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Briefly Noted in date
Quick links not blogged but blogmarked
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Online news demographic not the newspaper’s
Some stats to back-up a lot of anecdotal evidence. Those under 40 read online news, not newspapers.
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Canvas in IE
Emulating canvas in Internet Explorer.
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Ajax link tracker
This is a very elegant way to do this, a much cheaper than some offerings.
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Khoi Vinh becoming Design Director for NYTimes.com
His minimal, grid-heavy look could slowly bring some needed improvements to the Grey [sic] Lady’s site.
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Greg Linden’ 2006 predictions
Mainly search related, but still relevant to the general online world.
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The future of new is people
Hypergene MediaBlog disects tthe latest Niewman Report on citizen journalism.
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How to reimagine a newspaper
Although The Globe and Mail got some ribbing about it, this is exactly its doing.
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Outings’s resolutions for newspapers online
Most Canadian ones are doing one or two, but none are doing all nine, yet.
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E-paper a reality in 2006
I saw a demo of iRex Technologies’ reader (which uses e-Ink) and it is impressive. The business model, though, sucks.
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CSS bar graphs
Eric Meyer shows another way to create semantic bar graphs.
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Ingram’s Web 2.0 report card
Overall it gets a C, with eBay seen struggling.
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Firefox for music
Rob Lord planning potential iTunes-killer to be based on Mozilla
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Media levy to stay
The tax on recordable compact discs and other recordable media will stay until 2006 at least.
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RSS icon
Now that Microsoft has adopted the Mozilla RSS icon, Matt Brett has created a graphic template of it for everyone to use.
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Yahoo! JavaScript Developer Center
Great collection of articles, resources, and tutorials on Yahoo’s products and on JavaScript itself.
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Designing outside the grid
Molly encourages designers to go beyond the table-inspired grid.
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CanvasGraph.js
Another nice demo what can be done with the canvas element.
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thestar.com does GoogleMaps
Not quite ChicagoCrime, but this map of toronto homicides is a start.
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thestar.com removes registration
Though I have no love for registration, I can’t see any business reason for doing this other than regrouping after some negative results.
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thestar.com: webmaking
The Toronto Star has launched a ne wblog to speak to its reader about its Web site. Very smart.
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Toronto gets some real power
The Ontario government finally allows T-dot to make its own decisions.
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Calling all Canadian Web workers
Kim Seiver and Jay Gilmore have sparked a passionate discussion about creating a Canadian-based Web design conference.
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Newspapers are mainframes
Interesting comparison of the newspaper business to what has happened to the computer since the mainframe.
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Improving the blog interface
Luke Wroblewski and Jed Wood come up with intelligent ways to improve the findability of content in blogs.
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The ultimate Web 2.0 offering
WebTwenny will revolutionize user-focused experiences.
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What CSS browsers support
Covering IE 6, Firefox 1 and 1.5, and Opera 8.5
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The Anatomy of Web Fonts
An comprehensive guide to what makes some fonts better online.
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The Elements of Web Typography
Richard Rutter unveils a beautiful resource about displaying words and letters online.
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Pulitzer will accept online journalism
Online journalism will not compete on par with printed newspapers articles for the first time.
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Journalism ethics around the globe
The University of British Columbia’s journalism school launches an ethics watchdog Web site.
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Podcast is the word of the year
No surprise as almost anyone whose anyone is doing it. Bird flu, lifehack, and sudoku were among the runners up.
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E-rights make it to the Supreme Court
Freelance writer Heather Robertson’s case against The Globe and Mail over electronic rights, finally makes it to the Supreme Court.
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Ajax mistakes
Mistakes in code and design the one can make while building Ajax-based apps.
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Mobile Web development in Japan
Andreas Bovens argues for Web standards on mobile sites.
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Community authorship still has hope
The Wikiepedia is under attack; Web 2.0 is under a backlash, but masionneuve argues there is still hope.
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Mary Meeker on global tech and Net trends
Lots of data crunched into some nice slides. Worth browsing.
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Eolas patent forces Internet Explorer changes
Microsoft will be changing the way its browser handles embedded multimedia within a few months.
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Where to use DOM scripting
THough Alex Bosworth says Ajax, and means DOM scripts, his advice is solid.
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Do you prefer Internet Explorer or Firefox?
Rocketboom asks New Yorkers which they prefer — its charming and quirky.
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iPod Zepto
Capable of holding 12 million songs and only one-tenth the size of the head of a needle, the iPod Zepto is a revolution in sound.
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WebDrive
WebDrive claims its an FTP client that acts like a virtual drive. Nice.
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Ingram on the Bell Globemedia deal
Mathew Ingram sounds off on a deal that he feels leaves the company in continued limbo.
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Woodbridge and Torstar are buying Bell Globemedia — I woulda thought the former would have got The Globe, the latter CTV.
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Web design trends for 2006
All of the predictions are safe, although some are a bit dated.
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Ricky Gervais podcasts
The twelve weekly shows will be available through Guardian Unlimited starting December 5.
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Running two versions of Firefox
With Firefox 1.5 out, it’s a bit tricky to run an instance of version 1.0, too. But there is a way (hint: profiles).
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Top 10 JavaScript functions
Use all but the last “bonus” function ” but I may soon.
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Firefox 1.5 released
And the improvements over version 1.0 are well worth the download.
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Mozilla.com
The commercial site for Mozilla has launched (in time for the 1.5 releases of Firefox)
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Tantek on CSS filters and hacks
The man who popularized CSS workarounds sounds-off on the current state of affairs.
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CSS beyond the Web browser
Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie use CSS to create a printed book.
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The 33 hottest bands in Canada
Canada’s music bloggers, writers and critics pick the hottest in 2005. No real surpises, but all quite genuine.
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Really reimagine a newspaper
Ethan Kaplan reimagines a newspaper as a dot-com shop. Radical, but real (for some papers).
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Really reimagine a newspaper
Ethan Kaplan reimagines a newspaper as a dot-com shop. Radical, but real (for some papers).
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Web 2.0 Bingo
Buzzword bingo for the new boom.
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Web 2.0 Checklist
It’s funny ’cause it’s true!
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Journal of Usability Studies
A peer-reviewed online journal about, well, usability.
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Instant filler text, improved
Now you can specify the number of words or type of elements to be automatically created.
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mashingtonpost.com
Adrian Holovaty makes his mark (again) by open-sourcing the washingtonpost.com site.
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Oh the irony: AOL selling online ads for CBC
Canada’s national broadcaster will enlist America On-Line to become the exclusive seller of advertising to former’s Web site.
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Realignment: CBS and Google dance
Network may use search engine to distribute video.
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Paying Visa bill in pennies
Protest over privacy threat results in a nearly 10-metre long credit card statement.
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del.icio.us does command line
A newish feature makes the breadcrumb/page title/navigation bar act like a command line. Not completely intuitive, but works.
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Survey of online journalism skills
The Medill School of Journalism is conducting a brief survey on about the skills that online journalists and producers ought to have.
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Is Google the next Wal-Mart?
Robert X. Cringely speculates about the future of Google, its strengths, and why everything may just work out.
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WebPatterns
John Allsop continues his noble efforts to bring patterns to the wild Web.
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Batelle on a better Boom
John Battelle opines in The New York Times on how to do Web 2.0 right.
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Tab in a textarea
Tabinta lets Firefox users use the tab key within a textarea.
