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The Globe and Mail sort of, kind of, backs Stephen Harper for prime minister
Map of the tiny archipelago discovered by English years ago
Topics: Language, Style & Usage
The extended, English-subtitled, of a political video that is, truly, laugh-out-loud, funny
A List Apart is a decade old, and the proprietor looks back on the institution
Topic: Web Design
The entire staff has been laid-off putting the dictionary's future in grave doubt
Mathew Ingram has a honest, introspective piece on the responsibility of journalists on Twitter
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
Jumping to key words in the U.S. debate (like Wall St.) videos exposes how prepped candidates are
"Capitalist free marketers, but believe in collective action, largely through governments, to achieve social, economic, environmental and other aims."
Awkward name for a good service designed to let home buyers discover the amenities in a neighbourhood
Topic: Search Engines
Advice for start-ups is also good for any company/business to consider
Topics: Web Culture, Work
Andy Clarke argues that progressive enhancement is what we should be doing with CSS to move designs beyond IE6
Topics: CSS, Web Design
Map of Canadian ridings uses colours to indicate which party is leading where
The Canadian election as reported on Twitter - very engaging
Topics: Politics, Social Media
Everything the late author wrote for the magazine
A big redesign from a site that hasn't in a long while
Topics: Web Design, Newspapers
Tim Berners-Lee introduces a foundation designed to support the open Web
Topic: Web Culture
With argument like this, it's no wonder HTML5 will take so long
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
The author of Infinite Jest and on of the best novelist of the time apparently committed suicide
Ironically, the news is nowhere to be found online yet (even the Twitter account is quiet - I learned via email)
Topics: Online Journalism, Interactive Journalism
Andy Baio crunches the numbers on the samples in reveals some interesting details.
Understanding HTML5 issues (e.g., video, alt, 2022) is a lot easier if you know Ian Hickson's online persona
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
A CRTC requested report has some ideas for regulating and funding the Canadian Internet
Topics: Canada, Web Technology
Google plans to scan in old newspapers (including one from Quebec) to make them more publicly available.
Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines
IE8 does include support for some CSS3 properties, and will continue to support filters and extensions - but only in a W3C compliant way.
"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"
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
Wrong sentiment, right questions. Elections sites, though, are hard to do well especially when factoring in extenuating (unspoken) circumstances.
Topic: Online Journalism
* But were afraid to ask
Like Firefox before it, Chrome is a clean attempt to create a browser for today's Web
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
CSS-based box and text shadows should appear in Firefox 3.1
Clever demo of dragging and dropping using a textarea
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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.
Ironically, I never saw the Toronto band name-checked in the…
Recently Canada’s public broadcaster urged the CRTC to “reject old…
Sure, there are some new applications to download, but the…
Tomorrow, Canada will get its first legal iPhone, but, as…
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