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Briefly Noted from 2009

• 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 3:25 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 3:36 PM EST

  Topics: Language, Culture

• Five years of infosthetics

  Great use of elastics lists to create a interactive archive

  Dec 14 2009 at 2:15 PM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Interactive Journalism

• Trained toasters

  Advertising cutting edge technology circa 1936

  Dec 9 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 8 2009 at 4:53 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 6 2009 at 3:36 PM EST

  Topic: Computers

• Reuters redesigns

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

  Dec 4 2009 at 12:37 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Online Journalism

• Google Wave and Washington police shooting

  Seattle Times has a public wave going on the manhunt - crashed my browser

  Nov 30 2009 at 4:51 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle

• Twitter and Washington police shooting

  Breaking local news happens, Twitter responds - this is how I've been following the story 2100 miles away

  Nov 30 2009 at 2:09 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle

• California City

  "In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself"

  Nov 29 2009 at 4:50 PM EST

  Topics: Culture, U.S.

• Driving from Toronto to Vancouver in 3 minutes

  Amazing time lapse of a 45 hour cross-country drive

  Nov 25 2009 at 2:09 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• 9/11 pager messages

  Incredible snapshot of one of the most important days in modern history

  Nov 25 2009 at 12:26 PM EST

  Topic: Sept. 11, 2001

• PBS Objectified

  The Independent Lens series airs an abbreviated version of the industrial design documentary on Nov. 24

  Nov 23 2009 at 7:12 PM EST

  Topics: Design, Movies

• Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

  The original hipster, as captured in a 1965 NFB documentary

  Nov 23 2009 at 2:38 PM EST

  Topics: Music, Books

• Web Font Specimen

  Build your own reference library for Web typefaces

  Nov 19 2009 at 2:23 PM EST

  Topics: Typography, Web Design

• Visualizing war

  Using visualizations to help understand who is fighting and dying in Afghanistan

  Nov 19 2009 at 1:57 PM EST

  Topics: Interactive Journalism, Sept. 11, 2001

• IE9 preview

  Rounded corners, CSS3 selectors, greatly improved performance

  Nov 18 2009 at 12:37 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Notes from Canux 2009

  Bryce Johnson collection of 200 tweets from the conference

  Nov 17 2009 at 2:53 PM EST

  Topics: Usability, Web Design

• Ligature, Loop & Stem

  Limited edition typography products beautifully designed

  Nov 17 2009 at 2:14 PM EST

  Topic: Typography

• Lunascape

  One browser with three rendering engines means you can quickly check how page looks in IE, Firefox, and Safari

  Nov 14 2009 at 12:11 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Seattle P-I aftermath

  Seven months, most laid-off journalists are making less in very different roles

  Nov 12 2009 at 8:42 PM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Newspapers

• Online news growth visualized

  Nicholas Felton to charts 13 years of CNN.com

  Nov 11 2009 at 12:48 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Sept. 11, 2001

• The fall of the Wall

  Doug Saunders, and others, look at how the fall of the Berlin Wall affected Europe

  Nov 9 2009 at 11:05 AM EST

  Topics: Politics, World

• Pictures of you(th)

  Pictures from a cultural moment that is definitively gone...grunge

  Nov 6 2009 at 8:21 PM EST

  Topics: Seattle, Music

• Separating the business from journalism

  Worth remembering: "Journalism at its best is a practice, not an industry"

  Nov 6 2009 at 6:09 PM EST

  Topic: Journalism

• Crown copyright stymies The Globe

  Linking to the original is the only approved way to access reports from Canada's Auditor-General

  Nov 5 2009 at 12:19 PM EST

  Topics: Copyright, Online Journalism

• The Globe and Mail's backup press

  Encountering server problems, Canada's national newspaper turns to Facebook and Twitter to get the news out

  Nov 4 2009 at 12:13 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• OpenTO

  Toronto beginning to release its official data set catalogue

  Nov 3 2009 at 9:53 PM EST

  Topics: Toronto, Social Media