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Anti-gravity spaceship patented!
No joke: The U.S. Patent Office approved Boris Volfson’s “concept.”
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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 delayed?
Rumour has it Windows Vista’s Beta 2 is being delayed, meaning the new browser version may be, too.
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Innovation with corporations
Why big companies have a hard time innovating, and how that can be fixed.
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CSSVista
In one app, preview and edit CSS in two browsers.
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Access Copyright: keep your hands off my Web
The non-profit agency that collects royalties on behalf of copyright holders wants to you to pay-to-surf to compensate select copyright holders.
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Digital Think
I think it’s a book supported by a Flash Web site with a McLuhan-follower’s-esque penchant for newspeak. Intersting, though.
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130,000 actively pay for TimesSelect
In the first two months, the number of people paying to read nytimes.com is huge (even after newspaper subscribers are substracted).
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Newsvine
Mike Davidson’s new project could explode (in a good or bad way) — it has some very smart grounding.
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Selling TV episodes
As predicted, more networks are selling old shows on-demand, for cheap. Are you listening, CBC?
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Canada gets m-commerce
The three national wireless service providers have a agreeded to support a standardized system of wireless payments.
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The Rabble Podcast Network
Politically progressive webzine rabble.ca launches a hub for like-minded podcasts.
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Instant filler text
A clever little script automatically loads up waiting elements with some generic text.
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The Web browser market as a high school party
Maybe it’s jsut funny because I don’t use Opera or maybe it’s perfect satire.
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Use Internet Explorer’s rendering engine in Firefox
Netscape 8 did it first, but now Firefox can, too. With IETab, you can view pages in Firefox the way Internet Explorer would show them.
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Common class and id values
John Allsop crawls the Web and finds some truly odd choices for class and id values.
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Sonic Youth gets its gear back
Punk broke in 1991, and eight years later, Sonic Youth’s sound was broken when their equipment was stolen. Now it’s coming back.
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The Ultimate getElementsByClassName
Not sure if it is “the ultimate” but it seems quite comprehensive to me.
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BBC podcasts with video
This is a smart move, and will be the big trend in media for 2006.
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The Truth about Internet Explorer 7
Via, via, via, Chris Wilson repsonds bluntly about the expectations around IE 7.
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The new Yahoo! Maps
THe Flash-based map tool is pretty impressive, but the zoom tool (at a certain level) looks like the CN Tower.
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Worst breadcrumb ever
The Kingston Whig-Standard’s breadcrumb trail has a nice symmetry. (Thanks Angus)
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CBC Radio 3 plans
The details about the pay-radio satellite service are coming out, as is the little detail about the Web site relaunch being delayed until next year.
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Gomery: Latest developments
Blog-like updates at The Globe and Mail.
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Gomery lays blame
Gomery assigns blame (in Chapter 16 of his first report) to Guité as well as Chrétien, Pelletier and Gagliano. Martin cleared.
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Wan-sabi fundamentals
Yes, it’s another “Eastern philosophy” swallowed by pop culture, but it’s one that reflects Web design’s best practices.
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Brin talks to Battelle
Listen to the half-hour talk which took place during Web 2.0.
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CBC Radio One going Top 40
To those in charge: CBC Radio is not a commerical enterprise, it is a public broadcaster.
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The Gomery Report coverage
This is it — coverage of a so-called scandal that will be the cause for the next election.
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PM²’s first podcast
Yes, the Prime Minister of Canada is doing a weekly podcast, though they don’t dare call it that. When’s the mash-up appear?
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Canadian Web design salaries and rates
Joe Clark opines on a recetn salary survery for Canadian and Torontonian Web folk. Given my experience, the rates seem about right.
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JavaScript libraries
A good overview of the popular Web 2.0 JavaScript libraries (formerly known as DHTML libraries).
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“I’ve fallen and can’t get up”
CBC president Robert Rabinovitch falls during his Heritage Committee testimony.
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Eye redesigns
For its fourteenth birthday (has it been that long?), Eye gets a full-colour redesign (but the site is awful).
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Searching of the “one true layout”
Alex Robinson tackles CSS layouts using floats and builds a totally flexible layout.
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On Montreal and Broken Social Scene
Douglas Bell provides a beautiful takedown of a hilariously misinformed The New York Times review of Broken Social Scene’s latest release.
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Canadian Magazines blog
Yes, a blog about the small, crazy magazine industry in Canada.
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Opera 9 preview
Lots of nice little fixes across the board, with the browser moving closer to the Firefox app behaviour.
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Dean Edward’s addEvent
Don’t really get what’s going on here yet, but others think it rock solid.
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Saturday Night done, again
The magazine that always seems to die, only to be reborn, is dead again.
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The new “addEvent”
Haven’t played with it at all, but will be using this new way to add events universally.
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Doing sidenotes
A better solution to presenting footnotes can be easy in CSS.
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Longing for the World Without Web
Some days, I must admit, I agree with Mr. Ford’s stated sentiments.
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The Globe and Mail a top Google News source
According to survey of Google News, The Globe and Mail is the top Canadian news source, and the 22nd top source overall.
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Support the right-of-way for streetcars on St Clair
The Save our St Clair lobby group succeeded in shutting down the construction of a dedicated right-of-way for streetcar; this petition aims to get theproject back-on-track.
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Oh, the irony
IEBlog asks CSS developers to stop using hacks, but the logic seems a bit fuzzy.
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iPod Video
Figures; buy a Nano, and a new iPod comes out. Still not solid on portable video, but buying TV shows for $2 ’ brilliant move that will save movies and TV.
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Canada wants to wiretap the Net
A new bill could allow the government to eavesdrop on the email, Net and/or phone use of
more than 8,000 simultaneous interceptions around the clock, every day of the year.
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Does this mean the tide is turning?
This Free iPod banner doesn’t want you to hit the monkey — it invites you to sound of on the war in Iraq.
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Newspapers need their iPod
The music industry benefitted from the iPod — now its the newspaper that needs a hot gadget to help its survival.
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The Blooker Prize
The world’s first literary prize devoted to “blooks”: books based on blogs or websites [sic],
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New Toronto blog: Paved
Marc Weisblott finally convinced the Toronto Stat to do a real blog covering the city.
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CSS: Specificity Wars
Andy Clarke simplifies CSSselectors for Star Wars fans.
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The expanding box problem
Another Internet Explorer CSS bug explained and fixed. Posting mainly for its suggestion of word-wrap: break-word.
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Economist redesigns with standards
Also offers a day pass. Interesting stuff.
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CBC back to work Oct. 11
CBC will return in all its beaten glory next Tuesday. Hockey Night in Canada will be back for Saturday, though.
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How to describe Web 2.0
Steven Johnson uses a very apt metaphor to describe the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
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Yahoo buys Upcoming
Andrew (Waxy) Baio announces Yahoo’s purchase of the event site.
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Judith Miller freed
Her source (U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff) “voluntarily and personally” released her of her promise of confidentiality.
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Brandless icons for documents
Hate seeing a branded icon for your HTML or MP3 files? Try these.
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Wireless VoIP
Use a “softphone” to transform almost any device into a telephone.
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A List Apart on columns
Examines how to support CSS3’s multicolumns using JavaScript and how to split lists.
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In the Hot Zone
Kevin Sites is a one man reporter whose wat coverage has garnered him a lot of well-deserved respect. Now he’s doing it for Yahoo!
