effects

  Aug 4 2008 at 11:15 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, HTML

• iPhone events

  Not, not the marketing kind, the JavaScript kind

  Jul 31 2008 at 8:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, VoIP

• The new "delicious"

  Delicious has dropped its Web 2.0 spelling and has under went a radical makeover

  Jul 31 2008 at 2:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• How to Show Telephone Numbers On Letterheads

  Ladislav Sutnar's 1960 booklet demonstrating letterhead design

  Jul 31 2008 at 1:00 PM EDT

  Topics: VoIP, Web Design

• Canadianizing film posters

  Some very clever cultural plays in the Canadian Film Festival posters

  Jul 30 2008 at 1:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Canada

• Buid your own font

  FontShop's Web-based tool allows you to build simple, modular fonts quickly online

  Jul 30 2008 at 1:26 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• The 2008 A List Apart survey

  Work the Web in someway? Take A List Apart's Web industry survey and help create a clearer picture of the industry

  Jul 29 2008 at 12:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• Terry Fox

  Had he lived, the man who inspired Canada with his Marathon of Hope would have been 50 years old today.

  Jul 28 2008 at 4:51 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• CBC.ca does Chinese

  And Fake Ouimet (a.k.a., Joe Clark) hit his stride

  Jul 25 2008 at 4:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Canada

• Recovering the bikes

  Remarkable photo essay detailing the recovery of hundreds of presumed stolen bikes

  Jul 24 2008 at 1:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Tracking the real homicide rates

  Are there more murders in Toronto than in past years?

  Jul 24 2008 at 1:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Movie domain names

  Being both an Internet and a movie geek lets you create a entertaining review site

  Jul 23 2008 at 1:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Web Technology

• 49:00

  Only Amazon would sell Paul Westerberg's latest album for 49 cents

  Jul 22 2008 at 9:47 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Pop art then and now

  An overview of pop art in its classic and modern forms

  Jul 21 2008 at 2:32 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Culture

• Nazaré Snack Bar

  From the Blackout to near blackouts, I'll always love the Communist's Daughter

  Jul 18 2008 at 4:32 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Personal

• The Tea Makers is back

  But is now under the management of Fake Ouimet, a.k.a., Joe Clark

  Jul 18 2008 at 12:43 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Canada

• How to write with style

  Kurt Vonnegut wrote 7 or 8 tips one should consider

  Jul 17 2008 at 1:54 PM EDT

  Topic: Writing

• Igor charged with bike theft

  Toronto's stolen bikes always seemed to end up at Igor's place on Queen West

  Jul 17 2008 at 1:38 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• NPR API

  More news outlets lifting the skirts on the core of their business

  Jul 17 2008 at 11:49 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Toronto as seen by a San Franciscan

  Interesting take on my home city from a resident of a city I newly appreciate

  Jul 16 2008 at 6:40 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, U.S.

• Multitouch light table in JavaScript

  Works both on iPhones and the desktop versions of Safari

  Jul 15 2008 at 11:45 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Creative or invasive?

  Outdoor advertising in Toronto hits the bulls eye...or something

  Jul 14 2008 at 11:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Advertising, Toronto

• Visualizing the Walmart infection

  A very viral map of Walmarts explosive growth across the U.S.

  Jul 14 2008 at 11:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Culture, Online Journalism

• thestar.com: iPhone edition

  The Toronto Star launches an iPhone enhanced version as the other Canadian papers seem woefully behind

  Jul 14 2008 at 4:50 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, VoIP

• Information design patterns

  Based on a beautifully crafted master thesis, this is a brilliant repository of patterns

  Jul 14 2008 at 1:19 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Patterns, Web Design

• Google as the pressroom

  Some thoughts about whether Google should take over the publishing duties for newspapers online

  Jul 14 2008 at 1:19 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines

• Small screens are better

  The iPhone shows that, in interface design, less really can be more

  Jul 14 2008 at 1:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Touch and gestures in JavaScript

  The iPhone API for these new events is thoroughly deconstructed.

  Jul 14 2008 at 11:30 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, VoIP

• Spectator's last post

  Toronto Life has shuttered its blogs and the great Doug Bell signs-off with a brilliantly layered entry

  Jul 8 2008 at 12:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Magazine

• Opera Web Standards Curriculum

  Chris Mills has done a heroic job developing a massive collection of Web standards-based learning resources

  Jul 8 2008 at 12:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Web Resources

• Silverback review

  This comprehensive review was enough to convince me of this usability program's value

  Jul 7 2008 at 10:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Technology

• Identi.ca

  Interesting concept for a Twitter replacement (I'm "saila" there) - no API at launch tho

  Jul 3 2008 at 12:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Canadian colour palette

  Colour for each of Canada's cities

  Jul 2 2008 at 2:29 AM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Design

• Le chandail

  NFB, Roch Carrier, and Maurice Richard

  Jul 1 2008 at 5:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• CSS variables

  WebKit nightly builds support a much desired CSS feature

  Jun 30 2008 at 6:56 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Tyson Homosexual

  When political agendas interfere with the news process, the names of Olympic athletes become schoolyard jokes

  Jun 30 2008 at 2:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Journalism

• A Netflix for magazines

  Interesting concept allows you to rent magazines on a subscription

  Jun 29 2008 at 2:17 PM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• Rogers destroying Citytv

  Once North America's most innovative TV station, Rogers is systematically eviscerating the channel

  Jun 29 2008 at 12:52 PM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Canadian iPhone pricing

  Rogers rate plan means my usage of the iPhone would cost me twice as much in Canada as in the U.S.

  Jun 27 2008 at 11:07 AM EDT

  Topics: VoIP, Canada

• Real 3-D holographic displays

  Appropriately demonstrated using a Star Wars spacecraft

  Jun 26 2008 at 11:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Movies

• Better CSS font stacks

  An excellent collection of font collections to use to ensure everyone has the best chance of seeing the type the way you intended them to

  Jun 26 2008 at 12:39 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Design

• Happy Birthday UPC

  Thirty years ago, the first product ever was checked using the Universal Product Code

  Jun 26 2008 at 11:28 AM EDT

  Topic: Technology

• What every Web designer should know

  Andy Rutledge goes throw the skills Web designers should have, and most are not what you would expect

  Jun 25 2008 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Work

• Eric's Trip: the movie

  A low-fi documentary about the low-fi pioneers filmed by band member Rick White

  Jun 24 2008 at 8:36 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Movies

• The secret vault of Lego

  All the Lego sets ever made have been saved in one magical place

  Jun 24 2008 at 4:28 PM EDT

  Topic: Culture

• Seattle's newest 'hood: Radio Point

  Appears that the little triangle where I live is being contested by two different neighbourhoods

  Jun 23 2008 at 6:46 PM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• about:robots

  They have a plan

  Jun 23 2008 at 1:53 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Delaying news in the Internet era

  NYTimes.com talks a bit about how Tim Russert's death was leaked online

  Jun 23 2008 at 1:53 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• Preloading CSS images

  A jQuery plug-in walks through CSS files to cache images to improve loading time

  Jun 20 2008 at 2:42 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, JavaScript

• Ice on Mars

  Real, water ice and MarsPhoenix twittered the news

  Jun 19 2008 at 8:40 PM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Web Culture

• Air India 182

  June 22 marks on of Canada's darkest moments and people need to know why

  Jun 19 2008 at 8:35 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Politics

• Examining the new Orlando Sentinel

  Candid discussions about the dramatic new design of a Florida newspaper

  Jun 19 2008 at 6:25 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Visualizing a rendering engine

  Three videos show how Firefox renders Web pages

  Jun 19 2008 at 1:59 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Design

• Number Stations reimagined

  Video collage of a MySpace security process feels like the shortwave espionage broadcasts

  Jun 18 2008 at 6:16 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Firefox 3 already challenging Safari

  Within 24 hours, Firefox 3 around a 4% marketshare (Safari has about 6%)

  Jun 18 2008 at 1:30 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• David Crow on FreshBooks

  Toronto Web tech don profiles the terrific online invoicing service

  Jun 17 2008 at 4:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Toronto

• NowPublic's logo

  The more I look at this logo, the more brilliant I think it is

  Jun 17 2008 at 4:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Social Media

• TimesPeople FAQ

  NYTimes.com social reading experiment is now in public beta

  Jun 17 2008 at 1:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism

• The paragraph in Web tyopgraphy

  Jon Tangerine loving details the ways to treat a paragraph on a Web page

  Jun 16 2008 at 8:31 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Good Bloomsday to you

  Also known as the secret St. Patrick's Day

  Jun 16 2008 at 2:43 PM EDT

  Topic: Books

• Patterns for reputation systems

  Yeahoo has added nine reputation patterns to its social-design related patterns offering

  Jun 16 2008 at 2:07 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Patterns, Social Media

• AP boycott

  AP has got the bloggers mad and if the latter are dedicated the former may really get hurt

  Jun 16 2008 at 1:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Copyright

• On Tim Russert

  Not being American, the reason to Russert's death surprised me; this helps explain it

  Jun 16 2008 at 12:05 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Politics

• On Ken Alexander's resgination

  Douglas Brown offers an honest take on the Walrus editor

  Jun 16 2008 at 11:56 AM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Canada

• globeandmail.com free

  The product that occupied the least enjoyable chunk of my time at the Globe is now gone (funny how it wasn't mentioned when I met with them tho)

  Jun 16 2008 at 11:56 AM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Analysing the new Canadian copyright bill

  Mathew Ingram looks at the proposed legislation, and weighs it against the U.S.'s DMCA

  Jun 12 2008 at 7:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Copyright, Canada

• Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit

  Wireframe stencils for a wide number of Web design elements

  Jun 12 2008 at 3:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• Firefox Mobile concept video

  Very interesting demo of a mobile Web browsing interface

  Jun 12 2008 at 11:53 AM EDT

  Topics: User Interface, Browsers

• Seattle colder than Siberia

  Travelling from Toronto's almost 40C weather to Seattle's low teens has knocked my body for a loop

  Jun 11 2008 at 2:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Toronto

• Media ethics and citizen journalism

  Think piece from the New York Times about the need to identify oneself as a reporter

  Jun 11 2008 at 1:09 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism

• Capitoll Hill garage sale

  On June 14, 2008 there will be about a dozen sales happening throughout the neighbourhood

  Jun 11 2008 at 12:45 PM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• CBC loses The Hockey Theme

  Hockey Night in Canada will no longer have its iconic theme now that CTV has bought the rights to the song

  Jun 11 2008 at 12:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Music

• Beta TTC site

  Looks like a corporate site designed by committee, and lacks any personality

  Jun 10 2008 at 7:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Toronto

• The Globe and Mail e-Edition Newsreader

  My former colleagues put together a very usable interface for browsing an electronic edition of the paper.

  Jun 10 2008 at 1:04 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Goodbye Gardiner

  A sizable chunk Toronto's downtown highway will finally be torn down (now if only Seattle could do the same with I-5)

  May 30 2008 at 5:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Seattle

• Phiculator

  Easily calculate the golden mean

  May 29 2008 at 4:57 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• IETester

  A Web designers dream: four versions of Internet Explorer in one interface

  May 29 2008 at 12:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Design

• Google Earth in a browser

  The new browser plug-in also reveals a JavaScript API to the system

  May 29 2008 at 11:02 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Search Engines

• Why HTML5's video tag is dumb

  Mike Chambers demos the efforts get Flash working with 'video' in HTML5

  May 28 2008 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Why ads fail online

  A solid explanation on why traditional advertising models don't work online

  May 28 2008 at 1:46 AM EDT

  Topic: Advertising

• Google aves your scripts

  Google volunteers to cache popular JavaScript libraries

  May 27 2008 at 11:48 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• CBC being spammed?

  Looks like someone if try to clog the CBC with nuisance information requests

  May 27 2008 at 8:56 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• The New York Times API

  First RSS and now this: the newspaper of record is hoping to allow others to mash-up its archive in a very atomic way.

  May 27 2008 at 1:50 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Translating Pork and Bean

  Weezer's new video broken do into its 24 parts

  May 23 2008 at 2:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Web Culture

• Jane's brand timeline

  A clever portrait of a day rendered by the brands (and identifiably Torontonian)

  May 23 2008 at 12:01 PM EDT

  Topics: Advertising, Toronto

• NYTimes and "link journalism"

  Scott Karp shows how true online journalism can work

  May 23 2008 at 11:34 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Newsroom Barometer 2008

  A survey of a news editors throughout the globe on what they think online news trends will be

  May 23 2008 at 12:40 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Client-side storage without cookies

  Not really sure how this works, but it could come in very handy

  May 23 2008 at 12:34 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Canada finally gets movie downloads

  Bell Canada has stuck a deal that lets Canadians rent movies online for too much money

  May 22 2008 at 11:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Canada

• Translating Twitter's explanation

  News.com has a clever parsing of Twitter's explanation of its outages

  May 22 2008 at 8:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Web Technology

• TimesMachine replaces microfiche

  If you don't know what microfiche is, then just know this is the far better way to browse old newspapers

  May 22 2008 at 1:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Web Technology

• Virtual hosting into Parallels

  Simple how-to for viewing locally hosted Web sites in a Mac and Windows environment

  May 22 2008 at 11:57 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Computers

• "3.0" jumps the shark

  William Morris has launched a new division called Agency 3.0

  May 21 2008 at 2:17 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Love hates Cobain

  Nirvana is reuniting for Sub Pop's 20th anniversary show. In Redmond, WA. Home of Microsoft. No more should be said.

  May 21 2008 at 1:48 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Webmonkey is back!

  The best Web building site of the '90s has been resurrected

  May 19 2008 at 2:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• Over simplifying it

  The 37signas entry on the best design agency site is right; the inspirational site however is an absolute joke (it is a joke, right?)

  May 19 2008 at 11:44 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Capitol Hill Arts Center moving

  The CHAC is leaving its current location and hoping to buy its own; Crave stays, though

  May 19 2008 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• Type: Metallophile Sp8

  Looking at 1950s era flash cards on Saturday, I wished for a digital version of that printed lettering - here it is.

  May 19 2008 at 11:09 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Political fonts

  Explaining the power of type in political campaigns

  May 16 2008 at 4:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Politics

• Visualizing concept groups

  How to visually present similarity and the relevance of a Web search result set

  May 15 2008 at 12:25 PM EDT

  Topics: User Interface, Search Engines

• AGO logos over time

  The new one strains my eyes, Bruce Mau did a far better job in 1997

  May 15 2008 at 11:55 AM EDT

  Topics: Ontario, Toronto

• Credit card logos

  A collection to fit just about any design need

  May 15 2008 at 11:55 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• CBS gets CNET and the best domains

  PaidConent.org notes the amazing domain names CBS gets with its US$1.8B CNET purchase

  May 15 2008 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Journalism

• Cubescape

  Build anything with isometric boxes jQuery thanks to Cameron Adams

  May 15 2008 at 11:06 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Culture

• Knight News Challenge 2008 winners

  One Canadian and one creator of the World Wide Web among the winners

  May 14 2008 at 6:34 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Ex-CBC editor-in-chief jumps to Al-Jazeera

  Tony Burman joins fellow Canuck Avi Lewis at the news network

  May 14 2008 at 2:27 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Journalism

• Da Vinci's Inquest coming back

  Probably one of the best drama's aired on Canadian TV is returning for a couple of hours

  May 14 2008 at 2:27 PM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Google Doctype

  An open compendium of the best Web practices, spearheaded by Mark Pilgrim

  May 14 2008 at 2:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Web Resources

• Timelapse CSS

  Curious little demo showing CSS rules plaed one by one to a plain HTML page

  May 14 2008 at 11:50 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Design

• Times Reader coming to the Mac

  Finally, the news reader is ported to Mac via Silverlight

  May 13 2008 at 4:19 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Twittered: Harper's redesign

  No mention on the yet of the new design, but it is well promoted on Twitter

  May 13 2008 at 3:56 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Social Media

• Session variables without cookies

  Impressive research on a method I once used to circumvent cross-site security

  May 13 2008 at 12:23 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Yahoo! Internet Location Platform

  Cataloguing all the places in the world in one open API

  May 13 2008 at 12:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, World

• Descendent selectors slow CSS rendering

  But by such a miniscule amount, it is important to remember that better performance != best practice

  May 13 2008 at 11:21 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• The Real Homer Simpson

  Amazing (and creepy) rendering of what Homer Simpson would look like were he flesh-and-blood

  May 12 2008 at 1:29 PM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Messina on data portability

  A thought-provoking article on what data portability should mean.

  May 12 2008 at 12:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Privacy

• User Interface Resource Center

  Articles and links on UI and RIA design

  May 12 2008 at 11:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Facebook Connect

  Facebook offers to be the holder of all your online identity information

  May 9 2008 at 3:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Privacy

• Eric's Trip playing SP20

  The Sub Pop 20th anniversary party now includes on of Canada's best lo-fi bands

  May 8 2008 at 11:00 AM EDT

  Topics: Music, Seattle

• Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery

  Links and resources from a three hour tutorial presented by Simon Willison

  May 6 2008 at 4:30 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Opera Dragonfly released

  The new Web development tool is still an alpha but is big step forward for Opera

  May 6 2008 at 4:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Canadians forget the iPhone...

  The Zune is finally coming to Canada! (Thus becoming the first non-U.S. market to enjoy Microsoft's iPod clone.)

  May 6 2008 at 4:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Tom. Waits.

  The man announces his tour in a way only he could

  May 6 2008 at 2:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• George Oates on community

  Flickr co-founder offers some excellent advice about build online community

  May 6 2008 at 11:23 AM EDT

  Topic: Social Media

• Canada shuts down Access to Information database

  Harper's government has shutdown a free database journalists, politicians and others used to find publicly available documents

  May 5 2008 at 6:09 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Privacy

• Case study of Toronto's Transit Camp

  BarCamper Karen Fung has posted her honour's on Transit Camp

  May 5 2008 at 2:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Toronto

• Nielsen improves metrics

  At least in that they now claim to track combined mobile and PC Web use

  May 5 2008 at 2:01 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Advertising

• HTML-parsing JavaScript

  Imppressive script reads and builds HTML on the client-side

  May 5 2008 at 12:27 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML

• Google's design principles

  Nice to see user experience goals played so prominently

  May 2 2008 at 7:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• The real power of CSS

  An unbelievable animation of Homer Simpson done in basic HTML and CSS.

  May 1 2008 at 4:14 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, CSS

• Social media better in emergencies

  Facebook and Wikipedia do a better job informing the public than the government or traditional media

  May 1 2008 at 1:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism

• Tax deadline extended

  So it wasn't just me, heavy traffic did take down the Netfile site

  Apr 30 2008 at 11:26 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• iPhone really coming to Canada

  After months of speculation and rumour Canada will get its Roger's enabled iPhone

  Apr 29 2008 at 11:46 AM EDT

  Topics: VoIP, Canada

• Sticky, viral, and friendly

  Yahoo's new strategy should be embraced by more Web companies

  Apr 29 2008 at 11:46 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Social Media

• Mobile screen sizes

  Think big, as the new minimum looks to be 240 x 320

  Apr 29 2008 at 11:32 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, VoIP

• Web page sizes triple

  The average Web page file size is now ore than 312Kb and calls nearly 50 objects.

  Apr 28 2008 at 8:47 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• MediaWiki API

  The recipe for getting all the good data from the Wikipedia

  Apr 28 2008 at 8:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines

• Online karma

  After laying off its online production department, is it a surprise that TheStar.com's news coverage suffers?

  Apr 28 2008 at 11:23 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto

• TTC strike summary

  Torontoist has an excellent overview of the short-lived transit strike.

  Apr 28 2008 at 11:17 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• CSS Variables

  Most definitely not a W3C proposal, but one every Web designer would love to see implemented.

  Apr 25 2008 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Opera gets a JavaScript debugger

  Dragonfly will be Opera's delayed response to tools like Firebug

  Apr 24 2008 at 8:40 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Defining the Web design elite

  nGen's doing it one cartoony face at a time.

  Apr 24 2008 at 4:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• Thank Twitter

  Good post to counter some negative sentiment, even if 37signals has undeclared bias in the debate

  Apr 23 2008 at 8:46 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture

• Calculating hours

  Good advice on pricing the project management part of design work.

  Apr 21 2008 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Work

• McDonald's mocks Starbucks

  How many layers of irony can you see in the McDonald's espresso ad spotted in Seattle?

  Apr 18 2008 at 8:51 PM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• Curley leaving WaPo?

  Rumours are Tob Curley will be heading to the Django-powered Las vegas Sun.

  Apr 18 2008 at 11:41 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Web Directions North podcasts up

  The podcasts from the speakers at Web Directions North 2008 at our now online, and offer some great listening.

  Apr 18 2008 at 10:59 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Torstar elimintates Internet staff

  The entire Internet production staff at the Toronto Star has been laid-off.

  Apr 17 2008 at 2:46 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Facebook "trends"

  Facebook unveils a new service showing comparing what terms people are talking about on the site.

  Apr 17 2008 at 1:28 AM EDT

  Topic: Social Media

• Today's front pages

  Collect the Newseum's newspaper front pages into one document.

  Apr 16 2008 at 11:35 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Testing the mobile Web

  Similar to the Acid tests, the W3C has unveiled a Web standards test for mobile browsers -- none fully pass it.

  Apr 16 2008 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, VoIP

• "Ouimet" calls it quites

  The anonymous CBC manager who began by blogging about the strike, signs off

  Apr 14 2008 at 8:55 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Canada

• CSS Gradients

  WebKit now does gadients, but at what price inter-operability?

  Apr 14 2008 at 8:41 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Load the scripts you need

  A simple script that will dynamically request only the JavaScripts required by the page.

  Apr 14 2008 at 4:47 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• A decade of Black Flag hair

  The American harcore band's coif stylings

  Apr 11 2008 at 8:24 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• The new Musseum station

  ROM-inspired look is better than expected, especially the station name on the walls.

  Apr 11 2008 at 11:48 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Webby nominees for 2008

  The Globe and Mail and the CBC are both up for one.

  Apr 9 2008 at 8:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism

• Bumbershoot 2008 lineup

  Seattle's amazing music and arts festival unveiled some of the performers scheduled to appear

  Apr 9 2008 at 5:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Seattle

• Design Coding

  The Web Standardista's new rap.

  Apr 9 2008 at 4:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Music

• The EveryBlock issue of A List Apart

  Two great articles from the folks at Holovaty's hyper local company

  Apr 9 2008 at 3:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Google Maps as a narrative tool

  Good, fiction that experiments with the Web's new user experiences.

  Apr 9 2008 at 1:13 PM EDT

  Topics: Books, Web Culture

• ISO to define UX

  Apparently,there is to be an International Standard for Human Centred Design that codifies user experience.

  Apr 8 2008 at 2:49 PM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Canadian newspapers healthy

  Differences between Canada and the U.S., number 301

  Apr 8 2008 at 12:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Canada

• Conversations as the new stats

  Probably not new to most bloggers, but increasingly important for news sites to realize.

  Apr 8 2008 at 12:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• Better Toronto transit site

  An effective, well-designed Google Map mashup showing transit stops and parking lots in the Toronto area.

  Apr 8 2008 at 12:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Social Media

• JavaScript "TimeMachine"

  An early effort to duplicate the Mac OS's TimeMachine effect in JavaScript

  Apr 8 2008 at 11:16 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Usability

• Visualizng rhythms of text

  Stefanie Posavec has created some stunning work inspired by "On The Road"

  Apr 6 2008 at 10:54 AM EDT

  Topic: Books

• CSS compatibility and IE

  A comprehensive guide to what is and is not supported in the various versions of Internet Explorer.

  Apr 2 2008 at 9:12 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Defining the Open Web

  Brad Neuberg helps explain what it means and explains why it is important.

  Apr 2 2008 at 10:39 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Standards

• Best news photo gallery

  A couple of my co-workers work was chosen as the NPAA's Best of Photojournalism for 2008

  Apr 1 2008 at 5:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Online Journalism

• Geogrpahic bias in news coverage

  A visualization about how regions less coverage, the further away it is from the paper's base.

  Mar 26 2008 at 12:00 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• iPhone optimization

  A little JavaScript that optimizes the presentation of a site on an iPhone

  Mar 25 2008 at 11:48 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, VoIP

• OpenSocial Foundation

  Google leads a bold, truly open-source, community venture aiming to standardize the social graphs online.

  Mar 25 2008 at 11:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Search Engines

• Caprica a go

  BSG prequel will probably be shot in Vancouver, allowing CBC to call it "Canadian made"

  Mar 19 2008 at 3:30 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Canada

• State of the media - 2008

  The fifth survey of journalism in the U.S. is out

  Mar 19 2008 at 3:30 PM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• CBC P2Ping it's shows

  Okay, not all of them, just "Canada's Next Great Prime Minister" but it is a start.

  Mar 19 2008 at 2:59 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Technology

• Levi's retro ads

  Four commercials from the 1970s shows how amazing ads could be

  Mar 19 2008 at 12:56 PM EDT

  Topic: Advertising

• Dual-sided, translucent touch-screens

  A patent filing from Apple showcases some innovative new interface ideas.

  Mar 18 2008 at 1:50 PM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Patents

• SI.com opens its archive

  Magazine hopes to stave of competitors by opening up decades of articles to the Web

  Mar 17 2008 at 9:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• CBC.ca now allows comments

  The news site for Canada's public broadcaster finally embraces comments and recommendations.

  Mar 16 2008 at 9:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• CBC cancels more good shows

  JPod and the outstanding Intelligence are cancelled (the latter will probably appear as a U.S. adaption soon enough, though).

  Mar 9 2008 at 3:06 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Canada

• iPhone SDK

  The iPhone Developer program is unveiled.

  Mar 6 2008 at 2:49 PM EST

  Topics: Technology, VoIP

• Download IE8

  The first Beta can now be downloaded

  Mar 5 2008 at 12:59 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Making iPhone icons

  Need a custom icon for your Web app on the iPhone. stress no more.

  Mar 4 2008 at 7:26 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, VoIP

• Pownce's new API

  Pownce offers a complete API that now includes the ability to post notes...but is it too late?

  Mar 4 2008 at 1:07 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• New media criticism blog

  Douglas Bell is bringing his humourous voice to a new blog from TorotntoLife.com

  Mar 3 2008 at 11:44 PM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• Give IE8 a break

  Tiff Fehr asks the Web standards community to help IE8 developers out for a change.

  Mar 3 2008 at 11:33 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Infographic: box office

  NYTimes.com demonstrates the ebb and flow of movie revenue.

  Feb 26 2008 at 7:33 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Movies

• Eyetracking search forms

  Early findings into the effectiveness of come search form layouts.

  Feb 26 2008 at 1:26 PM EST

  Topic: Usability

• Eyetracking label placement

  Where are form labels most effective?

  Feb 26 2008 at 1:26 PM EST

  Topic: Usability

• Sasquatch 2008 lineup

  Unbelievable line-up for long-weekend music fest

  Feb 26 2008 at 12:20 PM EST

  Topics: Music, Seattle

• Keming

  A new typography term.

  Feb 25 2008 at 7:48 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Dimensions: xScope's killer

  The screen measurement feature of this little app is worth more than all the other features combined,

  Feb 20 2008 at 5:51 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Fire ravages Queen West

  Six-alarm fire destroys some of Toronto's great, independent stores.

  Feb 20 2008 at 12:41 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• EveryBlock: the real story

  Rex Sorgatz talks to Adrian Holovaty about the super-hyper-local site

  Feb 14 2008 at 8:48 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Calis building the semantic Web?

  Reuters' little open-source project sounds almost too good to be true.

  Feb 14 2008 at 7:01 PM EST

  Topic: Web Semantics

• Transcripts as video navigation

  NYTimes.com has a clever, easily searchable video navigation tool for the 2008 State of the Union

  Feb 14 2008 at 3:01 PM EST

  Topics: Usability, TV

• Toronto.com: ten years of mediocracy

  BlogTO.com does a insightful analysis on the "city search" portal

  Feb 14 2008 at 1:15 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Culture

• Revisitng Wired 1.1

  The founding editor, Louis Rossetto, responds to a very in-depth review of the magazines first issue.

  Feb 12 2008 at 8:50 PM EST

  Topics: Magazine, Web Culture

• Award-winning newspaper design

  And who says print is dead?

  Feb 12 2008 at 8:49 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Good redesign numbers

  AOL's recent redesign shows how good design can lift the bottom line.

  Feb 12 2008 at 2:26 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Site Redesign

• New Xerox logo

  Shiny, and very "x" -- kinda reminds me a certain game console's logo in fact...

  Feb 11 2008 at 11:58 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Yahoo rejects Microsoft

  Yahoo Board claims the $44.6B undervalues the company. Yeah. Okay.

  Feb 9 2008 at 8:09 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• No version switching for HTML5

  Says Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer Platform team.

  Feb 9 2008 at 2:18 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, HTML

• Principles of effective Web design

  Smashing assembles some genuinely good advice.

  Feb 9 2008 at 12:27 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Pay-asyou-throw garbage

  Toronto's new plan seems far more sensible than the one used in Seattle now

  Feb 8 2008 at 8:42 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Seattle

• Knight Rider revival

  This article contains enough interconnected pop cultural references to fry KITT's motherboard.

