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Media rumours and trends; printing the Web; the Daily Standards
Recently, when talking with a co-worker about the possible sale of our employer, I said there was no big media companies left who would want the Globe — I had forgotten about Transcontinental, best known as the publisher of the TV Guide.
The National Post has collected the latest media-merger rumours, but it, too, may have overlooked one that hits close to home. That tale has the Liberal-leaning Torstar partnering with Liberal-leaning Onex to buy the Post from Liberal-leaning CanWest (via David Akin).
Also from Akin, an article in MIT’s Technology Review about the need to reshape media literacy education. Although never a wide-eyed naïf nor tinfoil-adorned conspiracy nut, I always consumed media with a dose of skepticism. Reading Manufacturing Consent
sharpened my concerns, but earning a journalism degree honed them to a fine point.
Thanks to the Internet, though, it is a lot easier to understand the media, and illustrate trends. A good example of this is the Global Attention Profiles — a real-time map of what country is attracting the most media coverage according various news services (for example, compare how BBC and CNN cover the world).
Visit Daily Flight for something a little different: a PDF digest of the posts for 2003 elegantly designed to embrace the printed medium. Something like this could have been done using CSS and HTML, but then it wouldn’t feel like a printed magazine.
And finally, from Zeldman, another “daily” to see: The Daily Standards (side note: why do so many sites hide the name of their creators?).
Keith:
It kind of takes a bit away from a site when you can't even put a name to it.
Jan. 3 2004 at 6:38 PM EST
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rudy:
Jan. 5 2004 at 5:29 PM EST
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Craig Saila:
"I AM SO PISSED AT YOUR SITE!! IT IS B0RKEN, TIMES INFINITY!! TRUE!!!!
in internet explorer 6, i get the comment window, i duly enter my name, url,and comment in the boxes, then i press the "post" button, and nothing happens!!
aha!, says i, craig's gone and gotten himself too smart for his britches, and has cleverly d0rked up a simple web form with all kinds of css nonsense, like perhaps an image submit button that doesn't actually work
HOW RIGHT I WAS!!!
let's try submitting the comment via Firebird 0.7
click on the Comment link from the main LCKY page (by the way, the left side of the middle column is obscured by a few pixels), and what happens? the link disappears completely, and no comment form popup window shows up
okay, let's try Opera 7
click on the Comment link from the main LCKY page, and what happens? nothing, absolutely nothing
okay, let's try Netscape 4, the css might be @imported and at least we'll get the basic functionality
click on the Comment link from the main LCKY page, and what happens? well, at least i get the comment form popup window, but what's this?
Server object error 'ASP 0174 : 80004005'
Invalid Path Character(s)
/comment/comment_read.asp, line 35
An invalid '/' or '\' was found in the Path parameter for the MapPath method.
craig, old buddy, this is one site i think you should LEAVE YOUR NAME OFF!!
ever wondered how many more comments you might get if the comment feature actually **WORKED**?
by the way, i'd be interested in knowing what the heck i have done wrong, if anything, and which browser i should be using, since the occasional comment from other people does seem to make it through"
The problems he pointed out are fixed (some are related to pop-up permissions, but CSS is not to blame).
Jan. 5 2004 at 5:32 PM EST
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