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Briefly Noted from October 2004

• The Internet at 35 (or so)

  Today is the 35th anniversary of the first Internet message was sent from Len Kleinrock’s laboratory at UCLA

  Oct 29 2004 at 5:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• MarketWatch for sale

  The Web-based finance news behemoth might go to Dow Jones or even Yahoo.

  Oct 29 2004 at 1:36 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Reviving on the tables

  Roger Johansson explains how to build data tables.

  Oct 29 2004 at 1:10 PM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Best of (Now’s) Toronto

  Reader’s picks are typically typical, but the critique’s picks hit the mark.

  Oct 29 2004 at 12:56 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Re-imagining democratic elections

  B.C. asked its citizens to come up with a better election process, and they’ve chosen wisely.

  Oct 28 2004 at 2:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Indigo relaunch coming

  Might the also ran online bookstore actually abadon fonts and tables in favour of CSS (which as far as I can, it doesn’t use at all)?

  Oct 28 2004 at 12:51 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Dot-post? Dot-travel?

  I don’t think I’ll ever get ICANN’s thinking.

  Oct 28 2004 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topic: Technology

• Scrollable tables

  Works even in browser that don’t support fixed positioning

  Oct 27 2004 at 12:55 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Prototype for MSN’s new search?

  Noticing, with the advent of Mac OSX, it’s becoming popular to have the options box appear underneath, but associated with the masthead (like Site Builder function on this demo).

  Oct 26 2004 at 2:09 PM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Design

• Speed tweaks

  Andy King’s collection of tips for speeding up your site’s performance.

  Oct 26 2004 at 1:38 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• A yeat in J-School

  Why isn’t every journalism school encouaging its students to blog?

  Oct 26 2004 at 1:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Wikinews could be coming

  A proposed project from the Wikipedia folk is running about 3:1 in favour of getting underway

  Oct 26 2004 at 1:02 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Memories mapped to music

  Didier Hilhorst and Marcos Weskamp are collecting feelings, images, and memories related to songs.

  Oct 26 2004 at 9:49 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Wikipedia as journalism

  The Tyee follows the trend of loving the Wiki-powered encyclopedia as a model for journalism.

  Oct 23 2004 at 2:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Online news opening up

  Mark Glaser, in the OJR, writes about mainstream news sites opening up to the rest of the Web.

  Oct 20 2004 at 11:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Toronto to welcome Firefox

  There's going to be a launch party (likely November 20) for the browser here in Toronto after the browser officially hits 1.0.

  Oct 19 2004 at 4:40 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Toronto

• Directory tree styling

  Sfeve Clay demos a simple way to style multiple lists to look like a directory tree.

  Oct 19 2004 at 2:40 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• “display:inline-block” a panacea for IE 5/Mac

  Mark Hadley finds a way to fix a nasty float bug that has plagued IE 5 on the Macintosh

  Oct 19 2004 at 2:21 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Back in the day’

  As clunky as the mark-up looks today, it’s impressive how much of Siegel’s wishes came to be.

  Oct 19 2004 at 2:19 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• S⁵ version 1.0

  Eric Meyer’s dHTML slide show tool is presntation ready.

  Oct 18 2004 at 5:14 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Ben Goodger interview

  Firefox creator shares some insight with News.com

  Oct 17 2004 at 9:50 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Compiling corrections

  A blog commenting on corrections appearing in North American newspaper

  Oct 17 2004 at 9:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Inside the mind behind Findory

  An interview with ex-Amazoner Greg Linden about his personalized news site.

  Oct 15 2004 at 2:57 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The end of Moore’s Law?

  Probably not, the house that Moore built has killed planes to release 4GHz Pentium 4 processor.

  Oct 14 2004 at 2:48 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Implanting identity chips

  The New York Times discusses the ramifications surrounding the approval of a RFID-like chip for storing a 16-digit number used to retreive medical records.

  Oct 14 2004 at 12:34 PM EDT

  Topic: U.S.

• Mathew Ingram’s second blog at globeandmail.com

  Ingram has always been willing to produce Web-exclusive content as he previously illustrated with globetechnology’s Geek Watch.

  Oct 14 2004 at 12:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• Google can now search your computer

  Although it doesn’t search Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla history/email you can “vote” for the feature.

  Oct 14 2004 at 11:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• PPK finds a XP SP2 CSS bug

  Great. Internet Explorer 6 is different between Windows XP and Windows XP SP2. Let the fun begin.

  Oct 14 2004 at 10:38 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Offline versions of DevEdge’s sidebars

  Until the Mozilla Foundation can get the the rights to DevEdge material, you can download these from TnTLuoma.com.

  Oct 13 2004 at 12:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Netscape browser at 10

  News.com looks back at the browser’s storied life, and reports of a possible resurrection.

  Oct 13 2004 at 11:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers