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• Netscape dead again

  February 1, 2008 marks the end of AOL's support for the Netscape browser.

  Dec 28 2007 at 04:59 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• CBC.ca calls for original online content

  The call for freelance online projects is rare, but to bulk about its resources, CBC.ca has put out a call for some pitches.

  Dec 23 2007 at 12:18 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• CSS Working Group proposals

  Ideas on reforming the W3C's CSS standardization process, from Andy Clarke. Agree or not, this is a huge issue that needs to be discussed.

  Dec 18 2007 at 04:14 PM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Moderating comments a union issue

  The Canadian Media Guild is concerned that CBC.ca is outsourcing comment moderation to Pluck.

  Dec 18 2007 at 03:38 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Donation seeking non-profits in Toronto

  The City of Toronto has a huge list of non-profit agencies accepting donations of computer equipment, clothing, and books.

  Dec 11 2007 at 09:11 AM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Shrink your code

  Four ways to help reduce the size of the files delivered from your site.

  Dec 07 2007 at 07:09 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Google Chart API

  Simple URL-based schema renders complex charts for up to 50,000 views a day.

  Dec 07 2007 at 07:08 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Web Technology

• Disposable fuel cells by Bic?

  Forget recharging batteries, Bic wants to develop a replaceable fuel cell that can power a cell phone for weeks.

  Dec 06 2007 at 10:39 AM EST

  Topic: Technology

• Creating sexy stylesheets

  It may not be sexy, but Jina Bolton's advice one building a stable CSS suite is worth following.

  Dec 06 2007 at 10:35 AM EST

  Topic: CSS

• Most reads feeds more reads

  The globeandmail.com now offers newsfeeds for its most read and recommended articles -- expect the best (content).

  Dec 06 2007 at 09:58 AM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Molly vs. Bill G. on IE8

  Molly wonders why Microsoft is being so tight-lipped about IE 8, and Bill promises to look into it.

  Dec 06 2007 at 09:51 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Canoe.tv and CBC

  Quebecor leverages CBC content to prop up its "interactive" TV attempts. Ahh, the minds hired by PPK shine so bright...

  Dec 04 2007 at 10:51 AM EST

  Topics: TV, Web Culture

• Digg using Idée for image checking

  The amazing technology developed by Idée is now being used by Digg to check for duplicate images.

  Dec 04 2007 at 10:28 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• HTML 5 preview

  Finally, a decent overview of the next step in the Web's core language.

  Dec 04 2007 at 10:00 AM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Geist on Canada's new copyright plan

  The proposed changes to the Canadian copyright law could make Canada one of the most restrictive regions in the democratic world.

  Nov 29 2007 at 03:55 PM EST

  Topics: Copyright, Canada

• Google can't code

  "The half-assed HTML these guys grew up with between D&D sessions in suburban basements is considered good enough," Joe Clark writes.

  Nov 29 2007 at 03:23 PM EST

  Topics: HTML, Web Standards

• Get rid of text-resizing widgets

  Accessibility expert Joe Clark explains why those tools (and, I'd add, others duplicating browser functions) are pointless.

  Nov 28 2007 at 02:26 PM EST

  Topics: Accessibility, Usability

• The Email Standards Project

  Loath it or love it, HTML email is here to stay and now a group want's to bring support inline with the W3C recommendations.

  Nov 28 2007 at 02:10 PM EST

  Topics: Web Standards, Email

• National Post redesign's site

  The new look is an tremendous improvement over the previous design, and not offers comments and widgets.

  Nov 26 2007 at 09:35 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• The economics of online news

  Some interesting thoughts about the business of online news from the media owners themselves.

  Nov 25 2007 at 10:30 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Advertising

• Deconstructing Facebook Beacon

  Jay Goldman dives deep into the code and provides both an summary and an analysis of the new advertising service.

  Nov 25 2007 at 10:22 AM EST

  Topics: Advertising, Social Media

• Globe Docs: Raven and Jason

  Wow, this compelling documentary (and the others available) shows The Globe and Mail doesn't just print words on pulp.

  Nov 23 2007 at 05:48 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Optimal site width

  A comprehensive survey of browsing habits suggests more than 80% of people browse at a browser width of 1000 pixels.

  Nov 23 2007 at 10:09 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Usability

• Guardian and NYTimes fight for top slot

  Guardian Unlimited squeaked by the nytimes.com to be the top newspaper site in the world.

  Nov 23 2007 at 08:59 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• Firefox 3 new user interface

  Alex Faaborg, member of the Firefox UI team, goes into great and interesting detail about the thinking for the browsers new interface.

  Nov 23 2007 at 08:59 AM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Usability

• Facebook's advertising model

  An overview of Facebook's Social Ads and Beacon (I've already unexepctedly encountered the latter).

  Nov 22 2007 at 04:28 PM EST

  Topics: Advertising, Social Media

• Text selection improvements in Firefox 3

  Selecting (and copying) separate chunks of text at once.

  Nov 22 2007 at 04:08 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Usability

• Introducing the Giant Global Graph

  Tim Berners-Lee sets out his idea on the successor to the Internet and World Wide Web platforms.

  Nov 22 2007 at 03:26 PM EST

  Topics: Social Media, Web Technology

• Canadian online ad growth to slow

  Online ad spending will triple its 2006 value by 2011 in Canada, but year-over-year growth will steadily slow.

  Nov 22 2007 at 11:16 AM EST

  Topic: Advertising

• Digg the Candidates

  Digg applies its unique approach to covering the U.S. presidential candidates.

  Nov 21 2007 at 12:10 PM EST

  Topics: Politics, Online Journalism

• Jeremey Keith on Web design

  Another take on the current tension with the Web design community (of which Zeldman's essay is an antidote).

  Nov 20 2007 at 03:09 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, CSS

• Breaking news twittered

  Covering big breaking news via Twitter may be more effective than email/SMS blasts.

  Nov 20 2007 at 02:52 PM EST

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Responding to colour profiles

  Apparently Safari is the only non-beta browser (Firefox 3 will) to correctly support a wide gamut of colour profiles online.

  Nov 20 2007 at 02:21 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Web Design

• Zeldman on Web design

  In fine form, Mr Z. defines Web design a definition so apt, it will become the new standard.

  Nov 20 2007 at 11:08 AM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Freelancing calculator

  Struggling to figure out what to charge? This tool may help.

  Nov 19 2007 at 12:35 PM EST

  Topic: Work

• Amazon's Kindle

  The new e-reader tremendously improves on other similar offerings, but the interface and display will still disappoint most people.

  Nov 19 2007 at 12:10 PM EST

  Topics: Technology, Books

• Canadian wireless prices becoming rational

  In less than five months, the 1GB plan for most carriers has dropped in price by more than $2200, but still nearly double U.S. pricing.

  Nov 19 2007 at 10:33 AM EST

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• Toronto's light sabre battle

  Two-thousand come out to have a Friday night light sabre fight in front of the Royal Ontario Museum

  Nov 18 2007 at 10:12 AM EST

  Topic: Toronto

• Canada legally recognizes "responsible journalism"

  Essentially, there is a new defense for lawsuits arising from the publication of a well-researched story in the public interest.

  Nov 18 2007 at 10:01 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• RSS readers visit more often

  Fairly obvious conclusion, but worth saving for evidence when needed.

  Nov 16 2007 at 04:23 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism

• Top 100 indie rock albums

  As chosen by Blender and commented on by Stereogum

  Nov 16 2007 at 04:15 PM EST

  Topic: Music

• Clark's Law

  Joe Clark: "The more expensive an online system is, the worse its output is."

  Nov 16 2007 at 03:10 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• The science of swarms

  Discovering the selfish rules behind swarm behaviour.

  Nov 16 2007 at 11:50 AM EST

  Topic: Social Media

• Seven rules of unobtrusive JavaScript

  Excellent advice for developing JavaScript in a progressive enhancement way.

  Nov 16 2007 at 11:37 AM EST

  Topic: JavaScript

• The new CSS handheld format

  Okay not new, but as mentioned in this article, CSS3's media queries are being quickly adopted.

  Nov 16 2007 at 11:27 AM EST

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Citizen journalism bares witness

  The video of Tasering of Robert Dziekanski is a demonstration of how effective citizen journalism can be.

  Nov 15 2007 at 12:21 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• Safari 3 enhancements

  Detailing ten new things in the version of Webkit powering Safari 3

  Nov 15 2007 at 11:06 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Safari 3 comes to Tiger

  Now Mac OS 10.4 users will enjoy a greatly enhanced browser.

  Nov 15 2007 at 10:58 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Death knell for online subscriptions

  With WSJ.com and FT.com going free, selling news online as a business model has been (wrongly, in my mind) killed.

  Nov 15 2007 at 10:44 AM EST

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• The best minds of my generation...

  A version of the AP's obituary for Norman Mailer (at The Globe and Mail) mangles the spelling of Allen Ginsberg's name.

  Nov 11 2007 at 05:09 PM EST

  Topics: Books, Journalism

• Agile journalism

  Mathew Ingram explains how journalism can learn from the agile approach to Web development.

  Nov 11 2007 at 12:08 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture

• The new MSNBC.com

  One of the biggest, and oldest, online news sites in the U.S. launches its redesign

  Nov 10 2007 at 09:44 AM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Microsoft licensed Eolas technology

  Internet Explorer will once again be able to run plug-ins without requiring the user to "click to activate"

  Nov 08 2007 at 01:28 PM EST

  Topics: Browsers, Patents

• MSNBC.com does an alpha

  A blog from the development/design team at MSNBC.com. Watch this space.

  Nov 05 2007 at 06:44 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Google announces "Gphone"

  It's not really a phone, but rather a hardware alliance using a mobile platform called Android.

  Nov 05 2007 at 01:21 PM EST

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Search Engines

• Ed Greenspon on direction of The Globe and Mail

  The editor talks about the new design changes and the goals the company has for the newspaper and Web site.

  Nov 05 2007 at 12:14 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Home computer sales dropping

  ...in Japan, which could signal a future North American trend (assuming the mobile space gets worked out).

  Nov 05 2007 at 08:52 AM EST

  Topics: Computers, Technology

• Security risk in online ads

  Tucson Newspapers detected banner ads that, surreptitiously, tries to install spyware on a readers computer.

  Nov 04 2007 at 03:24 PM EST

  Topics: Advertising, Spam/Virus

• Prism builds for Mac & Linux

  As the title says the Mozilla attempt to bring the Web to the desktop is now available on non-Windows programs.

  Nov 04 2007 at 11:01 AM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Browsers

• Yahoo vs. Google homepages

  Nearly a decade of homepages comparing the two search giants' approaches.

  Nov 04 2007 at 10:52 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Search Engines

• Overview of OpenSocial

  Ajaxian aggregates the key documents on OpenSocial.

  Nov 02 2007 at 07:01 AM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Search Engines

• Google's Coalition of the Willing

  Google nabs all the big (non-Facebook) players in the social media space to be part of its OpenSocial initiative.

  Nov 01 2007 at 03:59 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Search Engines

• CSS animation

  Another non-standard extension makes its way into WebKit. Nice, but this is feeling like '97 again.

  Oct 31 2007 at 10:02 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• Pownce API arrives

  After a buzz-killingly long delay, Pownce releases the first stable API with promises of more enhancements to come.

  Oct 31 2007 at 09:12 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• SimplePie RSS

  A great PHP plug-in that can parse RSS feeds for CodeIdniter among others.

  Oct 29 2007 at 07:24 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Resources

• Mozilla Labs announces Prism

  Toolkit allows Web pages to become desktop applications, without relying on proprietary languages.

  Oct 29 2007 at 05:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Browsers

• Bell backing out of IPTV

  The phone company once again delays its Internet Protocol TV roll-out causing some to wonder whether it well happen at all.

  Oct 26 2007 at 10:22 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Technology

• Processing the Ontario election

  Patrick Dinnen builds a compelling visualization of the 2003 election results.

  Oct 25 2007 at 07:39 PM EDT

  Topics: Politics, Ontario

• Sustainable green Web hosting

  The San Fransisco company offers 100% carbon neutral Web hosting service.

  Oct 25 2007 at 03:38 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Canadian iPhone for January 2008?

  A Molson Export marketing campaign seems to suggest that but everyone involved is denying it.

  Oct 24 2007 at 10:19 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• Microsoft buys into Facebook

  News broke for me on Twitter, still no update on Facebook's news page

  Oct 24 2007 at 05:11 PM EDT

  Topic: Social Media

• Guardian America's voice

  Inigo Thomas introduces Guardian's new American Web site be explaining why its style and writing voice will not be "Americanized"

  Oct 24 2007 at 01:56 PM EDT

  Topics: Style & Usage, Online Journalism

• LATimes.com tracking fires on Google Maps

  Smart, simple way to use Google Maps in breaking news without any developer requests needed.

  Oct 23 2007 at 10:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Mozilla shows some strong numbers

  Revenues increased 25% to $66,840,850 on $19,776,193 in expenses for 2006. Remember this is a non-profit pushing open-source technology.

  Oct 23 2007 at 10:08 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Nielsen says don't avoid passive writing

  Realizing the positively ironic nature of the headline amuses me.

  Oct 22 2007 at 02:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Writing, Usability

• It's the data, stupid

  Deconstruct the hype behind widgets (and there is a lot of hype) and you can find some real truths.

  Oct 21 2007 at 07:16 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• Parsing the case for online subscriptions

  Mathew Ingram reality-checks a study by Matthew Gentzkow that essentially says the making news free online costs millions in lost revenue.

  Oct 21 2007 at 07:08 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Making a successful news site

  Jay Rosen lays out yet more ideas for making a solid online news site.

  Oct 21 2007 at 07:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Don't click here

  A blog for marketing uses sketchy data and test to justify the worth of "click here".

  Oct 21 2007 at 06:48 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Accessibility

• Humanized messages

  While watching the Leopard preview, I thought about doing something like this tool JavaScript-based prompts and notices.

  Oct 21 2007 at 01:59 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Usability

• The new Newsweek

  The redesign of newsweek.com is one of the first mainstream sites I've seen to smartly incorporate Web 2.0 functionality.

  Oct 21 2007 at 10:37 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• CSS Snapshot

  W3C says CSS "standard" enccompasses CSS 2.1, CSS 3 Selectors and Colors, and the CSS Namespaces.

  Oct 21 2007 at 09:51 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Handicapping the TTC.ca contract

  Joe Clark, undoubtedly the most qualified and informed evaluator of the TTC.ca Web site proposals rates the hopeful firms.

  Oct 20 2007 at 09:02 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Web Design

• ONA 2007 Winners

  Gala event sees the Toronto Star win one online journalism award for Canada.

  Oct 20 2007 at 12:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Paywall lift boosts NYTimes.com's pageviews

  Reportedly, less than a month after lifting the paywall on its op-ed section, pageviews doubled.

  Oct 17 2007 at 07:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• NYTimes.com open source

  NYTimes.com is starting to release some of its code for the public to play with. Setting a brave new standard.

  Oct 17 2007 at 02:42 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Online Journalism

• Print circulation now will count regular online traffic

  This may be another reason why the NYTimes.com dropped its paid circulation service.

  Oct 15 2007 at 02:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Subscriptions & Registration

• Panel on the future of news

  CBC, as a precursor to the Online News Association's conference, is hosting a panel discussion about the future of news.

  Oct 14 2007 at 01:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Online Journalism

• Interviews with "networked" journalists

  Sixty-two interviews with the attendees of the Networked Journalism Summit.

  Oct 14 2007 at 01:36 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Toronto Star stop PDF-based afternoon edition

  Apparently it wants concentrate more on its Web and mobile presence. There's something wrong with that equation/

  Oct 13 2007 at 02:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Web Directions North 2008 line-up announced

  Amazing line-up for one of North America's best Web conferences.

  Oct 11 2007 at 05:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• The next standard: VWAML?

  Could a "Virtual World Avatar Markup Language" be the result of IBM and Second Life plan to free your online persona?

  Oct 10 2007 at 06:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Social Media

• Wal-Mart bigger than Manhattan

  The combined area of Wal-Mart's stores take up more space on Earth than the island of Manhattan.

  Oct 10 2007 at 05:55 PM EDT

  Topic: Politics

• Mobile Firefox

  Effectively, this kills the Minimo project and promises to bring the Firefox spirit to mobile browsing.

  Oct 10 2007 at 09:06 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, VoIP

• Ontarians: Get your (2007) vote on

  Election day comes to Ontario and the parties are dull, but the referendum on proportional representation offers hope.

  Oct 10 2007 at 08:54 AM EDT

  Topics: Ontario, Politics

• CSS3's grid module

  This would be what people are really looking for when making column-based layouts in CSS.

  Oct 09 2007 at 10:40 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Out of the ashes of the portal...

  ...comes the concept of a network of sites. I've seen it fail, but it does have promise.

  Oct 08 2007 at 05:32 PM EDT

  Topics: Advertising, Web Culture

• Local TV news threatened

  As media consolidation continues, CRTC may ignore the decline in local TV news.

  Oct 08 2007 at 05:22 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Journalism

• MSNBC buys Newsvine

  Being closer to this deal than I would have imagined doesn't prevent me from being surprised; but it does mean I think it will work well.

  Oct 08 2007 at 05:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• BarCamp Canada

  On November 3rd, BarCampers from across Canada will descend on Montreal.

  Oct 05 2007 at 06:12 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• IE7 comes to XP

  Whether its another admission Vista is doing poorly or not, it's a good thing for Web developers.

  Oct 05 2007 at 03:05 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Client-side load balancing counter-point

  Some thoughts against client-side load-balancing.

  Oct 05 2007 at 02:50 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Redesigning the Wall Street Journal

  Andy Rutledge tries to improve WSJ.com's mess of a homepage.

  Oct 03 2007 at 11:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Interface design for the mobile Web

  Lessons in interface design for mobile devices.

  Oct 03 2007 at 11:17 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, VoIP

• Client-side load balancing

  Digital Web has a great new article on load balancing Web 2.0 apps.

  Oct 03 2007 at 11:13 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• Making the popular vote count

  Ontario is holding a referendum on changing its election system to one of the best ways to reflect the popular vote: the mixed-member proportional (MMP) system.

  Oct 03 2007 at 06:29 AM EDT

  Topics: Ontario, Politics

• AIR Development Center

  Apps created in Adobe's new Web/desktop development platform is a good place to learn what it can do (and how).

  Oct 01 2007 at 02:28 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• The pay wall "third way"

  FT.com is loosening its pay wall, and letting causal readers view 30 articles a month, for free.

  Oct 01 2007 at 11:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Secrets of Sidebar

  Sidebar Creative, the freelance co-op (a brilliant idea), talk to Digital Web about their process

  Sep 26 2007 at 12:59 PM EDT

  Topics: Work, Web Design

• Thunderbird gets its own company

  Mozilla is creating a new company to better drive the development of its email client.

  Sep 18 2007 at 09:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Email, Browsers

• The history of Amazon-ian tabs

  A new design suggest Amazon might be going back to the past to tame its tabs.

