Archive
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Her source (U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff) “voluntarily and personally” released her of her promise of confidentiality.
Topics: Newspapers, U.S.
Hate seeing a branded icon for your HTML or MP3 files? Try these.
Use a “softphone” to transform almost any device into a telephone.
Topic: Phone/VoIP
Examines how to support CSS3’s multicolumns using JavaScript and how to split lists.
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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!
Topic: Online Journalism
Good range of nominees, including work by The Globe and Mail’s Stephanie Nolen and Joel Corda.
Topic: Online Journalism
Dean Edwards has crafted a clever way to initialize events before “onload.”
Topic: JavaScript
This I did not know: PHP was apparently created by a Canadian (as was Java).
Topics: Web, Technology
Joe Clark digs up some research that says longer may be better.
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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).
Topic: Newspapers
Looks like the trial free registration was no trial. Opera is free, including its newest version, 8.5.
Aaron Gustafson riffs on how best to display URLs in a printed Web page.
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
Don’t know which non-music blogger mentioned this, but it was funny then. Pitchfork’s take is scary brillant.
Dan Goodin explores what random playlists really mean, and whether that’s what we actually want.
A defence of one of my personal favourite punctuation marks.
Topic: Style & Usage
Marko Dugonjić has built a snazzy online tool for comparing how two differently set types appear online.
Topic: Web Design
Microsoft releases a Web developer toolbar that mimics Chris Pederick’s, and is available for IE 6 and 7.
Topics: Browsers, Web Resources
Details are a bit sketchy, but it sounds like the two will be creating a WiMax network accessible to the majority of Canadians.
Topics: Web Technology, Canada
A mob-blog from a free tab? Are they mad, or just buzzing up the same market as Virgin?
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
The British Guardian unveiled a massive redesign the likes of which may be coming here in the coming years.
Topic: Newspapers
PPK makes an all the paragraphs on the page editable by transforming them into textareas. Clever and simple.
Topic: JavaScript
Adrian Holovaty and his ChicagoCrime.org wins $10,000 Batten Award.
Topic: Online Journalism
The auction site owns PayPal, and just bought skype for a huge sum. VoIP is hot this year.
Topics: Phone/VoIP, Web Technology
This is why David Miller is the greatest — the mayor of Toronto actually rode the subway back to work carrying a giant promotional cheque.
LIke the title says, there’s an opening for a developer in Toronto who breathes Web standards.
This is a beta beta, but the reviews are pretty solid so far. Developers download and check it out.
Bell Canada is finally offering VoIP to its Toronto-area customers (like me!). Bah.
Topic: Phone/VoIP
As expected, CanWest is turning its newspapers and interactive media into a trust. Missing: the National Post, which spurs further speculation.
Topics: Newspapers, Convergence
The Globe and Mail is letting readers submit their reviews of films in the Toronto International Film Festival.
Topics: Movies, Online Journalism
Great S5 slideshow explaining how to use Firefox for Web development — includes pointers to some very worthwhile extensions.
Topics: Web Resources, Browsers
How to program a national public broadcasting corporation: Operate a…
Open source can have a transformational effect for companies, and news organizations are starting to figure that out.
With the Canadian 2008 election producing no real change, but a lower participation level, it might be time to look into voting alternatives.
Watching the election results not come in from the West coast of America is a surreal experience.
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.
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