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Dispatches from 2008
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Briefly Noted from February 2008
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Infographic: box office
NYTimes.com demonstrates the ebb and flow of movie revenue.
Topics: Web Design, Movies
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Eyetracking search forms
Early findings into the effectiveness of come search form layouts.
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Eyetracking label placement
Where are form labels most effective?
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Sasquatch 2008 lineup
Unbelievable line-up for long-weekend music fest
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Keming
A new typography term.
Topic: Web Design
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Dimensions: xScope's killer
The screen measurement feature of this little app is worth more than all the other features combined,
Topic: Web Design
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Fire ravages Queen West
Six-alarm fire destroys some of Toronto's great, independent stores.
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EveryBlock: the real story
Rex Sorgatz talks to Adrian Holovaty about the super-hyper-local site
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Calis building the semantic Web?
Reuters' little open-source project sounds almost too good to be true.
Topic: Web Semantics
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Transcripts as video navigation
NYTimes.com has a clever, easily searchable video navigation tool for the 2008 State of the Union
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Toronto.com: ten years of mediocracy
BlogTO.com does a insightful analysis on the "city search" portal
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
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Revisitng Wired 1.1
The founding editor, Louis Rossetto, responds to a very in-depth review of the magazines first issue.
Topics: Magazine, Web Culture
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Award-winning newspaper design
And who says print is dead?
Topic: Newspapers
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Good redesign numbers
AOL's recent redesign shows how good design can lift the bottom line.
Topics: Web Design, Site Redesign
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New Xerox logo
Shiny, and very "x" -- kinda reminds me a certain game console's logo in fact...
Topic: Web Design
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Yahoo rejects Microsoft
Yahoo Board claims the $44.6B undervalues the company. Yeah. Okay.
Topic: Web Culture
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No version switching for HTML5
Says Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer Platform team.
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Principles of effective Web design
Smashing assembles some genuinely good advice.
Topic: Web Design
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Pay-asyou-throw garbage
Toronto's new plan seems far more sensible than the one used in Seattle now
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Knight Rider revival
This article contains enough interconnected pop cultural references to fry KITT's motherboard.
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IE8 preview at Mix08
Not a huge surprise, but IE8 is now officially being previewed this March.
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sailaTV
Yahoo! Live enables everyone to be just like Justin.
Topics: Web Culture, TV
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Free book on digital literacy for journalists
An excellent resource for online journalism as its practiced today.
Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism Resources
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Social Graph API
Using microformats to uncover the open social network on the Web.
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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Time-merged media
Kottke examines the manipulation o time on linear media.
Topics: Web Culture, Web Design
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Obit: chicagocrime.org
Holovaty's site, for me and many others, was one of the exemplary Web 2.0 sites.
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Toronto’s best Web evangelist
The well deserving, TorCamp muse David Crow.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
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TransitCamp II
The successful TransitCamp will be mounted again, and this time will discuss transit issues in the Greater Toronto Area.
Topics: Toronto, Web Culture
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This Just In
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Holy Fuck!
Ironically, I never saw the Toronto band name-checked in the…
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CBC: near- or farsighted?
Recently Canada’s public broadcaster urged the CRTC to “reject old…
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Minor changes for big effect in iPhone 2.0
Sure, there are some new applications to download, but the…
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iPhone apps
Tomorrow, Canada will get its first legal iPhone, but, as…
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Canada Day Rant
Living in the U.S. puts into context how important it is not to become complacent about Canada’s national perception.