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2005 Online Journalism Awards Finalists
Good range of nominees, including work by The Globe and Mail’s Stephanie Nolen and Joel Corda.
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Solving the onload dilemma
Dean Edwards has crafted a clever way to initialize events before “onload.”
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PHP Canadian?!
This I did not know: PHP was apparently created by a Canadian (as was Java).
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Screen reading and line lengths
Joe Clark digs up some research that says longer may be better.
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Axing journalists
The New York Times is cutting at least 100 journalist from its payroll. This is not the direction the industry should be going (even if we all secretly feel it is).
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Opera is free
Looks like the trial free registration was no trial. Opera is free, including its newest version, 8.5.
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Improving printed Web pages
Aaron Gustafson riffs on how best to display URLs in a printed Web page.
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Indie Fantasy League
Don’t know which non-music blogger mentioned this, but it was funny then. Pitchfork’s take is scary brillant.
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Truly randomizing a playlist
Dan Goodin explores what random playlists really mean, and whether that’s what we actually want.
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Love the semi-colon
A defence of one of my personal favourite punctuation marks.
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Typetester
Marko Dugonjić has built a snazzy online tool for comparing how two differently set types appear online.
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Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Microsoft releases a Web developer toolbar that mimics Chris Pederick’s, and is available for IE 6 and 7.
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Bell, Rogers building wireless network together
Details are a bit sketchy, but it sounds like the two will be creating a WiMax network accessible to the majority of Canadians.
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Dose’s Pill
A mob-blog from a free tab? Are they mad, or just buzzing up the same market as Virgin?
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Guardian redesign
The British Guardian unveiled a massive redesign the likes of which may be coming here in the coming years.
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Editing live Web pages
PPK makes an all the paragraphs on the page editable by transforming them into textareas. Clever and simple.
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ChicagoCrime.org wins big journalism award
Adrian Holovaty and his ChicagoCrime.org wins $10,000 Batten Award.
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Sold! For $2.6 billion to eBay: Skype
The auction site owns PayPal, and just bought skype for a huge sum. VoIP is hot this year.
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The Mayor, the cheque, and the subway
This is why David Miller is the greatest — the mayor of Toronto actually rode the subway back to work carrying a giant promotional cheque.
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Seeking standards-based Web developer
LIke the title says, there’s an opening for a developer in Toronto who breathes Web standards.
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Firefox 1.5 Beta 1
This is a beta beta, but the reviews are pretty solid so far. Developers download and check it out.
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Bell doing VoIP in Toronto
Bell Canada is finally offering VoIP to its Toronto-area customers (like me!). Bah.
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CanWest spins off papers
As expected, CanWest is turning its newspapers and interactive media into a trust. Missing: the National Post, which spurs further speculation.
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Readers review TIFF films
The Globe and Mail is letting readers submit their reviews of films in the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Rapid Web development with Firefox
Great S5 slideshow explaining how to use Firefox for Web development — includes pointers to some very worthwhile extensions.
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Hell freezes over: Slashdot doing CSS
Just as Firefox is about to render the old site’s horrible HTML properly, Slashdot readies with an all CSS-layout
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JavaScript Logging
A List Apart publishes a offers a great resource for debugging JavaScript effectively.
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CanCon in a digital world
Are Canadian content rules even relevant anymore, when every computer gives onregulatable access to a world of music?
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Good writing advice
Some good, and simple, advice about writing; put the ending first.
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New Orleans: Post-Katrina
Google Maps has updated its coverage to include images from the devastated city of New Orleans.
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The new strict mode in IE7
The Internet Explorer development team looks to be adding, wisely, CSS 2.1 support only in strict mode.
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hasLayout explained
Markus Mielke explains what Internet Explorer means when it uses “hasLayout” — quite informative.
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Workopolis redesign
Canada’s biggest job site redesigns and offers a employer/job seeker login option.
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Chatelaine shake-up
Canada’s magazine world is very small, so the story of Kim Pittaway’s resignation from Chatelaine is rich with juicy gossip.
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The 50 Most Toronto
Marc Weisblott is getting a greatest Torontonian-type project underway an wants your help.
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Get yourr Weekly Pass
Finally, the TTC is offering a transferable weekly and monthly pass starting September 1.
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Dean Edwards’ IE7 updated
Version 0.9 is the last feature release before it moves to beta and final.
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Counting FeedBurner
A PHP counter for FeedBurner.
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Get Opera ad-free
The browser is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is letting people register for an ad-free version (good marketing move, too).
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Andie Barrie and crew returning to airwaves
The former staff of CBC’s Toronto morning show return to the airwaves Labour Day morning.
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CANOE converges again
Sometimes they never learn: PPK tries again to be the master of convergence.
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The Official Megabin Site!!
The Web imitates life in this unfathanobly awful (official) Web site for Toronto’s new mega garbage bins.
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Mark Starowicz on the CBC lockout
The senior executive producer of the CBC Documentary Unit opines on the lockout in a biased, but balanced opinion piece.
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Making a better business magazine
Some advice from Jon Friedman on how to improve on the current host of business magazines. (Canadian Business already does a lot of this.)
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Caught on tape: Finch Avenue collapses!
Nine photos of the massive collapse of Finch Avenue during the recent storm.
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Toronto iPod Subway Maps
Have an iPod that displays photos? Get the map to Toronto’s subway system (or about a dozen others).
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Ninjalicious obit
More details on Jeff Chapman’s life and death. He will be missed.
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Ninjalicious is dead
Ninjalicious , a pioneer of urban exploration, has died. Not sure, not sure when, but he was a underground (pun intended) cultural icon.
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Stealing the Web Developer extension
Some company has completely ripped-off Chris Pederick’s amazingly useful Web Developer extension and is sellingit to Internet Explorer users.
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Google Talk
Scaring Skype, and spreading Gmail to the masses.
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Kottke’s thoughts on a WebOS
He’s put a lot of thought into this and the potential is powerful, but I do have a sense of déjà.
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Online video news in Canada
The Globe and Mail runs an insightful (if incestuous) article about video online.
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Brilliant new A List Apart design
Buzzed-about in pre-launch, this design involved some big, big names: Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, Eric Meyer, Dan Benjamin, Kevin Cornell, and Erin Kissane.
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CBCunplugged
The Tyee has the story about the site the locked-out CBC workers built to keep reporting the news.
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Producing online projects
Designed for the projects with the Virtual Museum Canada, this online guide can be used for developing general online projects, too.
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Robert A. Moog dies
The man who essentially gave birth to electronica by inventing synthesizers that turned electric currents into sound has died age 71.
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Exploring Internet Explorer
A new MSDN feature that could help give some tips on working with the popular browser.
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WikiPEI
The guys at silverorange muse about governement Web sites, and create a wiki for their home province in the process.
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Single advertisier in New Yorker sparks concern
Jon Friedman applauds the New Yorker’s decision to use Target as its sole advertiser; others moan.
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Extending tabindex
Some documentation explaining how tabindex works on every element in Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer.
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Police allowed to spy on Canadians’ Net use
A new law will
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Petition to overturn satellite pay radio decisions
The American satellite radio companies got a sweet deal mine Canadians pockets. We, however, got very little in return. Ask PM² to stop it.
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Klymkiw leaving CBC
Slawko Klymkiw, the man behind much of the innovative features on CBC is leaving said Mother Corp.
