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Briefly Noted from 2010

• How a link spreads

  Visualizing how various Twitter accounts infect others with a link over time

  Aug 30 2010 at 3:49 PM EDT

  Topic: Social Media

• USA Today big change

  Large-scale reorg focuses on digital, as opposed to printed, mobile news distribution

  Aug 27 2010 at 1:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Mobile

• IE9's new look

  The next version of Internet Explorer may launch on September 15th with a minimal interface

  Aug 25 2010 at 1:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, User Interface

• Urbanized

  Gary Hustwit's new film builds on Helvetica and Objectified to look at the design of cities

  Aug 17 2010 at 2:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Design, Movies

• Avoiding the real question

  News analysis ignores the deep bigotry at the core of reporting about a controversial mosque in New York City

  Aug 17 2010 at 11:55 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Sept. 11, 2001

• The cost of free parking

  Ties to a recent discussion about how much car transportation is subsidized in subtle ways

  Aug 16 2010 at 3:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Culture

• jQuery Mobile

  The JavaScript gets ported to all major mobile platforms, not just iOS and Android

  Aug 13 2010 at 5:14 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Mobile

• Treesaver

  Promising HTML/CSS framework inspired by the first version of the NYTimes Reader

  Aug 11 2010 at 1:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Origins of the alphabet

  Stunningly designed and well-researched narrative on the origins of the Latin alphabet

  Aug 10 2010 at 12:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Typography, Language

• Ads in paid news apps

  Full-pad ads in The Times' iPad app indicates the maturing of online media business has started

  Aug 9 2010 at 4:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Advertising, Online Journalism

• Art lives in the suburbs

  Dave Bidini talks about Arcade Fire's new album and the changing views of suburbia

  Aug 6 2010 at 6:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• NYTimes licenses its app engine

  Could end-up creating a de facto standard around digital newspaper experiences

  Aug 3 2010 at 11:49 AM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Newspapers

• Sometimes, competition works

  All major Canadian carriers offer the iPhone and the resulting price is cheaper than the U.S. 

  Jul 31 2010 at 9:17 PM EDT

  Topics: Mobile, Canada

• 10K Apart

  Fond memories of the 5K Awards resurface with this modern spin on the idea

  Jul 29 2010 at 7:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• The music of Scott Pilgrim

  Exclaim! explains the audio inspiration for the movie adaption of the graphic novel series

  Jul 28 2010 at 8:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Toronto

• Goodbye Maury Chaykin

  One of my favourite character actors to watch onscreen died on his 61st birthday

  Jul 28 2010 at 12:27 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Canada

• On (Mad) Men

  "Enter Don Draper, the last John Wayne among a cultural landscape filled with Jon Gosselins"

  Jul 22 2010 at 12:53 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Culture

• 48 Hour Magazine now Longshot

  The brazen legal tactics of CBS succeeded in forcing the indie magazine to change its entire brand

  Jul 21 2010 at 11:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, TV

• The Web needs editors

  Maybe because this is how I started out, it all makes sense to me

  Jul 21 2010 at 11:03 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Journalism

• BBC previews new website

  Features a cleaner design, bigger video, and more share tools

  Jul 7 2010 at 12:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• On CSS prefixes

  Eric Meyer argues for vendor prefixes, and proposes an improvement to the standardization of CSS

  Jul 6 2010 at 11:26 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• On covering protests

  Some advice on what to do as a journalists while covering potentially heated protests

  Jul 4 2010 at 10:05 AM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Politics

• Chinese movable type

  An overview of how movable type was used commercially up until the past few decades

  Jul 3 2010 at 10:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Typography

• Firefox heatmap

  The browser's users demonstrate remarkably consistent use of the various user interface elements

  Jul 2 2010 at 11:22 AM EDT

  Topics: User Interface, Browsers

• 100 top online publishers

  Pleased to see msnbc.com make not once, but twice (three times, if you count EveryBlock)

  Jul 1 2010 at 2:01 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Work

• optimizeLegibility extension

  Jim Ray creates a simple Safari extension to improve how type is rendered on page

  Jul 1 2010 at 10:40 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Typography

• Proportional leading, fluid line length

  Using msnbc.com's new design to talk about a way to improve typography

  Jun 30 2010 at 11:58 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Typography

• Kettled in at the G20

  Reporter on being in a public intersection that became a de facto detention centre

  Jun 28 2010 at 10:31 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Politics

• Photos of G20 in Toronto

  Hard to see Toronto looking like this, even if it's a tiny snapshot of what really happened

  Jun 27 2010 at 2:58 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Politics

• Talking to Canadians

  Say what you will about about the G20, at least it's got American news outlets looking north

  Jun 25 2010 at 7:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Politics