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Internet Explorer gets an unwanted upgrade thanks to the Eolas patent.
Topics: Browsers, Web Patents
Nicholas Campbell and Chris Haddock discuss the death of the Da Vinci franchise.
The CRTC will allow Canadians to pick-and-choose they channels they want.
According to The Wall Street Journal, The Globe is being saved by its crazy front pages.
Topic: Newspapers
Globeandmail.com is hosting an online debate with its readers and MPs from three of the four parties (the gov't opted out).
John Doyle savages the CBC’s recent decisions about TV drama.
Bill Doskoch does some digging to see what turned Ms McLaren off blogs.
Topics: Web Culture, Newspapers
Joe sums up the events of the first of what I hope will be many DesignSlams.
The New York Times profiles Toronto’s band of bands.
U.S. Patent No. 7,000,180 covers all rich-media technologies accessed over the Net. This includes Flash, Java, and Ajax.
Topic: Web Patents
The publisher of The Wall Street Journal will merge its print and online operations. Now it’s a real trend.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
Freakin’ impressive hand-drawn MS Paint image.
Topic: Web Culture
Salon examines the newspaper industry∍s reach the youth demographic.
Topic: Newspapers
Canada’s public broadcaster has cancelled the only two dramas I watch anymore: This is Wonderland and Da Vinci’s City Hall.
Arcade Fire’s 2004 album is nominated, but only for a video and songwriting. Other nods are more comfortably mainstream.
The less famous Adaptive Path spin-off (the most famous being the term “Ajax”) is now a Google product.
Topic: Search Engines
Apparently its a feature, although the memory doesn’t seem to be freed once tabs are closed.
The pre-cursor to Firefox has finally hit 1.0.
Jack Shafer comments on how technology has always forced the newspaper industry to evolve, often unwillingly.
Topic: Newspapers
Jeff Jarvis’s series on how to reshape the newspaper.
Topic: Newspapers
Cost vs. price is the real reason behind the media’s decisions when it comes to its products. The Web is no different.
Topic: Newspapers
Steven Garrity explains how to best include Scalable Vector Graphics in a Web page.
The best extentions for Firefox 1.5. The two I can’t live without are Sage and Web Developer.
Involves making a small batch file, but it seems to make running the new Internet Explorer fine.
Nice collection of dynamic events. Perhaps to become the de facto library?
Topic: JavaScript
I like the model of C-, A, and X-support. Been using it for years, but this explains it all.
Nice patterns established by Yahoo!
Topic: Web Patterns
It’s funny #8217;cause it’s true; still no “Spadina Bus”
Behind the loud intro is a wealth of resources for creating multimedia journalism online.
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism Resources
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.
Topics: Web Design, Work
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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