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