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Dispatches from 2008
Posted on August 28
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Briefly Noted from August 28, 2008
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Ubiquity in depth
Examining the interface of "Quicksilver for the browser"
Topics: Browsers, User Interface
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Mad Men Twittering
Fan-created Twitter accounts were shutdown until AMC realized the accounts actually was great advertising
Topics: TV, Web Culture
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DIY Bumbershoot schedule
The Stranger has a simple and clever schedule maker for Seattle's annual music & arts fest
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jParallax
Impressive jQuery plugin for creating a dynamic parallax effect
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Fostering creativity
Pixar founder writes an insightful (and long) article on Pixar's secret sauce
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Bullets over Osssington
My old 'hood (and new hipster central) was the location of a four-car gun battle
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Dube leaves CBC for ABC News
CBC may have been a farm team for Jonathan Dube as he returns to ABC as a Vice President of its new site
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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Experimental rounded corners
Based on Snook's example, rounded corners with VML, CSS or SVG
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EveryBlock in eight cities
The hyper-local site is now covering Seattle (and Boston and Washington D.C.)
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
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The Better Way
TTC's new site has competition from a site build by some people who attended TransitCamp
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
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How to cover breaking news
Good analysis of how Toronto's media online covered an explosive news story
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
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08/08/08
The crazy 8s
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jMetronome
A script that helps a page maintain its typographic rhythm
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Flick navigation on the iPhone
Some very simple CSS can create the flick navigation in Safari on the iPhone
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Creating great search results
Advice on making a search result do what it needs to do
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Box office for 2008 visualized
Similar chart as seen in NYTimes infographic, but this is interactive and in HTML
Topic: Web Design
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Implementing canvas
There looks to be a simple way to get the CANVAS element to work on Internet Explorer allowing for a lot more interesting design effects
Inside
This Just In
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5 steps to CBC success
How to program a national public broadcasting corporation: Operate a…
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Just the facts (and more)
Open source can have a transformational effect for companies, and news organizations are starting to figure that out.
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Canadian election hangover
With the Canadian 2008 election producing no real change, but a lower participation level, it might be time to look into voting alternatives.
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Election blackout in Canada
Watching the election results not come in from the West coast of America is a surreal experience.
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Canadian political slander
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.