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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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