  Feb 8 2008 at 7:03 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• IE8 preview at Mix08

  Not a huge surprise, but IE8 is now officially being previewed this March.

  Feb 8 2008 at 7:03 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• sailaTV

  Yahoo! Live enables everyone to be just like Justin.

  Feb 8 2008 at 12:37 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, TV

• Free book on digital literacy for journalists

  An excellent resource for online journalism as its practiced today.

  Feb 7 2008 at 2:56 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism Resources

• Social Graph API

  Using microformats to uncover the open social network on the Web.

  Feb 6 2008 at 1:29 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines

• Time-merged media

  Kottke examines the manipulation o time on linear media.

  Feb 5 2008 at 5:11 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Design

• Obit: chicagocrime.org

  Holovaty's site, for me and many others, was one of the exemplary Web 2.0 sites.

  Feb 5 2008 at 5:11 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Toronto’s best Web evangelist

  The well deserving, TorCamp muse David Crow.

  Feb 5 2008 at 4:53 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Culture

• TransitCamp II

  The successful TransitCamp will be mounted again, and this time will discuss transit issues in the Greater Toronto Area.

  Feb 5 2008 at 2:43 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Culture

• OfficeMac 2008 annoyances

  A timely Flickr pool of bugbears in the Mac OS version of Office.

  Jan 30 2008 at 6:25 PM EST

  Topics: Usability, Computers

• Excellent investigative journalism online

  Yes, its from MSNBC.com, but I had nothing to do with it so I say without bias this is piece on bridges at risk is a tremendous piece of reporting.

  Jan 30 2008 at 2:58 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The State of Media

  Deloitte's second survey on changing media attitudes amongst the generations has some good insight (PDF)

  Jan 25 2008 at 2:17 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Advertising

• Leonard Cohen to tour again

  Never expected to see him perform live again.

  Jan 24 2008 at 7:16 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• HTML5 is a draft

  Keep in mind it is a draft, and won't be real this decade, but it is a major evolution of the mark-up language used to build the Web.

  Jan 24 2008 at 12:31 PM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• EveryBlock launches

  Adrian Holovaty's hyper-local site launches and offers exactly the kind of site I would want for local information...when comes Seattle?

  Jan 24 2008 at 12:28 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Starbucks trying to suck me in

  Starbucks is experimenting with $1 coffees with free refills in Seattle.

  Jan 23 2008 at 1:51 PM EST

  Topic: Seattle

• Opting-in to use Web standards

  Jeremy Keith exactly sums up mine (and many other peoples) concerns over the plans to lock-in browser compatibility.

  Jan 22 2008 at 4:10 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• IE8 and future compatibility

  Chris Wilson, Internet Explorer's Platform Architect, explains how IE8 plans to not break the Web.

  Jan 22 2008 at 4:08 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• Microsoft lunch tour

  Reviewing all the various Microsoft campus cafes.

  Jan 10 2008 at 7:57 PM EST

  Topic: Work

• Netscape dead again

  February 1, 2008 marks the end of AOL's support for the Netscape browser.

  Dec 28 2007 at 4:59 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• CBC.ca calls for original online content

  The call for freelance online projects is rare, but to bulk about its resources, CBC.ca has put out a call for some pitches.

  Dec 23 2007 at 12:18 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• CSS Working Group proposals

  Ideas on reforming the W3C's CSS standardization process, from Andy Clarke. Agree or not, this is a huge issue that needs to be discussed.

  Dec 18 2007 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Moderating comments a union issue

  The Canadian Media Guild is concerned that CBC.ca is outsourcing comment moderation to Pluck.

  Dec 18 2007 at 3:38 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Donation seeking non-profits in Toronto

  The City of Toronto has a huge list of non-profit agencies accepting donations of computer equipment, clothing, and books.

  Dec 11 2007 at 9:11 AM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Shrink your code

  Four ways to help reduce the size of the files delivered from your site.

  Dec 7 2007 at 7:09 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Google Chart API

  Simple URL-based schema renders complex charts for up to 50,000 views a day.

  Dec 7 2007 at 7:08 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Web Technology

• Disposable fuel cells by Bic?

  Forget recharging batteries, Bic wants to develop a replaceable fuel cell that can power a cell phone for weeks.

  Dec 6 2007 at 10:39 AM EST

  Topic: Technology

• Creating sexy stylesheets

  It may not be sexy, but Jina Bolton's advice one building a stable CSS suite is worth following.

  Dec 6 2007 at 10:35 AM EST

  Topic: CSS

• Most reads feeds more reads

  The globeandmail.com now offers newsfeeds for its most read and recommended articles -- expect the best (content).

  Dec 6 2007 at 9:58 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Molly vs. Bill G. on IE8

  Molly wonders why Microsoft is being so tight-lipped about IE 8, and Bill promises to look into it.

  Dec 6 2007 at 9:51 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Canoe.tv and CBC

  Quebecor leverages CBC content to prop up its "interactive" TV attempts. Ahh, the minds hired by PPK shine so bright...

  Dec 4 2007 at 10:51 AM EST

  Topics: TV, Web Culture

• Digg using Idée for image checking

  The amazing technology developed by Idée is now being used by Digg to check for duplicate images.

  Dec 4 2007 at 10:28 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• HTML 5 preview

  Finally, a decent overview of the next step in the Web's core language.

  Dec 4 2007 at 10:00 AM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Geist on Canada's new copyright plan

  The proposed changes to the Canadian copyright law could make Canada one of the most restrictive regions in the democratic world.

  Nov 29 2007 at 3:55 PM EST

  Topics: Copyright, Canada

• Google can't code

  "The half-assed HTML these guys grew up with between D&D sessions in suburban basements is considered good enough," Joe Clark writes.

  Nov 29 2007 at 3:23 PM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Get rid of text-resizing widgets

  Accessibility expert Joe Clark explains why those tools (and, I'd add, others duplicating browser functions) are pointless.

  Nov 28 2007 at 2:26 PM EST

  Topics: Accessibility, Usability

• The Email Standards Project

  Loath it or love it, HTML email is here to stay and now a group want's to bring support inline with the W3C recommendations.

  Nov 28 2007 at 2:10 PM EST

  Topics: Web Standards, Email

• National Post redesign's site

  The new look is an tremendous improvement over the previous design, and not offers comments and widgets.

  Nov 26 2007 at 9:35 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• The economics of online news

  Some interesting thoughts about the business of online news from the media owners themselves.

  Nov 25 2007 at 10:30 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Advertising

• Deconstructing Facebook Beacon

  Jay Goldman dives deep into the code and provides both an summary and an analysis of the new advertising service.

  Nov 25 2007 at 10:22 AM EST

  Topics: Advertising, Social Media

• Globe Docs: Raven and Jason

  Wow, this compelling documentary (and the others available) shows The Globe and Mail doesn't just print words on pulp.

  Nov 23 2007 at 5:48 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Optimal site width

  A comprehensive survey of browsing habits suggests more than 80% of people browse at a browser width of 1000 pixels.

  Nov 23 2007 at 10:09 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Guardian and NYTimes fight for top slot

  Guardian Unlimited squeaked by the nytimes.com to be the top newspaper site in the world.

  Nov 23 2007 at 8:59 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Firefox 3 new user interface

  Alex Faaborg, member of the Firefox UI team, goes into great and interesting detail about the thinking for the browsers new interface.

  Nov 23 2007 at 8:59 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Usability

• Facebook's advertising model

  An overview of Facebook's Social Ads and Beacon (I've already unexepctedly encountered the latter).

  Nov 22 2007 at 4:28 PM EST

  Topics: Advertising, Social Media

• Text selection improvements in Firefox 3

  Selecting (and copying) separate chunks of text at once.

  Nov 22 2007 at 4:08 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Usability

• Introducing the Giant Global Graph

  Tim Berners-Lee sets out his idea on the successor to the Internet and World Wide Web platforms.

  Nov 22 2007 at 3:26 PM EST

  Topics: Social Media, Web Technology

• Canadian online ad growth to slow

  Online ad spending will triple its 2006 value by 2011 in Canada, but year-over-year growth will steadily slow.

  Nov 22 2007 at 11:16 AM EST

  Topic: Advertising

• Digg the Candidates

  Digg applies its unique approach to covering the U.S. presidential candidates.

  Nov 21 2007 at 12:10 PM EST

  Topics: Politics, Online Journalism

• Jeremey Keith on Web design

  Another take on the current tension with the Web design community (of which Zeldman's essay is an antidote).

  Nov 20 2007 at 3:09 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, CSS

• Breaking news twittered

  Covering big breaking news via Twitter may be more effective than email/SMS blasts.

  Nov 20 2007 at 2:52 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Responding to colour profiles

  Apparently Safari is the only non-beta browser (Firefox 3 will) to correctly support a wide gamut of colour profiles online.

  Nov 20 2007 at 2:21 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Design

• Zeldman on Web design

  In fine form, Mr Z. defines Web design a definition so apt, it will become the new standard.

  Nov 20 2007 at 11:08 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Freelancing calculator

  Struggling to figure out what to charge? This tool may help.

  Nov 19 2007 at 12:35 PM EST

  Topic: Work

• Amazon's Kindle

  The new e-reader tremendously improves on other similar offerings, but the interface and display will still disappoint most people.

  Nov 19 2007 at 12:10 PM EST

  Topics: Technology, Books

• Canadian wireless prices becoming rational

  In less than five months, the 1GB plan for most carriers has dropped in price by more than $2200, but still nearly double U.S. pricing.

  Nov 19 2007 at 10:33 AM EST

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• Toronto's light sabre battle

  Two-thousand come out to have a Friday night light sabre fight in front of the Royal Ontario Museum

  Nov 18 2007 at 10:12 AM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Canada legally recognizes "responsible journalism"

  Essentially, there is a new defense for lawsuits arising from the publication of a well-researched story in the public interest.

  Nov 18 2007 at 10:01 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• RSS readers visit more often

  Fairly obvious conclusion, but worth saving for evidence when needed.

  Nov 16 2007 at 4:23 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism

• Top 100 indie rock albums

  As chosen by Blender and commented on by Stereogum

  Nov 16 2007 at 4:15 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• Clark's Law

  Joe Clark: "The more expensive an online system is, the worse its output is."

  Nov 16 2007 at 3:10 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• The science of swarms

  Discovering the selfish rules behind swarm behaviour.

  Nov 16 2007 at 11:50 AM EST

  Topic: Social Media

• Seven rules of unobtrusive JavaScript

  Excellent advice for developing JavaScript in a progressive enhancement way.

  Nov 16 2007 at 11:37 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• The new CSS handheld format

  Okay not new, but as mentioned in this article, CSS3's media queries are being quickly adopted.

  Nov 16 2007 at 11:27 AM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Citizen journalism bares witness

  The video of Tasering of Robert Dziekanski is a demonstration of how effective citizen journalism can be.

  Nov 15 2007 at 12:21 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• Safari 3 enhancements

  Detailing ten new things in the version of Webkit powering Safari 3

  Nov 15 2007 at 11:06 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Safari 3 comes to Tiger

  Now Mac OS 10.4 users will enjoy a greatly enhanced browser.

  Nov 15 2007 at 10:58 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Death knell for online subscriptions

  With WSJ.com and FT.com going free, selling news online as a business model has been (wrongly, in my mind) killed.

  Nov 15 2007 at 10:44 AM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• The best minds of my generation...

  A version of the AP's obituary for Norman Mailer (at The Globe and Mail) mangles the spelling of Allen Ginsberg's name.

  Nov 11 2007 at 5:09 PM EST

  Topics: Books, Journalism

• Agile journalism

  Mathew Ingram explains how journalism can learn from the agile approach to Web development.

  Nov 11 2007 at 12:08 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• The new MSNBC.com

  One of the biggest, and oldest, online news sites in the U.S. launches its redesign

  Nov 10 2007 at 9:44 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Microsoft licensed Eolas technology

  Internet Explorer will once again be able to run plug-ins without requiring the user to "click to activate"

  Nov 8 2007 at 1:28 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Patents

• MSNBC.com does an alpha

  A blog from the development/design team at MSNBC.com. Watch this space.

  Nov 5 2007 at 6:44 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Google announces "Gphone"

  It's not really a phone, but rather a hardware alliance using a mobile platform called Android.

  Nov 5 2007 at 1:21 PM EST

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Search Engines

• Ed Greenspon on direction of The Globe and Mail

  The editor talks about the new design changes and the goals the company has for the newspaper and Web site.

  Nov 5 2007 at 12:14 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Home computer sales dropping

  ...in Japan, which could signal a future North American trend (assuming the mobile space gets worked out).

  Nov 5 2007 at 8:52 AM EST

  Topics: Computers, Technology

• Security risk in online ads

  Tucson Newspapers detected banner ads that, surreptitiously, tries to install spyware on a readers computer.

  Nov 4 2007 at 3:24 PM EST

  Topics: Advertising, Spam/Virus

• Prism builds for Mac & Linux

  As the title says the Mozilla attempt to bring the Web to the desktop is now available on non-Windows programs.

  Nov 4 2007 at 11:01 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Browsers

• Yahoo vs. Google homepages

  Nearly a decade of homepages comparing the two search giants' approaches.

  Nov 4 2007 at 10:52 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Search Engines

• Overview of OpenSocial

  Ajaxian aggregates the key documents on OpenSocial.

  Nov 2 2007 at 7:01 AM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Search Engines

• Google's Coalition of the Willing

  Google nabs all the big (non-Facebook) players in the social media space to be part of its OpenSocial initiative.

  Nov 1 2007 at 3:59 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Search Engines

• CSS animation

  Another non-standard extension makes its way into WebKit. Nice, but this is feeling like '97 again.

  Oct 31 2007 at 10:02 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Pownce API arrives

  After a buzz-killingly long delay, Pownce releases the first stable API with promises of more enhancements to come.

  Oct 31 2007 at 9:12 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• SimplePie RSS

  A great PHP plug-in that can parse RSS feeds for CodeIdniter among others.

  Oct 29 2007 at 7:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Resources

• Mozilla Labs announces Prism

  Toolkit allows Web pages to become desktop applications, without relying on proprietary languages.

  Oct 29 2007 at 5:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Browsers

• Bell backing out of IPTV

  The phone company once again delays its Internet Protocol TV roll-out causing some to wonder whether it well happen at all.

  Oct 26 2007 at 10:22 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Technology

• Processing the Ontario election

  Patrick Dinnen builds a compelling visualization of the 2003 election results.

  Oct 25 2007 at 7:39 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Ontario

• Sustainable green Web hosting

  The San Fransisco company offers 100% carbon neutral Web hosting service.

  Oct 25 2007 at 3:38 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Canadian iPhone for January 2008?

  A Molson Export marketing campaign seems to suggest that but everyone involved is denying it.

  Oct 24 2007 at 10:19 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• Microsoft buys into Facebook

  News broke for me on Twitter, still no update on Facebook's news page

  Oct 24 2007 at 5:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Social Media

• Guardian America's voice

  Inigo Thomas introduces Guardian's new American Web site be explaining why its style and writing voice will not be "Americanized"

  Oct 24 2007 at 1:56 PM EDT

  Topics: Style & Usage, Online Journalism

• LATimes.com tracking fires on Google Maps

  Smart, simple way to use Google Maps in breaking news without any developer requests needed.

  Oct 23 2007 at 10:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Mozilla shows some strong numbers

  Revenues increased 25% to $66,840,850 on $19,776,193 in expenses for 2006. Remember this is a non-profit pushing open-source technology.

  Oct 23 2007 at 10:08 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Nielsen says don't avoid passive writing

  Realizing the positively ironic nature of the headline amuses me.

  Oct 22 2007 at 2:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Writing, Usability

• It's the data, stupid

  Deconstruct the hype behind widgets (and there is a lot of hype) and you can find some real truths.

  Oct 21 2007 at 7:16 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• Parsing the case for online subscriptions

  Mathew Ingram reality-checks a study by Matthew Gentzkow that essentially says the making news free online costs millions in lost revenue.

  Oct 21 2007 at 7:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Making a successful news site

  Jay Rosen lays out yet more ideas for making a solid online news site.

  Oct 21 2007 at 7:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Don't click here

  A blog for marketing uses sketchy data and test to justify the worth of "click here".

  Oct 21 2007 at 6:48 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Accessibility

• Humanized messages

  While watching the Leopard preview, I thought about doing something like this tool JavaScript-based prompts and notices.

  Oct 21 2007 at 1:59 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Usability

• The new Newsweek

  The redesign of newsweek.com is one of the first mainstream sites I've seen to smartly incorporate Web 2.0 functionality.

  Oct 21 2007 at 10:37 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• CSS Snapshot

  W3C says CSS "standard" enccompasses CSS 2.1, CSS 3 Selectors and Colors, and the CSS Namespaces.

  Oct 21 2007 at 9:51 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Handicapping the TTC.ca contract

  Joe Clark, undoubtedly the most qualified and informed evaluator of the TTC.ca Web site proposals rates the hopeful firms.

  Oct 20 2007 at 9:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Web Design

• ONA 2007 Winners

  Gala event sees the Toronto Star win one online journalism award for Canada.

  Oct 20 2007 at 12:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Paywall lift boosts NYTimes.com's pageviews

  Reportedly, less than a month after lifting the paywall on its op-ed section, pageviews doubled.

  Oct 17 2007 at 7:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• NYTimes.com open source

  NYTimes.com is starting to release some of its code for the public to play with. Setting a brave new standard.

  Oct 17 2007 at 2:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism

• Print circulation now will count regular online traffic

  This may be another reason why the NYTimes.com dropped its paid circulation service.

  Oct 15 2007 at 2:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Subscriptions & Registration

• Panel on the future of news

  CBC, as a precursor to the Online News Association's conference, is hosting a panel discussion about the future of news.

  Oct 14 2007 at 1:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• Interviews with "networked" journalists

  Sixty-two interviews with the attendees of the Networked Journalism Summit.

  Oct 14 2007 at 1:36 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Toronto Star stop PDF-based afternoon edition

  Apparently it wants concentrate more on its Web and mobile presence. There's something wrong with that equation/

  Oct 13 2007 at 2:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Web Directions North 2008 line-up announced

  Amazing line-up for one of North America's best Web conferences.

  Oct 11 2007 at 5:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• The next standard: VWAML?

  Could a "Virtual World Avatar Markup Language" be the result of IBM and Second Life plan to free your online persona?

  Oct 10 2007 at 6:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• Wal-Mart bigger than Manhattan

  The combined area of Wal-Mart's stores take up more space on Earth than the island of Manhattan.

  Oct 10 2007 at 5:55 PM EDT

  Topic: Politics

• Mobile Firefox

  Effectively, this kills the Minimo project and promises to bring the Firefox spirit to mobile browsing.

  Oct 10 2007 at 9:06 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, VoIP

• Ontarians: Get your (2007) vote on

  Election day comes to Ontario and the parties are dull, but the referendum on proportional representation offers hope.

  Oct 10 2007 at 8:54 AM EDT

  Topics: Ontario, Politics

• CSS3's grid module

  This would be what people are really looking for when making column-based layouts in CSS.

  Oct 9 2007 at 10:40 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Out of the ashes of the portal...

  ...comes the concept of a network of sites. I've seen it fail, but it does have promise.

  Oct 8 2007 at 5:32 PM EDT

  Topics: Advertising, Web Culture

• Local TV news threatened

  As media consolidation continues, CRTC may ignore the decline in local TV news.

  Oct 8 2007 at 5:22 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Journalism

• MSNBC buys Newsvine

  Being closer to this deal than I would have imagined doesn't prevent me from being surprised; but it does mean I think it will work well.

  Oct 8 2007 at 5:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• BarCamp Canada

  On November 3rd, BarCampers from across Canada will descend on Montreal.

  Oct 5 2007 at 6:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• IE7 comes to XP

  Whether its another admission Vista is doing poorly or not, it's a good thing for Web developers.

  Oct 5 2007 at 3:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Client-side load balancing counter-point

  Some thoughts against client-side load-balancing.

  Oct 5 2007 at 2:50 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Redesigning the Wall Street Journal

  Andy Rutledge tries to improve WSJ.com's mess of a homepage.

  Oct 3 2007 at 11:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Interface design for the mobile Web

  Lessons in interface design for mobile devices.

  Oct 3 2007 at 11:17 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, VoIP

• Client-side load balancing

  Digital Web has a great new article on load balancing Web 2.0 apps.

  Oct 3 2007 at 11:13 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Making the popular vote count

  Ontario is holding a referendum on changing its election system to one of the best ways to reflect the popular vote: the mixed-member proportional (MMP) system.

  Oct 3 2007 at 6:29 AM EDT

  Topics: Ontario, Politics

• AIR Development Center

  Apps created in Adobe's new Web/desktop development platform is a good place to learn what it can do (and how).

  Oct 1 2007 at 2:28 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• The pay wall "third way"

  FT.com is loosening its pay wall, and letting causal readers view 30 articles a month, for free.

  Oct 1 2007 at 11:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Secrets of Sidebar

  Sidebar Creative, the freelance co-op (a brilliant idea), talk to Digital Web about their process

  Sep 26 2007 at 12:59 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Web Design

• Thunderbird gets its own company

  Mozilla is creating a new company to better drive the development of its email client.

  Sep 18 2007 at 9:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Email, Browsers

• The history of Amazon-ian tabs

  A new design suggest Amazon might be going back to the past to tame its tabs.

  Sep 18 2007 at 12:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Patterns

• Sistr

  An early sIFR alternative using Silverlight.

  Sep 18 2007 at 12:16 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• The Times is free

  The New York Times drops is subscription model, and also makes early archives and those from the past decade free to the public.

  Sep 17 2007 at 8:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Follow the commenter

  Gawker Media is letting readings follow particular commenters on its blogs.

  Sep 17 2007 at 3:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism

• Doing tabs right

  Thirteen guidelines on how to use tabbed navigation.

  Sep 17 2007 at 2:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Web Patterns

• More on personalized news

  Although the Daily Me isn't yet here, it's not stopping news outlets from experimenting.

  Sep 13 2007 at 12:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Visual-O-Rama

  Poke the tires of Idée's amazing visual search tool (iPod for the bst 5 results).

  Sep 12 2007 at 12:59 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• ONA 2007 finalists

  CanCon: Two nods for the Toronto Star's "Lost in Migration", one for the CBC's consumer reporting, and one for The Globe and Mail.

  Sep 12 2007 at 12:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The radiated book

  Eleven years before Vannevar Bush's seminal essay, Paul Otlet proposed any even more Web-like vision.

  Sep 12 2007 at 11:53 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Canada's venture capital crisis

  Mark Evans looks at why investment in Canadian start-ups is dangerously non-existent.

  Sep 12 2007 at 11:37 AM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Detecting WebKit script

  Don't do it. But if you really must find out which WebKit-based browser is visiting, here's a script for you.

  Sep 12 2007 at 11:18 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Le Monde goes 2.0

  France's Le Monde has launched an impressive Digg-style news service called "Le Post"

  Sep 11 2007 at 2:32 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The day the news first stopped

  When Princess Diana died, CBC experienced the same traffic surged many sites faced six-years ago today.

  Sep 11 2007 at 2:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Text as design misleading

  Sometimes, if important information is overly-designed, and poorly placed, it can get lost.

  Sep 4 2007 at 10:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Real-time journalism

  That this is considered an innovative idea still is shocking, nevertheless it should be repeated until real-time reporting is second-nature.

  Sep 4 2007 at 12:02 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Beautiful design critique

  A Brief Message aims to offer a design opinions in 200-words or less each presented on an "art-directed" Web page.

  Sep 4 2007 at 11:05 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Defining (HTML) semantics

  John Allsopp offers a comprehensive explanation of what semantic mark-up is and how it works.

  Sep 4 2007 at 11:00 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Semantics, HTML

• Google News to serve wire articles

  AP, AFP, CP, and Reuters are licensing articles to Google News making the service less of an aggregator and more of a provider.

  Sep 4 2007 at 9:19 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines

• Twelve online news biz tips

  Twelve real lessons from online newspapers as editors reveal the successes and failures.

  Aug 30 2007 at 11:59 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• The death of A1

  Jack Shafer talks about how the inside pages of a newspaper are of more value now.

  Aug 26 2007 at 10:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Making online news forget

  Clive Thompson riffs on reputation management when it comes to online news.

  Aug 26 2007 at 10:43 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• iPhone unlocked

  So will Rogers brings an official one to Canada or will we will Canucks need to hack it?

  Aug 24 2007 at 5:10 PM EDT

  Topics: VoIP, Technology

• The Mullet Strategy

  Let the users play on the secondary pages, but keep the primary ones under in-house control.

  Aug 23 2007 at 12:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Web Culture

• Hockey Night in Canada streamed online

  The entire 85-game schedule is to be streamed online and will include pre/post-game shows.

  Aug 23 2007 at 12:26 PM EDT

  Topic: TV

• More electronic editions

  Electronic editions of newspaper serve no-one but the circulation figures (possible exception: those like NYTimes Reader)

  Aug 23 2007 at 12:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• More electronic editions

  Electronic editions of newspaper serve no-one but the circulation figures (possible exception: those like NYTimes Reader)

  Aug 23 2007 at 12:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• On the TTC redesign RFP

  Joe Clark analyzes the RFP, with a clarity and intelligence that shows why he deserves to be (but isn't) well paid.

  Aug 23 2007 at 7:58 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Web Design

• Globeandmail.com and GMaps

  The Globe and Mail is now embedding contextual GMap within articles.

  Aug 16 2007 at 3:31 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Gigapixel images in Firefox

  HD View plugin, which allow you to view super-high resolution images, is now available for Firefox

  Aug 15 2007 at 9:05 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Technology

• JQuery for JavaScript coders

  Another excellent tutorial from Simon Willison, this time explaining the strengths of jQuery.

  Aug 15 2007 at 7:27 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Web-code syntax

  Code standardizing one's coding style improve the Web for the better?

  Aug 14 2007 at 2:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, HTML

• Setting up IMAP

  Mini-tutorial for setting up IMAP in Apple Mail

  Aug 9 2007 at 10:57 AM EDT

  Topic: Spam/Virus

• Google New going comments

  Seems Google is experimenting with a way to allow the subjects of a news story to comment on it.

  Aug 8 2007 at 8:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines

• Google New going comments

  Seems Google is experimenting with a way to allow the subjects of a news story to comment on it.

  Aug 8 2007 at 8:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines

• Blueprint: a CSS framework

  More and less than a template, I think this concept could catch on.

  Aug 8 2007 at 1:35 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Stop the mobile browser war

  Eric Meyer urges everyone to resist designing mobile Web apps just for the iPhone.

  Aug 8 2007 at 1:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• No more TimesSelect

  The New York Times is reported to be ending its online subscription service

  Aug 7 2007 at 10:48 AM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Monkey News

  Looks like the folks at Mozilla are looking to make scripting languages like JavaScript and Python a browser plug-in.

  Jul 27 2007 at 10:34 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Zunior.com

  The digital music store that, with its selection, prices, and DRM free music, puts iTunes to shame.

  Jul 25 2007 at 8:16 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• CSS 2.1 a Candidate Recommendation

  Almost there, one more step and CSS 2.1 is official.

  Jul 24 2007 at 1:17 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Uniform Event Model

  Making Internet Explorer respect the W3C DOM3 Event recommendations.

  Jul 24 2007 at 1:15 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• RIP: Checkers

  An Albertan computer professor has, after 18 years of computations, had proved checkers is impossible to win.

  Jul 20 2007 at 10:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Culture, Computers

• More multi-touch from Apple

  A collection of multi-touch interfaces proposed by Apple over the years.

  Jul 16 2007 at 3:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Computers

• Leaflets

  Blue Flavor creates a very clever iPhone gateway and templates for a number of Web apps.

  Jul 16 2007 at 3:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Web Technology

• Introducing iUI

  Joe Hewitt explains a new AAjax framework for use in building native feeling iPhone Web apps.

  Jul 12 2007 at 9:58 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Phone/VoIP

• Google taking back mash-ups

  Google is letting map-based mash-ups reside on its site, in a clever effort to consolidate traffic.

  Jul 11 2007 at 10:34 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• 2007 Polaris nominees

  An overview of the somewhat surprising (yet excellent) nominees for 2007's Polaris Music Prize.

  Jul 11 2007 at 10:05 AM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Wikipedia top information site

  Nearly 50 million unique visitors went to the site in May, according to Nielsen//NetRankings, ironically.

  Jul 10 2007 at 10:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Nielsen goes with time spent

  Online metrics to be measured by time spent, not page views, but same problems still apply.

  Jul 10 2007 at 10:35 AM EDT

  Topics: Advertising, Web Culture

• Write articles not blogs

  Jakob Nielsen offers some good advice on how to be an expert.

  Jul 9 2007 at 2:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Writing, Work

• purple-include

  An easy way include "of part of a document into another document by reference" using JavaScript

  Jul 9 2007 at 9:25 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• CSS Redundancy Checker

  A Ruby-based tool that finds all the CSS selectors not used in the specified HTML files or URLs.

