saila.com: Archive - April 2010

Dispatches from 2010

Posted in April

Gaining pay walls and losing page views
Sometimes, it pays to have list people clicking more pages as more online publications are finding.

Apr 27 2010 at 02:32 PM EDT

Category: Journalism

Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Advertising

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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
One of Canada’s defining documents has been re-published in a new format to make it easier for people to discover what being Canadian is.

Apr 17 2010 at :

Category: Attic

Topics: Canada, Politics

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To get to the other side
A genuine rant inspired by waiting to cross the street and counting the cars going by

Apr 07 2010 at 09:50 PM EDT

Category: Writing

Topic: Politics
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Outside

Briefly Noted from April 2010

-moz-any()

Interesting selector proposed by the Mozilla crew that brings group to CSS selectors

Apr 27 2010 at 6:55 PM EDT

Topic: CSS
Is a blogger a journalist, part 73

Gizomodo argues the editor who broke the story about the new iPhone is protected from a search warrant

Apr 27 2010 at 11:09 AM EDT

Topics: Online Journalism, Mobile
State of the Web 2010

Lots of good data on the latest trends in the Web design industry

Apr 26 2010 at 10:02 PM EDT

Topic: Web Design
1.1 billion served

NPR opened its content to everyone via an API and has solved its distribution problem

Apr 20 2010 at 10:11 PM EDT

Topics: Online Journalism, Radio
Touch reference guide

A comprehensive blueprint defining the de facto UI conventions for touch devices like the iPhone and Surface

Apr 20 2010 at 1:24 PM EDT

Topics: User Interface, Mobile
World Bank opens data

Freeing access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development stats

Apr 20 2010 at 12:33 PM EDT

Topics: Online Journalism, Politics
Facebook links likes

Facebook creates an interesting new dynamic for self-identification by linking "liked" products pages to the person actual profile interests

Apr 19 2010 at 4:51 PM EDT

Topic: Social Media
CSS raindrop

Nice example of what CSS gradients can do with some minimal code.

Apr 18 2010 at 9:46 AM EDT

Topic: CSS
Where Microsoft beats Apple

Joe Clark aims his immeasurable knowledge of type straight at the company loved by designers

Apr 14 2010 at 9:56 AM EDT

Topics: Typography, Computers
Fonts on the iPhone and iPad

A list of the 22 and 44 fonts natively installed on each respective device

Apr 13 2010 at 10:58 AM EDT

Topics: Mobile, Typography
Open Parliament

A long overdue service to easily search what was said while the Canadian government was in session

Apr 13 2010 at 10:56 AM EDT

Topics: Politics, Canada
SFGate.com cartoonists wins Pulitzer

First time an online-only publication has one the prestigious prize for editorial content

Apr 13 2010 at 2:12 AM EDT

Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism
Opera Mini on the iPhone

Apple approves the Opera mobile browser for use on its iPhone and iPod - could Fennec be next?

Apr 12 2010 at 8:22 PM EDT

Topics: Browsers, Mobile
Naming the permalink

A nice little rant about how to structure a friendly URL

Apr 10 2010 at 10:07 AM EDT

Topic: Web Technology
A tale of two Steves

Jobs, not Woz, defines the Apple we know today, and it is all about perfectly closed systems

Apr 8 2010 at 8:44 PM EDT

Topic: Computers
Why the iPad is dangerous

Cory Doctrow says the "technical and social infrastructure that accompanies" the iPad suppresses creativity

Apr 2 2010 at 12:45 PM EDT

Topics: Design, Mobile
Showcase for iPad apps

Many of the early designs for apps seem overly inspired by their analogue counter parts

Apr 1 2010 at 5:27 PM EDT

Topics: Design, Mobile

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This Just In

A picture’s worth

There’s an itch that the Internet and its all-seeing search engines hasn’t yet scratched: visual search. Despite all the improvements to the UI (see Bing and Google’s recent efforts) and technology (including the amazing TinEye), it remains stubbornly difficult to find digital copies of the images one see’s so clearly in the mind’s eye. For example, I have this clear memory of a scene in Return of the Jedi — an X-wing fighter crashing and exploding into the shields of the Death Star in the movie’s final battle. Subsequent viewings, however, never showed that particular scene. Fruitless Internet searches years later left me unsure whether it was the search engines, or my memory, failing. (Upon the re-release of the “original” edition, it was a false memory explaining what could have happened.)A few days ago, a similar situation resurfaced, despite the many years of search technology improvement. In an episode of Mad Men, two characters are brainstorming an ad for Samonsite luggage. A mouse makes a random appearance, and an elephant is constantly mentioned in conversation. Instantly, I recognized the reference to a classic suitcase ad showing an elephant balancing on a suitcase after being scared by a mouse.The visual, along with the design of the ad, was clearly discernable in my mind. Last night, I decided to look for it online. Again, nothing. Instead, all I found were references to other people trying to find the ad. They all recalled the same images I did, and none had managed to find a copy of the ad either. A massive ad campaign of decades passed had, for all intents of purposes, morphed into a figment of our collective consciousness.There is something poetic in the thought that these iconic images become, in essence, legendary in a time when almost everything else is discoverable. But really I still would like to see that ad again

Sep 8 2010 at 1:52 PM EDT

Category: Web Design

Topics: Search Engines, Advertising
New designs on news

The new msnbc.com design represents a whole new way for editors to report the news online

Jun 29 2010 at 1:11 AM EDT

Category: Journalism

Topics: Web Design, Work
Saila CSS layouts, revisited

An update to the tableless CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout that uses HTML 5 and CSS 3 selectors, and works in Internet Explorer 7 and up; Gecko-based browsers like Firefox; Webkit browsers like Safari and Chrome; as well as the Opera browser.

Jun 12 2010 at 12:10 PM EDT

Category: Web Design

Topics: CSS, Web Design
Safari fine

The latest upgrade to Apple's Web browser brings a promising set of new features.

Jun 8 2010 at 12:38 PM EDT

Category: Web Design

Topic: Browsers
The summer of the city

Toronto reveals its true face in a trio of movies released in 2010

Jun 1 2010 at 10:53 PM EDT

Category: Attic

Topics: Toronto, Movies

Dispatches from 2010

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Briefly Noted from April 2010

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