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Design In-Flight: Web edition
In its previous incarnation, Design In-Flight was a subscription-based PDF magazine. Now it’s been freed into a Web-friendly format.
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TTC stations on Google Maps
Ian Stevens puts Toronto’s subway stations on Google Maps.
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New JavaScript Array methods
Gecko 1.8 will provide Firefox’ JavaScript engine with a bunch of new, and helpful, methods for the Array object.
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Blatchford profile
The Eyeopener has a rare, in-depth profile of fellow alumni, Christie Blatchford.
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efrank.ca design?
Allegedly, this design (which looks to be very graphic or Flash heavy) shows what the online version of Frank will look like.
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Cohen broke?!
Maclean’s will be running an article detailing the news that Leonard Cohen is broke.
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xajax: a PHP library for Ajax apps
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Canadian Net penetration levels
New study shows 73% are connected, as they've been for three years. Sixty-four percent of those have high-speeed access.
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Fucking Caps and Spelling
Canadian journalism’s de facto spelling guide, Caps and Spelling, allows “fuck” to be spelled out.
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It’s gonne be a good fall
Laying aside it also brings an anniversary and a birthday, there are about a dozen solid Canadian releases coming out.
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Bob Rae on universities
The funding system for Canada's education post-secondary education system is a mess and we need desparately to fix them.
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Thinking behind New York Times newsroom merger
Mark Glaser talks with Martin Nisenholtz and Bill Keller about The New York Times dreams and plans.
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CBC to be silenced
CBC could face a long and ugly strike or lock-out of almost all its employees Monday.
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Survey on Toronto’s new garbage bins
Do you like the new bins? Or do you think they’re a billboard retrofitted to collect our waste. Tell the city what you think.
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Two-colour sIFR
Here’s a clever way to do sIFR as a duotone.
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Young Canadians choose Net
Ditching radio and TV in favour of the Net; CANOE, CBC.ca, and CTV.ca most popular sites for Canadians.
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The 911 on VoIP
Canadian police and security services are worried about the difficulties in tracking VoIP calls.
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Going dry with DSL
The first in a what I hope will be a series detailing my experience trying to set-up VoIP on with a Sympatico DSL service tied to my phone number.
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Blogging The Amazing Race
Longtime blogger Cam Barret wants to get on The Amazing Race with his brother and they’re using this site to drum up support.
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Ajax mistakes
They should be obvious, but best to read these mistakes just in case.
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YASNS: O’Reilly Connection
This one’s a developer-centric netwrok for jobs, essentially. If you join, add me as a connection.
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Introducing the Mozilla Corporation
Speculation is that this taxable entity may have been created, in part, to work with Google (and I’d add Nokia).
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Multiple backgrounds in Safari
Surprisingly, Safari already has the support for multiple backgrounds.
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Blogged coverage of air crash
BlogTO does an great job summarizing the news from the air crash in Toronto.
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Toronto plane crash audio
A Web search and some careful listening helped me produce this audio file and annotation of the Toronto air crash today.
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What happened to The 360?
BlogTO looks into why the Legion shut its doors to the Toronto music and the Queen West communities.
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Internet Explorer 7 will support CSS 2
Chris Wilson of the Internet Explorer 7 development team lets us know the next beta will be a lot better — which is very good news.
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Place-shifting television
If I didn’t pull my TV signals from the air, this would be a very cool device.
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CSS in Internet Explorer 7
Dave Shea checks for CSS improvements in Internet Explorer 7 and finds few.
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The Elements of (Newspaper) Blogging
The editor of Grenboro’s News & Record posts some smart standards and practices for its blogging journalists.
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Introducing Devmo
The Mozilla Foundation’s follow-up to DevEdge is now, finally, online.
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Tips to speed your Web pages
Microsoft offers some tips — heretofore unkowne to me — on improving page load times.
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No Apple on Microsoft’s Earth
Mistake? Prank? Either way Mircosoft’s Virtual Earth shows a small building where Apple’s sprawling campus should be.
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Windows glyph characters
A collection of Unicode characters supported on Windows, at least.
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CBC faces strike
CBC employees voted in favour of a strike if they don’t have collective agreement by mid-August.
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Frank returning as online rag
Frank is returning this September and looks to be run by someone named Peter Scott, in Newcastle, Ontario.
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Emergency Greasemonkey update
A temporary patch has been issued to disable a serious security vulnerability in Greasemonkey announced yesterday.
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Accessible Web design tips
very week, a new tip to make one’s site accessible is posted on this consultancy site.
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DOM Scripting Task Force
The WaSP takes on scripting with its new taskforce (and blog).
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Django
A(nother) Web framework for rapidly devloping complex, database-driven Web sites — this one by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison.
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India offshoring to Halifax
A California company’s transferring its development lab to Halifax, after finding it too hard to retian staff in India.
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Dunstan’s goodbye gift
Clever coder and designer Dunstan Orchards packs it in while giving it all away.
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Toronto news in The Globe and Mail
Toronto-based stories in “Canada’s national newspaper”.
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Atom 1.0
The Atom syndication format has been submitted to Internet Engineering Task Force.
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“Any key” could be a reality
This mock-up of what a keyboard would look like if it dynamically changed based on what function the keys represent is trés cool.
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Nuking Yonge and Dundas
Eric Meyer’s HYDESim illustrates what a Hiroshima-sized nuclear explosion would do to downtown Toronto.
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Deconstructing citizen journalism
Although I think much of this citizen journalism is hype, Doskoch’s deconstruction of Zerbsias critique of the topic is a worthwhile read.
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It’s all gonna break
The Internet Archive is being sued for storing copyrighted material. Expect more like this, soon.
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Toronto⁏s not next
BlogTO has a gutsy (and fate-tempting) post about why Toronto isn’t likely to be on any terrorist hit list soon. I agree with a lot of the points — after all, we refused to join the war in Iraq.
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Will Canada make Google illegal?
Looks like the new Copyright Act could make everything Google does (including pointing to copyrighted documents) illegal.
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This picture is worth 1,000 words
For a change, an online news photo perfectly captures the context of a story, i.e, Ralph Klein’s reaction so same-sex marriage.
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CBSNews.com opens the floodgates
The revamped site will offer free access to 25,000 video clips and encourage users to create their own newscast.
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Smooth sliders
Almost three-years old, this is the best dynamic, degradable slider I’ve encountered yet.
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Check your contrast
A slick little tool for check the accessibility of a colour contrast scheme.
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News report of London bombings using Google Earth
Although still a bit primative, this is exactly the kind of thing online journalism can do exceptionally well.
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WSJ.com: 10 years on the Web
On July 11, 1995, the first Web site of The Wall Street Journal launched.
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Ten years of yellow
CNET turns 10 and celebrates by looking back over the past decade.
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style vs. className
PPK confirms a JavaScript best practice is also the fastest thing to do.
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Sparkline generator
A Web service to generate Edward Tufte’s simple word-sized graphics.
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Google Maps Transparencies
A bit rought, but a very clever way to identify exactly what street your looking at in that satellite photo.
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Wikinews shines in the face of tragedy
The citizen journalists at Wikinews have produced an astounding amount of in-depth information about the terrorist attack on London this morning.
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Don’t click it…
Experimental, “clicks considered harmful” interface that makes a good art project but a troublesome user interface.
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Spacing: The Blog
Toronto’s very own public space activists blog the city.
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Remaking Toronto’s streets
Toronto is trying to harmonize its street specs, and is asking for its citizens’ opinions. Spacing Wire explains.
