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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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