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Briefly Noted from October 18, 2007

• CSS animation

  Another non-standard extension makes its way into WebKit. Nice, but this is feeling like '97 again.

  Oct 31 2007 at 10:02 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Pownce API arrives

  After a buzz-killingly long delay, Pownce releases the first stable API with promises of more enhancements to come.

  Oct 31 2007 at 9:12 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• SimplePie RSS

  A great PHP plug-in that can parse RSS feeds for CodeIdniter among others.

  Oct 29 2007 at 7:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Resources

• Mozilla Labs announces Prism

  Toolkit allows Web pages to become desktop applications, without relying on proprietary languages.

  Oct 29 2007 at 5:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Browsers

• Bell backing out of IPTV

  The phone company once again delays its Internet Protocol TV roll-out causing some to wonder whether it well happen at all.

  Oct 26 2007 at 10:22 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Technology

• Processing the Ontario election

  Patrick Dinnen builds a compelling visualization of the 2003 election results.

  Oct 25 2007 at 7:39 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Ontario

• Sustainable green Web hosting

  The San Fransisco company offers 100% carbon neutral Web hosting service.

  Oct 25 2007 at 3:38 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Canadian iPhone for January 2008?

  A Molson Export marketing campaign seems to suggest that but everyone involved is denying it.

  Oct 24 2007 at 10:19 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• Microsoft buys into Facebook

  News broke for me on Twitter, still no update on Facebook's news page

  Oct 24 2007 at 5:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Social Media

• Guardian America's voice

  Inigo Thomas introduces Guardian's new American Web site be explaining why its style and writing voice will not be "Americanized"

  Oct 24 2007 at 1:56 PM EDT

  Topics: Style & Usage, Online Journalism

• LATimes.com tracking fires on Google Maps

  Smart, simple way to use Google Maps in breaking news without any developer requests needed.

  Oct 23 2007 at 10:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Mozilla shows some strong numbers

  Revenues increased 25% to $66,840,850 on $19,776,193 in expenses for 2006. Remember this is a non-profit pushing open-source technology.

  Oct 23 2007 at 10:08 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Nielsen says don't avoid passive writing

  Realizing the positively ironic nature of the headline amuses me.

  Oct 22 2007 at 2:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Writing, Usability

• It's the data, stupid

  Deconstruct the hype behind widgets (and there is a lot of hype) and you can find some real truths.

  Oct 21 2007 at 7:16 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• Parsing the case for online subscriptions

  Mathew Ingram reality-checks a study by Matthew Gentzkow that essentially says the making news free online costs millions in lost revenue.

  Oct 21 2007 at 7:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Making a successful news site

  Jay Rosen lays out yet more ideas for making a solid online news site.

  Oct 21 2007 at 7:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Don't click here

  A blog for marketing uses sketchy data and test to justify the worth of "click here".

  Oct 21 2007 at 6:48 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Accessibility

• Humanized messages

  While watching the Leopard preview, I thought about doing something like this tool JavaScript-based prompts and notices.

  Oct 21 2007 at 1:59 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Usability

• The new Newsweek

  The redesign of newsweek.com is one of the first mainstream sites I've seen to smartly incorporate Web 2.0 functionality.

  Oct 21 2007 at 10:37 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• CSS Snapshot

  W3C says CSS "standard" enccompasses CSS 2.1, CSS 3 Selectors and Colors, and the CSS Namespaces.

  Oct 21 2007 at 9:51 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Handicapping the TTC.ca contract

  Joe Clark, undoubtedly the most qualified and informed evaluator of the TTC.ca Web site proposals rates the hopeful firms.

  Oct 20 2007 at 9:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Web Design

• ONA 2007 Winners

  Gala event sees the Toronto Star win one online journalism award for Canada.

  Oct 20 2007 at 12:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Paywall lift boosts NYTimes.com's pageviews

  Reportedly, less than a month after lifting the paywall on its op-ed section, pageviews doubled.

  Oct 17 2007 at 7:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• NYTimes.com open source

  NYTimes.com is starting to release some of its code for the public to play with. Setting a brave new standard.

  Oct 17 2007 at 2:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism

• Print circulation now will count regular online traffic

  This may be another reason why the NYTimes.com dropped its paid circulation service.

  Oct 15 2007 at 2:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Subscriptions & Registration

• Panel on the future of news

  CBC, as a precursor to the Online News Association's conference, is hosting a panel discussion about the future of news.

  Oct 14 2007 at 1:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• Interviews with "networked" journalists

  Sixty-two interviews with the attendees of the Networked Journalism Summit.

  Oct 14 2007 at 1:36 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Toronto Star stop PDF-based afternoon edition

  Apparently it wants concentrate more on its Web and mobile presence. There's something wrong with that equation/

  Oct 13 2007 at 2:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Web Directions North 2008 line-up announced

  Amazing line-up for one of North America's best Web conferences.

  Oct 11 2007 at 5:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• The next standard: VWAML?

  Could a "Virtual World Avatar Markup Language" be the result of IBM and Second Life plan to free your online persona?

  Oct 10 2007 at 6:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media