  Jul 6 2007 at 8:56 AM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Google Gadget API for Ajax Developers

  Small tutorial on using the Google Gadget's API

  Jul 6 2007 at 1:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines

• StartupNorth

  A Canadian "TechCrunch" reviewing Canadian startups and hoping to build a community around them

  Jul 4 2007 at 3:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Toronto neighbourhood guides

  BlogTO releases its neighbourhood guides as for the offline visitor (map included!)

  Jul 4 2007 at 2:42 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Low Pro

  An extension to the JavaScript Prototype library offering some nice unobtrusive scripting additions.

  Jul 4 2007 at 11:28 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• CBC Skypes

  Some shows have begun using Skype as an alternative to satellite video feeds

  Jul 4 2007 at 11:08 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Technology

• CNN frees its video

  The formerly Premium Pipeline service is now free, and welcomes user-submitted video

  Jul 4 2007 at 11:07 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, TV

• Google frees FeedBurner

  Pro version of feed tracker is now available as part of the free, base package

  Jul 4 2007 at 9:41 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Pownce!

  From some smart minds comes a very killer Web app.

  Jun 27 2007 at 5:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture

• Mossberg & Pogue: iPhone not hype

  The two big American tech reviewers praise the iPhone (which passed the typing test) criticizing only the AT&T network

  Jun 27 2007 at 12:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Technology

• Visual vocabulary for IA

  Includes templates for Visio, OmniGraffle, and OpenOffice

  Jun 26 2007 at 4:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Patterns, Usability

• Superhero entrepreneur trading

  Sunir Shah turns profiles of young Canadian tech entrepreneurs into a trading cards series

  Jun 25 2007 at 10:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• CSS 3 features in Safari 3

  Some demos and explanation about which CSS3 features Safari supports (apparently, 2x as many as Firefox)

  Jun 25 2007 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• WebKit does Firebug

  There's a new Web Inspector in the nightly builds of WebKit (Safari) that functions a lot like Firebug -- worth a look.

  Jun 21 2007 at 10:41 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Opera Mini 4 beta

  Mobile browser offers some impressive features, and can be installed on any mobile device

  Jun 20 2007 at 10:18 AM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Browsers

• IPhone browser specs

  Details for building iPhone-friendly Web pages say width is 480px; Web standards are best; and it's QuickTime, not Flash

  Jun 19 2007 at 5:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Browsers

• IPod-friendly NOW restaurant guide

  Ryan Feely and Jakub Labath created a portable version of Toronto restaurant reviews.

  Jun 19 2007 at 8:46 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, General Resource

• Mark Bowden on journalism

  Journalists and author of "Black Hawk Down" offers some good ideas on where he thinks journalism should be going.

  Jun 19 2007 at 8:44 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• CBC.ca undergoes massive redesign

  New site is cleaner, with lots of whitespace and a good effort to bring its disparate parts together.

  Jun 19 2007 at 1:08 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Facing EnergizeIT

  I thought I missed this event, but then I saw David Crow's presentation slides and to the right of WR is...

  Jun 19 2007 at 12:42 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology

• Introducing WEDJE

  Or, “Widget Enabled DOM Javascript Embedding” for embedding little apps on third-party sites

  Jun 18 2007 at 1:05 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology

• No iPhone for Canada yet

  Rogers and Apple seem to be in no rush to bring the latter's mobile device to Canada

  Jun 18 2007 at 9:06 AM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• Why the iPhone will be expensive in Canada

  Dave Shea nails the problem with Web apps on mobile devices in Canada

  Jun 14 2007 at 4:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• Joe Clark's presentation advice

  A number of great tips from a very experienced presenter.

  Jun 14 2007 at 11:17 AM EDT

  Topic: Work

• HTML Entity Character Lookup

  Web app and Dashboard widget for suggesting the right entity code based on the character inputted.

  Jun 13 2007 at 12:52 PM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Differences between HTML4 and HTML5

  Anne van Kesteren has created a draft list of the differences to be found in the new HTML proposal.

  Jun 13 2007 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, HTML

• How to introduce new designs

  Jared Spool loves how Yahoo Finance encouraged its users to try its new charting services.

  Jun 12 2007 at 2:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Web Design

• Collection X

  AGO's online art gallery that encourages user submissions and social networking.

  Jun 12 2007 at 2:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Ontario

• Explode the homepage

  Jeff Jarvis on how to radically reinvent the news sites homepage.

  Jun 12 2007 at 2:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Realtime tracking of Dublin trains

  A Google Map mashup tracking Ireland's DART rail service

  Jun 12 2007 at 1:58 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Technology

• ...Joe Clark retires

  The Web accessibility expert is done being an expert. We all owe Joe more than we will ever acknowledge.

  Jun 12 2007 at 10:17 AM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards

• WCAG Samurai Errata published...

  The proposal is to be finalized in the coming weeks and uses WCAG 1.0 as a foundation.

  Jun 12 2007 at 10:15 AM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards

• How to do local right

  Simon Willison explains how to make local news profitable.

  Jun 11 2007 at 2:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• globeandmail.com homepage update

  The news sites homepage catches up with the business redesign of a few weeks ago and offers far more content.

  May 22 2007 at 6:53 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Web Design

• Next step: companies on Facebook

  Facebook may be opening up to allow companies to offer its services directly to Facebook users.

  May 21 2007 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology

• When blogs move the market

  A nice overview on "Applegate" and a comment on how we all need to adjust to idea of blogging as journalism.

  May 21 2007 at 10:11 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Browsers and accessibility guidelines

  Patrick H. Lauke offers some thoughts on how the Web browsers themselves handle accessibility.

  May 21 2007 at 9:26 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Accessibility

• Sue Gardner leaving CBC.ca

  Head of the public broadcaster's Web operations "had achieved what [she] wanted"

  May 20 2007 at 12:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• Banner ads create good feelings

  Though click-through rates may be declining, the ads are excellent at improving brand awareness.

  May 20 2007 at 12:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Advertising

• Molly on online community

  A honest and insightful essay about online community, and what the JPG fallout really indicates.

  May 16 2007 at 10:56 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Preview Firefox 3.0 with forms widgets

  Developer release of what could be an official Firefox release with Mac OS X form controls.

  May 16 2007 at 8:24 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Microsoft eats Crow

  David Crow joins the company's Canada arm as a Senior User Experience Advisor.

  May 14 2007 at 9:23 AM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Toronto

• Snook supercharges

  Another redesign, and this time its Snook with a massive overhaul that is very impressive.

  May 8 2007 at 3:25 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• D. Keith Robinson Reboots

  New look and direction all set on a nice grid.

  May 7 2007 at 11:06 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• webtechnology

  Preview of My Telegraph

  May 4 2007 at 1:48 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Plain Old Semantic HTML

  It's all about POSH

  May 2 2007 at 5:21 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Zerbisias on the new Globe

  Offers a summary of criticism, but ends on an up note.

  Apr 27 2007 at 3:26 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Work

• Coda

  What HomeSite coulda been, had HomeSite continued to be developed app, and done so for the Mac.

  Apr 24 2007 at 10:47 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• The quasi-new globeandmail.com

  Bill Doskoch on the transitional design for the Web site timed to coincide with ReportonBusiness.com

  Apr 24 2007 at 9:48 AM EDT

  Topics: Work, Web Design

• The new Globe and Mail

  Ironically, the new Web site is getting better props.

  Apr 24 2007 at 9:43 AM EDT

  Topics: Work, Newspapers

• Energy-saving colour palette

  Jon Doucette designed a Web colour palette that is designed to use as little energy to display on yr monitor as possible.

  Apr 19 2007 at 3:07 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Google AJAX Feed API

  Cross-domain RSS mash-ups made possible on the client-side. Where was this nine months ago?!

  Apr 19 2007 at 9:33 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology

• WPF/E announced as Silverlight

  The new plug-in will operate like Flash and QuickTime with the hopes of taking some mind/marketshare from Apple and Adobe.

  Apr 17 2007 at 2:21 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• CNMA 2007 Finalists

  Typical mix for Canada's new media awards

  Apr 16 2007 at 8:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Harper's redesigns with more meta data

  Simply, intuitive, brilliant. And Paul Ford explains why all the tables.

  Apr 16 2007 at 1:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Magazine

• Managing tasks

  Great article on handling and responding to "unforeseen projects or tasks that tend to come from nowhere"

  Apr 11 2007 at 9:48 AM EDT

  Topic: Work

• Combine and compress

  A technique to reduce HTTP requests by combining multiple CSS or JavaScript calls into one.

  Apr 11 2007 at 9:41 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, JavaScript

• HTML5 proposed to the W3C

  Apple, Mozilla, and Opera are proposing the WHATWG's HTML5 be the starting point for the W3C's new HTML

  Apr 11 2007 at 9:32 AM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Going to London, from Toronto

  Google Maps tells you how (with step 26 being key)

  Mar 30 2007 at 6:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Search Engines

• It's what we call the news

  JibJab on the state of the news media.

  Mar 29 2007 at 9:41 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Toronto's new street "furniture"

  Joe Clark has extracted the renderings of the street furniture proposals and posted them on Flickr.

  Mar 29 2007 at 9:36 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• EyeTrack07

  Finally: some hard data to counter the perception people only scane text while reading online.

  Mar 28 2007 at 1:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Usability

• Worldmapper

  Redrawing the world according a range of economic and social measures

  Mar 26 2007 at 2:19 PM EDT

  Topic: Politics

• CBC unleashes more podcasts

  Selections include Radio News, World at Six, The House and some podcast-specific offerings

  Mar 26 2007 at 11:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Radio, Canada

• NADbank 2006 Readership Study

  Canada's newspaper readership in the top markets is stable, and more than 17 percent read an online edition.

  Mar 26 2007 at 11:32 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• State of the (U.S.) news media in 2007

  Excellent overview of the journalism industry as it heads into 2007.

  Mar 26 2007 at 11:29 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• How to save newspapers

  Doc Searls offers some smart advice for improving newspapers fortunes online

  Mar 26 2007 at 12:21 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Web apps outside the browser

  A comprehensive summary of Apollo (and WPF/E) and what it means for Web app developers.

  Mar 26 2007 at 12:05 AM EDT

  Topics: Web, Technology

• dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide

  Brian Fling's ebook on Web development for the mobile world is available as a free download.

  Mar 25 2007 at 11:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Phone/VoIP

• Dean Edwards' base2.DOM

  A JavaScript library that makes sure every browser does the DOM scripting the W3C way.

  Mar 22 2007 at 1:44 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards

• CakePHP v. CodeIgnitor

  Snook does an excellent comparision of the two PHP-based MVCs

  Mar 21 2007 at 2:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Web, Technology

• Installed fonts

  As detected by CSS and JavaScript (this version has a nicer UI than the original)

  Mar 21 2007 at 2:10 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, CSS

• 24 killing the Sun?

  It looks like Quebecor's free, daily newspaper mortally is wounding it's paid-circulation tabloid.

  Mar 20 2007 at 9:39 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Management By Optimism

  This nails a nasty little trend I've been seeing quite frequently.

  Mar 16 2007 at 10:35 AM EDT

  Topic: Work

• Web-based project tools

  An overview of Web-based tools for planning, budgeting, and developing projects.

  Mar 11 2007 at 4:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Web, General Resource

• Em Calculator

  Useful for any CSS developer looking to figure out what 0.625em actual is.

  Mar 11 2007 at 4:53 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• W3C relaunches HTML

  First draft due this summer, final recommendation 2010. Expected adoption: 2015.

  Mar 8 2007 at 10:09 AM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Opera wants a VIDEO tag

  The browser vendor is proposing a new element for video in HTML5. What OBJECT doesn't work for you?!

  Mar 5 2007 at 10:08 PM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOMs

  Three top guns from three top browsers talk DOM in this Yahoo Video.

  Mar 5 2007 at 10:01 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, JavaScript

• Reaction to the new USAToday.com

  Bout sums it up

  Mar 5 2007 at 9:44 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Newspapers have 25 years left

  More predictions on the death of the newspaper in the face of online news outlets

  Mar 4 2007 at 4:41 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• MySpace for finance geeks

  Reuters plans on launching a social networking service

  Mar 4 2007 at 4:40 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• Prototype/script.aculo.us TextMate bundle

  For all those TextMate users who do JavaScript work, this is for you.

  Mar 1 2007 at 2:52 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology

• Mesh 2007 announced

  Canada's "Web 2.0" conference has just been announced for this year.

  Feb 28 2007 at 12:45 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• The Unconference Book

  A wiki-to-book project documenting how to do unconferences.

  Feb 27 2007 at 9:54 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Social Media

• Flash image replacements

  Use to rotate images, add drop shadows, and other effects simply.

  Feb 27 2007 at 9:39 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Newspapers better than TV for Web video

  The unbiased take on video may help newspapers beat television on the Web.

  Feb 20 2007 at 9:13 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• The Machine is Us/ing Us

  Pretentious, possibly. Illustrative, definitely.

  Feb 19 2007 at 10:19 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology

• Daily You

  Smart personalization with tags at Pegasus News

  Feb 19 2007 at 9:48 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Canadian ISPs send copyright warnings

  The Business Software Alliance sent out about 60,000 "notice and notice" e-mails to Canadian internet users last year

  Feb 15 2007 at 4:27 PM EST

  Topics: Copyright, Canada

• The Complete New Yorker on a hard-drive

  Move from eight DVDs to one, fast hard-drive.

  Feb 15 2007 at 4:02 PM EST

  Topics: Magazine, Technology

• The Mozilla Manifesto

  The Manifesto sets out a vision of the Internet as a piece of infrastructure that is open, accessible and enriches the lives of individual human beings.

  Feb 15 2007 at 3:08 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture

• Comment on The Economist's letters to the editor

  How meta.

  Feb 12 2007 at 2:45 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Netscape 9 coming

  To be released on Windows, Macintosh and Linux, Netscape 9 will be built by Netscape and based on Firefox.

  Feb 12 2007 at 10:00 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Cancel WCAG 2.0

  Joe Clark's open letter to the W3C asking it to cancel WCAG 2 (he announced it at Web Directions North)

  Feb 12 2007 at 9:27 AM EST

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards

• Wish list for IE.next

  The WaSP presented it's "must-fix" list for IE to Microsoft and the reception was positive.

  Feb 12 2007 at 9:24 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• Concert calendar

  iTunes plug-in that generates a concert calendar for your city based on music in your library

  Feb 1 2007 at 2:01 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• TTC re-opens RFP for Web site

  Bloggers get the previously closed RFP for revamping the TTC Web site reopened.

  Feb 1 2007 at 12:07 AM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Design

• Adding sound via JavaScript

  Clever test to embed audio files using only JavaScript

  Jan 31 2007 at 8:32 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• TTC: the better Web way

  Smart people often seen at the BarCamp events put together the best proposal yet for a new TTC.ca

  Jan 24 2007 at 8:24 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Design

• .htaccess tutorial

  One of the best on this arcane, but powerful area I've found.

  Jan 24 2007 at 11:22 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• BBC's 15 Web principles

  If everyone followed these (with possible exception of 14), the Web would be much better.

  Jan 23 2007 at 1:24 PM EST

  Topics: Usability, Web Design

• Wired changes logo

  The Wired flag run in the magazine and online for years, has been tweaked and "improved"

  Jan 23 2007 at 9:56 AM EST

  Topics: Magazine, Web Design

• TagMaps mapping in TO

  Clever new Web app from Yahoo using Flickr tags to picture a mapped location.

  Jan 21 2007 at 9:04 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology

• Thirty years of newspaper revenues

  StatsCan has released a free report analyzing the revenue of flow of newspapers in Canada since

  Jan 18 2007 at 9:39 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Canada

• CBC to Canadian indie music fans: pay to listen

  Ironically, CBC Radio 3 and Brave New Waves pushed to the for-pay satellite service in effort to attract younger listeners to Radio 2.

  Jan 17 2007 at 10:15 PM EST

  Topics: Radio, Canada

• Megabins trashed

  Toronto will be saved from the hideous mega garbage bins as they get pulled from the streets in the coming weeks.

  Jan 17 2007 at 9:57 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Inside the Gladstone

  The Gladstone Hotel had an open-house to showcase its renovated interior and artist-created rooms.

  Jan 16 2007 at 7:50 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Artist displacing condos approved

  The Ontario Municipal Board has approved the (West Queen West) soul-destroying condos in Toronto's artist/gallery strip.

  Jan 16 2007 at 7:47 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Converting to numeric entities in TextMate

  Neil Lee asks (and learns) how to get TextMate to use HTML numeric entities instead of the named ones.

  Jan 16 2007 at 2:28 PM EST

  Topic: HTML

• Findory fading

  Greg Linden puts Findory on autopilot, thereby ending development on the first major personalization news site.

  Jan 16 2007 at 9:49 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• National Post's Comment blog

  It's sort of like the Guardian's comment is free, but one that is still getting its legs.

  Jan 15 2007 at 10:38 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Newspapers missing the long tail

  The CEO of Topix points out how newspapers do a number of reviews, none of which are effectively exposed to the public.

  Jan 15 2007 at 10:36 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• CBC and Web history

  CBC’s RealTime was the first Canadian entertainment show streamed over the Internet (coincidentally, using the RealAudio network)

  Jan 15 2007 at 9:28 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Radio

• Multi-column support coming to Safari

  The latest WebKit build now supports CSS3's multi-column properties.

  Jan 13 2007 at 1:43 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Type takes on Indigo

  The Globe and Mail profiles one of West Queen West's best little bookstore.

  Jan 12 2007 at 5:58 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Reconsidering Star Wars in light of the prequels

  You know what, even if it is retcon, it makes a lot of sense.

  Jan 12 2007 at 5:50 PM EST

  Topic: Movies

• Washington Post hosts local bloggers

  Invited local bloggers to discuss ideas for creating a network to host neighbourhood specific content.

  Jan 11 2007 at 3:56 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• IE Developer Toolbar getting better

  The beta 3 offers better ability to isolate style rules and smarter source view.

  Jan 10 2007 at 8:58 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Design

• CBC.ca GMaps the world's wars

  Simple and effective Google Map created by CBC.ca of the world's top 15 conflicts

  Jan 10 2007 at 1:17 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Politics

• Outlook 2007 uses Word to do HTML email

  And the HTML/CSS support is abysmal.

  Jan 10 2007 at 9:41 AM EST

  Topics: Email, Web Design

• Firefox sidebar on the right

  Move the noise of the bookmark/history/Sage reader sidebar from the left to the right of the browsing window.

  Jan 9 2007 at 8:38 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Transit route-planning in Toronto

  Google Maps mashup shows the best way to get around the city using rail/subway routes.

  Jan 9 2007 at 8:36 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Culture

• iPhone may become my phone

  This could be the device that finally pulls my into the mobile world.

  Jan 9 2007 at 2:15 PM EST

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Technology

• Markup as craft

  Digital Web Magazine is running an article that outlines how to make your HTML the best it can be

  Jan 9 2007 at 9:54 AM EST

  Topic: HTML

• Examples of 1% participation

  Luke Wroblewski collects some examples where a small group of Web users makes most of the content.

  Jan 8 2007 at 10:42 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Usability

• Daylife: a new news aggregator

  The design, experience, and feel of this new site feels nothing like traditional news aggregators and that's very good.

  Jan 8 2007 at 10:37 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• BubbleShare sold for $3M

  Albert Lai's done it again -- sold a great service for some nice cash.

  Jan 4 2007 at 9:11 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Toronto

• Improve the TTC's Web site

  The big Toronto blogs are collecting suggestions for improvements to the horrible Web site for the city's transit system.

  Jan 4 2007 at 9:29 AM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Design

• Today in CBC history

  Tod Maffin uses Google's spreadsheets to create a calendar of historical CBC events

  Jan 3 2007 at 6:22 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Radio

• The Toronto transit map

  Hands-down, the best map of city-wide transit anywhere.

  Jan 3 2007 at 6:20 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• New buzzphrase: implicit Web

  Could it be that "Web 3.0" is the implicit Web? There's a good argument to be made.

  Jan 3 2007 at 5:55 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology

• BBC vs. what we want

  A simple comparison of BBC's top stories and the most read ones.

  Jan 3 2007 at 12:18 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• WSJ.com's new markets data center

  Customizable, Ajax-y, and packed with good data.

  Jan 3 2007 at 12:12 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Unboxing the WSJ

  A Wall Street Journal reader dissects the new design in a video done in the spirit of the unboxing videos.

  Jan 3 2007 at 9:41 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Google Tips bad

  Some think Google has gone too far with its new "tips"

  Dec 30 2006 at 9:41 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• HTML5 elements and attributes

  A list of the new tags proposed by WHATWG for HTML5

  Dec 21 2006 at 9:14 PM EST

  Topic: HTML

• Adobe documents CSS quirks

  New site host a site for sharing and finding tips on CSS issues.

  Dec 21 2006 at 9:07 AM EST

  Topic: CSS

• TheStar.com redesigns

  Gets rid of its past CMS in favour of something cleaner (called "TOPS"), has user comments, and short URLs!

  Dec 18 2006 at 3:46 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Firefox and the Acid 2 test

  Firefox 3 Alpha 1 now passes the Acid 2 test.

  Dec 11 2006 at 10:01 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• The first YouTube response

  The Globe and Mail has gotten what may be its first YouTube-based reader response to one of its articles.

  Dec 5 2006 at 8:59 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Web Culture

• Reaction to Stéphane Dion's win

  Globeandmail.com commentors react to the surprise choice for the new leader of the Liberal party.

  Dec 2 2006 at 6:27 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Politics

• Rick Mercer blogging the Liberal convention

  Comedian and political animal Rick Mercer observes the Liberals at the Montreal convention.

  Dec 1 2006 at 8:15 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Politics

• CBC goes local, again

  The news dep't is refocussing on local news once more.

  Dec 1 2006 at 1:56 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• Death of newspapers foretold

  Jack Shafer explains that the industry new it was in trouble three decades ago.

  Dec 1 2006 at 1:54 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Future of personalized news

  An interview with Calvin Tang (Newsvine) about truly personalizing the news

  Dec 1 2006 at 1:52 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Run IE6 and IE7 on one machine

  Microsoft releases a virtual PC image that doesn't require another copy of Windows license to run the two browsers.

  Dec 1 2006 at 1:09 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Firefox crop circles in Google Maps

  How geeky is this (and, yes, the irony of such a comment is intended)

  Nov 30 2006 at 9:09 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Search Engines

• Uncovering a Greco-Roman computer

  The Antikythera Mechanism was a complex astronomical computing machine from around 100 B.C.E.

  Nov 29 2006 at 3:16 PM EST

  Topic: Computers

• Encoding Flash video

  Digital Web has a great tutorial on how to encode Flash video for the Web.

  Nov 28 2006 at 9:29 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Zerbisias has left the building for good

  One of Canada's top media critics, and for quite a bit there, a top blogger, has retired her Toronto Star blog.

  Nov 28 2006 at 9:17 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Old-school TV sponsorship coming back

  NBC's nightly news benefited from it, and now a new TV comedy is being phrased as "branded entertainment".

  Nov 28 2006 at 9:14 AM EST

  Topics: TV, Advertising

• Newspaper sites till behind the curve

  Steve Outing wonders wear the real video, blogs, classifieds, and interactivity is.

  Nov 27 2006 at 10:05 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Do fix the small stuff

  Applying the broken windows theory to the Web can make a big difference.

  Nov 27 2006 at 9:47 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Web Technology

• Comment hosts not libel?

  In California, a judge rules that compensation for libelous comments can't be taken from the Web site hosting them.

  Nov 27 2006 at 9:46 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism

• Toronto's Indoor Playground

  A place for "for new start-ups and independent innovators who are looking for a professional yet affordable way to scale their business."

  Nov 27 2006 at 8:51 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Technology

• Setting up MySQL on a Mac

  Helpful walk through for what really is a simple process

  Nov 25 2006 at 9:49 PM EST

  Topics: Computers, Web Technology

• Blogger acquitted

  New Brunswicker blogger/journalist was wrongly arrested for obstructing justice.

  Nov 25 2006 at 12:55 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• License the 2007 Microsoft Office UI

  For free, unless you're OpenOffice.

  Nov 22 2006 at 8:55 AM EST

  Topics: Usability, Computers

• AjaxCore

  A PHP framework that uses Prototype to aid in Ajax development.

  Nov 21 2006 at 8:41 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology

• Win a ticket to Web Directions North

  Digital Web Magazine is giving way a free pass to the conference to the creator of the best snowboard design.

  Nov 20 2006 at 8:58 PM EST

  Topic:

• Ontario magazines get digital tax credit

  The Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit is available to companies to develop digital extensions of the print versions.

  Nov 16 2006 at 9:11 AM EST

  Topics: Magazine, Ontario

• Improving Firebug

  Version 1.0 looks to combine all my most-used extensions into one unbeatable debugging tool.

  Nov 16 2006 at 8:35 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• How media can change the content

  Or sometimes not. Kottke looks at how podcasts still feel like radio talk shows.

  Nov 14 2006 at 10:06 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Radio

• The Toronto Typographic Charter

  Joe Clark proposes a coherent use of typography for the City of Toronto

  Nov 14 2006 at 10:04 AM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Java is free

  The first steps are being taken to make the programming language open-source.

  Nov 13 2006 at 8:11 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• With ubiquity comes limitations

  Aza Raskin argues the Web 2.0 toolkits may actually be hindering interesting developments online.

  Nov 10 2006 at 9:41 AM EST

  Topics: Usability, JavaScript

• Teehan+Lax UX Fund

  Can an investment portfolio focused on companies with good user-experience beat the indexes?

  Nov 10 2006 at 8:37 AM EST

  Topic: Usability

• Test your mobile-ility

  Test your Web site to see how mobile friend it might be (and love the irony of the TLD used)

  Nov 9 2006 at 5:03 PM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Re-skinning CBC.ca

  Blake Crosby shows, on a CBC blog how to subvert the site's business model

  Nov 9 2006 at 1:02 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, CSS

• Comment on any text block

  Jack Slocum has developed a very clever means to comment on any block of text on a page

  Nov 7 2006 at 6:09 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• IE7 and accessibility

  IEBlog explains how the new browser and the popular screen readers behave together.

  Nov 7 2006 at 5:53 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Accessibility

• Web design is 95% typography -- the follow-up

  A follow-up to the responses generated by the first article.

  Nov 7 2006 at 9:24 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Web design is 95% typography

  Excellent comment on the importance of type in Web design

  Nov 7 2006 at 9:21 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006

  Technorati tracking 57 million blogs, with 100,000 being added each day

  Nov 7 2006 at 12:17 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Google ads on newsprint

  Google experimenting with putting its ads in the U.S.'s top newspapers

  Nov 6 2006 at 8:55 AM EST

  Topics: Advertising, Newspapers

• Print skills translate online

  Poynter released a study that confirms a good journalist is a a good journalist, no matter the medium

  Nov 6 2006 at 8:52 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• Hottest Canadian bands for 2006

  As voted on by a about dozens of Canadian music writers, bloggers and radio hosts.

  Nov 4 2006 at 10:50 PM EST

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Page-caching in Firefox

  Some features appeared in Firefox 1.5 to help improve caching and load times.

  Nov 4 2006 at 10:18 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, JavaScript

• Wishlist for improvements to the next Internet Explorer

  Web standards types are collecting a list of features/fixes for the Internet Explorer team in hopes they might appear in IE.next

  Nov 4 2006 at 10:16 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• Parakey: Blake Ross and Joel Hewitt's next big thing?

  The curtains has been lifted on a Web operating system build by Firefox's key drivers

  Nov 3 2006 at 8:56 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Browsers

• IE7 now a Windows Update

  Browser now an automatic update for Windows users (let's hope they accept it)

  Nov 2 2006 at 12:00 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Computers

• Blogger and journalist?

  Charged with obstructing justice, Charles LeBlanc claims he covering the event like a journalist for his blog.

  Nov 2 2006 at 11:56 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• 100 million Web sites

  Roughly speaking, that's a 100-fold increase in less than a decade.

  Nov 1 2006 at 6:52 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Trying out "Office 2.0"

  Carson Systems experiments with non-Microsoft office products and reports on the results

  Nov 1 2006 at 6:12 PM EST

  Topics: Computers, Web Technology

• The Django Book

  An ambitious plan to document the open-source Web framework online

  Nov 1 2006 at 3:42 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Videotron wants to end net neutrality

  The Quebecor-owned cable company for transmission fees to cover digital shipping and handling

  Nov 1 2006 at 3:37 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Canada

• PressThink on Harper and the media

  A great essay and analysis of the prime minister's fight with the press gallery

  Nov 1 2006 at 1:02 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• Web attracting more newspaper readers

  Canadian newspaper circulation continues to drop while the Web sites visits increase

  Oct 31 2006 at 8:41 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Push 2.0

  How Web 2.0 is really all about push again, and why it may not be so bad

  Oct 31 2006 at 12:31 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Simply Google Map making

  Vitamin offers some instructions on (easily) making a searchable Google Map

  Oct 31 2006 at 12:31 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines

• The highest Scrabble score yet

  The story behind Massachusetts carpenter winning score of 830

  Oct 28 2006 at 1:06 PM EDT

  Topic: Culture

• Tim Berners-Lee wants to reinvent HTML

  The father of the Web responds to criticisms about the W3C and suggests how standards will evolve.

  Oct 28 2006 at 1:01 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Registration open for Web Directions North

  Sign-up up for the Vancouver-based conference and save $200.

  Oct 27 2006 at 10:01 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Free screen captures of Web pages

  Browsershots will take a image of a Web page in nine browser based on a number of different conditions

  Oct 27 2006 at 9:36 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Resources

• Apollo makes Web apps desktop apps

  Adobe's new Apollo software will allow the easy creation of rich Internet applications.

  Oct 27 2006 at 9:32 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Computers

• Bell Globemedia sells Workopolis

  Essentially, Bell Globemedia sells to its part-owner Canada's biggest job site (and cash cow) for $115 million

  Oct 26 2006 at 12:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Now's Best of Toronto: Technology

  BarCamp, BlogTO and Amber MacArthur amongst the picks.

  Oct 26 2006 at 12:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Web Technology

• P2P use declining in Canada

  According to a industry survey, 7% less Canadians have downloaded music over the past 4 years.

  Oct 26 2006 at 9:54 AM EDT

  Topics: Copyright, Canada

• Getting Real in 3 flavours

  PDF, and now HTML or paper

  Oct 26 2006 at 9:50 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Steven Johnson's outside.in

  The man behind feed (and a few excellent books) is back in the online content business with a new twist on geo-tagging

  Oct 25 2006 at 9:28 AM EDT

  Topics: Web, Culture

• Firefox 2 released

  But you knew that already -- so here's Mitchell Baker's thoughts on the release.

  Oct 25 2006 at 8:21 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Mesh conference will be back in 2007

  Canada's "Web conference" returns in Toronto on May 30 and 31, 2007

  Oct 24 2006 at 6:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Another option for the Gardiner

  Instead of burying Toronto's urban highway, why not embrace it?

  Oct 22 2006 at 11:28 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• PaidContent redesigns

  The online media news site gets a new, contemporary look.

  Oct 22 2006 at 10:49 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• What's really happening at Torstar

  The Globe and Mail exposes what was behind the dismissal of the Toronto Star's publisher and editor

  Oct 22 2006 at 10:47 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Toronto

• 40 years of Toronto Life

  Covers from the past issues of the magazine about Toronto.

  Oct 22 2006 at 10:45 AM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Toronto

• Scouring MySpace

  Wired News reporter, Kevin Poulson, has open-sourced his scripts to crawl MySpace looking for sex predators.

  Oct 22 2006 at 10:21 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Firefox 2 due Oct. 24

  Release would make two notable browser releases in a month.

  Oct 22 2006 at 9:31 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• New badge for Scouts: Copyright

  Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area can now earn a badge for preaching the evils of downloading.

  Oct 22 2006 at 9:26 AM EDT

  Topic: Copyright

• TV Guide to be online only

  Canada's TV Guide is closing its print edition to live exclusively online.

  Oct 19 2006 at 6:05 PM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism

• First IE7 security hole

  Less than 24 hours after release, Secunia finds a security breach.

  Oct 19 2006 at 12:36 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Security

• Earth will survive...

  ...If ever last one of us disappeared right now.

  Oct 18 2006 at 11:05 PM EDT

  Topic: World

• Eric Sorensen moves to Global

  The longtime CBC reporter is leaving to be Global's Washington bureau chief

  Oct 18 2006 at 10:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, TV

• Add Google Gadgets to any Web page

  This is could make things interesting.

  Oct 18 2006 at 9:49 PM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology

• Multiple, standalone Internet Explorers

  Install Internet Explorer 7 as your default browser, then use this package to run IE 3 - IE 6

  Oct 18 2006 at 9:34 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Internet Explorer 7 released

  Get the looooong awaited new browser Microsoft.

  Oct 18 2006 at 9:30 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Roll your own heatmaps

  A Ruby+JavaScript app that can generate heatmaps based on the users clicks

  Oct 17 2006 at 12:11 AM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Yahoo's seal of authenticity

  Yahoo offers a simple, yet clever way to identify a login screen as one of its own

  Oct 17 2006 at 12:06 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Security

• What's in JavaScript 1.7

  The Mozilla Developer Center documents the new version of JavaScript shipping in Firefox 2

  Oct 16 2006 at 11:31 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Someone never read Suck!

  Torontoist calls out The Globe and Mail for sneaking some non-WCAG friendly alt text into a photo gallery

  Oct 16 2006 at 4:46 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• Robertson's copyright claims upheld

  The Supreme Court of Canada upheld Heather Robertson's claim The Globe and Mail wrongfully sold her writings to elecrtonic databases.

  Oct 13 2006 at 2:03 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• How CBC.ca makes stories

  Blake Crosby explains how articles are served on the CBC Web site

  Oct 13 2006 at 1:53 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism

• State of the news industry from a buyer's view

  Richard Bloom talks to an ad buyer for a unique, and insightful take on the Canadian news industry.

  Oct 13 2006 at 1:51 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• Museum blog killed by marketing

  The ROM's nascent blog was dead on arrival because, rumour has it, the marketing department didn't get it.

  Oct 10 2006 at 10:51 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Ontario

• Interview with Hakon Wium Lie

  Opera's CTO offers some insight into the future of the number three browser.

  Oct 10 2006 at 8:43 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Tim Hortons meets Google Maps

  Need a Tims? Don't know where one is? Use this. (Works for Starbuck, too.)

  Oct 7 2006 at 10:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada,

• Internet Explorer 7 will be here by November

  Microsoft says it will be released in October with autoupdates being pushed out weeks later.

  Oct 7 2006 at 10:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• ONA Award winners for 2006

  PaidContent reports on the winners of the online journalism awrds for this year.

  Oct 7 2006 at 9:57 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• State of Web development

  For 2006 and 2007, Ajax looks to be big.

  Oct 5 2006 at 10:41 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture

• GlobeSports.com launches

  Had a bit of a hand in this site -- which holds a lot of promise.

  Oct 4 2006 at 1:12 AM EDT

  Topics: Work, Online Journalism

• TTC shirts you could wear

  Torontoist's Marc Lostracco quickly designed brilliant some T-shirts inspired by Toronto's transit service.

  Oct 3 2006 at 10:11 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Equal height columns in CSS

  Clever CSS-based hack to get euqal columns, not sure how extensible it is, but still...

  Oct 2 2006 at 9:32 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Design

• Yahoo can authenticate your users

  Yahoo is now allowing other sites to use its user IDs for browser-based authentication.

  Oct 2 2006 at 9:31 AM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology

• Detecting JavaScript leaks

  Designed for Firefox interface developers, Leak Monitor also finds things leaks on the Web.

  Oct 2 2006 at 9:30 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Shuttle, space station eclipsing the sun

  A spectacular photo taken on September 17.

  Oct 1 2006 at 3:03 PM EDT

  Topic:

• Google's big bug

  Looks like a tiny bug got caught in the scanning process used form Google Maps.

  Oct 1 2006 at 3:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Culture

• No more Sunshine girl?

  Looks like the Toronto Sun wants to drop the bikini-clad institution

  Sep 26 2006 at 8:56 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Toronto

• Web Directions North

  The famed Web conference is coming to Vancouver in February 2007.

  Sep 25 2006 at 4:48 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Simon Willison's re-introduction to JavaScript

  Great review of the basics offered one a-ha moment: objects and associative arrays are the same thing.

  Sep 24 2006 at 6:01 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Znaimer may get his Way

  Toronto is considering naming the strip of Queen West that runs past CITY-TV, between John and Duncan Streets, Moses Znaimer Way.

  Sep 22 2006 at 9:51 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, TV

• Shafer loves the Times Reader

  And I admit, it does sound quite enticing. Still not sure it can't be done with some effort on the Web, tho.

  Sep 20 2006 at 8:40 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Windows Vista UX Guide

  The user experience guidelines for Microsoft's new operating system will help shape many people's interface expecations.

  Sep 20 2006 at 8:05 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Computers

• Take an RSS usage survey

  Microsoft is doing an quick snapshot of how people use RSS and will be releasing the results to the public on October 20, 2006.

  Sep 20 2006 at 7:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Web, Technology

• Spacing's Toronto election Blog

  Covering the public spacing issues during the run-up to the November 13 election.

  Sep 20 2006 at 9:11 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Final Fantasy takes the first Polaris prize

  Best pick overall (and no doubt, the best one politically) from a very loaded field.

  Sep 19 2006 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Understanding Objects in JavaScript

  After all these years, I finally get it.

  Sep 19 2006 at 9:41 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• How to design an online product

  In this case, Google Calendar, but the steps showed be followed by any online initiative.

  Sep 18 2006 at 10:50 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Design

• Why monospace is small

  Mr. Hyatt tries to explain why monospaced fonts can look smaller than proportional fonts.

  Sep 18 2006 at 10:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Browsers

• globeandmail.com design tweak

  Geoff Teehan adjusts the design of globeandmail.com to improve the homepage design.

  Sep 15 2006 at 12:35 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Work

• Transparent alert messages

  A proposal for making alert messages more usable.

  Sep 14 2006 at 10:06 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• CSS filter for IE7

  The short: ":first-child+html" will only target Internet Explorer 7.

  Sep 14 2006 at 10:05 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Standalone IE7 RC1

  Once again, it's possible to launch a standalone version of Internet Explorer 7

  Sep 14 2006 at 10:03 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Toronto Hydro's WiFi now live

  Coverage (in the downtown core) is free for the first 6 months, about C$30/month afterwards.

  Sep 7 2006 at 12:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Web Technology

• What newspapers really need to do online

  Adrian Holovaty offers a large manifesto to which I can only reply: ditto.

  Sep 6 2006 at 12:48 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Pageviews are Obsolete

  The pageview metric is constant issue as we try to develop smarter Web sites that don't rely on fully reloading pages.

  Sep 1 2006 at 3:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Technology

• Survey of Internet use by U.S. newspaper

  Lots of data on what newspapers are doing online, with some interesting recommendations

  Sep 1 2006 at 11:28 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Sawatsky's interview tips

  37 Signals summarizes some of John Sawatsky's famous interview advice.

  Sep 1 2006 at 9:56 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Fine Young Journalist signs-off

  Nothing left to say for the blog tracking how media is trying to attract a younger audience.

  Aug 30 2006 at 9:13 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Finalists for 2006 Online Journalism Awards

  No Canadian outlets make the cut.

  Aug 30 2006 at 9:07 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Hoping for new Web core fonts

  Jeff Crofts is aksing Apple and Windows to make the new Vista typefaces available on other platforms, too.

  Aug 30 2006 at 9:02 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Computers

• Toronto Star offers downloadable afternoon edition

  Modeled on The Guardian's offering, this is a very smart initiative.

  Aug 29 2006 at 1:51 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Edit this (Wired) story

  Wired News has done a story on wikis, in a wiki, and is inviting users to improve it.

  Aug 29 2006 at 9:14 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Tips for improving JavaScript

  Sure it's for targetted for Internet Explorer 7, but the advice is worth listening to no matter the browser.

  Aug 29 2006 at 8:53 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• More media, less news

  Newspapers now get the Internet (and the dollars from it), but they still may not be doing enough.

  Aug 28 2006 at 8:39 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• The killing of newspapers

  The Economist wonders who killed newspapers and offers some analyis on the various suspects.

  Aug 28 2006 at 8:29 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Journalism

• Defining the media shift

  Mark Glaser breaks down "oldthink" and "newthink" in the media, and — despite the Orwellian-like terms -- offers some good insight

  Aug 23 2006 at 2:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• CSS changes in IE7

  Comprehensive change-log of all the CSS fixes to be found in Internet Explorer 7.

  Aug 22 2006 at 4:01 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Bringing CANVAS to IE

  Some JavaScript libraries that bring the improved vector graphic functionality (already in Firefox and Safari) to Internet Explorer

  Aug 21 2006 at 9:19 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Canadians get news online

  Of the 61 percent of Canadian households online, most are using it everyday to get their news.

  Aug 15 2006 at 12:48 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• CBC lock-out spark for blogs

  Blogs about the Mother Corp. were almost non-existence until management locked CBC employees out.

  Aug 15 2006 at 12:44 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Radio

• Flash at 10

  I still remember encountering the first pages using FutureSplash...

  Aug 9 2006 at 9:54 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Technology

• Documenting Firebug

  Everything you need to know to use JavaScript debugger.

  May 31 2006 at 7:56 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Microsummaries

  Firefox 2 will embed updated information into a site bookmark.

  May 13 2006 at 9:58 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Pricing a Web project

  It's a question everyone has asks, and Blue Flavour provides some good answers.

  Apr 26 2006 at 12:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Web Design

• Yet another Web colour tool

  Colors on the Web looks to be much friendlier than most.

  Apr 26 2006 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• 2006 EPpy Awards finalists

  Adrian Holovaty's work at the washingtonpost.com helps it score multiple nominations.

  Apr 25 2006 at 10:44 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Thank you for everything, Jane Jacobs

  The woman who defined modern urban planning died today.

  Apr 25 2006 at 5:28 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 out

  This is the official, not preview, of Beta 2.

  Apr 25 2006 at 3:04 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Preparing for higher resolutions

  Dave Hyatt proposes a new way for Web sites to support both high- and low-resolution displays.

  Apr 23 2006 at 10:53 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Seasme Street clips

  A massive collection of the clips from Seasme Street video clips for perfect to sink into a retro coma with.

  Apr 21 2006 at 12:24 AM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Is top-posting, shudder, the future?

  Reading the comments on a post about fighting top-posting seems to suggest that's become the de facto standard.

  Apr 20 2006 at 9:45 AM EDT

  Topic: Spam/Virus

• Mike D hacks MySpace

  Mr. Whitespace discovers how to make the social networking site more aesthetically pleasing.

  Apr 18 2006 at 8:56 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• Scrivs on MySpace

  Mr. Whitespace looks at what makes the social networking site so successful.

  Apr 18 2006 at 8:53 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• A DVDzine by the kids of Uxbridge

  From the snippet I saw (which was used to show how Cokie copied it), it looks pretty good.

  Apr 18 2006 at 8:53 AM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Accessible maps

  A nice demonstration on how a accessible, and standards-based map can be built.

  Apr 18 2006 at 8:41 AM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards

• Invalid Canadian New Media Awards

  Joe Clark rages against the lackluster technical quality of a Canada's wannabe Webby∍s.

  Apr 17 2006 at 6:36 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Canada

• Holographic disc drives

  Very, very cool.

  Apr 17 2006 at 6:15 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Bite Size Standards

  Quick, standards-based Web development tips.

  Apr 15 2006 at 8:56 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Standards

• CRTC clears wireless TV

  Television on your cellphone will be a wild realm where the CRTC will not tread.

  Apr 13 2006 at 8:24 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Phone/VoIP

• Inside the NYTimes.com redesign

  The Online Journalism Review does a Q&A with Len Apcar, the editor in chief of NYTimes.com.

  Apr 11 2006 at 4:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Slashdot analyzes Google's DNA

  An insightful discussion about an interesting article on how Google corporate operates.

  Apr 11 2006 at 4:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Culture

• Time's up for Time Canada

  The Canadian edition of Time will be produced without any staff working in Canada.

  Apr 10 2006 at 7:40 PM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Canada

• Envision Torono

  An art project that ties Flickr, Google Maps and Toronto together.

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:35 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Toronto

• Antique anatomical illustrations

  Anatimoia hosts 4,500 full page plates and illustrations created from 1522 to 1867.

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:32 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Syndicating blogs

  BlogBurst will begin syndicating commentary from 600 bloggers to newspapers.

  Apr 10 2006 at 1:35 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Newspapers

• If newspapers are to survive...

  The Globe and Mail calls it reimagination, Tim Porter calls it reinvention.

  Apr 10 2006 at 1:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers,

• Prototyping Ajax

  A guide to how Particletree develops Ajax apps.

  Apr 10 2006 at 1:17 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML

• Disney offering TV free on Web

  The shows will be available on the Web the morning after they air and will have unskipable commericals. Could work.

  Apr 10 2006 at 9:45 AM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Google killed the clever news headline

  Headline style has been slowly altered by the search agents scouring the digital world.

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Writing

• The New York Times and blogging

  The newspapers public editor comments on the ethics around blogging.

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:30 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism,

• W3C doing XMLHttpRequest

  A draft specification from the W3C for the technology that makes Ajax work

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:04 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards

• Toronto Life goes standard

  Nice design, and as valid as valid can be for a commercial site.

  Apr 6 2006 at 12:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Magazine

• Jack Shafer on NYTimes.com

  It's so good, he's cancelling his print subscription.

  Apr 5 2006 at 9:07 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• CSS support in email

  GMail is the worst, and HotMail wants the style to be in the body.

  Apr 4 2006 at 11:08 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Email

• Really desiging for the printed Web page

  Mark Boulton demonstrates how a print-friendly style sheet can be more than just an afterthought.

  Apr 3 2006 at 11:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, CSS

• The State of Web 2.0

  A detailed overview of where Web 2.0 is at, and where it's heading.

  Apr 3 2006 at 11:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology

• CSS Naked Day is coming

  On April 5th, see the beauty beneath the skin.

  Apr 3 2006 at 7:16 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, CSS

• Conservatives won't decriminalize marijuana

  Reason #451 to dislike the Harper government.

  Apr 3 2006 at 5:21 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• NYTimes.com redesigns

  Although a bit boxy, the design is - on the whole - a brilliant example of how an online newspaper should look.

  Apr 3 2006 at 1:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• 30 years of Apple

  Wired has a gallery of Apple’s products over the past three decades.

  Mar 30 2006 at 11:41 AM EST

  Topic: Computers

• From DHTML to DOM scripting

  Christian Heilmann writes a treatise on why DHTML is not DOM scripting

  Mar 29 2006 at 2:19 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Firebug 0.3 is brilliant

  This release officially replaces my belvoed DOM Inspector as the best Web development tool ever.

  Mar 29 2006 at 12:17 PM EST

  Topics: Web Resources, Browsers

• On Morrissey’s boycott of Canada

  The beautiful irony of comment from a globeandmail.com reader comment sums it all up.

  Mar 28 2006 at 3:44 PM EST

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Face(bubble)book’s $2 billion (bubble) dream.

  After looking a gift horse in mouth someone’s going to end up looking like a mule.

  Mar 28 2006 at 1:55 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• CNN.com’s new homepage

  It’s wide and fairly minimal.

  Mar 28 2006 at 1:47 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Municipal election campaigns 2.0

  Social Tech Brewing hosts a conference on how to get the next Toronto election more Web-friendly.

  Mar 28 2006 at 9:36 AM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Culture

• Alan Rusbridger on newspapers and blogs

  The editor of The Guardian opines on what the newspapers need to do to survive.

  Mar 28 2006 at 9:24 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Harper limiting reporter access

  Bill Doskoch summarizes some of the drastic changes the new Prime Minister wants to enforce on the press gallery.

  Mar 28 2006 at 9:13 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• The truth behind retouching

  Online demo of how retouching makes the real hyperreal.

  Mar 28 2006 at 9:12 AM EST

  Topic: Magazine

• Clark on mesh and Web developement in Toronto

  I'm friends with Joe and some of the Mesh organizers, but his attacks on the industry in Toronto ring true.

  Mar 28 2006 at 8:47 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Toronto

• Hogtown vs. Cowtown

  A Torontonian takes a wander through Calgary; while a Calgarian does the same in Toronto.

  Mar 25 2006 at 7:03 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Canada

• Louie Palu in Afghanistan

  Palu, an award-winning photographer with The Globe and Mail, documented his time with Canadian military there.

  Mar 25 2006 at 6:59 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• “Bugzilla” for Internet Explorer

  Internet Explorer Feedback is a bug database for the browser that Redmond built. Good on them for doing this.

  Mar 24 2006 at 1:53 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Tim Hortons one of Canada’s biggest IPOs

  The donut and coffee chain jumps 40% in its market debut.

  Mar 24 2006 at 10:55 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Question the globeandmail.com editors

  The editors of globeandmail.com do a questions and answer session with the readers.

  Mar 24 2006 at 10:53 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• Mesh — Canada’s Web *.0 conference

  Organized by smart people, with presentations by even smarter ones, mesh looks to be a very good conference.

  Mar 23 2006 at 11:12 AM EST

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Cascading Style Shirts

  Ringer T-shirts created in Canada with Web standard messages.

  Mar 23 2006 at 8:29 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Toronto Star starts tagging

  The online news site dips its toes in the tagging waters by letting users post a story to del.icio.us.

  Mar 22 2006 at 10:43 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• 1,000 little icons

  Silk Icons offer 1,000 nice icons convering nearly every conceivable need.

  Mar 22 2006 at 10:17 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Thunderbird gets a calendar (almost)

  Lightning 0.1 is the first release of the calendar for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

  Mar 22 2006 at 10:16 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 released

  This developer release showcases the first tentative steps Firefox is taking as it hits 2.0.

  Mar 22 2006 at 10:15 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Internet Explorer 7: MIX06 Build

  The IEBlog explains what you need to do to get this rendering-engine complete version installed.

  Mar 22 2006 at 9:37 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Prime Minister Ashley MacIsaac?

  Well, fiddle me timbers, the Cape Breton fiddler insists he’s making a genuine run for the Liberal leadership.

  Mar 21 2006 at 1:56 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Music

• Google Finance’s stock quote page

  Take this page on IBM. Play with it for about thirty seconds. Ask yourself: why would I go anywhere else?

  Mar 21 2006 at 11:07 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Google may map TTC

  Service would offer trip times and station locations for the Toronto transit service.

  Mar 21 2006 at 10:48 AM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Search Engines

• Shirkey on groups

  An older (2003) essay, but an excellent one examining group dynamics online.

  Mar 21 2006 at 9:11 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• CSS compressor

  CSS Tweak has a nice interface, but if you already use shorthand properties, the savings aren’t great.

  Mar 21 2006 at 9:07 AM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Resources

• My First Google Page

  The WYSIWYG Web page editor from Google isn’t that bad…

  Mar 20 2006 at 10:32 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Design

• BarCampTdot (a.k.a., TorCamp 2.0)

  The second TorCamp will be taking place May 13 or May 14, 2006. Sign-up now.

  Mar 20 2006 at 10:16 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Toronto

• Bubble 2.0

  A categorized list of some of the various Web 2.0 products out there.

  Mar 20 2006 at 1:36 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture

• Tom Waits’ only commerical

  For Purina, done in 1981.

  Mar 17 2006 at 10:01 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• State of the (American) news media for 2006

  Third annual report is an incredibly in-depth report on all the major jounalism media.

  Mar 17 2006 at 5:27 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• More about Internet Explorer 7

  The MIX06 release will be the full-fledged Beta 2 with the final version coming in November.

  Mar 17 2006 at 3:24 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Split Microsoft to save it

  John Battelle makes the case for an oft heard concept: spin-off Microsoft’s non-traditional assets.

  Mar 17 2006 at 3:20 PM EST

  Topics: Technology, Search Engines

• PHP reading list

  As complied by Big Blue.

  Mar 17 2006 at 11:07 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Resources

• CSS Development Shortcut

  Chris Casciano offers up an HTML document with all the elements ready for your CSS tests.

  Mar 16 2006 at 2:32 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Resources

• More on Toronto's wireless plans

  The downtown WiFi service will be aimed at business and will likely be available to anyone through a monthly subscription.

  Mar 13 2006 at 3:13 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Technology

• Current interface designs

  Designs include products from both Mircrosoft and Apple.

  Mar 13 2006 at 1:25 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Meet Media 2.0

  A interesting analysis of the community and media trend as it relates to Web 2.0.

  Mar 13 2006 at 11:10 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• Google Mars

  Google maps the Red Planet.

  Mar 13 2006 at 11:07 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Opera nightly passes Acid2 test

  A first for a Windows browsers, but the browser still does weird things.

  Mar 13 2006 at 11:05 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• The media feeds the dot-com community bubble

  Interesting piece using News Corp. and MySpace as a hook for a larger, emerging trend.

  Mar 13 2006 at 11:00 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Firefox making big money

  Looks like Mozilla Corp. (via Firefox) made tens of millions through its Google search.

  Mar 8 2006 at 2:43 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Search Engines

• Patrick Dinnen on making Toronto wireless

  The Wireless Toronto representative shares his feelings about Toronto Hydro’s WiFi plans.

  Mar 7 2006 at 6:49 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Web Technology

• Will the TTC resurrect Mondex?

  Toronto’s transit service proposes a new pass that could double as an e-cash-holding smart card.

  Mar 7 2006 at 6:41 PM EST

  Topics: Privacy, Toronto

• Khoi Vinh on Newsvine

  The review is generous yet conflicted, and it echoes my reactions to Newsvine, as well.

  Mar 7 2006 at 5:05 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Compatibility testing JavaScript libraries

  Cross-browser, cross-platform support is accepted in mark-up and styles. Now comes scripting.

  Mar 7 2006 at 5:03 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards

• Blogging at Canadian newspapers

  Mark Hamilton looks at the Canadian newspaper blogging effort and finds it lacking.

  Mar 7 2006 at 8:37 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Best U.S. newspapers that blogs

  The Houston Chronicle gets a lot of praise for its extensive blogging efforts.

  Mar 7 2006 at 8:30 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Spacing on Wireless Toronto

  In light of the news about Toronto Hydro’s plan to offer WiFi hotspots, Spacing recommends Wireless Toronto.

  Mar 6 2006 at 3:45 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Toronto

• Toronto made wireless

  Rumour has it, this fall Toronto Hydro will turn the city’s entire downtown core into a WiFi hotspot.

  Mar 6 2006 at 10:29 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Toronto

• Split the Queen line

  Spacing thinks breaking the Queen streetcar line into smaller bits would help improve service.

  Mar 6 2006 at 10:25 AM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Extend Firefox Winners

  Reveal, Web Developer and Firefox Showcase take top prizes.

  Mar 5 2006 at 12:47 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• DOM Helper

  A hand built editor and DOM explorer for Internet Explorer

  Mar 2 2006 at 6:40 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Maybe there is a bubble

  Bell Globemedia looking to do an IPO this fall.

  Mar 2 2006 at 2:31 PM EST

  Topic: Convergence

• One template, forty layouts

  Alessandro Fulciniti launches Layout Gala: 40 CSS-layouts in one template. Superb.

  Mar 1 2006 at 8:03 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Design

• One template, forty layouts

  Alessandro Fulciniti launches Layout Gala: 40 CSS-layouts in one template. Superb.

  Mar 1 2006 at 8:03 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Design

• The IE7 MIX 06 beta release

  A new beta of Internet Explroer 7 is apparently being released and MIX06, and possibly on MSDN later. It sounds very good.

  Mar 1 2006 at 2:23 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Microsoft updates for Eolas

  Internet Explorer gets an unwanted upgrade thanks to the Eolas patent.

  Feb 28 2006 at 11:04 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Patents

• Da Vinci’s autopsy

  Nicholas Campbell and Chris Haddock discuss the death of the Da Vinci franchise.

  Feb 28 2006 at 8:50 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• Pick your own TV channels

  The CRTC will allow Canadians to pick-and-choose they channels they want.

  Feb 28 2006 at 2:28 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• Wall Street Journal on The Globe and Mail

  According to The Wall Street Journal, The Globe is being saved by its crazy front pages.

  Feb 27 2006 at 10:10 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Should Canada be in Afghanistan?

  Globeandmail.com is hosting an online debate with its readers and MPs from three of the four parties (the gov't opted out).

  Feb 27 2006 at 8:50 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, World

• Alice is the brains behind CBC

  John Doyle savages the CBC’s recent decisions about TV drama.

  Feb 27 2006 at 9:25 AM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• How hard is the blogosphere of Leah McLaren?

  Bill Doskoch does some digging to see what turned Ms McLaren off blogs.

  Feb 26 2006 at 6:13 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Newspapers

• Joe Clark on TorCamp DesignSlam

  Joe sums up the events of the first of what I hope will be many DesignSlams.

  Feb 26 2006 at 6:03 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• The Times breaks the Social Scene

  The New York Times profiles Toronto’s band of bands.

  Feb 24 2006 at 10:23 AM EST

  Topics: Music, Toronto

• All rich-media patented

  U.S. Patent No. 7,000,180 covers all rich-media technologies accessed over the Net. This includes Flash, Java, and Ajax.

  Feb 24 2006 at 9:42 AM EST

  Topic: Web Patents

• Dow Jones merging print and online

  The publisher of The Wall Street Journal will merge its print and online operations. Now it’s a real trend.

  Feb 23 2006 at 12:31 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• MS Paint + too much time

  Freakin’ impressive hand-drawn MS Paint image.

  Feb 21 2006 at 1:24 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Newspaper grasp for the young

  Salon examines the newspaper industry∍s reach the youth demographic.

  Feb 19 2006 at 6:49 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Is CBC stupid!?

  Canada’s public broadcaster has cancelled the only two dramas I watch anymore: This is Wonderland and Da Vinci’s City Hall.

  Feb 16 2006 at 1:09 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• 2006 Juno nominees

  Arcade Fire’s 2004 album is nominated, but only for a video and songwriting. Other nods are more comfortably mainstream.

  Feb 16 2006 at 9:33 AM EST

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Google buys Measure Map

  The less famous Adaptive Path spin-off (the most famous being the term “Ajax”) is now a Google product.

  Feb 15 2006 at 8:40 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• The Firefox memory leak

  Apparently its a feature, although the memory doesn’t seem to be freed once tabs are closed.

  Feb 14 2006 at 2:54 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Camino 1.0 released

  The pre-cursor to Firefox has finally hit 1.0.

  Feb 14 2006 at 1:22 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Journalism technological evolutions

  Jack Shafer comments on how technology has always forced the newspaper industry to evolve, often unwillingly.

  Feb 14 2006 at 12:03 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Reimagining the news

  Jeff Jarvis’s series on how to reshape the newspaper.

  Feb 14 2006 at 11:58 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• The real news algorithm

  Cost vs. price is the real reason behind the media’s decisions when it comes to its products. The Web is no different.

  Feb 14 2006 at 11:57 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Including SVG inline

  Steven Garrity explains how to best include Scalable Vector Graphics in a Web page.

  Feb 14 2006 at 11:51 AM EST

  Topic: HTML

• Extend Firefox Contest Finalists

  The best extentions for Firefox 1.5. The two I can’t live without are Sage and Web Developer.

  Feb 14 2006 at 10:10 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Running a standalone IE7 Beta 2 Preview

  Involves making a small batch file, but it seems to make running the new Internet Explorer fine.

  Feb 14 2006 at 9:51 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Yahoo! User Interface Library

  Nice collection of dynamic events. Perhaps to become the de facto library?

  Feb 14 2006 at 9:17 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Yahoo grades browser support

  I like the model of C-, A, and X-support. Been using it for years, but this explains it all.

  Feb 14 2006 at 9:15 AM EST

• Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

  Nice patterns established by Yahoo!

  Feb 14 2006 at 9:14 AM EST

  Topic: Web Patterns

• Video: “Queen Street Man”

  It’s funny #8217;cause it’s true; still no “Spadina Bus”

  Feb 9 2006 at 1:29 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Flash Journalism

  Behind the loud intro is a wealth of resources for creating multimedia journalism online.

  Feb 8 2006 at 9:02 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism Resources

• Q&A on the globeandmail.com’s redesign

  Angus Frame, the editor of globeandmail.com, and designer Adrian Norris are taking questions about the new design at 1 p.m. EST, Feb. 7, 2006.

  Feb 7 2006 at 9:02 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Work

• The Holy Grail of CSS layout

  This is a pretty clever solution to the three-column + footer layout test.

  Feb 6 2006 at 10:04 PM EST

  Topic: CSS

• CSS support in IE7

  Like the title of the page says, it’s Microsofts record of Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7.

  Feb 6 2006 at 9:54 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• css-discuss documents IE7

  The css-discuss community was set-up a Wiki page to dissect Internet Explorer 7.

  Feb 6 2006 at 9:52 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Commenting on the globeandmail.com redesign

  Globeandmail.com opens up its popular ocmments feature to let people sound-off on the redesign — so far more than 300 have.

  Feb 5 2006 at 2:16 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Work

• Mr. Greenspon on redesigning globeandmail.com

  The Editor-in-chief of the newspaper introduces the new Web site.

  Feb 4 2006 at 8:46 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is out

  Okay, what do we think?

  Jan 31 2006 at 3:51 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• He’s not Dave Shea

  Ironically, when the CSS Zen Garden launched I (and Doug Bowman, I think) misspelled Shea’s name.

  Jan 28 2006 at 5:48 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Culture

• fifth estate online

  Watch some of the best documentaries, for free, on the CBC’s fifth estate site

  Jan 27 2006 at 9:39 AM EST

  Topic: TV

• What we use in our Web pages

  Google has analyzed the HTML used to build the Web pages of the world, and the results are quite interesting.

  Jan 25 2006 at 11:19 PM EST

  Topic: HTML

• Google News recommends

  Now out of an ridiculously long beta, Google News is now offering recommended news stories.

  Jan 24 2006 at 3:17 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Online Journalism

• IE 7 Beta 2 leaked to Web

  The latest beta of Internet Explorer (supposedly the one with the fixes) is now in the wild. Officially relase to come?

  Jan 24 2006 at 3:13 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Paul Martin resigning as Liberal leader

  Let the horse race begin. Will it be Ignatieff, Stronach, a Chrétien-ite?

  Jan 24 2006 at 12:14 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• NDP make big gains

  Looks like the NDP did as good as they were hoping this time, and their members will help keep the Conservatives in check.

  Jan 23 2006 at 11:57 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• CBC: Conservative minority

  Damn, damn, double damn.

  Jan 23 2006 at 10:08 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Election 2006 Mashup

  Wiki, meets Google Map, meets poll of the Canadian election.

  Jan 23 2006 at 8:22 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Results by riding

  Track the country, a province, or region by riding during the 2006 Canadian election.

  Jan 23 2006 at 8:05 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Track your riding

  Follow your riding in the 2006 Canadian election.

  Jan 23 2006 at 7:56 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Canadians vote today

  And if you need some help picking the best party (ahem, not Conservative) use this tool and discover which party platforms you agree with.

  Jan 23 2006 at 1:06 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Firefox Extension: FireBug

  FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax.

  Jan 19 2006 at 6:52 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, JavaScript

• Firefox 2.0 Roadmap

  Ben Goodger outlines the plans for 2.0, which involve only user-interface enhancements.

  Jan 19 2006 at 9:43 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• The first failed redesign of 2006?

  The Canadian New Media Awards site fails to meet any of Joe Clark’s criteria.

  Jan 19 2006 at 9:18 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Enlarging images on the page

  Very simple little JavaScript that does exactly whatever I never had the time to build.

  Jan 18 2006 at 3:43 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Safari gets a DOM Inspector

  Now if only Opera would follow suit…

  Jan 18 2006 at 3:31 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, HTML

• Getting abbreviations right

  Years ago I dipped my toes in these waters. Colin Lieberman goes deep.

  Jan 18 2006 at 9:58 AM EST

  Topics: HTML, Accessibility

• An expert-based Wikipedia

  The Digital Universe feels, in everything, almost a decade late.

  Jan 18 2006 at 9:43 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Peter C. Newman on the Canadian election campaign

  His typically colourful analysis argues that our democracy is teetering on the brink.

  Jan 13 2006 at 10:58 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• JavaScript debugger for Internet Explorer

  I am really, really hating IE right now, but this debugger may improve my temperament slightly.

  Jan 13 2006 at 9:50 AM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• iWeb makes bad Web code

  HTML and CSS output look to be almost as bad as the stuff produced by FrontPage.

  Jan 13 2006 at 9:40 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Behind the myth of newspapers

  Michael Kinsley examines newspapers and muses on their future in this excellently written commentary.

  Jan 9 2006 at 9:15 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• CBC News to be hip

  A logo change and some feature changes are in store Monday on Canada’s public broadcaster to make it more “cool”.

  Jan 6 2006 at 9:56 AM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• Eight-year-old reporters?

  I know its a PR stunt, but c’mon…

  Jan 4 2006 at 8:38 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• Irving Layton dead at 93

  One of Canada’s greatest 20th century poets has died.

  Jan 4 2006 at 6:31 PM EST

  Topics: Books, Canada

• Online news demographic not the newspaper’s

  Some stats to back-up a lot of anecdotal evidence. Those under 40 read online news, not newspapers.

  Dec 30 2005 at 11:43 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Canvas in IE

  Emulating canvas in Internet Explorer.

  Dec 30 2005 at 11:29 AM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML

• Ajax link tracker

  This is a very elegant way to do this, a much cheaper than some offerings.

  Dec 30 2005 at 9:42 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Khoi Vinh becoming Design Director for NYTimes.com

  His minimal, grid-heavy look could slowly bring some needed improvements to the Grey [sic] Lady’s site.

  Dec 29 2005 at 12:31 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Greg Linden’ 2006 predictions

  Mainly search related, but still relevant to the general online world.

  Dec 29 2005 at 12:30 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Search Engines

• The future of new is people

  Hypergene MediaBlog disects tthe latest Niewman Report on citizen journalism.

  Dec 29 2005 at 12:01 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• How to reimagine a newspaper

  Although The Globe and Mail got some ribbing about it, this is exactly its doing.

  Dec 29 2005 at 11:59 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Outings’s resolutions for newspapers online

  Most Canadian ones are doing one or two, but none are doing all nine, yet.

  Dec 29 2005 at 11:56 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• E-paper a reality in 2006

  I saw a demo of iRex Technologies’ reader (which uses e-Ink) and it is impressive. The business model, though, sucks.

  Dec 29 2005 at 11:54 AM EST

  Topic: Technology

• CSS bar graphs

  Eric Meyer shows another way to create semantic bar graphs.

  Dec 29 2005 at 11:10 AM EST

  Topic: CSS

• Ingram’s Web 2.0 report card

  Overall it gets a C, with eBay seen struggling.

  Dec 28 2005 at 10:33 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Firefox for music

  Rob Lord planning potential iTunes-killer to be based on Mozilla

  Dec 22 2005 at 10:08 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• Media levy to stay

  The tax on recordable compact discs and other recordable media will stay until 2006 at least.

  Dec 22 2005 at 10:02 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Music

• RSS icon

  Now that Microsoft has adopted the Mozilla RSS icon, Matt Brett has created a graphic template of it for everyone to use.

  Dec 22 2005 at 8:06 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Yahoo! JavaScript Developer Center

  Great collection of articles, resources, and tutorials on Yahoo’s products and on JavaScript itself.

  Dec 22 2005 at 7:58 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Resources

• Designing outside the grid

  Molly encourages designers to go beyond the table-inspired grid.

  Dec 22 2005 at 9:53 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, CSS

• CanvasGraph.js

  Another nice demo what can be done with the canvas element.

  Dec 21 2005 at 9:06 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• thestar.com does GoogleMaps

  Not quite ChicagoCrime, but this map of toronto homicides is a start.

  Dec 15 2005 at 10:11 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• thestar.com removes registration

  Though I have no love for registration, I can’t see any business reason for doing this other than regrouping after some negative results.

  Dec 15 2005 at 10:09 AM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• thestar.com: webmaking

  The Toronto Star has launched a ne wblog to speak to its reader about its Web site. Very smart.

  Dec 15 2005 at 9:58 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Toronto gets some real power

  The Ontario government finally allows T-dot to make its own decisions.

  Dec 14 2005 at 12:37 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Calling all Canadian Web workers

  Kim Seiver and Jay Gilmore have sparked a passionate discussion about creating a Canadian-based Web design conference.

  Dec 13 2005 at 10:44 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Canada

• Newspapers are mainframes

  Interesting comparison of the newspaper business to what has happened to the computer since the mainframe.

  Dec 13 2005 at 10:25 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Improving the blog interface

  Luke Wroblewski and Jed Wood come up with intelligent ways to improve the findability of content in blogs.

  Dec 13 2005 at 9:31 AM EST

  Topics: Usability, Web Design

• The ultimate Web 2.0 offering

  WebTwenny will revolutionize user-focused experiences.

  Dec 13 2005 at 9:19 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• What CSS browsers support

  Covering IE 6, Firefox 1 and 1.5, and Opera 8.5

  Dec 12 2005 at 1:26 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• The Anatomy of Web Fonts

  An comprehensive guide to what makes some fonts better online.

  Dec 12 2005 at 1:24 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• The Elements of Web Typography

  Richard Rutter unveils a beautiful resource about displaying words and letters online.

  Dec 8 2005 at 4:48 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• Pulitzer will accept online journalism

  Online journalism will not compete on par with printed newspapers articles for the first time.

  Dec 7 2005 at 12:55 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Journalism ethics around the globe

  The University of British Columbia’s journalism school launches an ethics watchdog Web site.

  Dec 7 2005 at 9:43 AM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• Podcast is the word of the year

  No surprise as almost anyone whose anyone is doing it. Bird flu, lifehack, and sudoku were among the runners up.

  Dec 7 2005 at 9:34 AM EST

  Topic: Language

• E-rights make it to the Supreme Court

  Freelance writer Heather Robertson’s case against The Globe and Mail over electronic rights, finally makes it to the Supreme Court.

  Dec 7 2005 at 9:28 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• Ajax mistakes

  Mistakes in code and design the one can make while building Ajax-based apps.

  Dec 6 2005 at 9:19 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Mobile Web development in Japan

  Andreas Bovens argues for Web standards on mobile sites.

  Dec 5 2005 at 2:59 PM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Community authorship still has hope

  The Wikiepedia is under attack; Web 2.0 is under a backlash, but masionneuve argues there is still hope.

  Dec 5 2005 at 2:09 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism

• Mary Meeker on global tech and Net trends

  Lots of data crunched into some nice slides. Worth browsing.

  Dec 4 2005 at 12:38 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Eolas patent forces Internet Explorer changes

  Microsoft will be changing the way its browser handles embedded multimedia within a few months.

  Dec 4 2005 at 12:22 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Patents

• Where to use DOM scripting

  THough Alex Bosworth says Ajax, and means DOM scripts, his advice is solid.

  Dec 4 2005 at 12:19 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Do you prefer Internet Explorer or Firefox?

  Rocketboom asks New Yorkers which they prefer — its charming and quirky.

  Dec 3 2005 at 7:26 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• iPod Zepto

  Capable of holding 12 million songs and only one-tenth the size of the head of a needle, the iPod Zepto is a revolution in sound.

  Dec 3 2005 at 1:46 PM EST

  Topics: Technology, Music

• WebDrive

  WebDrive claims its an FTP client that acts like a virtual drive. Nice.

  Dec 2 2005 at 5:28 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Ingram on the Bell Globemedia deal

  Mathew Ingram sounds off on a deal that he feels leaves the company in continued limbo.

  Dec 2 2005 at 5:20 PM EST

  Topics: Convergence, Work

• Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

  Woodbridge and Torstar are buying Bell Globemedia — I woulda thought the former would have got The Globe, the latter CTV.

  Dec 2 2005 at 9:52 AM EST

  Topics: Convergence, Work

• Web design trends for 2006

  All of the predictions are safe, although some are a bit dated.

  Dec 1 2005 at 4:36 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Ricky Gervais podcasts

  The twelve weekly shows will be available through Guardian Unlimited starting December 5.

  Dec 1 2005 at 4:23 PM EST

  Topic: Radio

• Running two versions of Firefox

  With Firefox 1.5 out, it’s a bit tricky to run an instance of version 1.0, too. But there is a way (hint: profiles).

  Dec 1 2005 at 3:10 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Top 10 JavaScript functions

  Use all but the last “bonus” function ” but I may soon.

  Dec 1 2005 at 11:47 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Firefox 1.5 released

  And the improvements over version 1.0 are well worth the download.

  Nov 29 2005 at 8:22 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Mozilla.com

  The commercial site for Mozilla has launched (in time for the 1.5 releases of Firefox)

  Nov 29 2005 at 8:17 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Browsers

• Tantek on CSS filters and hacks

  The man who popularized CSS workarounds sounds-off on the current state of affairs.

  Nov 29 2005 at 8:16 PM EST

  Topic: CSS

• CSS beyond the Web browser

  Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie use CSS to create a printed book.

  Nov 29 2005 at 12:17 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Books

• The 33 hottest bands in Canada

  Canada’s music bloggers, writers and critics pick the hottest in 2005. No real surpises, but all quite genuine.

  Nov 25 2005 at 9:32 AM EST

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Really reimagine a newspaper

  Ethan Kaplan reimagines a newspaper as a dot-com shop. Radical, but real (for some papers).

  Nov 24 2005 at 3:11 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Really reimagine a newspaper

  Ethan Kaplan reimagines a newspaper as a dot-com shop. Radical, but real (for some papers).

  Nov 24 2005 at 3:11 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Web 2.0 Bingo

  Buzzword bingo for the new boom.

  Nov 24 2005 at 2:59 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Web 2.0 Checklist

  It’s funny ’cause it’s true!

  Nov 24 2005 at 2:50 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Journal of Usability Studies

  A peer-reviewed online journal about, well, usability.

  Nov 24 2005 at 9:46 AM EST

  Topic: Usability

• Instant filler text, improved

  Now you can specify the number of words or type of elements to be automatically created.

  Nov 24 2005 at 9:37 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• mashingtonpost.com

  Adrian Holovaty makes his mark (again) by open-sourcing the washingtonpost.com site.

  Nov 23 2005 at 7:13 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• Oh the irony: AOL selling online ads for CBC

  Canada’s national broadcaster will enlist America On-Line to become the exclusive seller of advertising to former’s Web site.

  Nov 23 2005 at 10:49 AM EST

  Topics: Advertising, Online Journalism

• Realignment: CBS and Google dance

  Network may use search engine to distribute video.

  Nov 23 2005 at 10:46 AM EST

  Topics: TV, Search Engines

• Paying Visa bill in pennies

  Protest over privacy threat results in a nearly 10-metre long credit card statement.

  Nov 23 2005 at 10:27 AM EST

  Topic: Privacy

• del.icio.us does command line

  A newish feature makes the breadcrumb/page title/navigation bar act like a command line. Not completely intuitive, but works.

  Nov 22 2005 at 11:28 AM EST

  Topic: Usability

• Survey of online journalism skills

  The Medill School of Journalism is conducting a brief survey on about the skills that online journalists and producers ought to have.

  Nov 22 2005 at 11:26 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Is Google the next Wal-Mart?

  Robert X. Cringely speculates about the future of Google, its strengths, and why everything may just work out.

  Nov 19 2005 at 3:48 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• WebPatterns

  John Allsop continues his noble efforts to bring patterns to the wild Web.

  Nov 19 2005 at 3:46 PM EST

  Topics: Web Patterns, Web Semantics

• Batelle on a better Boom

  John Battelle opines in The New York Times on how to do Web 2.0 right.

  Nov 18 2005 at 9:41 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Tab in a textarea

  Tabinta lets Firefox users use the tab key within a textarea.

  Nov 16 2005 at 6:43 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Anti-gravity spaceship patented!

  No joke: The U.S. Patent Office approved Boris Volfson’s “concept.”

  Nov 14 2005 at 7:42 PM EST

  Topic: Web Patents

• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 delayed?

  Rumour has it Windows Vista’s Beta 2 is being delayed, meaning the new browser version may be, too.

  Nov 13 2005 at 11:21 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Innovation with corporations

  Why big companies have a hard time innovating, and how that can be fixed.

  Nov 13 2005 at 12:04 PM EST

  Topic: Technology

• CSSVista

  In one app, preview and edit CSS in two browsers.

  Nov 13 2005 at 11:53 AM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Resources

• Access Copyright: keep your hands off my Web

  The non-profit agency that collects royalties on behalf of copyright holders wants to you to pay-to-surf to compensate select copyright holders.

  Nov 10 2005 at 11:17 AM EST

  Topics: Copyright, Web Culture

• Digital Think

  I think it’s a book supported by a Flash Web site with a McLuhan-follower’s-esque penchant for newspeak. Intersting, though.

  Nov 9 2005 at 4:43 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• 130,000 actively pay for TimesSelect

  In the first two months, the number of people paying to read nytimes.com is huge (even after newspaper subscribers are substracted).

  Nov 9 2005 at 3:30 PM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Newsvine

  Mike Davidson’s new project could explode (in a good or bad way) — it has some very smart grounding.

  Nov 9 2005 at 3:28 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Selling TV episodes

  As predicted, more networks are selling old shows on-demand, for cheap. Are you listening, CBC?

  Nov 9 2005 at 10:34 AM EST

  Topic: TV

• Canada gets m-commerce

  The three national wireless service providers have a agreeded to support a standardized system of wireless payments.

  Nov 9 2005 at 10:33 AM EST

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• The Rabble Podcast Network

  Politically progressive webzine rabble.ca launches a hub for like-minded podcasts.

  Nov 9 2005 at 10:31 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Canada

• Instant filler text

  A clever little script automatically loads up waiting elements with some generic text.

  Nov 8 2005 at 7:45 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• The Web browser market as a high school party

  Maybe it’s jsut funny because I don’t use Opera or maybe it’s perfect satire.

  Nov 8 2005 at 4:45 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Use Internet Explorer’s rendering engine in Firefox

  Netscape 8 did it first, but now Firefox can, too. With IETab, you can view pages in Firefox the way Internet Explorer would show them.

  Nov 7 2005 at 8:46 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Common class and id values

  John Allsop crawls the Web and finds some truly odd choices for class and id values.

  Nov 7 2005 at 8:06 PM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Sonic Youth gets its gear back

  Punk broke in 1991, and eight years later, Sonic Youth’s sound was broken when their equipment was stolen. Now it’s coming back.

  Nov 7 2005 at 1:47 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• The Ultimate getElementsByClassName

  Not sure if it is “the ultimate” but it seems quite comprehensive to me.

  Nov 7 2005 at 11:33 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• BBC podcasts with video

  This is a smart move, and will be the big trend in media for 2006.

  Nov 5 2005 at 3:49 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, TV

• The Truth about Internet Explorer 7

  Via, via, via, Chris Wilson repsonds bluntly about the expectations around IE 7.

  Nov 4 2005 at 9:31 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• The new Yahoo! Maps

  THe Flash-based map tool is pretty impressive, but the zoom tool (at a certain level) looks like the CN Tower.

  Nov 3 2005 at 8:52 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Search Engines

• Worst breadcrumb ever

  The Kingston Whig-Standard’s breadcrumb trail has a nice symmetry. (Thanks Angus)

  Nov 2 2005 at 9:57 AM EST

  Topic: Usability

• CBC Radio 3 plans

  The details about the pay-radio satellite service are coming out, as is the little detail about the Web site relaunch being delayed until next year.

  Nov 2 2005 at 9:29 AM EST

  Topics: Radio, Canada

• Gomery: Latest developments

  Blog-like updates at The Globe and Mail.

  Nov 1 2005 at 11:31 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Gomery lays blame

  Gomery assigns blame (in Chapter 16 of his first report) to Guité as well as Chrétien, Pelletier and Gagliano. Martin cleared.

  Nov 1 2005 at 10:14 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Wan-sabi fundamentals

  Yes, it’s another “Eastern philosophy” swallowed by pop culture, but it’s one that reflects Web design’s best practices.

  Nov 1 2005 at 9:02 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Brin talks to Battelle

  Listen to the half-hour talk which took place during Web 2.0.

  Nov 1 2005 at 8:51 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• CBC Radio One going Top 40

  To those in charge: CBC Radio is not a commerical enterprise, it is a public broadcaster.

  Nov 1 2005 at 8:12 AM EST

  Topics: Radio, Canada

• The Gomery Report coverage

  This is it — coverage of a so-called scandal that will be the cause for the next election.

  Nov 1 2005 at 8:08 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• PM²’s first podcast

  Yes, the Prime Minister of Canada is doing a weekly podcast, though they don’t dare call it that. When’s the mash-up appear?

  Oct 30 2005 at 12:53 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Canadian Web design salaries and rates

  Joe Clark opines on a recetn salary survery for Canadian and Torontonian Web folk. Given my experience, the rates seem about right.

  Oct 29 2005 at 1:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• JavaScript libraries

  A good overview of the popular Web 2.0 JavaScript libraries (formerly known as DHTML libraries).

  Oct 29 2005 at 1:36 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• “I’ve fallen and can’t get up”

  CBC president Robert Rabinovitch falls during his Heritage Committee testimony.

  Oct 28 2005 at 9:24 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Radio

• Eye redesigns

  For its fourteenth birthday (has it been that long?), Eye gets a full-colour redesign (but the site is awful).

  Oct 27 2005 at 9:38 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Toronto

• Searching of the “one true layout”

  Alex Robinson tackles CSS layouts using floats and builds a totally flexible layout.

  Oct 26 2005 at 9:24 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• On Montreal and Broken Social Scene

  Douglas Bell provides a beautiful takedown of a hilariously misinformed The New York Times review of Broken Social Scene’s latest release.

  Oct 21 2005 at 9:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Music

• Canadian Magazines blog

  Yes, a blog about the small, crazy magazine industry in Canada.

  Oct 21 2005 at 9:31 AM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• Opera 9 preview

  Lots of nice little fixes across the board, with the browser moving closer to the Firefox app behaviour.

  Oct 21 2005 at 9:26 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Dean Edward’s addEvent

  Don’t really get what’s going on here yet, but others think it rock solid.

  Oct 21 2005 at 9:10 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Saturday Night done, again

  The magazine that always seems to die, only to be reborn, is dead again.

  Oct 20 2005 at 11:41 PM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• The new “addEvent”

  Haven’t played with it at all, but will be using this new way to add events universally.

  Oct 19 2005 at 9:39 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Doing sidenotes

  A better solution to presenting footnotes can be easy in CSS.

  Oct 19 2005 at 9:17 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Longing for the World Without Web

  Some days, I must admit, I agree with Mr. Ford’s stated sentiments.

  Oct 18 2005 at 8:07 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• The Globe and Mail a top Google News source

  According to survey of Google News, The Globe and Mail is the top Canadian news source, and the 22nd top source overall.

  Oct 18 2005 at 9:29 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Support the right-of-way for streetcars on St Clair

  The Save our St Clair lobby group succeeded in shutting down the construction of a dedicated right-of-way for streetcar; this petition aims to get theproject back-on-track.

  Oct 17 2005 at 9:13 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Oh, the irony

  IEBlog asks CSS developers to stop using hacks, but the logic seems a bit fuzzy.

  Oct 13 2005 at 9:40 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, HTML

• iPod Video

  Figures; buy a Nano, and a new iPod comes out. Still not solid on portable video, but buying TV shows for $2 ’ brilliant move that will save movies and TV.

  Oct 12 2005 at 5:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Technology, TV

• Canada wants to wiretap the Net

  A new bill could allow the government to eavesdrop on the email, Net and/or phone use of more than 8,000 simultaneous interceptions around the clock, every day of the year.

  Oct 12 2005 at 9:09 AM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Privacy

• Does this mean the tide is turning?

  This Free iPod banner doesn’t want you to hit the monkey — it invites you to sound of on the war in Iraq.

  Oct 10 2005 at 7:58 PM EDT

  Topics: U.S., World

• Newspapers need their iPod

  The music industry benefitted from the iPod — now its the newspaper that needs a hot gadget to help its survival.

  Oct 10 2005 at 11:43 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Technology

• The Blooker Prize

  The world’s first literary prize devoted to “blooks”: books based on blogs or websites [sic], says the site.

  Oct 10 2005 at 10:05 AM EDT

  Topics: Books, Web Culture

• New Toronto blog: Paved

  Marc Weisblott finally convinced the Toronto Stat to do a real blog covering the city.

  Oct 9 2005 at 1:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Friends

• CSS: Specificity Wars

  Andy Clarke simplifies CSS​selectors for Star Wars fans.

  Oct 9 2005 at 9:39 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Resources

• The expanding box problem

  Another Internet Explorer CSS bug explained and fixed. Posting mainly for its suggestion of word-wrap: break-word.

  Oct 9 2005 at 9:06 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Economist redesigns with standards

  Also offers a day pass. Interesting stuff.

  Oct 7 2005 at 7:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Standards

• CBC back to work Oct. 11

  CBC will return in all its beaten glory next Tuesday. Hockey Night in Canada will be back for Saturday, though.

  Oct 5 2005 at 11:01 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Radio

• How to describe Web 2.0

  Steven Johnson uses a very apt metaphor to describe the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.

  Oct 5 2005 at 9:17 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Yahoo buys Upcoming

  Andrew (Waxy) Baio announces Yahoo’s purchase of the event site.

  Oct 5 2005 at 8:58 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• Judith Miller freed

  Her source (U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff) “voluntarily and personally” released her of her promise of confidentiality.

  Sep 29 2005 at 11:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, U.S.

• Brandless icons for documents

  Hate seeing a branded icon for your HTML or MP3 files? Try these.

  Sep 29 2005 at 5:02 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Wireless VoIP

  Use a “softphone” to transform almost any device into a telephone.

  Sep 28 2005 at 9:26 AM EDT

  Topic: Phone/VoIP

• A List Apart on columns

  Examines how to support CSS3’s multicolumns using JavaScript and how to split lists.

  Sep 27 2005 at 8:47 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, JavaScript

• In the Hot Zone

  Kevin Sites is a one man reporter whose wat coverage has garnered him a lot of well-deserved respect. Now he’s doing it for Yahoo!

  Sep 26 2005 at 9:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• 2005 Online Journalism Awards Finalists

  Good range of nominees, including work by The Globe and Mail’s Stephanie Nolen and Joel Corda.

  Sep 25 2005 at 3:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Solving the onload dilemma

  Dean Edwards has crafted a clever way to initialize events before “onload.”

  Sep 24 2005 at 4:58 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• PHP Canadian?!

  This I did not know: PHP was apparently created by a Canadian (as was Java).

  Sep 23 2005 at 8:27 AM EDT

  Topics: Web, Technology

• Screen reading and line lengths

  Joe Clark digs up some research that says longer may be better.

  Sep 22 2005 at 9:40 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Axing journalists

  The New York Times is cutting at least 100 journalist from its payroll. This is not the direction the industry should be going (even if we all secretly feel it is).

