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Briefly Noted from December 2005

• Online news demographic not the newspaper’s

  Some stats to back-up a lot of anecdotal evidence. Those under 40 read online news, not newspapers.

  Dec 30 2005 at 11:43 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Canvas in IE

  Emulating canvas in Internet Explorer.

  Dec 30 2005 at 11:29 AM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML

• Ajax link tracker

  This is a very elegant way to do this, a much cheaper than some offerings.

  Dec 30 2005 at 9:42 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Khoi Vinh becoming Design Director for NYTimes.com

  His minimal, grid-heavy look could slowly bring some needed improvements to the Grey [sic] Lady’s site.

  Dec 29 2005 at 12:31 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Greg Linden’ 2006 predictions

  Mainly search related, but still relevant to the general online world.

  Dec 29 2005 at 12:30 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Search Engines

• The future of new is people

  Hypergene MediaBlog disects tthe latest Niewman Report on citizen journalism.

  Dec 29 2005 at 12:01 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• How to reimagine a newspaper

  Although The Globe and Mail got some ribbing about it, this is exactly its doing.

  Dec 29 2005 at 11:59 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Outings’s resolutions for newspapers online

  Most Canadian ones are doing one or two, but none are doing all nine, yet.

  Dec 29 2005 at 11:56 AM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• E-paper a reality in 2006

  I saw a demo of iRex Technologies’ reader (which uses e-Ink) and it is impressive. The business model, though, sucks.

  Dec 29 2005 at 11:54 AM EST

  Topic: Technology

• CSS bar graphs

  Eric Meyer shows another way to create semantic bar graphs.

  Dec 29 2005 at 11:10 AM EST

  Topic: CSS

• Ingram’s Web 2.0 report card

  Overall it gets a C, with eBay seen struggling.

  Dec 28 2005 at 10:33 AM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Firefox for music

  Rob Lord planning potential iTunes-killer to be based on Mozilla

  Dec 22 2005 at 10:08 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• Media levy to stay

  The tax on recordable compact discs and other recordable media will stay until 2006 at least.

  Dec 22 2005 at 10:02 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Music

• RSS icon

  Now that Microsoft has adopted the Mozilla RSS icon, Matt Brett has created a graphic template of it for everyone to use.

  Dec 22 2005 at 8:06 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Yahoo! JavaScript Developer Center

  Great collection of articles, resources, and tutorials on Yahoo’s products and on JavaScript itself.

  Dec 22 2005 at 7:58 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Resources

• Designing outside the grid

  Molly encourages designers to go beyond the table-inspired grid.

  Dec 22 2005 at 9:53 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, CSS

• CanvasGraph.js

  Another nice demo what can be done with the canvas element.

  Dec 21 2005 at 9:06 PM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• thestar.com does GoogleMaps

  Not quite ChicagoCrime, but this map of toronto homicides is a start.

  Dec 15 2005 at 10:11 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• thestar.com removes registration

  Though I have no love for registration, I can’t see any business reason for doing this other than regrouping after some negative results.

  Dec 15 2005 at 10:09 AM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• thestar.com: webmaking

  The Toronto Star has launched a ne wblog to speak to its reader about its Web site. Very smart.

  Dec 15 2005 at 9:58 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Toronto gets some real power

  The Ontario government finally allows T-dot to make its own decisions.

  Dec 14 2005 at 12:37 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Calling all Canadian Web workers

  Kim Seiver and Jay Gilmore have sparked a passionate discussion about creating a Canadian-based Web design conference.

  Dec 13 2005 at 10:44 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Canada

• Newspapers are mainframes

  Interesting comparison of the newspaper business to what has happened to the computer since the mainframe.

  Dec 13 2005 at 10:25 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Improving the blog interface

  Luke Wroblewski and Jed Wood come up with intelligent ways to improve the findability of content in blogs.

  Dec 13 2005 at 9:31 AM EST

  Topics: Usability, Web Design

• The ultimate Web 2.0 offering

  WebTwenny will revolutionize user-focused experiences.

  Dec 13 2005 at 9:19 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• What CSS browsers support

  Covering IE 6, Firefox 1 and 1.5, and Opera 8.5

  Dec 12 2005 at 1:26 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• The Anatomy of Web Fonts

  An comprehensive guide to what makes some fonts better online.

  Dec 12 2005 at 1:24 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• The Elements of Web Typography

  Richard Rutter unveils a beautiful resource about displaying words and letters online.

  Dec 8 2005 at 4:48 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• Pulitzer will accept online journalism

  Online journalism will not compete on par with printed newspapers articles for the first time.

  Dec 7 2005 at 12:55 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Journalism ethics around the globe

  The University of British Columbia’s journalism school launches an ethics watchdog Web site.

  Dec 7 2005 at 9:43 AM EST

  Topic: Journalism