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Briefly Noted from March 2009

• Huffington Post steps up

  Seeds an Investigative reporting fund with $1.75 million - this is a good sign

  Mar 30 2009 at 7:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Reflow and repaint performance issues

  General overview on some client-side things that slow a Web page

  Mar 30 2009 at 2:20 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, JavaScript

• Web typography

  Good resource site from a SXSW 2009 panel

  Mar 30 2009 at 2:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, CSS

• Capitol Hill bus map

  Modelled on London's transit maps, this bus map shows the routes centred on one of Seattle neighbourhoods

  Mar 26 2009 at 11:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Usability

• The Strange Final Days Of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  As experienced by a former reporter

  Mar 26 2009 at 4:19 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Seattle

• Drug testing reporters

  The final indignity against Seattle P-I reporters? They now have to pass a drug test to stay employed

  Mar 24 2009 at 11:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Seattle

• Exploring MoMA online

  The Museum of Modern Art relaunched with a compelling new design

  Mar 24 2009 at 3:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Culture

• Grid overlay

  A simple mac-based tool for refining grid based layouts

  Mar 23 2009 at 4:54 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Proposing a new global currency

  China wants the IMF "SDR" unit to replace the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency (let the conspiracy theories begin)

  Mar 23 2009 at 1:34 PM EDT

  Topics: World, Politics

• Scandinavian news sites protest IE6

  Danish and Norwegian media sites are campaigning their users to use any browser but IE6

  Mar 20 2009 at 5:26 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Design

• Bowman leaves Google

  In his goodbye post, Doug Bowman articulates the perils of designing for a big company

  Mar 20 2009 at 4:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• SuperPreview

  Stupidly literal name, cool tool: allows you to overlay different renders of a Web page

  Mar 19 2009 at 3:53 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Browsers

• Micrsoft releases Internet Explorer 8

  This very good browser does a lot of contortions to not offend anyone, and almost succeeds

  Mar 19 2009 at 1:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• March 17, 2009 - the end of the P-I

  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the city's oldest business, will roll off the presses for the last time St. Patrick's Day

  Mar 16 2009 at 6:32 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Seattle

• Newspapers: a revolutionary victim

  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.

  Mar 14 2009 at 10:59 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Journalism

• Site Compatibility and IE8

  Otherwise known as what fixing your site's bad habits

  Mar 13 2009 at 2:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• The Web at 20

  Twenty years ago today Tim-Berners Lee submitted the proposal that would become the World Wide Web

  Mar 13 2009 at 1:16 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• 51% design

  What if you started with an idea but only designed 51% of its potential before letting it loose?

  Mar 12 2009 at 11:18 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Hometown newspapers no more

  City newspapers may, for all practical purposes, disappear in the U.S. by year's end

  Mar 12 2009 at 1:32 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, U.S.

• Joys of being Gen X

  This inspired a sarcastic tweet from me a little ways back...

  Mar 11 2009 at 3:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Culture

• CSS selectors and page performance

  Turns out, in real world tests, CSS selectors don't effect the rendering time of Web pages

  Mar 11 2009 at 12:51 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Guardian frees its content

  Simon Willison explains more about the Guardian Open Platform's APIs and the content available

  Mar 10 2009 at 11:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• 10 at-risk U.S. newspapers

  Time's list of newspapers possibly following the path of Rocky Mountain News or the Seattle P-I

  Mar 9 2009 at 2:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, U.S.

• Digital Web done

  One of the longest-running publications about Web design and development has ceased publication

  Mar 8 2009 at 3:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• Happy birthday Toronto

  For the city's 175th birthday, Spacing donates 175 iconic pictures to the city archives

  Mar 6 2009 at 12:29 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Seattle P-I going online only

  Some staff members of the newspaper were offered a chance at continued employment in an online edition

  Mar 6 2009 at 12:36 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• The Media 2.0 Best Practices

  An attempt to set and document the best practices for social media platforms

  Mar 3 2009 at 11:23 AM EST

  Topic: Social Media

• Hearst tries to figure out the pay-wall

  Having been on the ground for practical discussions of the same issues years ago, I'm amazed how many lessons have not been learned

  Mar 3 2009 at 11:19 AM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• The Elements of Social Architecture

  The incomparable Christina Wodtke outlines the key patterns for creating successful online communities

  Mar 3 2009 at 1:49 AM EST

  Topics: Social Media, Web Patterns

• Elastic lists and search

  Interesting interface for searching on a set of fixed terms

  Mar 3 2009 at 1:13 AM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Search Engines