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AIDS in Africa
A spectacular interactive report by Stephanie Nolen about the crisis, and the hope in Africa.
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Defending freedom of the press
The New York Times speaks out on Judith Miller’s decision and showcases the part of the American landscape I deeply admire — the passionate support of a free press.
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WaSP and Microsoft: working together
The Web Standards Project … is collaborating with Microsoft to promote Web standards and help developers build standards conformant Web applications.
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del.icio.us direc.tor
This amazing Ajax app showcases what can be done with valid mark-up and some client-side magic.
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Newspapers welcome public comments
More and more newspapers moving into the citizne journalsim arena. Though it may not provide the expected revenue boost, it certainly isn’t a bad move.
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Curley moves on
LJWorld.com’s cyber-savant is heading to Florida to head the Naples Daily News
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The Canadian Series of tees
Evokativ has 12 designs encapsulating Canadian history.
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Does sIFR enable piracy?
Jonathan Snook launches FONTSMACK only to realize distributing fonts in Flash for sIFR may be illegal, and mean sIFR users are violating their font licences, too.
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Internet Explorer hasLayout
Ingo Chao (whose site is simple, and elegant) has dissected the cause of many of IE’s layout problems.
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Where (or where not) to buy marijuana in Chicago
ChicagoCrimes shows a disturbing concentration of arrests around, ironically, Humbolt Park.
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The Art and Science of Web Design @ 5
Veen’s second book, which outlined today’s Web design philisophy when tables and font tags ruled the Web, is now available as free download.
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Karla Holomoka’s letters
The Globe and Mail has published Stephen Williams’ correspondence with the killer — the cuteness her letters is macabrely ironic.
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Topix comes to Canada
The news aggregator entry into Canada should make some media companies worried.
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Bad brand brings broken band
Broken Social Scene play Dundas Square courtesy of Toronto Unlimited.
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Nvu 1.0
The Gecko-based Web design program (based on the old Mozilla Composer) has officially hit the 1.0 release and is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
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Google opens maps to all
Google has released an API for its GoogleMaps product, opening the door to a whole bunch of oppurtunities like ChicagoCrime.org.
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Syntax highlighter
Dean Edwards (again) releases his very borad syntax highlighter for code examples on Web pages.
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Packer packs JavaScript
Dean Edwards has a pretty efficient JavaScript compressor available at his site.
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Great writing in Steven Johnson profile
Written in the second person (difficult to pull off) the intro sucks you into an enagaging profile review of the author and his work.
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Google Earth freely available
Nathan Weinberg reports on some of the features in this program which once cost a bundle.
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Getting rid of the QuickTime pop-up
From a Slashdotter comes a helpful tip for a big pet peeve.
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TO Unlimited? Try TO Ugly
The new brandmark for Toronto is unbelievably awful.
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Wikinvestigative journalism
Sure, the wikitorial failed by using a wiki to collabratively do the grunt work of investigative journalism could be interesting.
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Every New Yorker published, coming to DVD
Eight DVDs containing searchable electronic reporductions of every New Yorker from February 1925 to February 2005 will be available in September.
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TSN.ca does RSS
Not sure when they launched it, but its one of the few Canadian mainstream media properties to have RSS.
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TSN.ca embraces Web standards
Worthy of praise even were it not for my rant a few weeks back!
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Those eyes…
How that iconic photo of murdrer Karla Holmoka came to pass.
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Rick Mercer’s Blog
If you know the name, visit, elsewise you probably won’t get it.
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Grocery Store Wars
Learn the ways of the Farm from Obi-Wan Cannoli.
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Why the wikitorial failed
Clive Thompson nailss the reason why the L.A. Times wikitorial experiment failed.
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Ben Kerr dead at 75
The Toronto busking legend and perennial mayoral candidate has died — and just a few days ago I was wondering how much longer he would be around.
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Yawn…Live 8 in Barrie
Will I be rushing to see Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Great Big Sea, Tom Cochrane, and Motley Crue in Molson Park on Canada Day weekend? No.
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microformats.org
Your one-stop shop for microformat specifications (including such hits as XFN and hCard).
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Writing efficient JavaScript
Although targetted for those writing Greasemonkey-like scripts, it has some good tips for normal scripts.
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Questioning the satellite radio ruling
Sure for CHUM it may be sour grapes, but the point about a lack of exposure to Canadian music rings true.
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Now even less choice of movie theatres!
Cineplex is buying up the Famous Players movie theatres — can you spell monopoly?
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Rico: an open-source Ajax library
Seems to cover a lot of items designers and developers are starting to need.
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Publishers to sell books online
Smart move to service a need, but booksellers shouldn’t fear.
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Universal Child Selector
Eric A. Meyer explains a child selector-type rule that works in Internet Explorer
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Lovin’ Loverboy
A fan makes a tribute video to the greatest rawk song ever!
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CBC.ca to run ads
Should be interesting to see how that goes over with its audience.
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The not-so National Post
The National Post will no longer be delivering printed newspapers to the Rock, only those horrible “e-paper“ ones.
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Webby winners
The New York Times covers the Webby winners for 2005.
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Base64 images for Internet Explorer
Dean Edwards comes up for a client side solution to yet another Internet Explorer bug.
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Are they selling me?
Eric Reguly thinks BCE is ready to sell the company I work for, Bell Globemedia.
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Jonathan Dube joins CBC.ca
This is a big coup for the Mother Corp. and should help to reinvigorate the online journalism game in Canada.
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Mac OS X already Intel-compatible
Blimey, that's quite clever. Surprised no one found out Apple’s Mac OS X could run on Intel since day one.
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Pedals and paint
Colourizing Toronto’s abandoned bikes.
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Next steps for JavaScript
Web-Graphics surveys what the future holds for JavaScript.
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Becoming Deep Throat
Bob Woodward explains how Mark Felt Became “Deep Throat”
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Dot-xxx finally a reality
ICANN approves a worthwhile top-level domain.
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hCard creator
Tantek has created a quick and easy tool for creating to hCards, and points to an hCalendat and hReview creators.
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Vanity Fair drops the online ball
In its Deep Throat scoop, the magazine forgets about the online-side of things in a very 1998 way.
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2005 Canadian New Media Award winners
Just in case anyone is interested…
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Happy 10th, Z
Jeffrey Zeldman, the man who brought “Web standards” to the forefront, celebrates 10 years online.
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Dave’s markup guide
A little style guide designed to show the basics of semantic markup.
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The rationale for XHTML 2.0
The W3C explain the reasoning behind and the features of XHTML 2.0.
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Internet Explorer support end dates
Most versions of the Microsoft browser will no londer by supported by the company after December 21, 2005.
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Review the latest XHTML 2.0 draft
Anne highlights the changes to the latest draft XHTML 2.0 draft — seems a step backwards…
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Replacing the Vomit Comet
Eye asks what I’ve always wondered, too: why do subways still stop before last call?
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Frank back?
Ms Z. is suggest the gossip magazine is being resurrected by its former owner as an online publication.
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Details on tabs in Internet Explorer
Essentially, IE 7’s tabs will behave as Firefox and Safari do.
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Salon’s Site Pass success
The online magazine’s revenue model seems to final have got its groove.
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Nokia 770: the Internet tablet
Although I had an early Palm, I only really used it to read downloaded Web sites. This, though, looks to satisfy my needs…
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Unistall Netscape 8 says IE team
The Internet Explorer team suggests users uninstall Netscape 8 because of an XML issue.
