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Quick links not blogged but blogmarked
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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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