  Sep 20 2005 at 9:35 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Opera is free

  Looks like the trial free registration was no trial. Opera is free, including its newest version, 8.5.

  Sep 20 2005 at 8:50 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Improving printed Web pages

  Aaron Gustafson riffs on how best to display URLs in a printed Web page.

  Sep 20 2005 at 8:40 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• Indie Fantasy League

  Don’t know which non-music blogger mentioned this, but it was funny then. Pitchfork’s take is scary brillant.

  Sep 19 2005 at 10:46 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Truly randomizing a playlist

  Dan Goodin explores what random playlists really mean, and whether that’s what we actually want.

  Sep 19 2005 at 9:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Love the semi-colon

  A defence of one of my personal favourite punctuation marks.

  Sep 19 2005 at 9:15 AM EDT

  Topic: Style & Usage

• Typetester

  Marko Dugonjić has built a snazzy online tool for comparing how two differently set types appear online.

  Sep 19 2005 at 9:03 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

  Microsoft releases a Web developer toolbar that mimics Chris Pederick’s, and is available for IE 6 and 7.

  Sep 17 2005 at 1:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Resources

• Bell, Rogers building wireless network together

  Details are a bit sketchy, but it sounds like the two will be creating a WiMax network accessible to the majority of Canadians.

  Sep 16 2005 at 1:49 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Canada

• Dose’s Pill

  A mob-blog from a free tab? Are they mad, or just buzzing up the same market as Virgin?

  Sep 15 2005 at 9:42 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Guardian redesign

  The British Guardian unveiled a massive redesign the likes of which may be coming here in the coming years.

  Sep 13 2005 at 9:29 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Editing live Web pages

  PPK makes an all the paragraphs on the page editable by transforming them into textareas. Clever and simple.

  Sep 13 2005 at 8:53 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• ChicagoCrime.org wins big journalism award

  Adrian Holovaty and his ChicagoCrime.org wins $10,000 Batten Award.

  Sep 12 2005 at 11:07 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Sold! For $2.6 billion to eBay: Skype

  The auction site owns PayPal, and just bought skype for a huge sum. VoIP is hot this year.

  Sep 12 2005 at 8:53 AM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Web Technology

• The Mayor, the cheque, and the subway

  This is why David Miller is the greatest — the mayor of Toronto actually rode the subway back to work carrying a giant promotional cheque.

  Sep 11 2005 at 11:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Seeking standards-based Web developer

  LIke the title says, there’s an opening for a developer in Toronto who breathes Web standards.

  Sep 11 2005 at 10:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Work

• Firefox 1.5 Beta 1

  This is a beta beta, but the reviews are pretty solid so far. Developers download and check it out.

  Sep 9 2005 at 1:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Bell doing VoIP in Toronto

  Bell Canada is finally offering VoIP to its Toronto-area customers (like me!). Bah.

  Sep 9 2005 at 11:58 AM EDT

  Topic: Phone/VoIP

• CanWest spins off papers

  As expected, CanWest is turning its newspapers and interactive media into a trust. Missing: the National Post, which spurs further speculation.

  Sep 8 2005 at 9:54 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Convergence

• Readers review TIFF films

  The Globe and Mail is letting readers submit their reviews of films in the Toronto International Film Festival.

  Sep 7 2005 at 12:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Online Journalism

• Rapid Web development with Firefox

  Great S5 slideshow explaining how to use Firefox for Web development — includes pointers to some very worthwhile extensions.

  Sep 6 2005 at 4:26 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Resources, Browsers

• Hell freezes over: Slashdot doing CSS

  Just as Firefox is about to render the old site’s horrible HTML properly, Slashdot readies with an all CSS-layout

  Sep 6 2005 at 4:02 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• JavaScript Logging

  A List Apart publishes a offers a great resource for debugging JavaScript effectively.

  Sep 6 2005 at 10:44 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• CanCon in a digital world

  Are Canadian content rules even relevant anymore, when every computer gives onregulatable access to a world of music?

  Sep 6 2005 at 9:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Good writing advice

  Some good, and simple, advice about writing; put the ending first.

  Sep 5 2005 at 9:09 PM EDT

  Topic: Writing

• New Orleans: Post-Katrina

  Google Maps has updated its coverage to include images from the devastated city of New Orleans.

  Sep 5 2005 at 8:26 PM EDT

  Topic: U.S.

• The new strict mode in IE7

  The Internet Explorer development team looks to be adding, wisely, CSS 2.1 support only in strict mode.

  Sep 2 2005 at 4:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• hasLayout explained

  Markus Mielke explains what Internet Explorer means when it uses “hasLayout” — quite informative.

  Sep 2 2005 at 4:27 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Workopolis redesign

  Canada’s biggest job site redesigns and offers a employer/job seeker login option.

  Sep 2 2005 at 4:17 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Chatelaine shake-up

  Canada’s magazine world is very small, so the story of Kim Pittaway’s resignation from Chatelaine is rich with juicy gossip.

  Sep 1 2005 at 11:40 AM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• The 50 Most Toronto

  Marc Weisblott is getting a greatest Torontonian-type project underway an wants your help.

  Sep 1 2005 at 9:18 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Get yourr Weekly Pass

  Finally, the TTC is offering a transferable weekly and monthly pass starting September 1.

  Aug 31 2005 at 2:06 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Dean Edwards’ IE7 updated

  Version 0.9 is the last feature release before it moves to beta and final.

  Aug 31 2005 at 11:04 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• Counting FeedBurner

  A PHP counter for FeedBurner.

  Aug 30 2005 at 12:02 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Get Opera ad-free

  The browser is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is letting people register for an ad-free version (good marketing move, too).

  Aug 30 2005 at 12:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Andie Barrie and crew returning to airwaves

  The former staff of CBC’s Toronto morning show return to the airwaves Labour Day morning.

  Aug 30 2005 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topic: Radio

• CANOE converges again

  Sometimes they never learn: PPK tries again to be the master of convergence.

  Aug 29 2005 at 10:58 PM EDT

  Topics: Convergence, Online Journalism

• The Official Megabin Site!!

  The Web imitates life in this unfathanobly awful (official) Web site for Toronto’s new mega garbage bins.

  Aug 29 2005 at 11:54 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Toronto

• Mark Starowicz on the CBC lockout

  The senior executive producer of the CBC Documentary Unit opines on the lockout in a biased, but balanced opinion piece.

  Aug 29 2005 at 11:39 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Radio

• Making a better business magazine

  Some advice from Jon Friedman on how to improve on the current host of business magazines. (Canadian Business already does a lot of this.)

  Aug 29 2005 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• Caught on tape: Finch Avenue collapses!

  Nine photos of the massive collapse of Finch Avenue during the recent storm.

  Aug 26 2005 at 12:31 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Toronto iPod Subway Maps

  Have an iPod that displays photos? Get the map to Toronto’s subway system (or about a dozen others).

  Aug 26 2005 at 12:28 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Ninjalicious obit

  More details on Jeff Chapman’s life and death. He will be missed.

  Aug 25 2005 at 3:42 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Ninjalicious is dead

  Ninjalicious , a pioneer of urban exploration, has died. Not sure, not sure when, but he was a underground (pun intended) cultural icon.

  Aug 25 2005 at 12:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Stealing the Web Developer extension

  Some company has completely ripped-off Chris Pederick’s amazingly useful Web Developer extension and is sellingit to Internet Explorer users.

  Aug 24 2005 at 11:49 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Copyright

• Google Talk

  Scaring Skype, and spreading Gmail to the masses.

  Aug 24 2005 at 9:14 AM EDT

  Topics: VoIP, Search Engines

• Kottke’s thoughts on a WebOS

  He’s put a lot of thought into this and the potential is powerful, but I do have a sense of déjà.

  Aug 23 2005 at 3:46 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Online video news in Canada

  The Globe and Mail runs an insightful (if incestuous) article about video online.

  Aug 23 2005 at 9:15 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Brilliant new A List Apart design

  Buzzed-about in pre-launch, this design involved some big, big names: Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, Eric Meyer, Dan Benjamin, Kevin Cornell, and Erin Kissane.

  Aug 23 2005 at 9:01 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• CBCunplugged

  The Tyee has the story about the site the locked-out CBC workers built to keep reporting the news.

  Aug 22 2005 at 11:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Radio

• Producing online projects

  Designed for the projects with the Virtual Museum Canada, this online guide can be used for developing general online projects, too.

  Aug 22 2005 at 2:51 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Robert A. Moog dies

  The man who essentially gave birth to electronica by inventing synthesizers that turned electric currents into sound has died age 71.

  Aug 22 2005 at 1:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Exploring Internet Explorer

  A new MSDN feature that could help give some tips on working with the popular browser.

  Aug 22 2005 at 12:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• WikiPEI

  The guys at silverorange muse about governement Web sites, and create a wiki for their home province in the process.

  Aug 22 2005 at 11:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Single advertisier in New Yorker sparks concern

  Jon Friedman applauds the New Yorker’s decision to use Target as its sole advertiser; others moan.

  Aug 22 2005 at 11:31 AM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Advertising

• Extending tabindex

  Some documentation explaining how tabindex works on every element in Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer.

  Aug 22 2005 at 8:45 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Police allowed to spy on Canadians’ Net use

  A new law will give police and national security agencies new powers to eavesdrop on cellphone calls and monitor the Internet activities of Canadians.

  Aug 19 2005 at 9:13 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Petition to overturn satellite pay radio decisions

  The American satellite radio companies got a sweet deal mine Canadians pockets. We, however, got very little in return. Ask PM² to stop it.

  Aug 18 2005 at 3:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Radio, Canada

• Klymkiw leaving CBC

  Slawko Klymkiw, the man behind much of the innovative features on CBC is leaving said Mother Corp.

  Aug 17 2005 at 11:49 PM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Design In-Flight: Web edition

  In its previous incarnation, Design In-Flight was a subscription-based PDF magazine. Now it’s been freed into a Web-friendly format.

  Aug 17 2005 at 12:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Subscriptions & Registration

• TTC stations on Google Maps

  Ian Stevens puts Toronto’s subway stations on Google Maps.

  Aug 17 2005 at 11:09 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• New JavaScript Array methods

  Gecko 1.8 will provide Firefox’ JavaScript engine with a bunch of new, and helpful, methods for the Array object.

  Aug 17 2005 at 11:06 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Blatchford profile

  The Eyeopener has a rare, in-depth profile of fellow alumni, Christie Blatchford.

  Aug 17 2005 at 10:28 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• efrank.ca design?

  Allegedly, this design (which looks to be very graphic or Flash heavy) shows what the online version of Frank will look like.

  Aug 17 2005 at 9:03 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Magazine

• Cohen broke?!

  Maclean’s will be running an article detailing the news that Leonard Cohen is broke.

  Aug 16 2005 at 1:44 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• xajax: a PHP library for Ajax apps

  Touted as the the easiest way to develop asynchronous Ajax applications with PHP. Filed for future reference.

  Aug 16 2005 at 11:35 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Canadian Net penetration levels

  New study shows 73% are connected, as they've been for three years. Sixty-four percent of those have high-speeed access.

  Aug 16 2005 at 9:00 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Fucking Caps and Spelling

  Canadian journalism’s de facto spelling guide, Caps and Spelling, allows “fuck” to be spelled out.

  Aug 15 2005 at 1:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Style & Usage, Journalism

• It’s gonne be a good fall

  Laying aside it also brings an anniversary and a birthday, there are about a dozen solid Canadian releases coming out.

  Aug 15 2005 at 9:20 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Bob Rae on universities

  The funding system for Canada's education post-secondary education system is a mess and we need desparately to fix them.

  Aug 12 2005 at 11:36 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Thinking behind New York Times newsroom merger

  Mark Glaser talks with Martin Nisenholtz and Bill Keller about The New York Times dreams and plans.

  Aug 12 2005 at 10:59 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• CBC to be silenced

  CBC could face a long and ugly strike or lock-out of almost all its employees Monday.

  Aug 12 2005 at 8:21 AM EDT

  Topics: Radio, TV

• Survey on Toronto’s new garbage bins

  Do you like the new bins? Or do you think they’re a billboard retrofitted to collect our waste. Tell the city what you think.

  Aug 10 2005 at 10:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Two-colour sIFR

  Here’s a clever way to do sIFR as a duotone.

  Aug 10 2005 at 1:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Young Canadians choose Net

  Ditching radio and TV in favour of the Net; CANOE, CBC.ca, and CTV.ca most popular sites for Canadians.

  Aug 9 2005 at 11:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• The 911 on VoIP

  Canadian police and security services are worried about the difficulties in tracking VoIP calls.

  Aug 9 2005 at 10:23 AM EDT

  Topic: Phone/VoIP

• Going dry with DSL

  The first in a what I hope will be a series detailing my experience trying to set-up VoIP on with a Sympatico DSL service tied to my phone number.

  Aug 9 2005 at 10:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Phone/VoIP

• Blogging The Amazing Race

  Longtime blogger Cam Barret wants to get on The Amazing Race with his brother and they’re using this site to drum up support.

  Aug 8 2005 at 12:31 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Culture

• Ajax mistakes

  They should be obvious, but best to read these mistakes just in case.

  Aug 8 2005 at 9:24 AM EDT

  Topics: Usability, JavaScript

• YASNS: O’Reilly Connection

  This one’s a developer-centric netwrok for jobs, essentially. If you join, add me as a connection.

  Aug 5 2005 at 11:12 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Introducing the Mozilla Corporation

  Speculation is that this taxable entity may have been created, in part, to work with Google (and I’d add Nokia).

  Aug 3 2005 at 11:36 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Multiple backgrounds in Safari

  Surprisingly, Safari already has the support for multiple backgrounds.

  Aug 3 2005 at 9:25 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Blogged coverage of air crash

  BlogTO does an great job summarizing the news from the air crash in Toronto.

  Aug 3 2005 at 9:06 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto

• Toronto plane crash audio

  A Web search and some careful listening helped me produce this audio file and annotation of the Toronto air crash today.

  Aug 2 2005 at 8:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• What happened to The 360?

  BlogTO looks into why the Legion shut its doors to the Toronto music and the Queen West communities.

  Aug 2 2005 at 1:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Music

• Internet Explorer 7 will support CSS 2

  Chris Wilson of the Internet Explorer 7 development team lets us know the next beta will be a lot better — which is very good news.

  Jul 31 2005 at 10:28 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Place-shifting television

  If I didn’t pull my TV signals from the air, this would be a very cool device.

  Jul 29 2005 at 12:39 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Technology

• CSS in Internet Explorer 7

  Dave Shea checks for CSS improvements in Internet Explorer 7 and finds few.

  Jul 28 2005 at 6:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• The Elements of (Newspaper) Blogging

  The editor of Grenboro’s News & Record posts some smart standards and practices for its blogging journalists.

  Jul 27 2005 at 12:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Writing

• Introducing Devmo

  The Mozilla Foundation’s follow-up to DevEdge is now, finally, online.

  Jul 26 2005 at 2:25 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Tips to speed your Web pages

  Microsoft offers some tips — heretofore unkowne to me — on improving page load times.

  Jul 26 2005 at 2:21 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Resources

• No Apple on Microsoft’s Earth

  Mistake? Prank? Either way Mircosoft’s Virtual Earth shows a small building where Apple’s sprawling campus should be.

  Jul 26 2005 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Windows glyph characters

  A collection of Unicode characters supported on Windows, at least.

  Jul 26 2005 at 11:10 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• CBC faces strike

  CBC employees voted in favour of a strike if they don’t have collective agreement by mid-August.

  Jul 20 2005 at 12:08 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Radio

• Frank returning as online rag

  Frank is returning this September and looks to be run by someone named Peter Scott, in Newcastle, Ontario.

  Jul 19 2005 at 12:45 PM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• Emergency Greasemonkey update

  A temporary patch has been issued to disable a serious security vulnerability in Greasemonkey announced yesterday.

  Jul 19 2005 at 12:26 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Accessible Web design tips

  very week, a new tip to make one’s site accessible is posted on this consultancy site.

  Jul 19 2005 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topic: Accessibility

• DOM Scripting Task Force

  The WaSP takes on scripting with its new taskforce (and blog).

  Jul 19 2005 at 9:04 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards

• Django

  A(nother) Web framework for rapidly devloping complex, database-driven Web sites — this one by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison.

  Jul 18 2005 at 11:15 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• India offshoring to Halifax

  A California company’s transferring its development lab to Halifax, after finding it too hard to retian staff in India.

  Jul 18 2005 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Canada

• Dunstan’s goodbye gift

  Clever coder and designer Dunstan Orchards packs it in while giving it all away.

  Jul 18 2005 at 10:53 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Resources

• Toronto news in The Globe and Mail

  Toronto-based stories in “Canada’s national newspaper”.

  Jul 15 2005 at 4:12 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Atom 1.0

  The Atom syndication format has been submitted to Internet Engineering Task Force.

  Jul 15 2005 at 10:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Standards

• “Any key” could be a reality

  This mock-up of what a keyboard would look like if it dynamically changed based on what function the keys represent is trés cool.

  Jul 14 2005 at 4:58 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Nuking Yonge and Dundas

  Eric Meyer’s HYDESim illustrates what a Hiroshima-sized nuclear explosion would do to downtown Toronto.

  Jul 14 2005 at 4:15 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Deconstructing citizen journalism

  Although I think much of this citizen journalism is hype, Doskoch’s deconstruction of Zerbsias critique of the topic is a worthwhile read.

  Jul 13 2005 at 2:49 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• It’s all gonna break

  The Internet Archive is being sued for storing copyrighted material. Expect more like this, soon.

  Jul 13 2005 at 11:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Toronto⁏s not next

  BlogTO has a gutsy (and fate-tempting) post about why Toronto isn’t likely to be on any terrorist hit list soon. I agree with a lot of the points — after all, we refused to join the war in Iraq.

  Jul 13 2005 at 10:56 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Politics

• Will Canada make Google illegal?

  Looks like the new Copyright Act could make everything Google does (including pointing to copyrighted documents) illegal.

  Jul 12 2005 at 9:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Search Engines

• This picture is worth 1,000 words

  For a change, an online news photo perfectly captures the context of a story, i.e, Ralph Klein’s reaction so same-sex marriage.

  Jul 12 2005 at 9:17 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• CBSNews.com opens the floodgates

  The revamped site will offer free access to 25,000 video clips and encourage users to create their own newscast.

  Jul 12 2005 at 5:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, TV

• Smooth sliders

  Almost three-years old, this is the best dynamic, degradable slider I’ve encountered yet.

  Jul 12 2005 at 12:11 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Check your contrast

  A slick little tool for check the accessibility of a colour contrast scheme.

  Jul 12 2005 at 12:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Accessibility

• News report of London bombings using Google Earth

  Although still a bit primative, this is exactly the kind of thing online journalism can do exceptionally well.

  Jul 11 2005 at 1:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• WSJ.com: 10 years on the Web

  On July 11, 1995, the first Web site of The Wall Street Journal launched.

  Jul 11 2005 at 1:07 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• Ten years of yellow

  CNET turns 10 and celebrates by looking back over the past decade.

  Jul 11 2005 at 12:25 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• style vs. className

  PPK confirms a JavaScript best practice is also the fastest thing to do.

  Jul 11 2005 at 11:42 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, CSS

• Sparkline generator

  A Web service to generate Edward Tufte’s simple word-sized graphics.

  Jul 8 2005 at 1:51 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Google Maps Transparencies

  A bit rought, but a very clever way to identify exactly what street your looking at in that satellite photo.

  Jul 7 2005 at 6:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Search Engines

• Wikinews shines in the face of tragedy

  The citizen journalists at Wikinews have produced an astounding amount of in-depth information about the terrorist attack on London this morning.

  Jul 7 2005 at 5:59 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, World

• Don’t click it…

  Experimental, “clicks considered harmful” interface that makes a good art project but a troublesome user interface.

  Jul 7 2005 at 4:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Spacing: The Blog

  Toronto’s very own public space activists blog the city.

  Jul 7 2005 at 11:53 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Remaking Toronto’s streets

  Toronto is trying to harmonize its street specs, and is asking for its citizens’ opinions. Spacing Wire explains.

  Jul 7 2005 at 11:34 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• AIDS in Africa

  A spectacular interactive report by Stephanie Nolen about the crisis, and the hope in Africa.

  Jul 7 2005 at 11:31 AM EDT

  Topics: World, Online Journalism

• Defending freedom of the press

  The New York Times speaks out on Judith Miller’s decision and showcases the part of the American landscape I deeply admire — the passionate support of a free press.

  Jul 7 2005 at 11:30 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• WaSP and Microsoft: working together

  The Web Standards Project … is collaborating with Microsoft to promote Web standards and help developers build standards conformant Web applications.

  Jul 5 2005 at 10:34 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Standards

• del.icio.us direc.tor

  This amazing Ajax app showcases what can be done with valid mark-up and some client-side magic.

  Jul 4 2005 at 11:34 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Newspapers welcome public comments

  More and more newspapers moving into the citizne journalsim arena. Though it may not provide the expected revenue boost, it certainly isn’t a bad move.

  Jul 4 2005 at 11:32 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Curley moves on

  LJWorld.com’s cyber-savant is heading to Florida to head the Naples Daily News

  Jul 4 2005 at 11:31 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The Canadian Series of tees

  Evokativ has 12 designs encapsulating Canadian history.

  Jul 3 2005 at 10:51 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Does sIFR enable piracy?

  Jonathan Snook launches FONTSMACK only to realize distributing fonts in Flash for sIFR may be illegal, and mean sIFR users are violating their font licences, too.

  Jun 30 2005 at 4:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Internet Explorer hasLayout

  Ingo Chao (whose site is simple, and elegant) has dissected the cause of many of IE’s layout problems.

  Jun 30 2005 at 3:58 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Where (or where not) to buy marijuana in Chicago

  ChicagoCrimes shows a disturbing concentration of arrests around, ironically, Humbolt Park.

  Jun 30 2005 at 3:08 PM EDT

  Topic: U.S.

• The Art and Science of Web Design @ 5

  Veen’s second book, which outlined today’s Web design philisophy when tables and font tags ruled the Web, is now available as free download.

  Jun 30 2005 at 11:32 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• Karla Holomoka’s letters

  The Globe and Mail has published Stephen Williams’ correspondence with the killer — the cuteness her letters is macabrely ironic.

  Jun 30 2005 at 10:48 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Topix comes to Canada

  The news aggregator entry into Canada should make some media companies worried.

  Jun 29 2005 at 8:31 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Bad brand brings broken band

  Broken Social Scene play Dundas Square courtesy of Toronto Unlimited.

  Jun 29 2005 at 6:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Music

• Nvu 1.0

  The Gecko-based Web design program (based on the old Mozilla Composer) has officially hit the 1.0 release and is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.

  Jun 29 2005 at 4:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Resources, Web Design

• Google opens maps to all

  Google has released an API for its GoogleMaps product, opening the door to a whole bunch of oppurtunities like ChicagoCrime.org.

  Jun 29 2005 at 4:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines

• Syntax highlighter

  Dean Edwards (again) releases his very borad syntax highlighter for code examples on Web pages.

  Jun 29 2005 at 11:00 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• Packer packs JavaScript

  Dean Edwards has a pretty efficient JavaScript compressor available at his site.

  Jun 29 2005 at 11:00 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Great writing in Steven Johnson profile

  Written in the second person (difficult to pull off) the intro sucks you into an enagaging profile review of the author and his work.

  Jun 28 2005 at 1:44 PM EDT

  Topic: Writing

• Google Earth freely available

  Nathan Weinberg reports on some of the features in this program which once cost a bundle.

  Jun 28 2005 at 12:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Search Engines

• Getting rid of the QuickTime pop-up

  From a Slashdotter comes a helpful tip for a big pet peeve.

  Jun 28 2005 at 11:18 AM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• TO Unlimited? Try TO Ugly

  The new brandmark for Toronto is unbelievably awful.

  Jun 27 2005 at 12:40 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Wikinvestigative journalism

  Sure, the wikitorial failed by using a wiki to collabratively do the grunt work of investigative journalism could be interesting.

  Jun 24 2005 at 11:35 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Every New Yorker published, coming to DVD

  Eight DVDs containing searchable electronic reporductions of every New Yorker from February 1925 to February 2005 will be available in September.

  Jun 24 2005 at 11:35 AM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• TSN.ca does RSS

  Not sure when they launched it, but its one of the few Canadian mainstream media properties to have RSS.

  Jun 23 2005 at 5:16 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• TSN.ca embraces Web standards

  Worthy of praise even were it not for my rant a few weeks back!

  Jun 23 2005 at 5:15 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Standards

• Those eyes…

  How that iconic photo of murdrer Karla Holmoka came to pass.

  Jun 22 2005 at 6:48 PM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Rick Mercer’s Blog

  If you know the name, visit, elsewise you probably won’t get it.

  Jun 22 2005 at 1:18 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Grocery Store Wars

  Learn the ways of the Farm from Obi-Wan Cannoli.

  Jun 21 2005 at 5:01 PM EDT

  Topic: Movies

• Why the wikitorial failed

  Clive Thompson nailss the reason why the L.A. Times wikitorial experiment failed.

  Jun 21 2005 at 12:59 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Ben Kerr dead at 75

  The Toronto busking legend and perennial mayoral candidate has died — and just a few days ago I was wondering how much longer he would be around.

  Jun 21 2005 at 12:12 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Yawn…Live 8 in Barrie

  Will I be rushing to see Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Great Big Sea, Tom Cochrane, and Motley Crue in Molson Park on Canada Day weekend? No.

  Jun 21 2005 at 9:44 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• microformats.org

  Your one-stop shop for microformat specifications (including such hits as XFN and hCard).

  Jun 21 2005 at 9:42 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Writing efficient JavaScript

  Although targetted for those writing Greasemonkey-like scripts, it has some good tips for normal scripts.

  Jun 20 2005 at 12:33 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Questioning the satellite radio ruling

  Sure for CHUM it may be sour grapes, but the point about a lack of exposure to Canadian music rings true.

  Jun 17 2005 at 11:48 AM EDT

  Topics: Radio, Music

• Now even less choice of movie theatres!

  Cineplex is buying up the Famous Players movie theatres — can you spell monopoly?

  Jun 13 2005 at 12:31 PM EDT

  Topic: Movies

• Rico: an open-source Ajax library

  Seems to cover a lot of items designers and developers are starting to need.

  Jun 13 2005 at 9:16 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Publishers to sell books online

  Smart move to service a need, but booksellers shouldn’t fear.

  Jun 13 2005 at 9:03 AM EDT

  Topics: Books, Web Culture

• Universal Child Selector

  Eric A. Meyer explains a child selector-type rule that works in Internet Explorer

  Jun 11 2005 at 3:55 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Lovin’ Loverboy

  A fan makes a tribute video to the greatest rawk song ever!

  Jun 9 2005 at 11:31 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• CBC.ca to run ads

  Should be interesting to see how that goes over with its audience.

  Jun 8 2005 at 1:55 PM EDT

  Topic: Subscriptions & Registration

• The not-so National Post

  The National Post will no longer be delivering printed newspapers to the Rock, only those horrible “e-paper“ ones.

  Jun 8 2005 at 11:04 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Webby winners

  The New York Times covers the Webby winners for 2005.

  Jun 7 2005 at 4:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Base64 images for Internet Explorer

  Dean Edwards comes up for a client side solution to yet another Internet Explorer bug.

  Jun 7 2005 at 2:54 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Are they selling me?

  Eric Reguly thinks BCE is ready to sell the company I work for, Bell Globemedia.

  Jun 7 2005 at 10:38 AM EDT

  Topic: Convergence

• Jonathan Dube joins CBC.ca

  This is a big coup for the Mother Corp. and should help to reinvigorate the online journalism game in Canada.

  Jun 7 2005 at 10:37 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• Mac OS X already Intel-compatible

  Blimey, that's quite clever. Surprised no one found out Apple’s Mac OS X could run on Intel since day one.

  Jun 6 2005 at 2:06 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Pedals and paint

  Colourizing Toronto’s abandoned bikes.

  Jun 6 2005 at 8:54 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Next steps for JavaScript

  Web-Graphics surveys what the future holds for JavaScript.

  Jun 5 2005 at 10:47 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Becoming Deep Throat

  Bob Woodward explains how Mark Felt Became “Deep Throat”

  Jun 3 2005 at 6:49 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Dot-xxx finally a reality

  ICANN approves a worthwhile top-level domain.

  Jun 2 2005 at 9:43 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• hCard creator

  Tantek has created a quick and easy tool for creating to hCards, and points to an hCalendat and hReview creators.

  Jun 2 2005 at 8:42 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Vanity Fair drops the online ball

  In its Deep Throat scoop, the magazine forgets about the online-side of things in a very 1998 way.

  Jun 1 2005 at 5:07 PM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism

• 2005 Canadian New Media Award winners

  Just in case anyone is interested…

  Jun 1 2005 at 1:39 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Happy 10th, Z

  Jeffrey Zeldman, the man who brought “Web standards” to the forefront, celebrates 10 years online.

  May 31 2005 at 12:09 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Dave’s markup guide

  A little style guide designed to show the basics of semantic markup.

  May 30 2005 at 6:32 PM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• The rationale for XHTML 2.0

  The W3C explain the reasoning behind and the features of XHTML 2.0.

