Blogmarks
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Briefly Noted
Quick links not blogged but blogmarked
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10K Apart
Fond memories of the 5K Awards resurface with this modern spin on the idea
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The music of Scott Pilgrim
Exclaim! explains the audio inspiration for the movie adaption of the graphic novel series
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Goodbye Maury Chaykin
One of my favourite character actors to watch onscreen died on his 61st birthday
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On (Mad) Men
"Enter Don Draper, the last John Wayne among a cultural landscape filled with Jon Gosselins"
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48 Hour Magazine now Longshot
The brazen legal tactics of CBS succeeded in forcing the indie magazine to change its entire brand
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The Web needs editors
Maybe because this is how I started out, it all makes sense to me
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BBC previews new website
Features a cleaner design, bigger video, and more share tools
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On CSS prefixes
Eric Meyer argues for vendor prefixes, and proposes an improvement to the standardization of CSS
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On covering protests
Some advice on what to do as a journalists while covering potentially heated protests
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Chinese movable type
An overview of how movable type was used commercially up until the past few decades
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Firefox heatmap
The browser's users demonstrate remarkably consistent use of the various user interface elements
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100 top online publishers
Pleased to see msnbc.com make not once, but twice (three times, if you count EveryBlock)
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optimizeLegibility extension
Jim Ray creates a simple Safari extension to improve how type is rendered on page
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Proportional leading, fluid line length
Using msnbc.com's new design to talk about a way to improve typography
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Kettled in at the G20
Reporter on being in a public intersection that became a de facto detention centre
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Photos of G20 in Toronto
Hard to see Toronto looking like this, even if it's a tiny snapshot of what really happened
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Talking to Canadians
Say what you will about about the G20, at least it's got American news outlets looking north
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G8 police intimidate reporter
Police use extensive security measures on a veteran, accredited journalist trying cover the summit
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Targetting iPhone 4
A simple CSS-based media query can help improve the design of the high resolution device
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IE9 and HTML5
Third developer preview looks amazing, all the more so to those debugging early IE browsers