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Briefly Noted from September 6, 2007

• Secrets of Sidebar

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

  Sep 26 2007 at 12:59 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Web Design

• Thunderbird gets its own company

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

  Sep 18 2007 at 9:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Email, Browsers

• The history of Amazon-ian tabs

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

  Sep 18 2007 at 12:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Patterns

• Sistr

  An early sIFR alternative using Silverlight.

  Sep 18 2007 at 12:16 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• The Times is free

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

  Sep 17 2007 at 8:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Follow the commenter

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

  Sep 17 2007 at 3:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism

• Doing tabs right

  Thirteen guidelines on how to use tabbed navigation.

  Sep 17 2007 at 2:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Web Patterns

• More on personalized news

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

  Sep 13 2007 at 12:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Visual-O-Rama

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

  Sep 12 2007 at 12:59 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• ONA 2007 finalists

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

  Sep 12 2007 at 12:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The radiated book

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

  Sep 12 2007 at 11:53 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Canada's venture capital crisis

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

  Sep 12 2007 at 11:37 AM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Detecting WebKit script

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

  Sep 12 2007 at 11:18 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Le Monde goes 2.0

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

  Sep 11 2007 at 2:32 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The day the news first stopped

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

  Sep 11 2007 at 2:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Text as design misleading

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

  Sep 4 2007 at 10:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Real-time journalism

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

  Sep 4 2007 at 12:02 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Beautiful design critique

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

  Sep 4 2007 at 11:05 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Defining (HTML) semantics

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

  Sep 4 2007 at 11:00 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Semantics, HTML

• Google News to serve wire articles

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

  Sep 4 2007 at 9:19 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines