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Briefly Noted in December date

Quick links not blogged but blogmarked

TMZ.com as the future

Convincing argument that the gossip site points to the future of news sites

Dec 30 2009 at 12:52 PM EST

Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design
Stop the Presses stops

Likely the last column by one of the first and best commentators about newspapers and the Internet

Dec 29 2009 at 03:25 PM EST

Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
The origins of Santa Claus

Great history on the creation of the icon in the red suit

Dec 24 2009 at 12:18 PM EST

Topics: Culture, Advertising
Best words of the decade

Picks from the Guardian's Books blog

Dec 15 2009 at 03:36 PM EST

Topics: Language, Culture
Five years of infosthetics

Great use of elastics lists to create a interactive archive

Dec 14 2009 at 02:15 PM EST

Topics: User Interface, Interactive Journalism
Trained toasters

Advertising cutting edge technology circa 1936

Dec 09 2009 at 11:33 AM EST

Topics: Technology, Advertising
Portraits of world leaders

The New Yorker has a stunning set of portraits taken by Platon

Dec 08 2009 at 04:53 PM EST

Topics: Politics, Interactive Journalism
Recovering from the unrecoverable

Did you get an unexpected signal 10 from VMFusion that prevented starting a suspended version of Windows? Try this

Dec 06 2009 at 03:36 PM EST

Topic: Computers
Reuters redesigns

Huge new redesign of Reuters.com offers a lot of nice details

Dec 04 2009 at 12:37 PM EST

Topics: CSS, Online Journalism

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This Just In

A picture’s worth

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

Sep 8 2010 at 1:52 PM EDT

Category: Web Design

Topics: Search Engines, Advertising
New designs on news

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

Jun 29 2010 at 1:11 AM EDT

Category: Journalism

Topics: Web Design, Work
Saila CSS layouts, revisited

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

Jun 12 2010 at 12:10 PM EDT

Category: Web Design

Topics: CSS, Web Design
Safari fine

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

Jun 8 2010 at 12:38 PM EDT

Category: Web Design

Topic: Browsers
The summer of the city

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

Jun 1 2010 at 10:53 PM EDT

Category: Attic

Topics: Toronto, Movies

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Briefly Noted in December date

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