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Dispatches from 1997
Posted on July 11
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Psst...wanna buy a webzine?
Dealing with over-eager advertisers.
Outside
Briefly Noted from July 11, 1997
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Skewing images with JavaScript
A clever script to do projective transformations of Web-based images using canvas and JavaScript
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Making decisions about user research
Eight questions to ask when debating when to do research
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News site design trends
Overview of the current design looks of news sites (include my place of employ)
Topics: Web Design, Work
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Lessons learned about iPhone sites
Good insights from the folks at Flickr about how to design an optimized mobile site
Topics: Web Design, iPhone
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Gmail vs. Skype
Google introduces video chatting to its Gmail messaging service
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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ClusterShot
Silverorange launches a new service that allows you to be your own stock photography agency
Topic: Web Technology
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Buy pieces of BSG
Props and costumes from Battlestar Galatica are being auctioned off. Tempting...
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Hipster apocalypse
A "now hiring" sign at American Apparel store sparks an inspired rant
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U.S. election night homepages
An amazing collection how major news sites looked every 30 minutes on November 4, 2008
Topics: Online Journalism, Politics
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Mathew Ingram and community
The hardest working blogger in Canada is now heading up The Globe and Mail's community efforts
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Less national Post
The National Post continues to whither in relevance as a relevant newspaper in Canada
Topic: Newspapers
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CS Monitor replacing print with Web
The 100-year-old news organization will cease publication of its printed newspaper in April 2009
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Delaying JavaScript execution
A simple script to delay the execution of JavaScript when event's fire
Topic: JavaScript
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NYTimes.com visualization lab
Equating it with reader comments, The New York Times invites readers to create their own visualizations of its data
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Cameras for guns
The Toronto police are running an amnesty that offers Nikon Coolpix cameras for illegal handguns
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Multi-touch Firefox
The gestures don't sound intuitive, but its a nice start to browsing the Web with your fingers
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Typocalypse
A series of images revealing what a typeface really says
Topic: Web Design
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CSS3 via JavaScript
Eric Meyer sees JavaScript as a way to boot-strap CSS3 support in browsers
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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TimesTags
Millions of folksonomists rejoice at the availability of tagged NYTimes.com content
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Progressive Enhancement with CSS
Excellent documenting a lot of the CSS tricks used to serve up style to browsers
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100E2R
Terrific case for having big, onscreen text
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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3D cube in JavaScript
The simple approach could be a foundation for an impressive parallax effect
Topic: JavaScript
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Experience Design Manifesto
Manifesto that uses the phrase "happiness" always concern me, but there are some kernels of potential in this
Topic: Web Design
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Why newspapers endorse political parties
J-Source looks into this more and more contentious concept
Topics: Journalism, Politics
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Is that an endorsement?
The Globe and Mail sort of, kind of, backs Stephen Harper for prime minister
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Sans Seriffee
Map of the tiny archipelago discovered by English years ago
Topics: Language, Style & Usage
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Culture in Danger
The extended, English-subtitled, of a political video that is, truly, laugh-out-loud, funny
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ALA@10
A List Apart is a decade old, and the proprietor looks back on the institution
Topic: Web Design
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Canadian Oxford Dictionary: RIP
The entire staff has been laid-off putting the dictionary's future in grave doubt
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Twittering rumours
Mathew Ingram has a honest, introspective piece on the responsibility of journalists on Twitter
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
Inside
This Just In
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5 steps to CBC success
How to program a national public broadcasting corporation: Operate a…
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Just the facts (and more)
Open source can have a transformational effect for companies, and news organizations are starting to figure that out.
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Canadian election hangover
With the Canadian 2008 election producing no real change, but a lower participation level, it might be time to look into voting alternatives.
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Election blackout in Canada
Watching the election results not come in from the West coast of America is a surreal experience.
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Canadian political slander
Keeping track of the various ways Canadian politicians insult one another from the perspective of a Canadian watching his country's election while living through an American election.