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Briefly Noted from September 2005

• Judith Miller freed

  Her source (U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff) “voluntarily and personally” released her of her promise of confidentiality.

  Sep 29 2005 at 11:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, U.S.

• Brandless icons for documents

  Hate seeing a branded icon for your HTML or MP3 files? Try these.

  Sep 29 2005 at 5:02 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Wireless VoIP

  Use a “softphone” to transform almost any device into a telephone.

  Sep 28 2005 at 9:26 AM EDT

  Topic: Phone/VoIP

• A List Apart on columns

  Examines how to support CSS3’s multicolumns using JavaScript and how to split lists.

  Sep 27 2005 at 8:47 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, JavaScript

• In the Hot Zone

  Kevin Sites is a one man reporter whose wat coverage has garnered him a lot of well-deserved respect. Now he’s doing it for Yahoo!

  Sep 26 2005 at 9:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• 2005 Online Journalism Awards Finalists

  Good range of nominees, including work by The Globe and Mail’s Stephanie Nolen and Joel Corda.

  Sep 25 2005 at 3:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Solving the onload dilemma

  Dean Edwards has crafted a clever way to initialize events before “onload.”

  Sep 24 2005 at 4:58 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• PHP Canadian?!

  This I did not know: PHP was apparently created by a Canadian (as was Java).

  Sep 23 2005 at 8:27 AM EDT

  Topics: Web, Technology

• Screen reading and line lengths

  Joe Clark digs up some research that says longer may be better.

  Sep 22 2005 at 9:40 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Axing journalists

  The New York Times is cutting at least 100 journalist from its payroll. This is not the direction the industry should be going (even if we all secretly feel it is).

  Sep 20 2005 at 9:35 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Opera is free

  Looks like the trial free registration was no trial. Opera is free, including its newest version, 8.5.

  Sep 20 2005 at 8:50 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Improving printed Web pages

  Aaron Gustafson riffs on how best to display URLs in a printed Web page.

  Sep 20 2005 at 8:40 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, JavaScript

• Indie Fantasy League

  Don’t know which non-music blogger mentioned this, but it was funny then. Pitchfork’s take is scary brillant.

  Sep 19 2005 at 10:46 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Truly randomizing a playlist

  Dan Goodin explores what random playlists really mean, and whether that’s what we actually want.

  Sep 19 2005 at 9:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Love the semi-colon

  A defence of one of my personal favourite punctuation marks.

  Sep 19 2005 at 9:15 AM EDT

  Topic: Style & Usage

• Typetester

  Marko Dugonjić has built a snazzy online tool for comparing how two differently set types appear online.

  Sep 19 2005 at 9:03 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

  Microsoft releases a Web developer toolbar that mimics Chris Pederick’s, and is available for IE 6 and 7.

  Sep 17 2005 at 1:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Resources

• Bell, Rogers building wireless network together

  Details are a bit sketchy, but it sounds like the two will be creating a WiMax network accessible to the majority of Canadians.

  Sep 16 2005 at 1:49 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Canada

• Dose’s Pill

  A mob-blog from a free tab? Are they mad, or just buzzing up the same market as Virgin?

  Sep 15 2005 at 9:42 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Guardian redesign

  The British Guardian unveiled a massive redesign the likes of which may be coming here in the coming years.

  Sep 13 2005 at 9:29 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Editing live Web pages

  PPK makes an all the paragraphs on the page editable by transforming them into textareas. Clever and simple.

  Sep 13 2005 at 8:53 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• ChicagoCrime.org wins big journalism award

  Adrian Holovaty and his ChicagoCrime.org wins $10,000 Batten Award.

  Sep 12 2005 at 11:07 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Sold! For $2.6 billion to eBay: Skype

  The auction site owns PayPal, and just bought skype for a huge sum. VoIP is hot this year.

  Sep 12 2005 at 8:53 AM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Web Technology

• The Mayor, the cheque, and the subway

  This is why David Miller is the greatest — the mayor of Toronto actually rode the subway back to work carrying a giant promotional cheque.

  Sep 11 2005 at 11:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Seeking standards-based Web developer

  LIke the title says, there’s an opening for a developer in Toronto who breathes Web standards.

  Sep 11 2005 at 10:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Work

• Firefox 1.5 Beta 1

  This is a beta beta, but the reviews are pretty solid so far. Developers download and check it out.

  Sep 9 2005 at 1:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Bell doing VoIP in Toronto

  Bell Canada is finally offering VoIP to its Toronto-area customers (like me!). Bah.

  Sep 9 2005 at 11:58 AM EDT

  Topic: Phone/VoIP

• CanWest spins off papers

  As expected, CanWest is turning its newspapers and interactive media into a trust. Missing: the National Post, which spurs further speculation.

  Sep 8 2005 at 9:54 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Convergence

• Readers review TIFF films

  The Globe and Mail is letting readers submit their reviews of films in the Toronto International Film Festival.

  Sep 7 2005 at 12:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Online Journalism

• Rapid Web development with Firefox

  Great S5 slideshow explaining how to use Firefox for Web development — includes pointers to some very worthwhile extensions.

  Sep 6 2005 at 4:26 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Resources, Browsers