  May 29 2005 at 8:26 PM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Internet Explorer support end dates

  Most versions of the Microsoft browser will no londer by supported by the company after December 21, 2005.

  May 29 2005 at 8:20 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Review the latest XHTML 2.0 draft

  Anne highlights the changes to the latest draft XHTML 2.0 draft — seems a step backwards…

  May 29 2005 at 8:10 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Replacing the Vomit Comet

  Eye asks what I’ve always wondered, too: why do subways still stop before last call?

  May 27 2005 at 5:12 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Frank back?

  Ms Z. is suggest the gossip magazine is being resurrected by its former owner as an online publication.

  May 27 2005 at 3:32 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Magazine

• Details on tabs in Internet Explorer

  Essentially, IE 7’s tabs will behave as Firefox and Safari do.

  May 27 2005 at 7:38 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Salon’s Site Pass success

  The online magazine’s revenue model seems to final have got its groove.

  May 26 2005 at 8:53 AM EDT

  Topic: Subscriptions & Registration

• Nokia 770: the Internet tablet

  Although I had an early Palm, I only really used it to read downloaded Web sites. This, though, looks to satisfy my needs…

  May 26 2005 at 8:01 AM EDT

  Topic: Technology

• Unistall Netscape 8 says IE team

  The Internet Explorer team suggests users uninstall Netscape 8 because of an XML issue.

  May 26 2005 at 8:00 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Mixtapes, mash-ups, and Creative Commons

  The Globe and Mail sums up the current copyright fight in the music fans world.

  May 25 2005 at 12:59 PM EDT

  Topics: Copyright, Music

• Mr. Y2K tolls the bell for copyright

  Peter de Jager, former Y2K consultant, argues for micropayments instead.

  May 25 2005 at 12:15 PM EDT

  Topic: Copyright

• Piracy as a sampler menu

  Mark Pesce, in Mindjack makes the arguement that piracy can be good for media.

  May 25 2005 at 12:09 PM EDT

  Topic: Copyright

• MySQL tips

  More than thirty tips about the database language.

  May 24 2005 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Universal layouts

  One HTML file to rule them (i.e., CSS designs) all.

  May 24 2005 at 12:13 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, HTML

• Finder-style menu

  I was thinking about doing something like this myself, but once again A List Apart beats me to the punch.

  May 24 2005 at 11:49 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Dean Edwards releases IE7 update

  The script now corrects almost all of Internet Explorer’s CSS bugs.

  May 24 2005 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Enter stage left: Kerouac

  An unpublished play by Jack Kerouac has been discovered.

  May 23 2005 at 3:40 PM EDT

  Topic: Books

• Bias in Google News

  Non-traditional news sources seem to tilt Google News’ biases left.

  May 20 2005 at 11:03 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines

• “My” Google a let down

  This is personalization circa ’96 with nothing more than a smoother interface. And Canadian info is hard to get.

  May 20 2005 at 10:36 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• TTC Rider Efficiency Guide

  A mini-map to each subway station in the TTC.

  May 20 2005 at 8:14 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Canadians can be sued by music industry

  A Canadian Federal Court of Appeal decision says the industry can sue people who share music online, but it won’t be easy.

  May 19 2005 at 5:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Copyright

• Netflix beats Wal-Mart

  Online DVD rental business goes to the little guy.

  May 19 2005 at 12:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Movies

• Netscape 8 released

  The browser that won’t die now has two heads.

  May 19 2005 at 12:09 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Using hCalendar to fill your calendar

  Eric Meyer explains how the microformat can be changed into an iCalendar file.

  May 19 2005 at 11:51 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Online news survey

  Questions are a bit skewed, but worth taking to see the results.

  May 18 2005 at 11:12 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• NYTimes.com redesigns story pages

  In anticipation of subscription content, the site tweaks it pages and, visually, makes them worse.

  May 18 2005 at 11:11 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Custom DTDs not so good

  Making you own DTD may not be such a good idea after all.

  May 18 2005 at 8:23 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• The New York Times follows The Globe and Mail

  …in the sense it will be putting some of its content behind a paywall. However, they are letting paper subscribers in for free — smart.

  May 18 2005 at 8:19 AM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Toronto Star blogs and podcasts

  Antonia Zerbisas does the media blog thing and John Sakamoto’s Anti-Hit List is part of the podcasts.

  May 18 2005 at 8:15 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Globeandmail.com tweaks its look

  Updates includes some changes to the bottom of the homepage (standards-based structure); great improvements to the story bundles; and a Flash-edition of a print-based golf guide.

  Apr 28 2005 at 6:01 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• On the release of IE7’s user-agent string

  Simon Willison has some concerns about the release of IE 7’s user agent string.

  Apr 28 2005 at 8:36 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• sIFR 2.0 finally released

  With this release, the image replacement technique also gets its own page on Mike Davidson’s site.

  Apr 28 2005 at 8:30 AM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Design

• Safari passes Acid2

  The browser can now claim the one with the best standards support.

  Apr 28 2005 at 8:28 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• The Globe and Gmail?

  Or as the headline of this column speculating on newspapers being bought by dot-com companies suggests, The Google Street Journal.

  Apr 27 2005 at 5:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Bye bye RadioShack

  In Canada, the RadioShack brand is being replaced by a clunky new name: The Source By Circuit City.

  Apr 27 2005 at 10:39 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Layton wins concessions from Martin

  The NDP now (almost) hold the balance-of-power.

  Apr 26 2005 at 6:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Making a newspaper business online

  Bill Doskoch offers his insight on The Globe and Mail’s article on the struggle with online newspaper revenue.

  Apr 26 2005 at 11:08 AM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Mapping New York’s literary locales

  This idea floated in The New York Times cries for a Google Maps Greasemonkey script.

  Apr 26 2005 at 10:08 AM EDT

  Topic: Books

• Aardvark: a Firefox extension for Web designers

  Intuitively highlights elements, and lets you manipulate them on a page.

  Apr 26 2005 at 9:12 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Tom Waits upset over commercial

  Commercials are an unnatural use of my work, he said. It’s like having a cow’s udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating. (Em

  Apr 25 2005 at 2:50 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Opera CEO takes a bath

  Jon S. von Tetzchner has begun what will likley be an uncompleted trans-Atlantic swim.

  Apr 25 2005 at 2:26 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Problems wiki-ing the news

  True it is still finding it’s legs, but the problems Wikinews is encountering won’t surprise the skeptics.

  Apr 25 2005 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The blog-friendly U.S. papers

  Interesting survey of shows The Wall Street Journal really is ignored by the blogosphere. Maybe someone do a similar survey for Canada…?

  Apr 25 2005 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Subscriptions & Registration

• Some IE7 fixes revealed

  Chris Wilson says PNG transparency support is in place, as are fixes to a couple of notable CSS bugs.

  Apr 24 2005 at 9:34 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Who do you want for Prime Minister?

  Based on the 2004 poll (issues which are still true in a 2005/6 election), I scored 100% for Jack Layton Leader, 74% for Gilles Duceppe, 48% for Paul Martin and a whopping 7% for Stephen Harper. Pretty accurate.

  Apr 22 2005 at 2:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• The article page as a news hub

  Steve Outing uses globeandmail.com’s phenomenally successful article redesign as a jumping-off point for new ways to navigate a news site.

  Apr 22 2005 at 11:02 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Usability

• HTML 5

  A.k.a., Web Applications 1.0, the spec may one day be the future.

  Apr 22 2005 at 10:27 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Canadians get number portability

  Not a cellphone user, but this good news is something I didn’t think the Canadian telecoms would cave on so quickly.

  Apr 22 2005 at 12:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Canada

• Layton’s response to Martin

  [E]ducation, training for workers, and the environment are more important than this scandal.

  Apr 22 2005 at 12:12 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• The next 20hz

  After a troublesome takeover (and subsequent censorship), the Canadian indie crowd leaves 20hz en masse.

  Apr 21 2005 at 11:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Steps to better typography

  One of the most valuable seminars I had in j-school was in typography and this is a great refresher.

  Apr 21 2005 at 5:31 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Google remembers what you searched

  Let the privacy nuts sound off, but this is very, very smart of Google.

  Apr 20 2005 at 7:35 PM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• 2005 Canadian New Media Awards’ finalists

  If this is the cream of new media in Canada, then maybe multimedia CD-ROMs will be the next big thing.

  Apr 20 2005 at 7:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Online sales quintupled since 2000

  Looks like this e-commerce thing has finally caught on in Canada.

  Apr 20 2005 at 5:40 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Finally, transerfable metropasses

  In September, Torontonians will be able to share monthly and weekly transit passes.

  Apr 20 2005 at 11:33 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Camper Van Beethoven live in the Archive

  A slightly inside joke for those that know my dog, for the rest, some good, free music.

  Apr 19 2005 at 11:21 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• DevEdge resurrection plans

  A temporary mirror of this great resource is now online.

  Apr 19 2005 at 5:59 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Opera 8 released

  Been playing with the beta for a while, and can safely say this is a very good release.

  Apr 19 2005 at 9:49 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Toronto’s Pitchfork?

  The guy who “transformed” the El Mo plans to overhaul 20hz

  Apr 18 2005 at 11:07 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Music

• AP’s plans

  Tagging and better online stock data coming from AP.

  Apr 18 2005 at 6:04 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• AP finally realizes it can make money online

  Print and broadcast suscribers will now have to pay for the AP feeds they have received free for a decade.

  Apr 18 2005 at 4:38 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Globe on Firefox

  The Globe and Mail presents a glowing overview of Firefox and Thunderbird.

  Apr 18 2005 at 2:25 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Go Jack!

  Jack Layton offers Paul Martin a shoulder for support.

  Apr 18 2005 at 2:07 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• How to destroy the Earth

  Recipes for obliterating the planet Earth.

  Apr 18 2005 at 12:22 PM EDT

  Topic: World

• Adobe to buy Macromedia

  Holy graphics powerhouse, Batman. Your one-stop monopoly for your pixel pushing needs.

  Apr 18 2005 at 9:56 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• PPK on Safari 1.3

  Peter-Paul Koch notes the bug fixes in the latest Safari upgrade.

  Apr 17 2005 at 5:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Usability

• Is this Area 51?

  Google Maps may reveal what Mulder and Scully long searched for.

  Apr 15 2005 at 2:47 PM EDT

  Topic: U.S.

• Google Maps meets craigslist

  Nice effective real estate Web app combining the best of both sites.

  Apr 15 2005 at 11:20 AM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Solving transit woes

  John Barber advocates downtown tolls to help pay for the expansion of the TTC.

  Apr 15 2005 at 9:43 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• CAJ awards finalists

  Nominees include the late Bill Cameron’s piece on Guantanamo Bay, the Globe’s Louis Palu for photojournalism, and David Akin for his story on the CIBC faxes.

  Apr 15 2005 at 9:41 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Asterisk 2

  Mr. Robinson redesigns his entire site and produces something I like much better.

  Apr 15 2005 at 9:23 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Browsers’ standards support

  According to this survey, Opera, surprisingly, comes out on top.

  Apr 14 2005 at 10:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• Yahoo News beta

  As promised the new site is coming, and it looks very nice — clean, open, and standards-based.

  Apr 14 2005 at 3:34 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Al Gore stealing from ZeD!

  His new cable channel (formerly CBC’s NWI) will be heavily based on the “open-source” television show, ZeD.

  Apr 14 2005 at 9:15 AM EDT

• The Pugly Awards announced

  The tremendous renovation that resulted in the home of Toronto’s 51 Division wins.

  Apr 13 2005 at 5:26 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• An accidental reprint

  Google News gets a story Mark Washburn wrote published in The New York Times.

  Apr 13 2005 at 11:58 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Meetup charging $19/month

  At almost $240 a year (U.S. I presume), watch a lot of the little groups whither.

  Apr 13 2005 at 9:05 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• The Acid2 test

  No browser I’ve seen comes close to rendering it.

  Apr 12 2005 at 5:37 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Browsers

• 2005 Webby nominees

  The late CBC Radio 3 is amongst the nominees, as is the Subservient Chicken and BCE.

  Apr 12 2005 at 1:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Ryerson Review of Journalism Online relaunches

  The Web site I helped launch nine years ago, relaunches.

  Apr 11 2005 at 9:25 AM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• Eyeopener at risk

  My alma mater’s infamous (and best) school paper, the Eyeopener, is being threatened with “third-party oversight.”

  Apr 8 2005 at 7:16 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• TTC strike

  The TTC, and much of Toronto, looks like it will be shutdown come Monday.

  Apr 8 2005 at 2:50 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• On media events…

  Russell Smith nails it when he speaks of the media’s reaction to Pope John Paul II’s death (or the Gomery inquiry).

  Apr 8 2005 at 1:49 PM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Google Maps: Power and responsibility

  Jeff Veen talks about how Big Brother is us and we best be smart about what we do with the power.

  Apr 7 2005 at 2:50 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Gomery lifts publication ban

  Jean Brault’s testimony legally published at globeandmail.com

  Apr 7 2005 at 2:23 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Journalism != blogging

  Derek Powazek explains (and he being a non-MSMer, may it carry some weight).

  Apr 6 2005 at 12:09 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Canada the best in “eGovernment”

  Tops the U.S. and twenty others; myself, I’m pretty satisifed, too.

  Apr 6 2005 at 12:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Technology

• Updating Access to Information

  Canada’ ATIA needs updating; let’s hope it’s for the better.

  Apr 6 2005 at 11:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Man am I glad I got my passport

  But this kind of move is what makes me reticent to visit the U.S.

  Apr 6 2005 at 11:37 AM EDT

  Topic: U.S.

• “In the Mood,” ̶Smells Like Teen Spirit” preserved

  Songs are among 50 recordings marked for special preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress.

  Apr 5 2005 at 12:55 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• I work here

  Not like I should be surprised, but wow… Google Maps now uses Keyhole’s satellite imagery,

  Apr 5 2005 at 9:24 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• The Annotated New York Times

  Combining the Times’ RSS feed with comments from the blogosphere. Clever.

  Apr 4 2005 at 11:20 AM EDT

• Glowing profile of ExtendMedia

  Toronto’s one-time new-media darling (a.k.a., Digital Renaissance) gets the full-treatment at globetechnology.

  Apr 4 2005 at 11:18 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Toronto

• All about JavaScript’s closures

  New to me, too. Noticed sIFR uses this, so I figured I best get up to speed.

  Apr 1 2005 at 2:32 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Inside Yahoo News

  Mark Glaser exposes how the newsie Yahooligans operate.

  Apr 1 2005 at 12:16 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Online Journalism

• The future of news

  Five pages on how the next generations news consumption habits will change what news is.

  Apr 1 2005 at 12:15 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• Water on Mars

  NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day proves it.

  Apr 1 2005 at 9:08 AM EST

  Topic: Technology

• Pop-ups begone, part 2

  A new extension/patch for Firefox to block all pop-ups — help’em test.

  Apr 1 2005 at 9:04 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Gmail: to infinity and beyond

  Watch your Gmail limit climb throughout the day to 2GB and beyond.

  Apr 1 2005 at 8:49 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Canadians watch TV…news

  Drama and sports watching drops, and young people seem to prefer being online rather than watching television.

  Mar 31 2005 at 10:36 AM EST

  Topic: TV

• Browser stickies

  A rough Web mini-application for creating Post-It-like Notes. Some tweaks could make this very useful.

  Mar 29 2005 at 5:05 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Drag-and-drop sortable lists

  This little JavaScript + CSS demonstration could greatly improve Web applications.

  Mar 29 2005 at 5:05 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Using CSS columns

  One of the developers Gecko#8217;s implementation explains the ins and outs of columnized layouts.

  Mar 28 2005 at 12:53 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Interactive graffiti

  Art school-esque experiment “blurs the boundaries of the Web and real life.”

  Mar 28 2005 at 12:52 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• What happened to “way new journalism”

  Ten years on, online journalism hasn’t reached its imagined potential.

  Mar 28 2005 at 12:52 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Ink-stained wretch swears off newspapers

  An ABC columnists talks about why he doesn’t miss the printed newspaper.

  Mar 28 2005 at 12:52 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Dallaire, Eggleton senators

  Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) Roméo Dallaire, former T.O. mayor Art Eggleton as well as a few Conservatives become PM²’s first

  Mar 24 2005 at 5:35 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Canada’s new copyright laws revealed

  From a brief glance, it looks like the act will tone-down a lot of the rhetoric suggested by the Canadian Heritage Standing Committee.

  Mar 24 2005 at 5:23 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• NowPublic tackles citizen journalism

  The spawling site has an idea that seems to difficult to implement.

  Mar 24 2005 at 5:04 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Firefox 1.0.2 released

  The Firefox browser’s security update is released.

  Mar 24 2005 at 11:09 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Creative Commons search engine

  Yahoo has a version of its search that targets Creative Commons licensed material.

  Mar 24 2005 at 11:08 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Slashdot going XHTML/CSS?!

  Could it be, the geek news behometh is entering the standards-age?

  Mar 24 2005 at 11:08 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Speeding up XML

  The W3C considers making a binary XML format.

  Mar 23 2005 at 9:03 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Thunderbird 1.0.2 released

  This is a minor update, covering security fixes.

  Mar 22 2005 at 4:40 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Tagging as the new world order

  An analysis of how Yahoo’s Flickr purchase may change the whole search game.

  Mar 22 2005 at 4:38 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Kofi Annan on fighting terrorism

  The Secretary-General of the United Nations explains the five Ds.

  Mar 22 2005 at 4:38 PM EST

  Topic: World

• Sharing your open-licensed media online

  OurMedia will host open-licensed videos, music, photos, and other rich media content for you.

  Mar 21 2005 at 1:15 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Greasemonkey script: Google Suggest

  Only works on Google.com, but a great enhancement from Adrian Holovaty.

  Mar 20 2005 at 9:59 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Browsers

• Flickr goes Yahoo!

  The little Vancity Web app goes bigtime.

  Mar 20 2005 at 9:46 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Why Micorsoft can⁏t support standards

  Dean Edwards explains that the problem lies within the Trident rendering engine.

  Mar 18 2005 at 8:57 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• A “Candidate Recommendation” is the recommendation

  Hixie explains the changed status of recommendation titles.

  Mar 18 2005 at 8:55 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• CSS 2.1 not part of IE7

  Rumours are flying, but it looks like IE 7 wil lcontinue to eb the only major browser not supporting CSS 2.1.

  Mar 17 2005 at 3:54 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• New typefaces from Microsoft

  Some very nice serif, sans-serif, and monospaced faces to be released in 2006.

  Mar 17 2005 at 12:01 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Google X

  An homage to MacOSX’s Dock.

  Mar 16 2005 at 2:38 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Design

• The Acid2 Test

  Ensuring IE7 does what it’s supposed to.

  Mar 16 2005 at 2:34 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Newspapapers stuggle with pay models

  The New York Times has a pretty open anyalysis of the problems facing newspapers in print and online.

  Mar 14 2005 at 11:59 AM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• SXSW presentation: Emergent Semantics

  http://complexspiral.com/events/archive/2005/sxsw/

  Mar 14 2005 at 11:51 AM EST

  Topic: Web Resources

• Firefox extension: HTML Validator

  Go now, Web developer, and download this wonderous tool.

  Mar 14 2005 at 11:50 AM EST

  Topics: Web Resources, Browsers

• Bill Cameron: 1943 – 2005

  CBC Archives remebers was one of my favourite, and most personable anchors.

  Mar 12 2005 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• Microsoft does del.icio.us

  Microsoft developers play some more with a social bookmark manager.

  Mar 11 2005 at 9:29 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Microsoft does Bloglines

  Microsoft developers play a Web-based RSS reader. Interesting...

  Mar 11 2005 at 9:25 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Banning postering

  Toronto, bizarrely, is on the way to bar postering in the city.

  Mar 11 2005 at 12:21 AM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• The Globe and Mail has RSS!

  A year-long lobbying effort has paid off: the Globe has finally launched a pretty decent RSS service.

  Mar 10 2005 at 11:10 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism

• The Billionaires Club

  Theres more of them and generally, their even richer, Forbes finds.

  Mar 10 2005 at 11:09 PM EST

  Topic: World

• Mozilla 1.8 will never be

  The Mozilla Suite transition plan will surely ruffle some feathers, but it makes sense (this from a longtime Suite defender).

  Mar 10 2005 at 11:06 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Slashdot on Net libel⁏s global reach

  Yes, I submitted it (only my second ever story), but hey, it made it to the frontpage — and they slam my grammar!

  Mar 10 2005 at 10:46 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• Customized Google News

  Reorder the pages or add your own section.

  Mar 10 2005 at 9:50 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• J-school launches online magazine

  The publication will be a show case for the school’s online-journalists-in-training.

  Mar 9 2005 at 2:54 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Wikis on journalism skills

  The Online Journalism Review launched a series of wikies targetted to non-professional journalists.

  Mar 9 2005 at 2:49 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism Resources

• Net libel’s global reach

  Media appeal an Ontario court ruling that could threaten free speech and [the] development of the Internet

  Mar 9 2005 at 1:52 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Ontario

• Takedown: TO-style

  Toronto cops drive into a knife-welding assailant (Windows Media video).

  Mar 8 2005 at 3:42 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Battelle on Google Desktop Search

  Comments on what really makes the search tool shine (three letters: A-P-I)

  Mar 7 2005 at 12:02 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Google Desktop Search for Thunderbird

  Google’s (non-beta) desktop search tool handles Thunderbird — welcome back Google.

  Mar 7 2005 at 11:58 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Netscape 8.0 Beta released

  The franken-browser has its first public beta.

  Mar 3 2005 at 4:20 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Toronto panorama

  This amazing photograph shows all of Toronto as seen from the top of the CN Tower.

  Mar 3 2005 at 3:06 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• The Pugsly Awards

  Recognizing, with Flash(!), the best and worst of Toronto’s urban landscape.

  Mar 3 2005 at 2:17 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Desktop search for Thunderbird

  Copernic’s desktop search tool now handles Thunderbird — so long Google.

  Mar 3 2005 at 2:16 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Watch Battlestar Galactica online

  The entire, commercial-free first episode is available online.

  Mar 2 2005 at 9:34 AM EST

  Topic: TV

• Yahoo @ 10

  The original eccentric search service turns ten today.

  Mar 2 2005 at 9:33 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Jef Raskin dies

  The man how developed the Mac interface has died.

  Feb 28 2005 at 10:27 AM EST

  Topic: Computers

• Newspaper runs embedded text ads

  The New York Post IntelliTXT ads test go public.

  Feb 28 2005 at 9:24 AM EST

  Topics: Advertising, Newspapers

• WSJ faces irrelevance, too

  Adam Penenberg (weakly) argues Wall Street Journal needs drop subscription.

  Feb 28 2005 at 9:17 AM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Number portability coming to Canada

  Finally mobile customers will be able to dump their carriers but keep their numbers

  Feb 25 2005 at 1:01 PM EST

  Topics: Technology, Canada

• $9/hour for Wifi!?

  Second Cup and Rogers will charge 15¢ a minute in great this infobahn robbery.

  Feb 23 2005 at 11:45 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Canada blocks Firefox users?

  Good news: Canada wants its citizens to connect with federal departments online in a secure and a consistent manner. Bad news: only Internet Explorer on Windows seems to be supported.

  Feb 21 2005 at 11:57 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Canada

• Thomson offers $1.5B for Bell Globemedia

  This is either a low-ball offer for Bell Globemedia, or a rich offer for The Globe and Mail.

  Feb 21 2005 at 10:58 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• XForms vs. Web Forms

  A in-depth explanation of the fight to find the best way to mark-up forms.

  Feb 21 2005 at 9:32 AM EST

  Topic: HTML

• Codename: Ajax

  JJG describes the new Web application interface model.

  Feb 21 2005 at 9:31 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• The Doctor is dead

  Hunter S. Thompson has ended his gonzo life.

  Feb 21 2005 at 9:06 AM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• Wikinews design contest

  Could be worth watching to see what the collective consciousness of the Web comes up with.

  Feb 18 2005 at 3:50 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• New Washintonpost.com homepage

  Clean look, and notably, the left navigation is gone in place of the top nav.

  Feb 15 2005 at 3:20 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Interview with Salon’s new editor

  Founding editor David Talbot has stepped-down, and Joan Walsh explains what she’ll bring the magazine.

  Feb 15 2005 at 1:08 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• No nostalgia for us, we’re Gen-X

  Nice little piece from The New York Times on eighties “nostalgia”

  Feb 15 2005 at 1:07 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• We are the bunny-earred

  Over-the-air TV is the new cool.

  Feb 15 2005 at 1:07 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• XMLHttpRequest tutorial

  The basics on building very dynamic Web interfaces.

  Feb 15 2005 at 1:06 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• RSS big driver for NYTimes.com

  The NYTimes.com site got more than 4.5 million page views in Janaury from RSS.

  Feb 9 2005 at 12:51 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Google maps

  Consider this the first wave. Mix this, keyhole, and local (or news) and you got one fine mapping tool. (U.S. only.)

  Feb 8 2005 at 2:24 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Watch Chrétien testify

  Canada’s ousted PM defends his role in the sponsorship inquiry.

  Feb 8 2005 at 9:58 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• The New York Times: “Smaller Than a Pushpin, More Powerful Than a PC”

  Crazy-small 64-bit processor could reshape the home computing landscape.

  Feb 7 2005 at 3:18 PM EST

  Topic: Computers

• CTV wins Olympic broadcast rights

  CBC loses big: the Vancouver Olympic broadcast rights go to CTV-Rogers

  Feb 7 2005 at 2:25 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• Standards-based phishing exploit

  This one is nasty, and affects standard-compliant browsers but leaves IE unaffected.

  Feb 7 2005 at 2:04 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• O’Reilly’s Web design books online

  The full-text of early classics on HTML, CSS, and IA.

  Feb 5 2005 at 3:35 PM EST

  Topic: Web Resources

• SXSW’s 2005 Web Awards Finalists

  Finalists include Digital Web Magazine, a redesign I worked on.

  Feb 4 2005 at 3:19 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Picking a pope

  A old, yet timely Slate article on the process involved in selecting the next Catholic pope.di

  Feb 1 2005 at 10:40 PM EST

  Topic: World

• The Esquire covers

  Watch the magazine go from cutesy to classy to trashy.

  Feb 1 2005 at 4:25 PM EST

  Topic: Magazine

• Creating a custom DTD

  A List Apart reveals how to create and validate a custom DTD.

  Feb 1 2005 at 4:12 PM EST

  Topic: HTML

• Rosen questions Akin

  David Akin reveals how blogging has changed his journalism.

  Feb 1 2005 at 4:06 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• MSN picks the “worst browser”

  Guess which browser Microsoft thinks is the worst?

  Feb 1 2005 at 3:41 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Search Engines

• Interview with the other Craig

  Craigslist founder ponders citizen journalism and more.

  Feb 1 2005 at 11:38 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism

• MSN redesigns

  The very, very dull page at least uses a semantic, CSS-based layout/

  Feb 1 2005 at 10:34 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Media Bistro redesigns

  Now includes five Denton-fighting blogs.

  Jan 31 2005 at 4:54 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• CBC.ca Arts redesigns

  Stylish standards-based, CSS layout holds the promise of good content.

  Jan 31 2005 at 4:54 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Blogs won’t change the world

  Jack Shafer says what the open-source journalists/bloggers don’t want to hear.

  Jan 30 2005 at 11:41 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• RSS recommendation reader

  This Web-based RSS aggregator also acts as a simple recommendation service.

  Jan 25 2005 at 12:54 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Best American online newspapers

  The Newspaper Association of America just released its 2005 Digital Edge Award Finalists.

  Jan 25 2005 at 12:53 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Giving them what they want

  A List Apart offers some ideas for pleasing Web site visitors.

  Jan 25 2005 at 12:51 PM EST

  Topic: Usability

• Goodger goes to Google

  Google will fund his Firefox work. GBrowser = Goodger?

  Jan 24 2005 at 3:03 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Search Engines

• Scrivs sells CSS Vault

  The price is cited, in his enigmatic way, as $XX,XXX. If true, that’s a hefy bit of cash for a gallery site.

  Jan 24 2005 at 3:03 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, CSS

• People’s search behaviour

  Pew asks people how they feel about and use search engines.

  Jan 24 2005 at 1:24 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Canadian New Media Awards return

  No mention on the site, but an email suggested they were looking for nominations.

  Jan 22 2005 at 10:11 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Amazon.ca opens to Web services

  The Canada site releases its API.

  Jan 22 2005 at 8:51 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Akin to the Hill

  Long-time technology reporter moves to CTV’s Parliamentary bureau.

  Jan 22 2005 at 8:50 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• GeoCities or CSS Zen Garden?

  Scarily enough, it’s all real…

  Jan 19 2005 at 10:03 PM EST

  Topic: CSS

• Quoting in Canada

  Joe Clark covers everything you need to know about citing other work in Canada online.

  Jan 19 2005 at 10:01 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Gillmor on the end of objectivity

  Dan Gillmor posts a draft of an essay on the irrelevance of objectivity in journalism.

