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Adding sound via JavaScript
Clever test to embed audio files using only JavaScript
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TTC: the better Web way
Smart people often seen at the BarCamp events put together the best proposal yet for a new TTC.ca
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.htaccess tutorial
One of the best on this arcane, but powerful area I've found.
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BBC's 15 Web principles
If everyone followed these (with possible exception of 14), the Web would be much better.
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Wired changes logo
The Wired flag run in the magazine and online for years, has been tweaked and "improved"
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TagMaps mapping in TO
Clever new Web app from Yahoo using Flickr tags to picture a mapped location.
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Thirty years of newspaper revenues
StatsCan has released a free report analyzing the revenue of flow of newspapers in Canada since
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CBC to Canadian indie music fans: pay to listen
Ironically, CBC Radio 3 and Brave New Waves pushed to the for-pay satellite service in effort to attract younger listeners to Radio 2.
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Megabins trashed
Toronto will be saved from the hideous mega garbage bins as they get pulled from the streets in the coming weeks.
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Inside the Gladstone
The Gladstone Hotel had an open-house to showcase its renovated interior and artist-created rooms.
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Artist displacing condos approved
The Ontario Municipal Board has approved the (West Queen West) soul-destroying condos in Toronto's artist/gallery strip.
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Converting to numeric entities in TextMate
Neil Lee asks (and learns) how to get TextMate to use HTML numeric entities instead of the named ones.
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Findory fading
Greg Linden puts Findory on autopilot, thereby ending development on the first major personalization news site.
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National Post's Comment blog
It's sort of like the Guardian's comment is free, but one that is still getting its legs.
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Newspapers missing the long tail
The CEO of Topix points out how newspapers do a number of reviews, none of which are effectively exposed to the public.
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CBC and Web history
CBC’s RealTime was the first Canadian entertainment show streamed over the Internet (coincidentally, using the RealAudio network)
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Multi-column support coming to Safari
The latest WebKit build now supports CSS3's multi-column properties.
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Type takes on Indigo
The Globe and Mail profiles one of West Queen West's best little bookstore.
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Reconsidering Star Wars in light of the prequels
You know what, even if it is retcon, it makes a lot of sense.
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Washington Post hosts local bloggers
Invited local bloggers to discuss ideas for creating a network to host neighbourhood specific content.
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IE Developer Toolbar getting better
The beta 3 offers better ability to isolate style rules and smarter source view.
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CBC.ca GMaps the world's wars
Simple and effective Google Map created by CBC.ca of the world's top 15 conflicts
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Outlook 2007 uses Word to do HTML email
And the HTML/CSS support is abysmal.
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Firefox sidebar on the right
Move the noise of the bookmark/history/Sage reader sidebar from the left to the right of the browsing window.
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Transit route-planning in Toronto
Google Maps mashup shows the best way to get around the city using rail/subway routes.
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iPhone may become my phone
This could be the device that finally pulls my into the mobile world.
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Markup as craft
Digital Web Magazine is running an article that outlines how to make your HTML the best it can be
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Examples of 1% participation
Luke Wroblewski collects some examples where a small group of Web users makes most of the content.
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Daylife: a new news aggregator
The design, experience, and feel of this new site feels nothing like traditional news aggregators and that's very good.
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BubbleShare sold for $3M
Albert Lai's done it again -- sold a great service for some nice cash.
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Improve the TTC's Web site
The big Toronto blogs are collecting suggestions for improvements to the horrible Web site for the city's transit system.
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Today in CBC history
Tod Maffin uses Google's spreadsheets to create a calendar of historical CBC events
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The Toronto transit map
Hands-down, the best map of city-wide transit anywhere.
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New buzzphrase: implicit Web
Could it be that "Web 3.0" is the implicit Web? There's a good argument to be made.
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BBC vs. what we want
A simple comparison of BBC's top stories and the most read ones.
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WSJ.com's new markets data center
Customizable, Ajax-y, and packed with good data.
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Unboxing the WSJ
A Wall Street Journal reader dissects the new design in a video done in the spirit of the unboxing videos.
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