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Quick links not blogged but blogmarked
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Media Bistro redesigns
Now includes five Denton-fighting blogs.
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CBC.ca Arts redesigns
Stylish standards-based, CSS layout holds the promise of good content.
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Blogs won’t change the world
Jack Shafer says what the open-source journalists/bloggers don’t want to hear.
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RSS recommendation reader
This Web-based RSS aggregator also acts as a simple recommendation service.
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Best American online newspapers
The Newspaper Association of America just released its 2005 Digital Edge Award Finalists.
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Giving them what they want
A List Apart offers some ideas for pleasing Web site visitors.
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Goodger goes to Google
Google will fund his Firefox work. GBrowser = Goodger?
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Scrivs sells CSS Vault
The price is cited, in his enigmatic way, as $XX,XXX. If true, that’s a hefy bit of cash for a gallery site.
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People’s search behaviour
Pew asks people how they feel about and use search engines.
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Canadian New Media Awards return
No mention on the site, but an email suggested they were looking for nominations.
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Amazon.ca opens to Web services
The Canada site releases its API.
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Akin to the Hill
Long-time technology reporter moves to CTV’s Parliamentary bureau.
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GeoCities or CSS Zen Garden?
Scarily enough, it’s all real…
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Quoting in Canada
Joe Clark covers everything you need to know about citing other work in Canada online.
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Gillmor on the end of objectivity
Dan Gillmor posts a draft of an essay on the irrelevance of objectivity in journalism.
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Ta-da: a to-do list
37signals release a sub-component of Basecamp: a Web-based to-do list that’s brilliantly simple.
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Carnivore dies
American law enforcement has abadoned its Internet surveillance technology.
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News and blogger comment
This news aggregator appends blogger’s comments about each story.
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rel="nofollow"
Will this end up killing the notion of a reputation engine? Not sure if the ends justify the means here.
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Choosing the Word of the Year
A story only a language obsessive could enjoy.
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Copyright killing culture
The Globe and Mail has a provocative article on how copyright is destroying documentaries.
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Musical pablum
Using AI, music labels are now able to predict the next charting-topping track.
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Slashdot on the future of online news
The uber-geeks riff on what the future of news on the Internet will be like.
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Real-world accessibility guidelines
A fantastic collection of guidelines built after watching people who actually work with screen readers regularly.
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Anti-Hit List Star-bound?
Seems like my former co-worker is going to our former competition. Good on, Sakamoto.
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The 2004 Canadian Blog Award winners
Like a high school election, it’s all about popularity.
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Bill Doskoch on Canada’'s first maga-paper
The Sunday Toronto Star rejigged itself to be more like a magazine.
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Find contributions to Canadian political parties
Find out who your boss (or family) is giving to.
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The future of the Internet
Experts tell Pew what they thik the Net will be like for us in a decade.
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Village Voice embraces online
Weekly print publication now publishing daily online.
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Editor of Maclean's resigns
Anthony Wilson-Smith decides to leave the magazine after a series of high-level shake-ups.
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How online newspapers are remaking themselves
Online newspapers are reshaping themselves to better accomadate blogs and RSS.
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A National Web library
Michael Geist proposes Canada be
the first country in the world to create a comprehensive national digital library
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The creators of CSS
A mini-history lesson on the origins CSS
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Zed now open source
The software built to power CBC TV’s great, late night show is now open source.
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Steps to open online newspapers
Greensboro News & Record gets some great advice on how to make its Web site more “open source”
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Technorati tracks keywords
The innovation improves Technorati’s service tremendously.
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Complex table inspector
Ever since I diteched tables for layout, I’ve tried to make true tables as accessible as possible. This bookmarklet exposes the metadata of those tables.
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Wikipedia defence
Clay Shirky rebuts anti-elitism criticism.
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CanWesties paid to advertise
Employees at CanWest get up to $3,600 a year to turn their car into a moving ad.
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Wikipedia criticism
The “anti-elitism” issues reflect my concerns about citizen journalism.
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2004 Canadian blog awards
Most of those I don’t even know, but hey…
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The 2005 colour forecast
Purples, browns, desaturateds, and trippy tints.
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BLC’s Year in Review
Better Living Centre reviews the media year that was.
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Banished words for 2005
Includes election jargon, “blog,” and “safe and effective.”
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