Archive
Welcome to the beta of the new saila.com. Send in your bugs.
Asa Dotzler explains how to best to install this speed-increasing upgrade.
Topic: Technology
Joe Clark discovers the book store’s Web site blocks any attempts to balidate its mangled code.
Topic: Web Standards
The auction site was the only one of the big five to improve upon its price at the bubble’s height.
Topic: Web Culture
From the legacy media to the Pajamahadeen and more.
Topic: Online Journalism
The browser was to 7.6, but the amount of enhancements boosted it a whole number.
Always a great way to celebrate the beginning of the end of winter darkness.
Rumours abound that the National Post, and maybe one day the Toronto Star, may go tabloid.
Topic: Newspapers
The sale should be done by mid-January, and no major editorial changes are planned.
Topic: Online Journalism
The TTC will carry location-specific digital ads served using a wireless network. Could true WiFi be next?
Topics: Toronto, Technology
Despite the poor interface, this comprehensive timeline covers 35 years of American new media history.
Topic: Online Journalism
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that the copyright levvies applied to digital music players aren’t legal.
Somewhere in the blur you’ll find my name amongst the 10,000 or so donors.
Topics: Browsers, Advertising
John Miller argues the media here is could care less…
Topic: Journalism
Daniel Glazman weighs in with a mea culpa on the curent state of CSS.
Topics: CSS, Web Standards
Clive Thompson on dude’s current usage.
CBC now has support for a variety of RSS feeds. Wonder who will be next…?
Topic: Online Journalism
We’re dropping analog media in favour of its digital equivalent at an increasing rate.
Topics: Technology, Canada
It will use IE, but will included tabbed browsing. Why they don’t use the Netscape Browser still confounds me.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who tied the CIA to crack cocaine-trafficking in Los Angeles has committed suicide.
Topic: Newspapers
Toronto’s own CityPulse at Six won a Gemini Award for best newscast beating out CBC’s The National and CTV News
The return of the (content as) king.
Next year, the Ontario Film Review Board will likely lose its powers to censor film in the province.
Bill Doskoch points voice to some concerns I have over the buzz around “citizen journalism.”
Topic: Journalism
The Toronto Star’s ombusman Nitpicker’s Quiz tests ones editing skills.
Google dynamically tries to predict what you’re search will be. Amazingly effective.
Topic: Search Engines
The French edition of Google News Canada enables searches and browsing news items from more than 500 French news sources.
Topic: Online Journalism
Île Sans Fil helps businesses and local institutions give Internet access away free
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Topic: Web Technology
Canada’s top court has ruled same-sex marriage is constitutional, now the Liberals have to make good on their promising to change the legal definition.
The top ten list is only seven items right now, but expect more.
Mark Glaser takes a look at the browser from an online news perspective (and quotes me in the process).
Topics: Browsers, Online Journalism
The new msnbc.com design represents a whole new way for editors to report the news online
An update to the tableless CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout that uses HTML 5 and CSS 3 selectors, and works in Internet Explorer 7 and up; Gecko-based browsers like Firefox; Webkit browsers like Safari and Chrome; as well as the Opera browser.
The latest upgrade to Apple's Web browser brings a promising set of new features.
Toronto reveals its true face in a trio of movies released in 2010
Four years later, I look back at some of the lessons learned about designing a news Web site using Web standards to see what still applies.
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