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Dispatches from 1997
Posted on December 10
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Another redesign?!
The column introducing one one of the site’s longest designs.
Outside
Briefly Noted from December 10, 1997
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Online ads & Web design
Good overview of both the importance ads play in Web design and the current trends
Topics: Web Design, Advertising
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20 signs you don’t want that web design project
An scarily accurate list of warning signs
Topics: Web Design, Work
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Microlocal
EveryBlock replaces the buzzword "hyperlocal" with the more accurate "microlocal"
Topic: Web Culture
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* o GlobeAuto o Careers o Classifieds o Newspaper Ads o Personals o Real Estate Click here to find out more! Canadians react
Interactive showing how Canadian premiers and Globe and Mail readers feel about the crisis of confidence in the House of Commons
Topics: Politics, Interactive Journalism
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Green browsing
The new Web development trend: reduce your site's energy footprint
Topics: Web Technology, JavaScript
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The Grid System
A resource for everything related to using grids in design
Topic: Web Design
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Agile for design
How to apply Agile development concepts to Web design
Topic: Web Design
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Data cleaner
A great Web-based tool for those who hate regex and need to normalize data
Topic: Web Technology
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Pownce says goodbye
The potential Twitter-killer has been sold to Six Apart and will be going offline
Topic: Social Media
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Summarizing the poitical sentiment
Discussion about a change in Canadian government grew to 1,200 comments and Mathew Ingram read through them all to find the best ones
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Helvetireader
Brilliant skin to Google Reader (and love the article sampled, too)
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
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New Google Map controls
Streetview on Google Maps introduces an terrific new interface for the map controls
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
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The Souvenir Shop
Pseudo-souvenirs of Canada from some country's best emerging designers
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Discover related keywords
Chris Heilmann demonstrates how to use Yahoo's API to uncover related keywords
Topics: Search Engines, JavaScript
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All-in-one browser
One browser, three rendering engines (IE, Firefox, and Safari); great for testing
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Reason #80211 why I like Virgin America
In-flight Wi-Fi
Topic: Web Technology
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New ideas for newspapers
Seth Godin has some original ideas to help newspapers survive online.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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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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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.