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Briefly Noted from October 2005

• PM²’s first podcast

  Yes, the Prime Minister of Canada is doing a weekly podcast, though they don’t dare call it that. When’s the mash-up appear?

  Oct 30 2005 at 12:53 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Canadian Web design salaries and rates

  Joe Clark opines on a recetn salary survery for Canadian and Torontonian Web folk. Given my experience, the rates seem about right.

  Oct 29 2005 at 1:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• JavaScript libraries

  A good overview of the popular Web 2.0 JavaScript libraries (formerly known as DHTML libraries).

  Oct 29 2005 at 1:36 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• “I’ve fallen and can’t get up”

  CBC president Robert Rabinovitch falls during his Heritage Committee testimony.

  Oct 28 2005 at 9:24 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Radio

• Eye redesigns

  For its fourteenth birthday (has it been that long?), Eye gets a full-colour redesign (but the site is awful).

  Oct 27 2005 at 9:38 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Toronto

• Searching of the “one true layout”

  Alex Robinson tackles CSS layouts using floats and builds a totally flexible layout.

  Oct 26 2005 at 9:24 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• On Montreal and Broken Social Scene

  Douglas Bell provides a beautiful takedown of a hilariously misinformed The New York Times review of Broken Social Scene’s latest release.

  Oct 21 2005 at 9:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Music

• Canadian Magazines blog

  Yes, a blog about the small, crazy magazine industry in Canada.

  Oct 21 2005 at 9:31 AM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• Opera 9 preview

  Lots of nice little fixes across the board, with the browser moving closer to the Firefox app behaviour.

  Oct 21 2005 at 9:26 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Dean Edward’s addEvent

  Don’t really get what’s going on here yet, but others think it rock solid.

  Oct 21 2005 at 9:10 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Saturday Night done, again

  The magazine that always seems to die, only to be reborn, is dead again.

  Oct 20 2005 at 11:41 PM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• The new “addEvent”

  Haven’t played with it at all, but will be using this new way to add events universally.

  Oct 19 2005 at 9:39 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Doing sidenotes

  A better solution to presenting footnotes can be easy in CSS.

  Oct 19 2005 at 9:17 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Longing for the World Without Web

  Some days, I must admit, I agree with Mr. Ford’s stated sentiments.

  Oct 18 2005 at 8:07 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• The Globe and Mail a top Google News source

  According to survey of Google News, The Globe and Mail is the top Canadian news source, and the 22nd top source overall.

  Oct 18 2005 at 9:29 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Support the right-of-way for streetcars on St Clair

  The Save our St Clair lobby group succeeded in shutting down the construction of a dedicated right-of-way for streetcar; this petition aims to get theproject back-on-track.

  Oct 17 2005 at 9:13 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Oh, the irony

  IEBlog asks CSS developers to stop using hacks, but the logic seems a bit fuzzy.

  Oct 13 2005 at 9:40 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, HTML

• iPod Video

  Figures; buy a Nano, and a new iPod comes out. Still not solid on portable video, but buying TV shows for $2 ’ brilliant move that will save movies and TV.

  Oct 12 2005 at 5:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Technology, TV

• Canada wants to wiretap the Net

  A new bill could allow the government to eavesdrop on the email, Net and/or phone use of more than 8,000 simultaneous interceptions around the clock, every day of the year.

  Oct 12 2005 at 9:09 AM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Privacy

• Does this mean the tide is turning?

  This Free iPod banner doesn’t want you to hit the monkey — it invites you to sound of on the war in Iraq.

  Oct 10 2005 at 7:58 PM EDT

  Topics: U.S., World

• Newspapers need their iPod

  The music industry benefitted from the iPod — now its the newspaper that needs a hot gadget to help its survival.

  Oct 10 2005 at 11:43 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Technology

• The Blooker Prize

  The world’s first literary prize devoted to “blooks”: books based on blogs or websites [sic], says the site.

  Oct 10 2005 at 10:05 AM EDT

  Topics: Books, Web Culture

• New Toronto blog: Paved

  Marc Weisblott finally convinced the Toronto Stat to do a real blog covering the city.

  Oct 9 2005 at 1:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Friends

• CSS: Specificity Wars

  Andy Clarke simplifies CSS​selectors for Star Wars fans.

  Oct 9 2005 at 9:39 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Resources

• The expanding box problem

  Another Internet Explorer CSS bug explained and fixed. Posting mainly for its suggestion of word-wrap: break-word.

  Oct 9 2005 at 9:06 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Economist redesigns with standards

  Also offers a day pass. Interesting stuff.

  Oct 7 2005 at 7:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Standards

• CBC back to work Oct. 11

  CBC will return in all its beaten glory next Tuesday. Hockey Night in Canada will be back for Saturday, though.

  Oct 5 2005 at 11:01 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Radio

• How to describe Web 2.0

  Steven Johnson uses a very apt metaphor to describe the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.

  Oct 5 2005 at 9:17 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Yahoo buys Upcoming

  Andrew (Waxy) Baio announces Yahoo’s purchase of the event site.

  Oct 5 2005 at 8:58 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines