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Briefly Noted in date
Quick links not blogged but blogmarked
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Google Tips bad
Some think Google has gone too far with its new "tips"
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HTML5 elements and attributes
A list of the new tags proposed by WHATWG for HTML5
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Adobe documents CSS quirks
New site host a site for sharing and finding tips on CSS issues.
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TheStar.com redesigns
Gets rid of its past CMS in favour of something cleaner (called "TOPS"), has user comments, and short URLs!
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Firefox and the Acid 2 test
Firefox 3 Alpha 1 now passes the Acid 2 test.
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The first YouTube response
The Globe and Mail has gotten what may be its first YouTube-based reader response to one of its articles.
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Reaction to Stéphane Dion's win
Globeandmail.com commentors react to the surprise choice for the new leader of the Liberal party.
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Rick Mercer blogging the Liberal convention
Comedian and political animal Rick Mercer observes the Liberals at the Montreal convention.
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CBC goes local, again
The news dep't is refocussing on local news once more.
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Death of newspapers foretold
Jack Shafer explains that the industry new it was in trouble three decades ago.
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Future of personalized news
An interview with Calvin Tang (Newsvine) about truly personalizing the news
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Run IE6 and IE7 on one machine
Microsoft releases a virtual PC image that doesn't require another copy of Windows license to run the two browsers.
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Firefox crop circles in Google Maps
How geeky is this (and, yes, the irony of such a comment is intended)
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Uncovering a Greco-Roman computer
The Antikythera Mechanism was a complex astronomical computing machine from around 100 B.C.E.
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Encoding Flash video
Digital Web has a great tutorial on how to encode Flash video for the Web.
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Zerbisias has left the building for good
One of Canada's top media critics, and for quite a bit there, a top blogger, has retired her Toronto Star blog.
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Old-school TV sponsorship coming back
NBC's nightly news benefited from it, and now a new TV comedy is being phrased as "branded entertainment".
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Newspaper sites till behind the curve
Steve Outing wonders wear the real video, blogs, classifieds, and interactivity is.
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Do fix the small stuff
Applying the broken windows theory to the Web can make a big difference.
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Comment hosts not libel?
In California, a judge rules that compensation for libelous comments can't be taken from the Web site hosting them.
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Toronto's Indoor Playground
A place for "for new start-ups and independent innovators who are looking for a professional yet affordable way to scale their business."
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Setting up MySQL on a Mac
Helpful walk through for what really is a simple process
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Blogger acquitted
New Brunswicker blogger/journalist was wrongly arrested for obstructing justice.
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License the 2007 Microsoft Office UI
For free, unless you're OpenOffice.
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AjaxCore
A PHP framework that uses Prototype to aid in Ajax development.
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Win a ticket to Web Directions North
Digital Web Magazine is giving way a free pass to the conference to the creator of the best snowboard design.
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Ontario magazines get digital tax credit
The Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit is available to companies to develop digital extensions of the print versions.
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Improving Firebug
Version 1.0 looks to combine all my most-used extensions into one unbeatable debugging tool.
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How media can change the content
Or sometimes not. Kottke looks at how podcasts still feel like radio talk shows.
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The Toronto Typographic Charter
Joe Clark proposes a coherent use of typography for the City of Toronto
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Java is free
The first steps are being taken to make the programming language open-source.
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With ubiquity comes limitations
Aza Raskin argues the Web 2.0 toolkits may actually be hindering interesting developments online.
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Teehan+Lax UX Fund
Can an investment portfolio focused on companies with good user-experience beat the indexes?
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Test your mobile-ility
Test your Web site to see how mobile friend it might be (and love the irony of the TLD used)
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Re-skinning CBC.ca
Blake Crosby shows, on a CBC blog how to subvert the site's business model
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Comment on any text block
Jack Slocum has developed a very clever means to comment on any block of text on a page
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IE7 and accessibility
IEBlog explains how the new browser and the popular screen readers behave together.
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Web design is 95% typography -- the follow-up
A follow-up to the responses generated by the first article.
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Web design is 95% typography
Excellent comment on the importance of type in Web design
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State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006
Technorati tracking 57 million blogs, with 100,000 being added each day
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Google ads on newsprint
Google experimenting with putting its ads in the U.S.'s top newspapers
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Print skills translate online
Poynter released a study that confirms a good journalist is a a good journalist, no matter the medium
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Hottest Canadian bands for 2006
As voted on by a about dozens of Canadian music writers, bloggers and radio hosts.
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Page-caching in Firefox
Some features appeared in Firefox 1.5 to help improve caching and load times.
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Wishlist for improvements to the next Internet Explorer
Web standards types are collecting a list of features/fixes for the Internet Explorer team in hopes they might appear in IE.next
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Parakey: Blake Ross and Joel Hewitt's next big thing?
The curtains has been lifted on a Web operating system build by Firefox's key drivers
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IE7 now a Windows Update
Browser now an automatic update for Windows users (let's hope they accept it)
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Blogger and journalist?
Charged with obstructing justice, Charles LeBlanc claims he covering the event like a journalist for his blog.
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100 million Web sites
Roughly speaking, that's a 100-fold increase in less than a decade.
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Trying out "Office 2.0"
Carson Systems experiments with non-Microsoft office products and reports on the results
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The Django Book
An ambitious plan to document the open-source Web framework online
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Videotron wants to end net neutrality
The Quebecor-owned cable company for transmission fees to cover digital shipping and handling
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PressThink on Harper and the media
A great essay and analysis of the prime minister's fight with the press gallery
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Web attracting more newspaper readers
Canadian newspaper circulation continues to drop while the Web sites visits increase
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Push 2.0
How Web 2.0 is really all about push again, and why it may not be so bad
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Simply Google Map making
Vitamin offers some instructions on (easily) making a searchable Google Map
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The highest Scrabble score yet
The story behind Massachusetts carpenter winning score of 830
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Tim Berners-Lee wants to reinvent HTML
The father of the Web responds to criticisms about the W3C and suggests how standards will evolve.
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Registration open for Web Directions North
Sign-up up for the Vancouver-based conference and save $200.
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Free screen captures of Web pages
Browsershots will take a image of a Web page in nine browser based on a number of different conditions
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Apollo makes Web apps desktop apps
Adobe's new Apollo software will allow the easy creation of rich Internet applications.
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Bell Globemedia sells Workopolis
Essentially, Bell Globemedia sells to its part-owner Canada's biggest job site (and cash cow) for $115 million
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Now's Best of Toronto: Technology
BarCamp, BlogTO and Amber MacArthur amongst the picks.
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P2P use declining in Canada
According to a industry survey, 7% less Canadians have downloaded music over the past 4 years.
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Getting Real in 3 flavours
PDF, and now HTML or paper
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Steven Johnson's outside.in
The man behind feed (and a few excellent books) is back in the online content business with a new twist on geo-tagging
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Firefox 2 released
But you knew that already -- so here's Mitchell Baker's thoughts on the release.
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Mesh conference will be back in 2007
Canada's "Web conference" returns in Toronto on May 30 and 31, 2007
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Another option for the Gardiner
Instead of burying Toronto's urban highway, why not embrace it?
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PaidContent redesigns
The online media news site gets a new, contemporary look.
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What's really happening at Torstar
The Globe and Mail exposes what was behind the dismissal of the Toronto Star's publisher and editor
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40 years of Toronto Life
Covers from the past issues of the magazine about Toronto.
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Scouring MySpace
Wired News reporter, Kevin Poulson, has open-sourced his scripts to crawl MySpace looking for sex predators.
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Firefox 2 due Oct. 24
Release would make two notable browser releases in a month.
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New badge for Scouts: Copyright
Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area can now earn a badge for preaching the evils of downloading.
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TV Guide to be online only
Canada's TV Guide is closing its print edition to live exclusively online.
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First IE7 security hole
Less than 24 hours after release, Secunia finds a security breach.
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Earth will survive...
...If ever last one of us disappeared right now.
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Eric Sorensen moves to Global
The longtime CBC reporter is leaving to be Global's Washington bureau chief
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Add Google Gadgets to any Web page
This is could make things interesting.
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Multiple, standalone Internet Explorers
Install Internet Explorer 7 as your default browser, then use this package to run IE 3 - IE 6
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Internet Explorer 7 released
Get the looooong awaited new browser Microsoft.
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Roll your own heatmaps
A Ruby+JavaScript app that can generate heatmaps based on the users clicks
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Yahoo's seal of authenticity
Yahoo offers a simple, yet clever way to identify a login screen as one of its own
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What's in JavaScript 1.7
The Mozilla Developer Center documents the new version of JavaScript shipping in Firefox 2
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Someone never read Suck!
Torontoist calls out The Globe and Mail for sneaking some non-WCAG friendly alt text into a photo gallery
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Robertson's copyright claims upheld
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld Heather Robertson's claim The Globe and Mail wrongfully sold her writings to elecrtonic databases.
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How CBC.ca makes stories
Blake Crosby explains how articles are served on the CBC Web site
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State of the news industry from a buyer's view
Richard Bloom talks to an ad buyer for a unique, and insightful take on the Canadian news industry.
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Museum blog killed by marketing
The ROM's nascent blog was dead on arrival because, rumour has it, the marketing department didn't get it.
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Interview with Hakon Wium Lie
Opera's CTO offers some insight into the future of the number three browser.
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Tim Hortons meets Google Maps
Need a Tims? Don't know where one is? Use this. (Works for Starbuck, too.)
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Internet Explorer 7 will be here by November
Microsoft says it will be released in October with autoupdates being pushed out weeks later.
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ONA Award winners for 2006
PaidContent reports on the winners of the online journalism awrds for this year.
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State of Web development
For 2006 and 2007, Ajax looks to be big.
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GlobeSports.com launches
Had a bit of a hand in this site -- which holds a lot of promise.
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TTC shirts you could wear
Torontoist's Marc Lostracco quickly designed brilliant some T-shirts inspired by Toronto's transit service.
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Equal height columns in CSS
Clever CSS-based hack to get euqal columns, not sure how extensible it is, but still...
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Yahoo can authenticate your users
Yahoo is now allowing other sites to use its user IDs for browser-based authentication.
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Detecting JavaScript leaks
Designed for Firefox interface developers, Leak Monitor also finds things leaks on the Web.
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Shuttle, space station eclipsing the sun
A spectacular photo taken on September 17.
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Google's big bug
Looks like a tiny bug got caught in the scanning process used form Google Maps.
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No more Sunshine girl?
Looks like the Toronto Sun wants to drop the bikini-clad institution
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Web Directions North
The famed Web conference is coming to Vancouver in February 2007.
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Simon Willison's re-introduction to JavaScript
Great review of the basics offered one a-ha moment: objects and associative arrays are the same thing.
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Znaimer may get his Way
Toronto is considering naming the strip of Queen West that runs past CITY-TV, between John and Duncan Streets, Moses Znaimer Way.
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Shafer loves the Times Reader
And I admit, it does sound quite enticing. Still not sure it can't be done with some effort on the Web, tho.
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Windows Vista UX Guide
The user experience guidelines for Microsoft's new operating system will help shape many people's interface expecations.
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Take an RSS usage survey
Microsoft is doing an quick snapshot of how people use RSS and will be releasing the results to the public on October 20, 2006.
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Spacing's Toronto election Blog
Covering the public spacing issues during the run-up to the November 13 election.
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Final Fantasy takes the first Polaris prize
Best pick overall (and no doubt, the best one politically) from a very loaded field.
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Understanding Objects in JavaScript
After all these years, I finally get it.
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How to design an online product
In this case, Google Calendar, but the steps showed be followed by any online initiative.
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Why monospace is small
Mr. Hyatt tries to explain why monospaced fonts can look smaller than proportional fonts.
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globeandmail.com design tweak
Geoff Teehan adjusts the design of globeandmail.com to improve the homepage design.
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Transparent alert messages
A proposal for making alert messages more usable.
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CSS filter for IE7
The short: ":first-child+html" will only target Internet Explorer 7.
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Standalone IE7 RC1
Once again, it's possible to launch a standalone version of Internet Explorer 7
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Toronto Hydro's WiFi now live
Coverage (in the downtown core) is free for the first 6 months, about C$30/month afterwards.
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What newspapers really need to do online
Adrian Holovaty offers a large manifesto to which I can only reply: ditto.
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Pageviews are Obsolete
The pageview metric is constant issue as we try to develop smarter Web sites that don't rely on fully reloading pages.
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Survey of Internet use by U.S. newspaper
Lots of data on what newspapers are doing online, with some interesting recommendations
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Sawatsky's interview tips
37 Signals summarizes some of John Sawatsky's famous interview advice.
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Fine Young Journalist signs-off
Nothing left to say for the blog tracking how media is trying to attract a younger audience.
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Finalists for 2006 Online Journalism Awards
No Canadian outlets make the cut.
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Hoping for new Web core fonts
Jeff Crofts is aksing Apple and Windows to make the new Vista typefaces available on other platforms, too.
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Toronto Star offers downloadable afternoon edition
Modeled on The Guardian's offering, this is a very smart initiative.
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Edit this (Wired) story
Wired News has done a story on wikis, in a wiki, and is inviting users to improve it.
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Tips for improving JavaScript
Sure it's for targetted for Internet Explorer 7, but the advice is worth listening to no matter the browser.
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More media, less news
Newspapers now get the Internet (and the dollars from it), but they still may not be doing enough.
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The killing of newspapers
The Economist wonders who killed newspapers and offers some analyis on the various suspects.
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Defining the media shift
Mark Glaser breaks down "oldthink" and "newthink" in the media, and — despite the Orwellian-like terms -- offers some good insight
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CSS changes in IE7
Comprehensive change-log of all the CSS fixes to be found in Internet Explorer 7.
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Bringing CANVAS to IE
Some JavaScript libraries that bring the improved vector graphic functionality (already in Firefox and Safari) to Internet Explorer
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Canadians get news online
Of the 61 percent of Canadian households online, most are using it everyday to get their news.
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CBC lock-out spark for blogs
Blogs about the Mother Corp. were almost non-existence until management locked CBC employees out.
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Flash at 10
I still remember encountering the first pages using FutureSplash...
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Documenting Firebug
Everything you need to know to use JavaScript debugger.