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Briefly Noted in December date
Quick links not blogged but blogmarked
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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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