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Briefly Noted in date
Quick links not blogged but blogmarked
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Installing Acrobat Reader 7
Asa Dotzler explains how to best to install this speed-increasing upgrade.
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Chapters blocks validator
Joe Clark discovers the book store’s Web site blocks any attempts to balidate its mangled code.
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eBay best Net stock
The auction site was the only one of the big five to improve upon its price at the bubble’s height.
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PressThink’'s Top Ten Ideas for 2004
From the legacy media to the Pajamahadeen and more.
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Opera betas version 8
The browser was to 7.6, but the amount of enhancements boosted it a whole number.
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Kensington Market Festival of Lights
Always a great way to celebrate the beginning of the end of winter darkness.
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More Toronto tabloids?
Rumours abound that the National Post, and maybe one day the Toronto Star, may go tabloid.
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Slate sold to Washington Post
The sale should be done by mid-January, and no major editorial changes are planned.
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Smart, wireless transit ads
The TTC will carry location-specific digital ads served using a wireless network. Could true WiFi be next?
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New media timeline
Despite the poor interface, this comprehensive timeline covers 35 years of American new media history.
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MP3 player levy quashed
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that the copyright levvies applied to digital music players aren’t legal.
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The New York Times Firefox ad
Somewhere in the blur you’ll find my name amongst the 10,000 or so donors.
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Canadian journalism a stagnant pool?
John Miller argues the media here is could care less…
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CSS needs fixing
Daniel Glazman weighs in with a mea culpa on the curent state of CSS.
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Dude
Clive Thompson on dude’s current usage.
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CBC does RSS
CBC now has support for a variety of RSS feeds. Wonder who will be next…?
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Canadians are going digital
We’re dropping analog media in favour of its digital equivalent at an increasing rate.
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Details on the AOL Browser
It will use IE, but will included tabbed browsing. Why they don’t use the Netscape Browser still confounds me.
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Gary Webb is dead
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who tied the CIA to crack cocaine-trafficking in Los Angeles has committed suicide.
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Citytv news bests CBC, CTV
Toronto’s own CityPulse at Six won a Gemini Award for best newscast beating out CBC’s The National and CTV News
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What to do about writer’s block
The return of the (content as) king.
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Ontario stops censoring movies
Next year, the Ontario Film Review Board will likely lose its powers to censor film in the province.
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Will citizen journalists hurt journalism?
Bill Doskoch points voice to some concerns I have over the buzz around “citizen journalism.”
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Testing all copy editors
The Toronto Star’s ombusman Nitpicker’s Quiz tests ones editing skills.
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Google Suggest
Google dynamically tries to predict what you’re search will be. Amazingly effective.
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Google News en français
The French edition of Google News Canada enables searches and browsing news items from more than 500 French news sources.
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Wireless in Montreal
Île Sans Fil helps
businesses and local institutions give Internet access away free
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Supreme Court rules in favour of same-sex marriage
Canada’s top court has ruled same-sex marriage is constitutional, now the Liberals have to make good on their promising to change the legal definition.
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Tog’s list of persistent design bugs
The top ten list is only seven items right now, but expect more.
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Firefox’s effect on news sites
Mark Glaser takes a look at the browser from an online news perspective (and quotes me in the process).
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Mozilla’s developer FAQ
Mozilla answers some common questions about the Gecko rendering engine, including how to use XHTML.
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Coulter on Carlson elucidate on Canada
The pundits of conservative America demonstarte their skills.
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Could humans fix Google?
Greg Linden riffs on the notion that people are needed to improve search engine results.
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Time for a new Net?
The Christian Science Monitor wonders if the 35-year-old Internet needs a facelift.
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XStandard supports Firefox
The XHTML WYSIWYG is now Firefox-friendly.
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Advertising without hockey
The New York Times, of all places explains how the lock-out has hurt the TV industry.
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As if it wasn’t conservative enough…
Clear Channel Communications (who banned the Dixie Chicks) will use
Fox News Radio to provide national news for most of its news and talk stations
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The future of RSS advertising
Jason Kottke surveys the users and developers of RSS aggregators to find out.
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Firefox users don’t click on ads
Of course there’s a litany of reasons for this, savviness being just one.
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Marqui on a slippery slope
Paying bloggers to create a buzz about a product could backfire.
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Thunderbird 1.0
Mozilla’s excellent mail client is ready for its close up.
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Web design forecast for 2005
Predictions for next year’s Web design trends.
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Editorial judgement by log analysis
The Financial Times looks to its Web logs for tips on news trends.
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Eye blog
Toronto’s alterna-weekly gets a blog.
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Why blogging as journalism is a pipe dream
Jason Kottke posts scoops about a Jeporady whiz Ken Jennings, and Sony threatens to sue him — but not the Washington Post, which did the same thing.
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Park-by-phone
Well, actually it’s pay-by-phone-to-park, but still…
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Editorial judgement by click
A newspaper is tracking every click on a story and using that to help determine the content of the next day’s paper.
