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Briefly Noted from February 2006

• Microsoft updates for Eolas

  Internet Explorer gets an unwanted upgrade thanks to the Eolas patent.

  Feb 28 2006 at 11:04 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Patents

• Da Vinci’s autopsy

  Nicholas Campbell and Chris Haddock discuss the death of the Da Vinci franchise.

  Feb 28 2006 at 8:50 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• Pick your own TV channels

  The CRTC will allow Canadians to pick-and-choose they channels they want.

  Feb 28 2006 at 2:28 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• Wall Street Journal on The Globe and Mail

  According to The Wall Street Journal, The Globe is being saved by its crazy front pages.

  Feb 27 2006 at 10:10 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Should Canada be in Afghanistan?

  Globeandmail.com is hosting an online debate with its readers and MPs from three of the four parties (the gov't opted out).

  Feb 27 2006 at 8:50 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, World

• Alice is the brains behind CBC

  John Doyle savages the CBC’s recent decisions about TV drama.

  Feb 27 2006 at 9:25 AM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• How hard is the blogosphere of Leah McLaren?

  Bill Doskoch does some digging to see what turned Ms McLaren off blogs.

  Feb 26 2006 at 6:13 PM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Newspapers

• Joe Clark on TorCamp DesignSlam

  Joe sums up the events of the first of what I hope will be many DesignSlams.

  Feb 26 2006 at 6:03 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• The Times breaks the Social Scene

  The New York Times profiles Toronto’s band of bands.

  Feb 24 2006 at 10:23 AM EST

  Topics: Music, Toronto

• All rich-media patented

  U.S. Patent No. 7,000,180 covers all rich-media technologies accessed over the Net. This includes Flash, Java, and Ajax.

  Feb 24 2006 at 9:42 AM EST

  Topic: Web Patents

• Dow Jones merging print and online

  The publisher of The Wall Street Journal will merge its print and online operations. Now it’s a real trend.

  Feb 23 2006 at 12:31 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• MS Paint + too much time

  Freakin’ impressive hand-drawn MS Paint image.

  Feb 21 2006 at 1:24 PM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• Newspaper grasp for the young

  Salon examines the newspaper industry∍s reach the youth demographic.

  Feb 19 2006 at 6:49 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Is CBC stupid!?

  Canada’s public broadcaster has cancelled the only two dramas I watch anymore: This is Wonderland and Da Vinci’s City Hall.

  Feb 16 2006 at 1:09 PM EST

  Topics: TV, Canada

• 2006 Juno nominees

  Arcade Fire’s 2004 album is nominated, but only for a video and songwriting. Other nods are more comfortably mainstream.

  Feb 16 2006 at 9:33 AM EST

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Google buys Measure Map

  The less famous Adaptive Path spin-off (the most famous being the term “Ajax”) is now a Google product.

  Feb 15 2006 at 8:40 AM EST

  Topic: Search Engines

• The Firefox memory leak

  Apparently its a feature, although the memory doesn’t seem to be freed once tabs are closed.

  Feb 14 2006 at 2:54 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Camino 1.0 released

  The pre-cursor to Firefox has finally hit 1.0.

  Feb 14 2006 at 1:22 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Journalism technological evolutions

  Jack Shafer comments on how technology has always forced the newspaper industry to evolve, often unwillingly.

  Feb 14 2006 at 12:03 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Reimagining the news

  Jeff Jarvis’s series on how to reshape the newspaper.

  Feb 14 2006 at 11:58 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• The real news algorithm

  Cost vs. price is the real reason behind the media’s decisions when it comes to its products. The Web is no different.

  Feb 14 2006 at 11:57 AM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• Including SVG inline

  Steven Garrity explains how to best include Scalable Vector Graphics in a Web page.

  Feb 14 2006 at 11:51 AM EST

  Topic: HTML

• Extend Firefox Contest Finalists

  The best extentions for Firefox 1.5. The two I can’t live without are Sage and Web Developer.

  Feb 14 2006 at 10:10 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Running a standalone IE7 Beta 2 Preview

  Involves making a small batch file, but it seems to make running the new Internet Explorer fine.

  Feb 14 2006 at 9:51 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Yahoo! User Interface Library

  Nice collection of dynamic events. Perhaps to become the de facto library?

  Feb 14 2006 at 9:17 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• Yahoo grades browser support

  I like the model of C-, A, and X-support. Been using it for years, but this explains it all.

  Feb 14 2006 at 9:15 AM EST

• Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

  Nice patterns established by Yahoo!

  Feb 14 2006 at 9:14 AM EST

  Topic: Web Patterns

• Video: “Queen Street Man”

  It’s funny #8217;cause it’s true; still no “Spadina Bus”

  Feb 9 2006 at 1:29 PM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Flash Journalism

  Behind the loud intro is a wealth of resources for creating multimedia journalism online.

  Feb 8 2006 at 9:02 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism Resources

• Q&A on the globeandmail.com’s redesign

  Angus Frame, the editor of globeandmail.com, and designer Adrian Norris are taking questions about the new design at 1 p.m. EST, Feb. 7, 2006.

  Feb 7 2006 at 9:02 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Work