  Sep 18 2007 at 12:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Patterns

• Sistr

  An early sIFR alternative using Silverlight.

  Sep 18 2007 at 12:16 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• The Times is free

  The New York Times drops is subscription model, and also makes early archives and those from the past decade free to the public.

  Sep 17 2007 at 08:55 PM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers

• Follow the commenter

  Gawker Media is letting readings follow particular commenters on its blogs.

  Sep 17 2007 at 03:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Online Journalism

• Doing tabs right

  Thirteen guidelines on how to use tabbed navigation.

  Sep 17 2007 at 02:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Web Patterns

• More on personalized news

  Although the Daily Me isn't yet here, it's not stopping news outlets from experimenting.

  Sep 13 2007 at 12:11 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Visual-O-Rama

  Poke the tires of Idée's amazing visual search tool (iPod for the bst 5 results).

  Sep 12 2007 at 12:59 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• ONA 2007 finalists

  CanCon: Two nods for the Toronto Star's "Lost in Migration", one for the CBC's consumer reporting, and one for The Globe and Mail.

  Sep 12 2007 at 12:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The radiated book

  Eleven years before Vannevar Bush's seminal essay, Paul Otlet proposed any even more Web-like vision.

  Sep 12 2007 at 11:53 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Canada's venture capital crisis

  Mark Evans looks at why investment in Canadian start-ups is dangerously non-existent.

  Sep 12 2007 at 11:37 AM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Web Culture

• Detecting WebKit script

  Don't do it. But if you really must find out which WebKit-based browser is visiting, here's a script for you.

  Sep 12 2007 at 11:18 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Le Monde goes 2.0

  France's Le Monde has launched an impressive Digg-style news service called "Le Post"

  Sep 11 2007 at 02:32 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The day the news first stopped

  When Princess Diana died, CBC experienced the same traffic surged many sites faced six-years ago today.

  Sep 11 2007 at 02:29 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Text as design misleading

  Sometimes, if important information is overly-designed, and poorly placed, it can get lost.

  Sep 04 2007 at 10:39 PM EDT

  Topic: Usability

• Real-time journalism

  That this is considered an innovative idea still is shocking, nevertheless it should be repeated until real-time reporting is second-nature.

  Sep 04 2007 at 12:02 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Beautiful design critique

  A Brief Message aims to offer a design opinions in 200-words or less each presented on an "art-directed" Web page.

  Sep 04 2007 at 11:05 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Defining (HTML) semantics

  John Allsopp offers a comprehensive explanation of what semantic mark-up is and how it works.

  Sep 04 2007 at 11:00 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Semantics, HTML

• Google News to serve wire articles

  AP, AFP, CP, and Reuters are licensing articles to Google News making the service less of an aggregator and more of a provider.

  Sep 04 2007 at 09:19 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Search Engines

• Twelve online news biz tips

  Twelve real lessons from online newspapers as editors reveal the successes and failures.

  Aug 30 2007 at 11:59 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• The death of A1

  Jack Shafer talks about how the inside pages of a newspaper are of more value now.

  Aug 26 2007 at 10:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Making online news forget

  Clive Thompson riffs on reputation management when it comes to online news.

  Aug 26 2007 at 10:43 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• iPhone unlocked

  So will Rogers brings an official one to Canada or will we will Canucks need to hack it?

  Aug 24 2007 at 05:10 PM EDT

  Topics: VoIP, Technology

• The Mullet Strategy

  Let the users play on the secondary pages, but keep the primary ones under in-house control.

  Aug 23 2007 at 12:34 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Web Culture

• Hockey Night in Canada streamed online

  The entire 85-game schedule is to be streamed online and will include pre/post-game shows.

  Aug 23 2007 at 12:26 PM EDT

  Topic: TV

• More electronic editions

  Electronic editions of newspaper serve no-one but the circulation figures (possible exception: those like NYTimes Reader)

  Aug 23 2007 at 12:08 PM EDT