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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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