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Briefly Noted from September 2009

• Making the free model work

  Some advice on building a successful business publishing online content free

  Sep 30 2009 at 9:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Google reads your images

  A new feature of the Google Docs API offers an OCR service

  Sep 29 2009 at 8:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Technology

• Building iPhone apps with Web standards

  A Web-based O'Reilly reference for developers of the mobile Web

  Sep 29 2009 at 4:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, iPhone

• Twitters and TV

  TODAY's Twitter audience share some interesting pics of how & where they watch the show

  Sep 28 2009 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Social Media

• Owning the design

  A lengthy rant about how collaboration can destroy the very design process its intended to help

  Sep 25 2009 at 4:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Design, Work

• Canadian fascists in 1938

  Google Books makes available an early Life article exposing racists in pre-WWII Canada

  Sep 25 2009 at 1:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Magazine

• Patterns for the colour blind

  Colour patterns for infographics and other visualizations

  Sep 24 2009 at 5:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Interactive Journalism

• Optimizing JavaScript rendering time

  Gmail for Mobile hides the scripts in a comment blocks to speed startup

  Sep 24 2009 at 1:26 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Spelling Gadhfi

  The name of Libya's leader has 32 spelling variants

  Sep 23 2009 at 7:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Style & Usage, Politics

• Trendsmap

  well-executed, location-aware map of trending Twitter topics

  Sep 23 2009 at 3:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, User Interface

• Newspaper wins Emmy for online effort

  The Globe and Mail's exceptional Talking to the Taliban wins yet another

  Sep 23 2009 at 11:01 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Five-star rating systems fail

  YouTube shows using five stars to rate something is three too many

  Sep 22 2009 at 5:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Web Patterns

• Design love Google

  Some unique designs and portfolios powered by Google Maps

  Sep 22 2009 at 3:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Search Engines

• Julie Doiron wins NxEW's Shadow Polaris Poll

  My one-time house guest's latest album, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, is picked as the NxEW's readers favourite

  Sep 21 2009 at 4:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• hulu.cbc.ca

  The case for CBC bringing Hulu to Canada

  Sep 21 2009 at 12:12 PM EDT

  Topics: CBC, TV

• Preserving a free and open Internet

  Momentous... the U.S. government has pledged that every citizen has access to open and robust broadband

  Sep 21 2009 at 12:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Politics

• Happy birthday, New York Times

  The front page from the first edition, printed 158 years ago today

  Sep 18 2009 at 2:43 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Toronto wants Canadian English

  City Hall asks for software that spells councillor with two "l"s, for example

  Sep 18 2009 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Style & Usage

• Everything you wanted to know about A/B testing

  But were afraid to ask (answered in the form of 114 slides)

  Sep 17 2009 at 12:09 PM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Canadian Online Publishing Awards

  Finalist announced in 20 categories

  Sep 16 2009 at 12:47 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• Google's Fast Flip

  The mobile version shines on the iPhone, where the desktop version feels awkward

  Sep 15 2009 at 1:46 PM EDT

  Topics: User Interface, iPhone

• Excellent advice online magazines

  Joe Clark shares some thoughts that publications would be smart to follow

  Sep 13 2009 at 11:07 AM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Online Journalism

• The down and dirty revolution

  Good post on how journalism (and other corporate enterprise) could benefit from getting a little messier

  Sep 10 2009 at 8:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Work

• W3C on open goverment data

  The people behind the Web standards offer some best practices for governments looking to open their data

  Sep 10 2009 at 5:46 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Politics

• NowPublic finds a buyer

  Citizen-journalist news site sold to Denver's Examiner.com

  Sep 2 2009 at 12:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Canada

• The HTML5 Super Friends

  Some smart standardistas want to help polish HTML5

  Sep 1 2009 at 1:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, HTML