  Jan 19 2005 at 5:29 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• Ta-da: a to-do list

  37signals release a sub-component of Basecamp: a Web-based to-do list that’s brilliantly simple.

  Jan 19 2005 at 1:59 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Carnivore dies

  American law enforcement has abadoned its Internet surveillance technology.

  Jan 19 2005 at 12:56 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• News and blogger comment

  This news aggregator appends blogger’s comments about each story.

  Jan 19 2005 at 12:07 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• rel="nofollow"

  Will this end up killing the notion of a reputation engine? Not sure if the ends justify the means here.

  Jan 19 2005 at 12:07 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Choosing the Word of the Year

  A story only a language obsessive could enjoy.

  Jan 18 2005 at 2:32 PM EST

  Topic: Language

• Copyright killing culture

  The Globe and Mail has a provocative article on how copyright is destroying documentaries.

  Jan 18 2005 at 2:31 PM EST

  Topic: Movies

• Musical pablum

  Using AI, music labels are now able to predict the next charting-topping track.

  Jan 18 2005 at 12:25 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• Slashdot on the future of online news

  The uber-geeks riff on what the future of news on the Internet will be like.

  Jan 17 2005 at 10:35 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Real-world accessibility guidelines

  A fantastic collection of guidelines built after watching people who actually work with screen readers regularly.

  Jan 17 2005 at 9:51 PM EST

  Topic: Accessibility

• Anti-Hit List Star-bound?

  Seems like my former co-worker is going to our former competition. Good on, Sakamoto.

  Jan 17 2005 at 9:48 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Music

• The 2004 Canadian Blog Award winners

  Like a high school election, it’s all about popularity.

  Jan 17 2005 at 9:58 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Bill Doskoch on Canada’'s first maga-paper

  The Sunday Toronto Star rejigged itself to be more like a magazine.

  Jan 17 2005 at 9:57 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Find contributions to Canadian political parties

  Find out who your boss (or family) is giving to.

  Jan 13 2005 at 10:40 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• The future of the Internet

  Experts tell Pew what they thik the Net will be like for us in a decade.

  Jan 13 2005 at 8:51 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Village Voice embraces online

  Weekly print publication now publishing daily online.

  Jan 12 2005 at 9:34 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Editor of Maclean's resigns

  Anthony Wilson-Smith decides to leave the magazine after a series of high-level shake-ups.

  Jan 11 2005 at 8:38 PM EST

  Topic: Magazine

• How online newspapers are remaking themselves

  Online newspapers are reshaping themselves to better accomadate blogs and RSS.

  Jan 10 2005 at 9:40 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• A National Web library

  Michael Geist proposes Canada be the first country in the world to create a comprehensive national digital library.

  Jan 10 2005 at 6:38 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• The creators of CSS

  A mini-history lesson on the origins CSS

  Jan 10 2005 at 6:37 PM EST

  Topic: CSS

• Zed now open source

  The software built to power CBC TV’s great, late night show is now open source.

  Jan 7 2005 at 11:18 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, TV

• Steps to open online newspapers

  Greensboro News & Record gets some great advice on how to make its Web site more “open source”

  Jan 5 2005 at 12:35 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Technorati tracks keywords

  The innovation improves Technorati’s service tremendously.

  Jan 5 2005 at 12:15 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Complex table inspector

  Ever since I diteched tables for layout, I’ve tried to make true tables as accessible as possible. This bookmarklet exposes the metadata of those tables.

  Jan 5 2005 at 11:47 AM EST

  Topic: Web Resources

• Wikipedia defence

  Clay Shirky rebuts anti-elitism criticism.

  Jan 4 2005 at 10:46 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• CanWesties paid to advertise

  Employees at CanWest get up to $3,600 a year to turn their car into a moving ad.

  Jan 4 2005 at 10:44 AM EST

  Topics: Advertising, TV

• Wikipedia criticism

  The “anti-elitism” issues reflect my concerns about citizen journalism.

  Jan 3 2005 at 11:42 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Online Journalism

• 2004 Canadian blog awards

  Most of those I don’t even know, but hey…

  Jan 3 2005 at 9:34 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• The 2005 colour forecast

  Purples, browns, desaturateds, and trippy tints.

  Jan 3 2005 at 9:22 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• BLC’s Year in Review

  Better Living Centre reviews the media year that was.

  Jan 1 2005 at 7:59 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Journalism

• Banished words for 2005

  Includes election jargon, “blog,” and “safe and effective.”

  Jan 1 2005 at 5:50 PM EST

  Topic: Language

• Installing Acrobat Reader 7

  Asa Dotzler explains how to best to install this speed-increasing upgrade.

  Dec 29 2004 at 8:37 AM EST

  Topic: Technology

• Chapters blocks validator

  Joe Clark discovers the book store’s Web site blocks any attempts to balidate its mangled code.

  Dec 29 2004 at 8:13 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• eBay best Net stock

  The auction site was the only one of the big five to improve upon its price at the bubble’s height.

  Dec 28 2004 at 3:03 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• PressThink’'s Top Ten Ideas for 2004

  From the legacy media to the Pajamahadeen and more.

  Dec 26 2004 at 10:29 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Opera betas version 8

  The browser was to 7.6, but the amount of enhancements boosted it a whole number.

  Dec 23 2004 at 1:41 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Kensington Market Festival of Lights

  Always a great way to celebrate the beginning of the end of winter darkness.

  Dec 21 2004 at 5:28 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• More Toronto tabloids?

  Rumours abound that the National Post, and maybe one day the Toronto Star, may go tabloid.

  Dec 21 2004 at 2:09 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Slate sold to Washington Post

  The sale should be done by mid-January, and no major editorial changes are planned.

  Dec 21 2004 at 1:57 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Smart, wireless transit ads

  The TTC will carry location-specific digital ads served using a wireless network. Could true WiFi be next?

  Dec 21 2004 at 11:18 AM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Technology

• New media timeline

  Despite the poor interface, this comprehensive timeline covers 35 years of American new media history.

  Dec 21 2004 at 9:09 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• MP3 player levy quashed

  The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that the copyright levvies applied to digital music players aren’t legal.

  Dec 17 2004 at 11:24 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• The New York Times Firefox ad

  Somewhere in the blur you’ll find my name amongst the 10,000 or so donors.

  Dec 16 2004 at 12:12 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Advertising

• Canadian journalism a stagnant pool?

  John Miller argues the media here is could care less…

  Dec 14 2004 at 8:04 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• CSS needs fixing

  Daniel Glazman weighs in with a mea culpa on the curent state of CSS.

  Dec 14 2004 at 4:51 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Dude

  Clive Thompson on dude’s current usage.

  Dec 13 2004 at 3:57 PM EST

  Topic: Language

• CBC does RSS

  CBC now has support for a variety of RSS feeds. Wonder who will be next…?

  Dec 13 2004 at 3:32 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Canadians are going digital

  We’re dropping analog media in favour of its digital equivalent at an increasing rate.

  Dec 13 2004 at 1:46 PM EST

  Topics: Technology, Canada

• Details on the AOL Browser

  It will use IE, but will included tabbed browsing. Why they don’t use the Netscape Browser still confounds me.

  Dec 13 2004 at 1:46 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Gary Webb is dead

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who tied the CIA to crack cocaine-trafficking in Los Angeles has committed suicide.

  Dec 13 2004 at 9:08 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Citytv news bests CBC, CTV

  Toronto’s own CityPulse at Six won a Gemini Award for best newscast beating out CBC’s The National and CTV News

  Dec 12 2004 at 10:29 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• What to do about writer’s block

  The return of the (content as) king.

  Dec 12 2004 at 2:36 PM EST

  Topic: Writing

• Ontario stops censoring movies

  Next year, the Ontario Film Review Board will likely lose its powers to censor film in the province.

  Dec 12 2004 at 1:11 PM EST

  Topics: Movies, Ontario

• Will citizen journalists hurt journalism?

  Bill Doskoch points voice to some concerns I have over the buzz around “citizen journalism.”

  Dec 12 2004 at 1:06 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• Testing all copy editors

  The Toronto Star’s ombusman Nitpicker’s Quiz tests ones editing skills.

  Dec 12 2004 at 1:03 PM EST

  Topic: Writing

• Google Suggest

  Google dynamically tries to predict what you’re search will be. Amazingly effective.

  Dec 10 2004 at 9:28 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Google News en français

  The French edition of Google News Canada enables searches and browsing news items from more than 500 French news sources.

  Dec 9 2004 at 11:10 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Wireless in Montreal

  Île Sans Fil helps businesses and local institutions give Internet access away free.

  Dec 9 2004 at 11:06 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Supreme Court rules in favour of same-sex marriage

  Canada’s top court has ruled same-sex marriage is constitutional, now the Liberals have to make good on their promising to change the legal definition.

  Dec 9 2004 at 10:42 AM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Tog’s list of persistent design bugs

  The top ten list is only seven items right now, but expect more.

  Dec 8 2004 at 6:44 PM EST

  Topics: Computers, Usability

• Firefox’s effect on news sites

  Mark Glaser takes a look at the browser from an online news perspective (and quotes me in the process).

  Dec 8 2004 at 4:52 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Online Journalism

• Mozilla’s developer FAQ

  Mozilla answers some common questions about the Gecko rendering engine, including how to use XHTML.

  Dec 8 2004 at 8:59 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Coulter on Carlson elucidate on Canada

  The pundits of conservative America demonstarte their skills.

  Dec 8 2004 at 8:39 AM EST

  Topics: Ontario, U.S.

• Could humans fix Google?

  Greg Linden riffs on the notion that people are needed to improve search engine results.

  Dec 7 2004 at 8:14 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Time for a new Net?

  The Christian Science Monitor wonders if the 35-year-old Internet needs a facelift.

  Dec 7 2004 at 8:14 PM EST

  Topic: Technology

• XStandard supports Firefox

  The XHTML WYSIWYG is now Firefox-friendly.

  Dec 7 2004 at 8:10 PM EST

  Topics: Web Standards, Browsers

• Advertising without hockey

  The New York Times, of all places explains how the lock-out has hurt the TV industry.

  Dec 7 2004 at 1:14 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• As if it wasn’t conservative enough…

  Clear Channel Communications (who banned the Dixie Chicks) will use Fox News Radio to provide national news for most of its news and talk stations.

  Dec 7 2004 at 1:13 PM EST

  Topic: Radio

• The future of RSS advertising

  Jason Kottke surveys the users and developers of RSS aggregators to find out.

  Dec 7 2004 at 11:43 AM EST

  Topic: Technology

• Firefox users don’t click on ads

  Of course there’s a litany of reasons for this, savviness being just one.

  Dec 7 2004 at 11:42 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Marqui on a slippery slope

  Paying bloggers to create a buzz about a product could backfire.

  Dec 7 2004 at 9:29 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Thunderbird 1.0

  Mozilla’s excellent mail client is ready for its close up.

  Dec 7 2004 at 8:51 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Spam/Virus

• Web design forecast for 2005

  Predictions for next year’s Web design trends.

  Dec 6 2004 at 9:05 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Editorial judgement by log analysis

  The Financial Times looks to its Web logs for tips on news trends.

  Dec 3 2004 at 11:05 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Eye blog

  Toronto’s alterna-weekly gets a blog.

  Dec 2 2004 at 8:47 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto

• Why blogging as journalism is a pipe dream

  Jason Kottke posts scoops about a Jeporady whiz Ken Jennings, and Sony threatens to sue him — but not the Washington Post, which did the same thing.

  Dec 2 2004 at 3:29 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Park-by-phone

  Well, actually it’s pay-by-phone-to-park, but still…

  Dec 2 2004 at 3:04 PM EST

  Topics: Technology, Toronto

• Editorial judgement by click

  A newspaper is tracking every click on a story and using that to help determine the content of the next day’s paper.

  Dec 2 2004 at 2:57 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Why Google News is still “beta”

  The WSJ’s Online Journal caught Google News link, as its top story, to a satirical article claiming Canada had arrested U.S. President Georg

  Dec 2 2004 at 10:47 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, U.S.

• Joe Gillespie retires

  Joe Gillespie is retiring from his pioneering work as a Web designer and publisher of Web Page Design for Designers.

  Dec 2 2004 at 10:37 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• The media company I want to work for

  Mark Glaser describes the ideal online journalism outfit. Sign me up.

  Dec 1 2004 at 11:40 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• Supporting standards would break the Web

  So says Microsoft, although Tristan Nitot deflects that dose of FUD.

  Nov 29 2004 at 12:51 PM EST

  Topics: Web Standards, Browsers

• Wikinews a go

  Wired News has an overview of the first steps of the open-source news site.

  Nov 29 2004 at 11:38 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• ITunes Canada days away

  Apple plans on finally launching the service before the end of December.

  Nov 26 2004 at 9:17 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Eye readers pick Toronto’s best media

  Radio I agree with, and sadly I only know of two of the “blogs” cited.

  Nov 24 2004 at 11:44 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Journalism

• Blog Torrent

  BitTorrent for your blog

  Nov 24 2004 at 4:31 PM EST

  Topic: Technology

• New Opera resizes pages

  Opera 7.60 (a preview release right now) dynamically resizes wide pages to fit a narrow browser window.

  Nov 24 2004 at 3:19 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• The life and times of Frank

  The Globe and Mail engages in some schadenfreude over the fate of Frank.

  Nov 24 2004 at 2:27 PM EST

  Topic: Magazine

• Why newspapers should worry

  And trust me, they are, and some are even trying to change.

  Nov 24 2004 at 9:30 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Browser bug report

  A database dedicated to dedicated to finding, mending and publishing CSS and JavaScript browser bugs

  Nov 24 2004 at 9:01 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Mind your cites and Qs

  Roger Johansson covers almost everything you know about the q, blockquote, and cite.

  Nov 24 2004 at 8:59 AM EST

  Topics: HTML, CSS

• Rather resigning

  CBS’s only post-Cronkite anchor is resigning with the taste of scandal to remember him by.

  Nov 23 2004 at 1:26 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• The computer as novelist

  A New York Times essay wonders whether computers will ever be able to write novels as good as we can.

  Nov 22 2004 at 5:33 PM EST

  Topic: Writing

• Typography tips

  Online companion to Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

  Nov 22 2004 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Style sheets for handheld devices

  A css-discuss Wiki entry discussing the latest trends in handheld support for CSS.

  Nov 22 2004 at 10:49 AM EST

  Topic: CSS

• Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1

  Kevin Sites explains to the marines how his story of the mosque shooting happened

  Nov 22 2004 at 9:45 AM EST

  Topic: U.S.

• The future of online news is EPIC

  Robert Sloan’s prediction of EPIC in 2014.

  Nov 22 2004 at 9:44 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Technology

• Findory personalizes search results

  Findory will now make recommendations in your search results based on past searches.

  Nov 22 2004 at 9:43 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Semantic and XHTML validator

  Want to make sure your XHTML is really really valid, try this.

  Nov 22 2004 at 9:43 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Keeping it simple

  Adam Bosworth’s transcript of his ISCOC04 Talk on accommodating really simple user and programmer models.

  Nov 22 2004 at 9:43 AM EST

  Topic: Technology

• XUL file manager

  A Windows-like file manager for a remote computer using XUL.

  Nov 22 2004 at 9:41 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Four million daily emails for Bill Gates

  Famous email addresses and their spam count.

  Nov 19 2004 at 11:52 AM EST

  Topic: Spam/Virus

• TV over the phone

  Bell Canada finally gets the rights to send television over its phone lines.

  Nov 19 2004 at 11:00 AM EST

  Topic: Convergence

• Handy Web project guides

  Goto Guides offer a number of helpful and downloadable resources for Web development projects.

  Nov 19 2004 at 10:50 AM EST

  Topic: Web Resources

• People read online!

  The Christian Science Monitor explains what that means.

  Nov 19 2004 at 8:42 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• Torontoist songs for a Wednesday

  Every mecredi the city blog will be offering Toronto-inspired downloads.

  Nov 17 2004 at 2:36 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• Overture’s RSS ads

  Interstitails could be the way to make RSS ads more effective.

  Nov 17 2004 at 2:35 PM EST

  Topic: Technology

• Top news sites for October 2004

  Though no Canadian sites are listed, per captia many would few handily beat their American competitors.

  Nov 17 2004 at 2:34 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• More AOL using Mozilla rumours

  This time, the company that killed Netscape is looking for testers.

  Nov 17 2004 at 9:34 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Stanford marches with madness

  Can a marching band be composed of anarchists?

  Nov 16 2004 at 2:05 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• Crawley’s crusade

  My ultimate boss, Philip Crawley, has lead the Globe’s possibly unwinnable fight against the Post.

  Nov 16 2004 at 2:04 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Videogame to debut Snoop Dogg/Doors “Riders on the Storm” cover

  Proof that Jim Morrison’s dead, because if he was alive, he’d smash a bottle of Jack over all their heads.

  Nov 15 2004 at 4:15 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• “Music is not a loaf of bread”

  Wilco proves that online music-sharing can be a good thing.

  Nov 15 2004 at 2:52 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Acrobat Reader 7 coming

  The new version will allow you to edit PDF files.

  Nov 15 2004 at 1:29 PM EST

  Topic: Computers

• Two IT sites launch standards-based sites

  Softchoice and EDS.com both launched valid, CSS-based redeigns on the weekend.

  Nov 15 2004 at 12:03 PM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Dow Jones buys MarketWatch

  The New York Times reports the site was sold for almost half-a-billion dollars.

  Nov 15 2004 at 9:10 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Yahoo hires WSJ.com founding editor

  Rumours are it's looking at CBS Marketwatch, too.

  Nov 12 2004 at 4:53 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Masthead putting up a wall

  The trade magazine for Canada’s magazine industry will be closing its site to non-subscribers come December.

  Nov 12 2004 at 12:54 PM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Magazine

• Internet tax for Canada

  Unlike the, albeit misguided, blank CD levy, we’d pay an tax but get no rights in return.

  Nov 11 2004 at 2:44 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• MSN search launches

  And John Battelle’s analysis the beat product in his Searchblog.

  Nov 11 2004 at 8:10 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Saerch results on the fly

  A dynymaic search using xmlhttprequest and inspired by Apple’s upcoming Spotlight feature.

  Nov 11 2004 at 7:57 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Military(.com) buys blog

  Is this the next big cash-in trend?

  Nov 10 2004 at 4:22 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• Gmail POPs

  Google’s Web-based email now supports POP just as Hotmail begins charging for it.

  Nov 10 2004 at 3:37 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Microsoft searches for dominance

  Will develop “Google-killing” service, then leave it dormant with new features only available to those who buy the latest version of Windows.

  Nov 10 2004 at 12:41 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Spinning-off online journalism

  Mark Glaser tries to explain why the newly profitable news sites are being sold.

  Nov 10 2004 at 12:40 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Future of digital media

  Jeff Jarvis prognosticates on the changes in store for media

  Nov 10 2004 at 12:40 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Open source newspapers

  The Northwest Voice prints articles from submitted online from the community and published on the Web.

  Nov 10 2004 at 12:39 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Beautiful browser…

  Molly sings Firefox’s praises to the tune of “Beautiful dreamer.”

  Nov 9 2004 at 3:43 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• November 25: RRJ fund raiser

  The first magazine I brought online, the Ryerson Review of Journalism is hosting a fund raiser at DNA Lounge.

  Nov 9 2004 at 10:48 AM EST

  Topic: Magazine

• Dynamic image notation

  Seen Flicker? Well, this adds notes to images in a similar same way.

  Nov 9 2004 at 9:01 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Clark on Indigo

  Joe rips into the latest Indigo redesign and includes a “Saila reference”.

  Nov 8 2004 at 4:06 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Another petition for Internet users’s rights

  A printable petition urging Canada not to adopt the WIPO’s Internet Treaties.

  Nov 8 2004 at 2:11 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Petition against WIPO Copyright Treaty

  A virtual petition urging Canada not to ratify the treaty.

  Nov 8 2004 at 2:09 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Keep Canada’s Internet free

  Boing Boing explains the dangers of the WIPO “Internet Treaties”

  Nov 7 2004 at 2:15 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Some stability for the CBC

  Robert Rabinovitch gets to stay on as CBC president for another three years.

  Nov 5 2004 at 11:21 AM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• The homepage is obsolete, part II

  Joshua Porter’s follow-up to his Digital Web Magazine article on content aggregation.

  Nov 5 2004 at 10:48 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• CSS property compatibility chart

  The chart shows all CSS1, CSS2 and Internet Explorer CSS extensions and grades the level of support each recieves in a given browser.

  Nov 4 2004 at 11:37 AM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Resources

• The homepage is obsolete

  Joshua Porter, in Digital Web Magazine, explains how content aggregators are changing navigation styles.

  Nov 4 2004 at 11:05 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Uncollapsing margins

  Eric A. Meyer explains how to reverse the margin collapse.

  Nov 4 2004 at 9:23 AM EST

  Topic: CSS

• Best of luck today, neighbours

  May your vote for president (cough, not Bush, cough) be easier than depicted in this video.

  Nov 2 2004 at 11:33 AM EST

  Topic: U.S.

• Speeding up browser evolution

  Mike Davidson compares Flash to browsers and comes up with some thought provoking ideas.

  Nov 2 2004 at 11:26 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Culture

• A pleasant Findory redesign

  The news site spiffs-up the look, and enhances its offerings

  Nov 1 2004 at 5:50 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• A horrendous chapters.indigo.ca redesign

  An inaccessible, standards-unfriendly, Amazon.ca rip-off that I date not even link to directly.

  Nov 1 2004 at 5:48 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• The Internet at 35 (or so)

  Today is the 35th anniversary of the first Internet message was sent from Len Kleinrock’s laboratory at UCLA

  Oct 29 2004 at 5:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• MarketWatch for sale

  The Web-based finance news behemoth might go to Dow Jones or even Yahoo.

  Oct 29 2004 at 1:36 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Reviving on the tables

  Roger Johansson explains how to build data tables.

  Oct 29 2004 at 1:10 PM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Best of (Now’s) Toronto

  Reader’s picks are typically typical, but the critique’s picks hit the mark.

  Oct 29 2004 at 12:56 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Re-imagining democratic elections

  B.C. asked its citizens to come up with a better election process, and they’ve chosen wisely.

  Oct 28 2004 at 2:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Indigo relaunch coming

  Might the also ran online bookstore actually abadon fonts and tables in favour of CSS (which as far as I can, it doesn’t use at all)?

  Oct 28 2004 at 12:51 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Dot-post? Dot-travel?

  I don’t think I’ll ever get ICANN’s thinking.

  Oct 28 2004 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topic: Technology

• Scrollable tables

  Works even in browser that don’t support fixed positioning

  Oct 27 2004 at 12:55 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Prototype for MSN’s new search?

  Noticing, with the advent of Mac OSX, it’s becoming popular to have the options box appear underneath, but associated with the masthead (like Site Builder function on this demo).

  Oct 26 2004 at 2:09 PM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Design

• Speed tweaks

  Andy King’s collection of tips for speeding up your site’s performance.

  Oct 26 2004 at 1:38 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• A yeat in J-School

  Why isn’t every journalism school encouaging its students to blog?

  Oct 26 2004 at 1:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Wikinews could be coming

  A proposed project from the Wikipedia folk is running about 3:1 in favour of getting underway

  Oct 26 2004 at 1:02 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Memories mapped to music

  Didier Hilhorst and Marcos Weskamp are collecting feelings, images, and memories related to songs.

  Oct 26 2004 at 9:49 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Wikipedia as journalism

  The Tyee follows the trend of loving the Wiki-powered encyclopedia as a model for journalism.

  Oct 23 2004 at 2:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Online news opening up

  Mark Glaser, in the OJR, writes about mainstream news sites opening up to the rest of the Web.

  Oct 20 2004 at 11:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Toronto to welcome Firefox

  There's going to be a launch party (likely November 20) for the browser here in Toronto after the browser officially hits 1.0.

  Oct 19 2004 at 4:40 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Toronto

• Directory tree styling

  Sfeve Clay demos a simple way to style multiple lists to look like a directory tree.

  Oct 19 2004 at 2:40 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• “display:inline-block” a panacea for IE 5/Mac

  Mark Hadley finds a way to fix a nasty float bug that has plagued IE 5 on the Macintosh

  Oct 19 2004 at 2:21 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Back in the day’

  As clunky as the mark-up looks today, it’s impressive how much of Siegel’s wishes came to be.

  Oct 19 2004 at 2:19 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• S⁵ version 1.0

  Eric Meyer’s dHTML slide show tool is presntation ready.

  Oct 18 2004 at 5:14 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Ben Goodger interview

  Firefox creator shares some insight with News.com

  Oct 17 2004 at 9:50 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Compiling corrections

  A blog commenting on corrections appearing in North American newspaper

  Oct 17 2004 at 9:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Inside the mind behind Findory

  An interview with ex-Amazoner Greg Linden about his personalized news site.

  Oct 15 2004 at 2:57 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The end of Moore’s Law?

  Probably not, the house that Moore built has killed planes to release 4GHz Pentium 4 processor.

  Oct 14 2004 at 2:48 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Implanting identity chips

  The New York Times discusses the ramifications surrounding the approval of a RFID-like chip for storing a 16-digit number used to retreive medical records.

  Oct 14 2004 at 12:34 PM EDT

  Topic: U.S.

• Mathew Ingram’s second blog at globeandmail.com

  Ingram has always been willing to produce Web-exclusive content as he previously illustrated with globetechnology’s Geek Watch.

  Oct 14 2004 at 12:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• Google can now search your computer

  Although it doesn’t search Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla history/email you can “vote” for the feature.

  Oct 14 2004 at 11:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• PPK finds a XP SP2 CSS bug

  Great. Internet Explorer 6 is different between Windows XP and Windows XP SP2. Let the fun begin.

  Oct 14 2004 at 10:38 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Offline versions of DevEdge’s sidebars

  Until the Mozilla Foundation can get the the rights to DevEdge material, you can download these from TnTLuoma.com.

  Oct 13 2004 at 12:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Netscape browser at 10

  News.com looks back at the browser’s storied life, and reports of a possible resurrection.

  Oct 13 2004 at 11:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• WTF: an AOL IE?

  AOL plans to release a browser based on IE, despite the company’s ties with Netscape and Mozilla.

  Oct 8 2004 at 3:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Online newspaper index

  A listing of all (?) the Web versions of world⁏ newspapers

  Oct 8 2004 at 8:55 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• New CAR site

  A very rough looking site for computer-assisted reporting in Canada, with links to database material.

  Oct 7 2004 at 11:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Journalism Resources

• BBC unveils open-source video tool

  Targetting Windows Media Player, this is another demonstration of BBC’s excellent foresight.

  Oct 7 2004 at 12:40 PM EDT

  Topic: Technology

• Skinning Gmail

  Redesign the Gmail interface with a custom stylesheet. Just the beginning of what will be a quick trend.

  Oct 7 2004 at 9:18 AM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• sIFR 2.0 RC 1

  Mike Davidson and Mark Wubben unveil what could be the final version of a pretty impressive image replacement technique.

  Oct 6 2004 at 11:06 AM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Using patterns in Web design

  Ryan Singer, from 37signals, offers a simple introduction to patterns.

  Oct 6 2004 at 8:21 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Kapica on Firefox

  He doesn’t like it, because it won’t work with the Globe and Mail’s publishing tools. Let’s see if I can fix that…(subscription only link).

  Oct 5 2004 at 1:23 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• CRTC: Voicemail spam A-OK

  Apparently, it’s not enough of a nuisance…

  Oct 5 2004 at 10:39 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Remaking BBC News with Wikipedia links

  Stef Magdalinski has built a proxy to turn proper nouns into links.

  Oct 5 2004 at 9:18 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Online news design winners

  The winners from 2004—s Society for News Design multimedia awards, the SNDies.

  Oct 4 2004 at 2:40 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Online Journalism

• “Web standards” near “Toronto, ON”

  The WaSP’s message can be found all across T-dot (thanks for the tip Rudy).

  Oct 4 2004 at 2:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Toronto

• The perfect news story

  The hed, the lede, all brilliant.

  Oct 4 2004 at 12:59 PM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Introducing CreativeCommons.ca

  Creative Commons licences for use under Canadian law.

  Oct 1 2004 at 9:36 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Browser wars reignited

  News.com assembles a huge package on the limping IE and its energized competitors in the browser business

  Sep 30 2004 at 1:28 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Styled form elements

  Roger Johansson demonstrates how eight of today’s browsers render styled from elements.

  Sep 29 2004 at 1:28 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Yahoo does CSS…

  The new Yahoo and My Yahoo homepages use semantic mark-up and styles. Come on Google.

  Sep 29 2004 at 10:51 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Yahoo does RSS…

  The new My Yahoo will use RSS and Atom

  Sep 29 2004 at 10:48 AM EDT

  Topic: Technology

• Managing CSS hacks

  Molly writes a comprehensive article on how to work with and manage CSS hacks and filters in real style sheets.

  Sep 28 2004 at 12:09 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• BBC News launches aggregation service

  Brilliant move by the public broadcaster, but don’t expect traditional news sites to do this any time soon…

  Sep 28 2004 at 10:51 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Eric’s slideshow tool

  Mr. Meyer builds an dHTML-based slideshow tool.

  Sep 27 2004 at 8:44 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Resources

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