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Why Google News is still “beta”
The WSJ’s Online Journal caught Google News link, as its top story, to a satirical article claiming Canada had arrested U.S. President Georg
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Joe Gillespie retires
Joe Gillespie is retiring from his pioneering work as a Web designer and publisher of Web Page Design for Designers.
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The media company I want to work for
Mark Glaser describes the ideal online journalism outfit. Sign me up.
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Supporting standards would break the Web
So says Microsoft, although Tristan Nitot deflects that dose of FUD.
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Wikinews a go
Wired News has an overview of the first steps of the open-source news site.
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ITunes Canada days away
Apple plans on finally launching the service before the end of December.
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Eye readers pick Toronto’s best media
Radio I agree with, and sadly I only know of two of the “blogs” cited.
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Blog Torrent
BitTorrent for your blog
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New Opera resizes pages
Opera 7.60 (a preview release right now) dynamically resizes wide pages to fit a narrow browser window.
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The life and times of Frank
The Globe and Mail engages in some schadenfreude over the fate of Frank.
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Why newspapers should worry
And trust me, they are, and some are even trying to change.
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Browser bug report
A database dedicated to
dedicated to finding, mending and publishing CSS and JavaScript browser bugs
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Mind your cites and Qs
Roger Johansson covers almost everything you know about the q, blockquote, and cite.
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Rather resigning
CBS’s only post-Cronkite anchor is resigning with the taste of scandal to remember him by.
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The computer as novelist
A New York Times essay wonders whether computers will ever be able to write novels as good as we can.
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Typography tips
Online companion to Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
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Style sheets for handheld devices
A css-discuss Wiki entry discussing the latest trends in handheld support for CSS.
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Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1
Kevin Sites explains to the marines how his story of the mosque shooting happened
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The future of online news is EPIC
Robert Sloan’s prediction of EPIC in 2014.
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Findory personalizes search results
Findory will now make recommendations in your search results based on past searches.
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Semantic and XHTML validator
Want to make sure your XHTML is really really valid, try this.
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Keeping it simple
Adam Bosworth’s transcript of his ISCOC04 Talk on accommodating
really simple user and programmer models
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XUL file manager
A Windows-like file manager for a remote computer using XUL.
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Four million daily emails for Bill Gates
Famous email addresses and their spam count.
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TV over the phone
Bell Canada finally gets the rights to send television over its phone lines.
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Handy Web project guides
Goto Guides offer a number of helpful and downloadable resources for Web development projects.
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People read online!
The Christian Science Monitor explains what that means.
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Torontoist songs for a Wednesday
Every mecredi the city blog will be offering Toronto-inspired downloads.
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Overture’s RSS ads
Interstitails could be the way to make RSS ads more effective.
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Top news sites for October 2004
Though no Canadian sites are listed, per captia many would few handily beat their American competitors.
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More AOL using Mozilla rumours
This time, the company that killed Netscape is looking for testers.
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Stanford marches with madness
Can a marching band be composed of anarchists?
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Crawley’s crusade
My ultimate boss, Philip Crawley, has lead the Globe’s possibly unwinnable fight against the Post.
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Videogame to debut Snoop Dogg/Doors “Riders on the Storm” cover
Proof that Jim Morrison’s dead, because if he was alive, he’d smash a bottle of Jack over all their heads.
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“Music is not a loaf of bread”
Wilco proves that online music-sharing can be a good thing.
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Acrobat Reader 7 coming
The new version will allow you to edit PDF files.
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Two IT sites launch standards-based sites
Softchoice and EDS.com both launched valid, CSS-based redeigns on the weekend.
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Dow Jones buys MarketWatch
The New York Times reports the site was sold for almost half-a-billion dollars.
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Yahoo hires WSJ.com founding editor
Rumours are it's looking at CBS Marketwatch, too.
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Masthead putting up a wall
The trade magazine for Canada’s magazine industry will be closing its site to non-subscribers come December.
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Internet tax for Canada
Unlike the, albeit misguided, blank CD levy, we’d pay an tax but get no rights in return.
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MSN search launches
And John Battelle’s analysis the beat product in his Searchblog.
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Saerch results on the fly
A dynymaic search using xmlhttprequest and inspired by Apple’s upcoming Spotlight feature.
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Military(.com) buys blog
Is this the next big cash-in trend?
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Gmail POPs
Google’s Web-based email now supports POP just as Hotmail begins charging for it.
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Microsoft searches for dominance
Will develop “Google-killing” service, then leave it dormant with new features only available to those who buy the latest version of Windows.
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Spinning-off online journalism
Mark Glaser tries to explain why the newly profitable news sites are being sold.
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Future of digital media
Jeff Jarvis prognosticates on the changes in store for media
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Open source newspapers
The Northwest Voice prints articles from submitted online from the community and published on the Web.
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Beautiful browser…
Molly sings Firefox’s praises to the tune of “Beautiful dreamer.”