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Mixtapes, mash-ups, and Creative Commons
The Globe and Mail sums up the current copyright fight in the music fans world.
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Mr. Y2K tolls the bell for copyright
Peter de Jager, former Y2K consultant, argues for micropayments instead.
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Piracy as a sampler menu
Mark Pesce, in Mindjack makes the arguement that piracy can be good for media.
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MySQL tips
More than thirty tips about the database language.
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Universal layouts
One HTML file to rule them (i.e., CSS designs) all.
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Finder-style menu
I was thinking about doing something like this myself, but once again A List Apart beats me to the punch.
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Dean Edwards releases IE7 update
The script now corrects almost all of Internet Explorer’s CSS bugs.
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Enter stage left: Kerouac
An unpublished play by Jack Kerouac has been discovered.
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Bias in Google News
Non-traditional news sources seem to tilt Google News’ biases left.
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“My” Google a let down
This is personalization circa ’96 with nothing more than a smoother interface. And Canadian info is hard to get.
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TTC Rider Efficiency Guide
A mini-map to each subway station in the TTC.
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Canadians can be sued by music industry
A Canadian Federal Court of Appeal decision says the industry can sue people who share music online, but it won’t be easy.
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Netflix beats Wal-Mart
Online DVD rental business goes to the little guy.
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Netscape 8 released
The browser that won’t die now has two heads.
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Using hCalendar to fill your calendar
Eric Meyer explains how the microformat can be changed into an iCalendar file.
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Online news survey
Questions are a bit skewed, but worth taking to see the results.
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NYTimes.com redesigns story pages
In anticipation of subscription content, the site tweaks it pages and, visually, makes them worse.
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Custom DTDs not so good
Making you own DTD may not be such a good idea after all.
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The New York Times follows The Globe and Mail
…in the sense it will be putting some of its content behind a paywall. However, they are letting paper subscribers in for free — smart.
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Toronto Star blogs and podcasts
Antonia Zerbisas does the media blog thing and John Sakamoto’s Anti-Hit List is part of the podcasts.
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Globeandmail.com tweaks its look
Updates includes some changes to the bottom of the homepage (standards-based structure); great improvements to the story bundles; and a Flash-edition of a print-based golf guide.
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On the release of IE7’s user-agent string
Simon Willison has some concerns about the release of IE 7’s user agent string.
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sIFR 2.0 finally released
With this release, the image replacement technique also gets its own page on Mike Davidson’s site.
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Safari passes Acid2
The browser can now claim the one with the best standards support.
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The Globe and Gmail?
Or as the headline of this column speculating on newspapers being bought by dot-com companies suggests, The Google Street Journal.
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Bye bye RadioShack
In Canada, the RadioShack brand is being replaced by a clunky new name: The Source By Circuit City.
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Layton wins concessions from Martin
The NDP now (almost) hold the balance-of-power.
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Making a newspaper business online
Bill Doskoch offers his insight on The Globe and Mail’s article on the struggle with online newspaper revenue.
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Mapping New York’s literary locales
This idea floated in The New York Times cries for a Google Maps Greasemonkey script.
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Aardvark: a Firefox extension for Web designers
Intuitively highlights elements, and lets you manipulate them on a page.
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Tom Waits upset over commercial
Commercials are an unnatural use of my work,
he said.It’s like having a cow’s udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating.
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Opera CEO takes a bath
Jon S. von Tetzchner has begun what will likley be an uncompleted trans-Atlantic swim.
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Problems wiki-ing the news
True it is still finding it’s legs, but the problems Wikinews is encountering won’t surprise the skeptics.
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The blog-friendly U.S. papers
Interesting survey of shows The Wall Street Journal really is ignored by the blogosphere. Maybe someone do a similar survey for Canada…?
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Some IE7 fixes revealed
Chris Wilson says PNG transparency support is in place, as are fixes to a couple of notable CSS bugs.
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Who do you want for Prime Minister?
Based on the 2004 poll (issues which are still true in a 2005/6 election), I scored 100% for Jack Layton Leader, 74% for Gilles Duceppe, 48% for Paul Martin and a whopping 7% for Stephen Harper. Pretty accurate.
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The article page as a news hub
Steve Outing uses globeandmail.com’s phenomenally successful article redesign as a jumping-off point for new ways to navigate a news site.
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HTML 5
A.k.a., Web Applications 1.0, the spec may one day be the future.
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Canadians get number portability
Not a cellphone user, but this good news is something I didn’t think the Canadian telecoms would cave on so quickly.
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Layton’s response to Martin
[E]ducation, training for workers, and the environment are more important than this scandal
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The next 20hz
After a troublesome takeover (and subsequent censorship), the Canadian indie crowd leaves 20hz en masse.
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Steps to better typography
One of the most valuable seminars I had in j-school was in typography and this is a great refresher.
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Google remembers what you searched
Let the privacy nuts sound off, but this is very, very smart of Google.
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2005 Canadian New Media Awards’ finalists
If this is the cream of new media in Canada, then maybe multimedia CD-ROMs will be the next big thing.
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Online sales quintupled since 2000
Looks like this e-commerce thing has finally caught on in Canada.
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Finally, transerfable metropasses
In September, Torontonians will be able to share monthly and weekly transit passes.
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Camper Van Beethoven live in the Archive
A slightly inside joke for those that know my dog, for the rest, some good, free music.
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DevEdge resurrection plans
A temporary mirror of this great resource is now online.
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Opera 8 released
Been playing with the beta for a while, and can safely say this is a very good release.
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Toronto’s Pitchfork?
The guy who “transformed” the El Mo plans to overhaul 20hz
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AP’s plans
Tagging and better online stock data coming from AP.
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AP finally realizes it can make money online
Print and broadcast suscribers will now have to pay for the AP feeds they have received free for a decade.
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Globe on Firefox
The Globe and Mail presents a glowing overview of Firefox and Thunderbird.
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Go Jack!
Jack Layton offers Paul Martin a shoulder for support.
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How to destroy the Earth
Recipes for obliterating the planet Earth.
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Adobe to buy Macromedia
Holy graphics powerhouse, Batman. Your one-stop monopoly for your pixel pushing needs.
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PPK on Safari 1.3
Peter-Paul Koch notes the bug fixes in the latest Safari upgrade.
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Is this Area 51?
Google Maps may reveal what Mulder and Scully long searched for.
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Google Maps meets craigslist
Nice effective real estate Web app combining the best of both sites.
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Solving transit woes
John Barber advocates downtown tolls to help pay for the expansion of the TTC.
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CAJ awards finalists
Nominees include the late Bill Cameron’s piece on Guantanamo Bay, the Globe’s Louis Palu for photojournalism, and David Akin for his story on the CIBC faxes.
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Asterisk 2
Mr. Robinson redesigns his entire site and produces something I like much better.
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Browsers’ standards support
According to this survey, Opera, surprisingly, comes out on top.
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Yahoo News beta
As promised the new site is coming, and it looks very nice — clean, open, and standards-based.
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Al Gore stealing from ZeD!
His new cable channel (formerly CBC’s NWI) will be heavily based on the “open-source” television show, ZeD.
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The Pugly Awards announced
The tremendous renovation that resulted in the home of Toronto’s 51 Division wins.
