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Briefly Noted from April 2006

• Pricing a Web project

  It's a question everyone has asks, and Blue Flavour provides some good answers.

  Apr 26 2006 at 12:52 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Web Design

• Yet another Web colour tool

  Colors on the Web looks to be much friendlier than most.

  Apr 26 2006 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• 2006 EPpy Awards finalists

  Adrian Holovaty's work at the washingtonpost.com helps it score multiple nominations.

  Apr 25 2006 at 10:44 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Thank you for everything, Jane Jacobs

  The woman who defined modern urban planning died today.

  Apr 25 2006 at 5:28 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 out

  This is the official, not preview, of Beta 2.

  Apr 25 2006 at 3:04 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Preparing for higher resolutions

  Dave Hyatt proposes a new way for Web sites to support both high- and low-resolution displays.

  Apr 23 2006 at 10:53 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Seasme Street clips

  A massive collection of the clips from Seasme Street video clips for perfect to sink into a retro coma with.

  Apr 21 2006 at 12:24 AM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Is top-posting, shudder, the future?

  Reading the comments on a post about fighting top-posting seems to suggest that's become the de facto standard.

  Apr 20 2006 at 9:45 AM EDT

  Topic: Spam/Virus

• Mike D hacks MySpace

  Mr. Whitespace discovers how to make the social networking site more aesthetically pleasing.

  Apr 18 2006 at 8:56 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Culture

• Scrivs on MySpace

  Mr. Whitespace looks at what makes the social networking site so successful.

  Apr 18 2006 at 8:53 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• A DVDzine by the kids of Uxbridge

  From the snippet I saw (which was used to show how Cokie copied it), it looks pretty good.

  Apr 18 2006 at 8:53 AM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Accessible maps

  A nice demonstration on how a accessible, and standards-based map can be built.

  Apr 18 2006 at 8:41 AM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards

• Invalid Canadian New Media Awards

  Joe Clark rages against the lackluster technical quality of a Canada's wannabe Webby∍s.

  Apr 17 2006 at 6:36 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Canada

• Holographic disc drives

  Very, very cool.

  Apr 17 2006 at 6:15 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Bite Size Standards

  Quick, standards-based Web development tips.

  Apr 15 2006 at 8:56 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Standards

• CRTC clears wireless TV

  Television on your cellphone will be a wild realm where the CRTC will not tread.

  Apr 13 2006 at 8:24 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Phone/VoIP

• Inside the NYTimes.com redesign

  The Online Journalism Review does a Q&A with Len Apcar, the editor in chief of NYTimes.com.

  Apr 11 2006 at 4:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Slashdot analyzes Google's DNA

  An insightful discussion about an interesting article on how Google corporate operates.

  Apr 11 2006 at 4:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Search Engines, Web Culture

• Time's up for Time Canada

  The Canadian edition of Time will be produced without any staff working in Canada.

  Apr 10 2006 at 7:40 PM EDT

  Topics: Magazine, Canada

• Envision Torono

  An art project that ties Flickr, Google Maps and Toronto together.

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:35 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Toronto

• Antique anatomical illustrations

  Anatimoia hosts 4,500 full page plates and illustrations created from 1522 to 1867.

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:32 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Syndicating blogs

  BlogBurst will begin syndicating commentary from 600 bloggers to newspapers.

  Apr 10 2006 at 1:35 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Newspapers

• If newspapers are to survive...

  The Globe and Mail calls it reimagination, Tim Porter calls it reinvention.

  Apr 10 2006 at 1:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers,

• Prototyping Ajax

  A guide to how Particletree develops Ajax apps.

  Apr 10 2006 at 1:17 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML

• Disney offering TV free on Web

  The shows will be available on the Web the morning after they air and will have unskipable commericals. Could work.

  Apr 10 2006 at 9:45 AM EDT

  Topic: TV

• Google killed the clever news headline

  Headline style has been slowly altered by the search agents scouring the digital world.

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Writing

• The New York Times and blogging

  The newspapers public editor comments on the ethics around blogging.

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:30 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism,

• W3C doing XMLHttpRequest

  A draft specification from the W3C for the technology that makes Ajax work

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:04 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards

• Toronto Life goes standard

  Nice design, and as valid as valid can be for a commercial site.

  Apr 6 2006 at 12:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, Magazine

• Jack Shafer on NYTimes.com

  It's so good, he's cancelling his print subscription.

  Apr 5 2006 at 9:07 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism