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Briefly Noted from March 2005

• Canadians watch TV…news

  Drama and sports watching drops, and young people seem to prefer being online rather than watching television.

  Mar 31 2005 at 10:36 AM EST

  Topic: TV

• Browser stickies

  A rough Web mini-application for creating Post-It-like Notes. Some tweaks could make this very useful.

  Mar 29 2005 at 5:05 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Drag-and-drop sortable lists

  This little JavaScript + CSS demonstration could greatly improve Web applications.

  Mar 29 2005 at 5:05 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Using CSS columns

  One of the developers Gecko#8217;s implementation explains the ins and outs of columnized layouts.

  Mar 28 2005 at 12:53 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Interactive graffiti

  Art school-esque experiment “blurs the boundaries of the Web and real life.”

  Mar 28 2005 at 12:52 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• What happened to “way new journalism”

  Ten years on, online journalism hasn’t reached its imagined potential.

  Mar 28 2005 at 12:52 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Ink-stained wretch swears off newspapers

  An ABC columnists talks about why he doesn’t miss the printed newspaper.

  Mar 28 2005 at 12:52 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Dallaire, Eggleton senators

  Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) Roméo Dallaire, former T.O. mayor Art Eggleton as well as a few Conservatives become PM²’s first

  Mar 24 2005 at 5:35 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• Canada’s new copyright laws revealed

  From a brief glance, it looks like the act will tone-down a lot of the rhetoric suggested by the Canadian Heritage Standing Committee.

  Mar 24 2005 at 5:23 PM EST

  Topic: Canada

• NowPublic tackles citizen journalism

  The spawling site has an idea that seems to difficult to implement.

  Mar 24 2005 at 5:04 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Firefox 1.0.2 released

  The Firefox browser’s security update is released.

  Mar 24 2005 at 11:09 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Creative Commons search engine

  Yahoo has a version of its search that targets Creative Commons licensed material.

  Mar 24 2005 at 11:08 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Slashdot going XHTML/CSS?!

  Could it be, the geek news behometh is entering the standards-age?

  Mar 24 2005 at 11:08 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Speeding up XML

  The W3C considers making a binary XML format.

  Mar 23 2005 at 9:03 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• Thunderbird 1.0.2 released

  This is a minor update, covering security fixes.

  Mar 22 2005 at 4:40 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Tagging as the new world order

  An analysis of how Yahoo’s Flickr purchase may change the whole search game.

  Mar 22 2005 at 4:38 PM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• Kofi Annan on fighting terrorism

  The Secretary-General of the United Nations explains the five Ds.

  Mar 22 2005 at 4:38 PM EST

  Topic: World

• Sharing your open-licensed media online

  OurMedia will host open-licensed videos, music, photos, and other rich media content for you.

  Mar 21 2005 at 1:15 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Greasemonkey script: Google Suggest

  Only works on Google.com, but a great enhancement from Adrian Holovaty.

  Mar 20 2005 at 9:59 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Browsers

• Flickr goes Yahoo!

  The little Vancity Web app goes bigtime.

  Mar 20 2005 at 9:46 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Why Micorsoft can⁏t support standards

  Dean Edwards explains that the problem lies within the Trident rendering engine.

  Mar 18 2005 at 8:57 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• A “Candidate Recommendation” is the recommendation

  Hixie explains the changed status of recommendation titles.

  Mar 18 2005 at 8:55 AM EST

  Topic: Web Standards

• CSS 2.1 not part of IE7

  Rumours are flying, but it looks like IE 7 wil lcontinue to eb the only major browser not supporting CSS 2.1.

  Mar 17 2005 at 3:54 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• New typefaces from Microsoft

  Some very nice serif, sans-serif, and monospaced faces to be released in 2006.

  Mar 17 2005 at 12:01 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Google X

  An homage to MacOSX’s Dock.

  Mar 16 2005 at 2:38 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Design

• The Acid2 Test

  Ensuring IE7 does what it’s supposed to.

  Mar 16 2005 at 2:34 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Newspapapers stuggle with pay models

  The New York Times has a pretty open anyalysis of the problems facing newspapers in print and online.

  Mar 14 2005 at 11:59 AM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• SXSW presentation: Emergent Semantics

  http://complexspiral.com/events/archive/2005/sxsw/

  Mar 14 2005 at 11:51 AM EST

  Topic: Web Resources

• Firefox extension: HTML Validator

  Go now, Web developer, and download this wonderous tool.

  Mar 14 2005 at 11:50 AM EST

  Topics: Web Resources, Browsers

• Bill Cameron: 1943 – 2005

  CBC Archives remebers was one of my favourite, and most personable anchors.

  Mar 12 2005 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topic: TV