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An accidental reprint
Google News gets a story Mark Washburn wrote published in The New York Times.
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Meetup charging $19/month
At almost $240 a year (U.S. I presume), watch a lot of the little groups whither.
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The Acid2 test
No browser I’ve seen comes close to rendering it.
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2005 Webby nominees
The late CBC Radio 3 is amongst the nominees, as is the Subservient Chicken and BCE.
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Ryerson Review of Journalism Online relaunches
The Web site I helped launch nine years ago, relaunches.
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Eyeopener at risk
My alma mater’s infamous (and best) school paper, the Eyeopener, is being threatened with “third-party oversight.”
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TTC strike
The TTC, and much of Toronto, looks like it will be shutdown come Monday.
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On media events…
Russell Smith nails it when he speaks of the media’s reaction to Pope John Paul II’s death (or the Gomery inquiry).
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Google Maps: Power and responsibility
Jeff Veen talks about how Big Brother is us and we best be smart about what we do with the power.
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Gomery lifts publication ban
Jean Brault’s testimony legally published at globeandmail.com
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Journalism != blogging
Derek Powazek explains (and he being a non-MSMer, may it carry some weight).
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Canada the best in “eGovernment”
Tops the U.S. and twenty others; myself, I’m pretty satisifed, too.
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Updating Access to Information
Canada’ ATIA needs updating; let’s hope it’s for the better.
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Man am I glad I got my passport
But this kind of move is what makes me reticent to visit the U.S.
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“In the Mood,” ̶Smells Like Teen Spirit” preserved
Songs are among 50 recordings marked for special preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress.
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I work here
Not like I should be surprised, but wow… Google Maps now uses Keyhole’s satellite imagery,
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The Annotated New York Times
Combining the Times’ RSS feed with comments from the blogosphere. Clever.
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Glowing profile of ExtendMedia
Toronto’s one-time new-media darling (a.k.a., Digital Renaissance) gets the full-treatment at globetechnology.
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All about JavaScript’s closures
New to me, too. Noticed sIFR uses this, so I figured I best get up to speed.
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Inside Yahoo News
Mark Glaser exposes how the newsie Yahooligans operate.
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The future of news
Five pages on how the next generations news consumption habits will change what news is.
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Water on Mars
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day proves it.
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Pop-ups begone, part 2
A new extension/patch for Firefox to block all pop-ups — help’em test.
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Gmail: to infinity and beyond
Watch your Gmail limit climb throughout the day to 2GB and beyond.
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Canadians watch TV…news
Drama and sports watching drops, and young people seem to prefer being online rather than watching television.
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Browser stickies
A rough Web mini-application for creating Post-It-like Notes. Some tweaks could make this very useful.
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Drag-and-drop sortable lists
This little JavaScript + CSS demonstration could greatly improve Web applications.
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Using CSS columns
One of the developers Gecko#8217;s implementation explains the ins and outs of columnized layouts.
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Interactive graffiti
Art school-esque experiment “blurs the boundaries of the Web and real life.”
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What happened to “way new journalism”
Ten years on, online journalism hasn’t reached its imagined potential.
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Ink-stained wretch swears off newspapers
An ABC columnists talks about why he doesn’t miss the printed newspaper.
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Dallaire, Eggleton senators
Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) Roméo Dallaire, former T.O. mayor Art Eggleton as well as a few Conservatives become PM²’s first
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Canada’s new copyright laws revealed
From a brief glance, it looks like the act will tone-down a lot of the rhetoric suggested by the Canadian Heritage Standing Committee.
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NowPublic tackles citizen journalism
The spawling site has an idea that seems to difficult to implement.
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Firefox 1.0.2 released
The Firefox browser’s security update is released.
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Creative Commons search engine
Yahoo has a version of its search that targets Creative Commons licensed material.
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Slashdot going XHTML/CSS?!
Could it be, the geek news behometh is entering the standards-age?
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Speeding up XML
The W3C considers making a binary XML format.
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Thunderbird 1.0.2 released
This is a minor update, covering security fixes.
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Tagging as the new world order
An analysis of how Yahoo’s Flickr purchase may change the whole search game.
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Kofi Annan on fighting terrorism
The Secretary-General of the United Nations explains the five Ds.
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Sharing your open-licensed media online
OurMedia will host open-licensed videos, music, photos, and other rich media content for you.
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Greasemonkey script: Google Suggest
Only works on Google.com, but a great enhancement from Adrian Holovaty.
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Flickr goes Yahoo!
The little Vancity Web app goes bigtime.
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Why Micorsoft can⁏t support standards
Dean Edwards explains that the problem lies within the Trident rendering engine.
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A “Candidate Recommendation” is the recommendation
Hixie explains the changed status of recommendation titles.
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CSS 2.1 not part of IE7
Rumours are flying, but it looks like IE 7 wil lcontinue to eb the only major browser not supporting CSS 2.1.
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New typefaces from Microsoft
Some very nice serif, sans-serif, and monospaced faces to be released in 2006.
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Google X
An homage to MacOSX’s Dock.
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The Acid2 Test
Ensuring IE7 does what it’s supposed to.
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Newspapapers stuggle with pay models
The New York Times has a pretty open anyalysis of the problems facing newspapers in print and online.
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SXSW presentation: Emergent Semantics
http://complexspiral.com/events/archive/2005/sxsw/
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Firefox extension: HTML Validator
Go now, Web developer, and download this wonderous tool.
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Bill Cameron: 1943 – 2005
CBC Archives remebers was one of my favourite, and most personable anchors.
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Microsoft does del.icio.us
Microsoft developers play some more with a social bookmark manager.
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Microsoft does Bloglines
Microsoft developers play a Web-based RSS reader. Interesting...
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Banning postering
Toronto, bizarrely, is on the way to bar postering in the city.
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The Globe and Mail has RSS!
A year-long lobbying effort has paid off: the Globe has finally launched a pretty decent RSS service.
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The Billionaires Club
Theres more of them and generally, their even richer, Forbes finds.
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Mozilla 1.8 will never be
The Mozilla Suite transition plan will surely ruffle some feathers, but it makes sense (this from a longtime Suite defender).
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Slashdot on Net libel⁏s global reach
Yes, I submitted it (only my second ever story), but hey, it made it to the frontpage — and they slam my grammar!
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Customized Google News
Reorder the pages or add your own section.
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J-school launches online magazine
The publication will be a show case for the school’s online-journalists-in-training.
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Wikis on journalism skills
The Online Journalism Review launched a series of wikies targetted to non-professional journalists.
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Net libel’s global reach
Media appeal an Ontario court ruling that could
threaten free speech and [the] development of the Internet
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Takedown: TO-style
Toronto cops drive into a knife-welding assailant (Windows Media video).
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Battelle on Google Desktop Search
Comments on what really makes the search tool shine (three letters: A-P-I)
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Google Desktop Search for Thunderbird
Google’s (non-beta) desktop search tool handles Thunderbird — welcome back Google.
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Netscape 8.0 Beta released
The franken-browser has its first public beta.
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Toronto panorama
This amazing photograph shows all of Toronto as seen from the top of the CN Tower.
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The Pugsly Awards
Recognizing, with Flash(!), the best and worst of Toronto’s urban landscape.
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Desktop search for Thunderbird
Copernic’s desktop search tool now handles Thunderbird — so long Google.
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Watch Battlestar Galactica online
The entire, commercial-free first episode is available online.
