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Dispatches from 2005
Posted on June 14
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Pumping up the praise
Canada is without a feedback loop when it comes to online developments and this is an attempt to adjust that.
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Briefly Noted from June 14, 2005
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Does sIFR enable piracy?
Jonathan Snook launches FONTSMACK only to realize distributing fonts in Flash for sIFR may be illegal, and mean sIFR users are violating their font licences, too.
Topic: Web Design
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Internet Explorer hasLayout
Ingo Chao (whose site is simple, and elegant) has dissected the cause of many of IE’s layout problems.
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Where (or where not) to buy marijuana in Chicago
ChicagoCrimes shows a disturbing concentration of arrests around, ironically, Humbolt Park.
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The Art and Science of Web Design @ 5
Veen’s second book, which outlined today’s Web design philisophy when tables and font tags ruled the Web, is now available as free download.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
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Karla Holomoka’s letters
The Globe and Mail has published Stephen Williams’ correspondence with the killer — the cuteness her letters is macabrely ironic.
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Topix comes to Canada
The news aggregator entry into Canada should make some media companies worried.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Bad brand brings broken band
Broken Social Scene play Dundas Square courtesy of Toronto Unlimited.
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Nvu 1.0
The Gecko-based Web design program (based on the old Mozilla Composer) has officially hit the 1.0 release and is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
Topics: Web Resources, Web Design
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Google opens maps to all
Google has released an API for its GoogleMaps product, opening the door to a whole bunch of oppurtunities like ChicagoCrime.org.
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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Syntax highlighter
Dean Edwards (again) releases his very borad syntax highlighter for code examples on Web pages.
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Packer packs JavaScript
Dean Edwards has a pretty efficient JavaScript compressor available at his site.
Topic: JavaScript
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Great writing in Steven Johnson profile
Written in the second person (difficult to pull off) the intro sucks you into an enagaging profile review of the author and his work.
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Google Earth freely available
Nathan Weinberg reports on some of the features in this program which once cost a bundle.
Topics: Technology, Search Engines
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Getting rid of the QuickTime pop-up
From a Slashdotter comes a helpful tip for a big pet peeve.
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TO Unlimited? Try TO Ugly
The new brandmark for Toronto is unbelievably awful.
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Wikinvestigative journalism
Sure, the wikitorial failed by using a wiki to collabratively do the grunt work of investigative journalism could be interesting.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Every New Yorker published, coming to DVD
Eight DVDs containing searchable electronic reporductions of every New Yorker from February 1925 to February 2005 will be available in September.
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TSN.ca does RSS
Not sure when they launched it, but its one of the few Canadian mainstream media properties to have RSS.
Topic: Web Technology
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TSN.ca embraces Web standards
Worthy of praise even were it not for my rant a few weeks back!
Topic: Web Standards
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Those eyes…
How that iconic photo of murdrer Karla Holmoka came to pass.
Topic: Journalism
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Rick Mercer’s Blog
If you know the name, visit, elsewise you probably won’t get it.
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Grocery Store Wars
Learn the ways of the Farm from Obi-Wan Cannoli.
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Why the wikitorial failed
Clive Thompson nailss the reason why the L.A. Times wikitorial experiment failed.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Ben Kerr dead at 75
The Toronto busking legend and perennial mayoral candidate has died — and just a few days ago I was wondering how much longer he would be around.
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Yawn…Live 8 in Barrie
Will I be rushing to see Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Great Big Sea, Tom Cochrane, and Motley Crue in Molson Park on Canada Day weekend? No.
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microformats.org
Your one-stop shop for microformat specifications (including such hits as XFN and hCard).
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Writing efficient JavaScript
Although targetted for those writing Greasemonkey-like scripts, it has some good tips for normal scripts.
Topic: JavaScript
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Questioning the satellite radio ruling
Sure for CHUM it may be sour grapes, but the point about a lack of exposure to Canadian music rings true.
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Now even less choice of movie theatres!
Cineplex is buying up the Famous Players movie theatres — can you spell monopoly?
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Rico: an open-source Ajax library
Seems to cover a lot of items designers and developers are starting to need.
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.