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Briefly Noted from March 2007

• Going to London, from Toronto

  Google Maps tells you how (with step 26 being key)

  Mar 30 2007 at 6:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Search Engines

• It's what we call the news

  JibJab on the state of the news media.

  Mar 29 2007 at 9:41 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• Toronto's new street "furniture"

  Joe Clark has extracted the renderings of the street furniture proposals and posted them on Flickr.

  Mar 29 2007 at 9:36 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• EyeTrack07

  Finally: some hard data to counter the perception people only scane text while reading online.

  Mar 28 2007 at 1:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Usability

• Worldmapper

  Redrawing the world according a range of economic and social measures

  Mar 26 2007 at 2:19 PM EDT

  Topic: Politics

• CBC unleashes more podcasts

  Selections include Radio News, World at Six, The House and some podcast-specific offerings

  Mar 26 2007 at 11:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Radio, Canada

• NADbank 2006 Readership Study

  Canada's newspaper readership in the top markets is stable, and more than 17 percent read an online edition.

  Mar 26 2007 at 11:32 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• State of the (U.S.) news media in 2007

  Excellent overview of the journalism industry as it heads into 2007.

  Mar 26 2007 at 11:29 AM EDT

  Topic: Journalism

• How to save newspapers

  Doc Searls offers some smart advice for improving newspapers fortunes online

  Mar 26 2007 at 12:21 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Web apps outside the browser

  A comprehensive summary of Apollo (and WPF/E) and what it means for Web app developers.

  Mar 26 2007 at 12:05 AM EDT

  Topics: Web, Technology

• dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide

  Brian Fling's ebook on Web development for the mobile world is available as a free download.

  Mar 25 2007 at 11:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Phone/VoIP

• Dean Edwards' base2.DOM

  A JavaScript library that makes sure every browser does the DOM scripting the W3C way.

  Mar 22 2007 at 1:44 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards

• CakePHP v. CodeIgnitor

  Snook does an excellent comparision of the two PHP-based MVCs

  Mar 21 2007 at 2:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Web, Technology

• Installed fonts

  As detected by CSS and JavaScript (this version has a nicer UI than the original)

  Mar 21 2007 at 2:10 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, CSS

• 24 killing the Sun?

  It looks like Quebecor's free, daily newspaper mortally is wounding it's paid-circulation tabloid.

  Mar 20 2007 at 9:39 AM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Management By Optimism

  This nails a nasty little trend I've been seeing quite frequently.

  Mar 16 2007 at 10:35 AM EDT

  Topic: Work

• Web-based project tools

  An overview of Web-based tools for planning, budgeting, and developing projects.

  Mar 11 2007 at 4:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Web, General Resource

• Em Calculator

  Useful for any CSS developer looking to figure out what 0.625em actual is.

  Mar 11 2007 at 4:53 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• W3C relaunches HTML

  First draft due this summer, final recommendation 2010. Expected adoption: 2015.

  Mar 8 2007 at 10:09 AM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Opera wants a VIDEO tag

  The browser vendor is proposing a new element for video in HTML5. What OBJECT doesn't work for you?!

  Mar 5 2007 at 10:08 PM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOMs

  Three top guns from three top browsers talk DOM in this Yahoo Video.

  Mar 5 2007 at 10:01 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, JavaScript

• Reaction to the new USAToday.com

  Bout sums it up

  Mar 5 2007 at 9:44 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Newspapers have 25 years left

  More predictions on the death of the newspaper in the face of online news outlets

  Mar 4 2007 at 4:41 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• MySpace for finance geeks

  Reuters plans on launching a social networking service

  Mar 4 2007 at 4:40 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• Prototype/script.aculo.us TextMate bundle

  For all those TextMate users who do JavaScript work, this is for you.

  Mar 1 2007 at 2:52 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology