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Briefly Noted from July 2009

• Sabotaging the local news

  An insider describes how CBC's new local news program is designed to fail

  Jul 31 2009 at 9:12 PM EDT

  Topics: CBC, TV

• A CN Tower-less Toronto

  Removing the iconic tower changes more than the skyline

  Jul 31 2009 at 5:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Cross-browser HTML5 audio

  A jQuery plugin (called jPlayer) enables broader support for embedded audio

  Jul 30 2009 at 11:46 AM EDT

  Topics: HTML, JavaScript

• Search Patterns

  Peter Morville's collection of search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns

  Jul 30 2009 at 11:46 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Patterns, Search Engines

• NYTimes.com subscription idea

  Steve Outing has an interesting twist on the typical pay-to-read model

  Jul 29 2009 at 7:45 PM EDT

  Topic: Subscriptions & Registration

• The Developer Evangelist Handbook

  Interesting how-to on promoting ones company to other developers

  Jul 28 2009 at 11:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Work

• Limiting HTML5 feeback

  HTML5 WG is "run by tech geeks...And to a geek...the way to filter input is to use technology as a barrier"

  Jul 28 2009 at 12:06 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• 100 years of design

  Dozens of manifestos from some of the century's leading design thinkers

  Jul 28 2009 at 12:25 AM EDT

  Topic: Design

• Resurrecting the afternoon paper

  The free daily (called t.o.night) will have the day's actual news

  Jul 27 2009 at 4:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Toronto

• Rebranding Tim Hortons

  Hearing it described as a "coffee & bake shop" sounds off, even if accurate

  Jul 27 2009 at 1:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Design

• AnythingZoomer

  Clever little jQuery plugin for magnifying images and text

  Jul 27 2009 at 12:12 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Nice Web Type

  Some stunning examples of what's possible with real type on the web

  Jul 24 2009 at 3:53 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, CSS

• Push again: pushbutton web

  Anil Dash examines the new generation push technologies that can actually scale

  Jul 24 2009 at 12:56 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Secretly Starbucks

  Manufacturing local charm with a purposefully rustic renovation and name: 15th Avenue Coffee & Tea

  Jul 24 2009 at 12:20 PM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• Two big hires at the Globe and Mail

  Kenny Yum returns as the site's editor, Anjali Kapoor becomes the ME of digital

  Jul 20 2009 at 12:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Web-friendly fonts, take 2

  An XML-based licensing standard (.webfont) has been proposed as a way to embed typefaces

  Jul 17 2009 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Web Standards

• USA Today's News Deck

  Not sure I really understand the point of this other than to experiment with some JavaScript effects

  Jul 17 2009 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• 3D CSS Transforms

  Some stunning WebKit-only visual effects previously only possible in Flash

  Jul 17 2009 at 11:47 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Everything you didn't know about tech and media

  Or at least 25 bits of trivia

  Jul 17 2009 at 1:42 AM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Journalism

• Web-friendly OpenType fonts

  The Font Bureau proposes a way to legally distribute fonts for Web use

  Jul 17 2009 at 12:47 AM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Web Standards

• Making sense of HTML5

  Zeldman valiantly tries again to refocus the HTML5 debates around standrds

  Jul 16 2009 at 4:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, HTML

• We choose the Moon

  An amazing, real-time recreation of the the Apollo 11 mission online

  Jul 16 2009 at 11:55 AM EDT

  Topic: Interactive Journalism

• Improving "Missing cat" posters

  A brilliant guerrilla typography project to beautify the streets

  Jul 14 2009 at 11:47 AM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Design

• Ethics, blogging, the Star

  My former colleague (Kathy English) has lambasted a skilled columnist (Antonia Zerbisias) for writing about a protest of a protest

  Jul 14 2009 at 11:29 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• Desgin principles

  Well defined design principles can define the experience without prescribing it

  Jul 14 2009 at 11:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Design

• Data and journalism

  Overview on how the wealth of data available now can revitalize journalism

  Jul 13 2009 at 12:13 PM EDT

  Topic: Interactive Journalism

• Examining the news cycle

  Mainstream news still leads on news stories, but blogs are having an influence

  Jul 12 2009 at 11:51 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Social Media

• Assessing the Globe changes

  Maclean's has an in-depth feature about the recent changes at The Globe and Mail

  Jul 12 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Reuters' Handbook of Journalism

  The news service has posted its core journalistic principles online

  Jul 12 2009 at 12:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Journalism Resources

• Value added news

  HNews is a new microformat for marking up news articles

  Jul 12 2009 at 12:26 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Online Journalism