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• Canadian Oxford Dictionary: RIP

  The entire staff has been laid-off putting the dictionary's future in grave doubt

  Oct 3 2008 at 8:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Language, Canada

• Twittering rumours

  Mathew Ingram has a honest, introspective piece on the responsibility of journalists on Twitter

  Oct 3 2008 at 5:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Poitical sound bites

  Jumping to key words in the U.S. debate (like Wall St.) videos exposes how prepped candidates are

  Oct 3 2008 at 11:45 AM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Work

• The Canadian political view

  "Capitalist free marketers, but believe in collective action, largely through governments, to achieve social, economic, environmental and other aims."

  Oct 3 2008 at 11:22 AM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Canada

• Homezilla

  Awkward name for a good service designed to let home buyers discover the amenities in a neighbourhood

  Oct 1 2008 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• 10 tips to solidify your business

  Advice for start-ups is also good for any company/business to consider

  Oct 1 2008 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Work

• The case for designing differently

  Andy Clarke argues that progressive enhancement is what we should be doing with CSS to move designs beyond IE6

  Oct 1 2008 at 11:06 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Design

• Canadian electoral map

  Map of Canadian ridings uses colours to indicate which party is leading where

  Sep 25 2008 at 1:13 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Canada

• electopinion.ca

  The Canadian election as reported on Twitter - very engaging

  Sep 25 2008 at 12:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Social Media

• David Foster Wallace in Harper's

  Everything the late author wrote for the magazine

  Sep 22 2008 at 11:58 AM EDT

  Topics: Books,

• WSJ.com redesigns

  A big redesign from a site that hasn't in a long while

  Sep 16 2008 at 12:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Newspapers

• Announcing the "Web Foundation"

  Tim Berners-Lee introduces a foundation designed to support the open Web

  Sep 16 2008 at 11:20 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• All about HTML's alt

  With argument like this, it's no wonder HTML5 will take so long

  Sep 16 2008 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• David Foster Wallace dead

  The author of Infinite Jest and on of the best novelist of the time apparently committed suicide

  Sep 13 2008 at 10:06 PM EDT

  Topic: Books

• ONA win for The Globe and Mail

  Ironically, the news is nowhere to be found online yet (even the Twitter account is quiet - I learned via email)

  Sep 13 2008 at 9:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Interactive Journalism

• Sample dating pop-culture

  Andy Baio crunches the numbers on the samples in reveals some interesting details.

  Sep 13 2008 at 5:26 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• The logic of HTML5

  Understanding HTML5 issues (e.g., video, alt, 2022) is a lot easier if you know Ian Hickson's online persona

  Sep 12 2008 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Regulating the Internet

  A CRTC requested report has some ideas for regulating and funding the Canadian Internet

  Sep 10 2008 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Technology

• Resurfacing newspapers

  Google plans to scan in old newspapers (including one from Quebec) to make them more publicly available.

  Sep 9 2008 at 10:42 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines

• Microsoft's CSS extensions

  IE8 does include support for some CSS3 properties, and will continue to support filters and extensions - but only in a W3C compliant way.

  Sep 9 2008 at 10:24 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Publish2: The Web’s Newswire

  "A Web-based newswire that makes it easy for journalists and newsrooms to gather, publish, and distribute links to the best news on the Web"

  Sep 8 2008 at 10:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Globe's election site critiqued

  Wrong sentiment, right questions. Elections sites, though, are hard to do well especially when factoring in extenuating (unspoken) circumstances.

  Sep 8 2008 at 10:32 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Everything you wanted to know about browser user-agent strings*

  * But were afraid to ask

  Sep 8 2008 at 2:18 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Google Chrome's story

  Like Firefox before it, Chrome is a clean attempt to create a browser for today's Web

  Sep 4 2008 at 8:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Search Engines

• Shadows coming to Firefox

  CSS-based box and text shadows should appear in Firefox 3.1

  Sep 3 2008 at 12:24 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Drag and drop with canvas

  Clever demo of dragging and dropping using a textarea

  Sep 3 2008 at 11:48 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML

• Joe Clark's book on Canadian spelling

  It's called "Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English" and I can't wait

  Sep 3 2008 at 11:48 AM EDT

  Topics: Books, Canada

• Mobile Safari doubles usage

  The launch of the iPhone 3G pushes the mobile Safari usage to 0.3%

  Sep 2 2008 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, VoIP

• Google Chrome

  Google's browser means there's a good chance one more test case will have to be run on future Web sites

  Sep 2 2008 at 11:23 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Search Engines

• Seattle tech start-ups

  A list of more than 60 of Seattle's tiny companies

  Sep 2 2008 at 11:07 AM EDT

  Topics: Seattle, Web Technology