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November 25: RRJ fund raiser
The first magazine I brought online, the Ryerson Review of Journalism is hosting a fund raiser at DNA Lounge.
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Dynamic image notation
Seen Flicker? Well, this adds notes to images in a similar same way.
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Clark on Indigo
Joe rips into the latest Indigo redesign and includes a “Saila reference”.
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Another petition for Internet users’s rights
A printable petition urging Canada not to adopt the WIPO’s Internet Treaties.
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Petition against WIPO Copyright Treaty
A virtual petition urging Canada not to ratify the treaty.
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Keep Canada’s Internet free
Boing Boing explains the dangers of the WIPO “Internet Treaties”
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Some stability for the CBC
Robert Rabinovitch gets to stay on as CBC president for another three years.
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The homepage is obsolete, part II
Joshua Porter’s follow-up to his Digital Web Magazine article on content aggregation.
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CSS property compatibility chart
The
chart shows all CSS1, CSS2 and Internet Explorer CSS extensions and grades the level of support each recieves in a given browser
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The homepage is obsolete
Joshua Porter, in Digital Web Magazine, explains how content aggregators are changing navigation styles.
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Uncollapsing margins
Eric A. Meyer explains how to reverse the margin collapse.
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Best of luck today, neighbours
May your vote for president (cough, not Bush, cough) be easier than depicted in this video.
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Speeding up browser evolution
Mike Davidson compares Flash to browsers and comes up with some thought provoking ideas.
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A pleasant Findory redesign
The news site spiffs-up the look, and enhances its offerings
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A horrendous chapters.indigo.ca redesign
An inaccessible, standards-unfriendly, Amazon.ca rip-off that I date not even link to directly.
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The Internet at 35 (or so)
Today is the 35th anniversary of the first Internet message was sent from Len Kleinrock’s laboratory at UCLA
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MarketWatch for sale
The Web-based finance news behemoth might go to Dow Jones or even Yahoo.
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Reviving on the tables
Roger Johansson explains how to build data tables.
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Best of (Now’s) Toronto
Reader’s picks are typically typical, but the critique’s picks hit the mark.
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Re-imagining democratic elections
B.C. asked its citizens to come up with a better election process, and they’ve chosen wisely.
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Indigo relaunch coming
Might the also ran online bookstore actually abadon fonts and tables in favour of CSS (which as far as I can, it doesn’t use at all)?
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Dot-post? Dot-travel?
I don’t think I’ll ever get ICANN’s thinking.
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Scrollable tables
Works even in browser that don’t support fixed positioning
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Prototype for MSN’s new search?
Noticing, with the advent of Mac OSX, it’s becoming popular to have the options box appear underneath, but associated with the masthead (like Site Builder function on this demo).
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Speed tweaks
Andy King’s collection of tips for speeding up your site’s performance.
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A yeat in J-School
Why isn’t every journalism school encouaging its students to blog?
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Wikinews could be coming
A proposed project from the Wikipedia folk is running about 3:1 in favour of getting underway
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Memories mapped to music
Didier Hilhorst and Marcos Weskamp are collecting feelings, images, and memories related to songs.
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Wikipedia as journalism
The Tyee follows the trend of loving the Wiki-powered encyclopedia as a model for journalism.
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Online news opening up
Mark Glaser, in the OJR, writes about mainstream news sites opening up to the rest of the Web.
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Toronto to welcome Firefox
There's going to be a launch party (likely November 20) for the browser here in Toronto after the browser officially hits 1.0.
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Directory tree styling
Sfeve Clay demos a simple way to style multiple lists to look like a directory tree.
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“display:inline-block” a panacea for IE 5/Mac
Mark Hadley finds a way to fix a nasty float bug that has plagued IE 5 on the Macintosh
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Back in the day’
As clunky as the mark-up looks today, it’s impressive how much of Siegel’s wishes came to be.
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S5 version 1.0
Eric Meyer’s dHTML slide show tool is presntation ready.
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Ben Goodger interview
Firefox creator shares some insight with News.com
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Compiling corrections
A blog commenting on corrections appearing in North American newspaper
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Inside the mind behind Findory
An interview with ex-Amazoner Greg Linden about his personalized news site.
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The end of Moore’s Law?
Probably not, the house that Moore built has killed planes to release 4GHz Pentium 4 processor.
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Implanting identity chips
The New York Times discusses the ramifications surrounding the approval of a RFID-like chip for storing a 16-digit number used to retreive medical records.
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Mathew Ingram’s second blog at globeandmail.com
Ingram has always been willing to produce Web-exclusive content as he previously illustrated with globetechnology’s Geek Watch.
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Google can now search your computer
Although it doesn’t search Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla history/email you can “vote” for the feature.
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PPK finds a XP SP2 CSS bug
Great. Internet Explorer 6 is different between Windows XP and Windows XP SP2. Let the fun begin.
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Offline versions of DevEdge’s sidebars
Until the Mozilla Foundation can get the the rights to DevEdge material, you can download these from TnTLuoma.com.