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Yahoo @ 10
The original eccentric search service turns ten today.
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Jef Raskin dies
The man how developed the Mac interface has died.
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Newspaper runs embedded text ads
The New York Post IntelliTXT ads test go public.
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WSJ faces irrelevance, too
Adam Penenberg (weakly) argues Wall Street Journal needs drop subscription.
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Number portability coming to Canada
Finally mobile customers will be able to dump their carriers but keep their numbers
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$9/hour for Wifi!?
Second Cup and Rogers will charge 15¢ a minute in great this infobahn robbery.
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Canada blocks Firefox users?
Good news: Canada wants its citizens to connect with federal departments online in a secure and a consistent manner. Bad news: only Internet Explorer on Windows seems to be supported.
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Thomson offers $1.5B for Bell Globemedia
This is either a low-ball offer for Bell Globemedia, or a rich offer for The Globe and Mail.
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XForms vs. Web Forms
A in-depth explanation of the fight to find the best way to mark-up forms.
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Codename: Ajax
JJG describes the new Web application interface model.
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The Doctor is dead
Hunter S. Thompson has ended his gonzo life.
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Wikinews design contest
Could be worth watching to see what the collective consciousness of the Web comes up with.
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New Washintonpost.com homepage
Clean look, and notably, the left navigation is gone in place of the top nav.
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Interview with Salon’s new editor
Founding editor David Talbot has stepped-down, and Joan Walsh explains what she’ll bring the magazine.
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No nostalgia for us, we’re Gen-X
Nice little piece from The New York Times on eighties “nostalgia”
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We are the bunny-earred
Over-the-air TV is the new cool.
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XMLHttpRequest tutorial
The basics on building very dynamic Web interfaces.
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RSS big driver for NYTimes.com
The NYTimes.com site got more than 4.5 million page views in Janaury from RSS.
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Google maps
Consider this the first wave. Mix this, keyhole, and local (or news) and you got one fine mapping tool. (U.S. only.)
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Watch Chrétien testify
Canada’s ousted PM defends his role in the sponsorship inquiry.
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The New York Times: “Smaller Than a Pushpin, More Powerful Than a PC”
Crazy-small 64-bit processor could reshape the home computing landscape.
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CTV wins Olympic broadcast rights
CBC loses big: the Vancouver Olympic broadcast rights go to CTV-Rogers
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Standards-based phishing exploit
This one is nasty, and affects standard-compliant browsers but leaves IE unaffected.
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O’Reilly’s Web design books online
The full-text of early classics on HTML, CSS, and IA.
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SXSW’s 2005 Web Awards Finalists
Finalists include Digital Web Magazine, a redesign I worked on.
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Picking a pope
A old, yet timely Slate article on the process involved in selecting the next Catholic pope.di
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The Esquire covers
Watch the magazine go from cutesy to classy to trashy.
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Creating a custom DTD
A List Apart reveals how to create and validate a custom DTD.
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Rosen questions Akin
David Akin reveals how blogging has changed his journalism.
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MSN picks the “worst browser”
Guess which browser Microsoft thinks is the worst?
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Interview with the other Craig
Craigslist founder ponders citizen journalism and more.
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MSN redesigns
The very, very dull page at least uses a semantic, CSS-based layout/
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Media Bistro redesigns
Now includes five Denton-fighting blogs.
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CBC.ca Arts redesigns
Stylish standards-based, CSS layout holds the promise of good content.
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Blogs won’t change the world
Jack Shafer says what the open-source journalists/bloggers don’t want to hear.
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RSS recommendation reader
This Web-based RSS aggregator also acts as a simple recommendation service.
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Best American online newspapers
The Newspaper Association of America just released its 2005 Digital Edge Award Finalists.
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Giving them what they want
A List Apart offers some ideas for pleasing Web site visitors.
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Goodger goes to Google
Google will fund his Firefox work. GBrowser = Goodger?
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Scrivs sells CSS Vault
The price is cited, in his enigmatic way, as $XX,XXX. If true, that’s a hefy bit of cash for a gallery site.
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People’s search behaviour
Pew asks people how they feel about and use search engines.
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Canadian New Media Awards return
No mention on the site, but an email suggested they were looking for nominations.
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Amazon.ca opens to Web services
The Canada site releases its API.
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Akin to the Hill
Long-time technology reporter moves to CTV’s Parliamentary bureau.
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GeoCities or CSS Zen Garden?
Scarily enough, it’s all real…
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Quoting in Canada
Joe Clark covers everything you need to know about citing other work in Canada online.
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Gillmor on the end of objectivity
Dan Gillmor posts a draft of an essay on the irrelevance of objectivity in journalism.
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Ta-da: a to-do list
37signals release a sub-component of Basecamp: a Web-based to-do list that’s brilliantly simple.
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Carnivore dies
American law enforcement has abadoned its Internet surveillance technology.
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News and blogger comment
This news aggregator appends blogger’s comments about each story.
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rel="nofollow"
Will this end up killing the notion of a reputation engine? Not sure if the ends justify the means here.
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Choosing the Word of the Year
A story only a language obsessive could enjoy.
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Copyright killing culture
The Globe and Mail has a provocative article on how copyright is destroying documentaries.
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Musical pablum
Using AI, music labels are now able to predict the next charting-topping track.
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Slashdot on the future of online news
The uber-geeks riff on what the future of news on the Internet will be like.
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Real-world accessibility guidelines
A fantastic collection of guidelines built after watching people who actually work with screen readers regularly.
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Anti-Hit List Star-bound?
Seems like my former co-worker is going to our former competition. Good on, Sakamoto.
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The 2004 Canadian Blog Award winners
Like a high school election, it’s all about popularity.
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Bill Doskoch on Canada’'s first maga-paper
The Sunday Toronto Star rejigged itself to be more like a magazine.
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Find contributions to Canadian political parties
Find out who your boss (or family) is giving to.
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The future of the Internet
Experts tell Pew what they thik the Net will be like for us in a decade.
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Village Voice embraces online
Weekly print publication now publishing daily online.
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Editor of Maclean's resigns
Anthony Wilson-Smith decides to leave the magazine after a series of high-level shake-ups.
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How online newspapers are remaking themselves
Online newspapers are reshaping themselves to better accomadate blogs and RSS.
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A National Web library
Michael Geist proposes Canada be
the first country in the world to create a comprehensive national digital library
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The creators of CSS
A mini-history lesson on the origins CSS
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Zed now open source
The software built to power CBC TV’s great, late night show is now open source.
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Steps to open online newspapers
Greensboro News & Record gets some great advice on how to make its Web site more “open source”
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Technorati tracks keywords
The innovation improves Technorati’s service tremendously.
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Complex table inspector
Ever since I diteched tables for layout, I’ve tried to make true tables as accessible as possible. This bookmarklet exposes the metadata of those tables.
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Wikipedia defence
Clay Shirky rebuts anti-elitism criticism.
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CanWesties paid to advertise
Employees at CanWest get up to $3,600 a year to turn their car into a moving ad.
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Wikipedia criticism
The “anti-elitism” issues reflect my concerns about citizen journalism.
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2004 Canadian blog awards
Most of those I don’t even know, but hey…
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The 2005 colour forecast
Purples, browns, desaturateds, and trippy tints.
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BLC’s Year in Review
Better Living Centre reviews the media year that was.
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Banished words for 2005
Includes election jargon, “blog,” and “safe and effective.”
