Glossary
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Outside
Briefly Noted as Blogmarks
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Pownce says goodbye
The potential Twitter-killer has been sold to Six Apart and will be going offline
Topic: Social Media
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Helvetireader
Brilliant skin to Google Reader (and love the article sampled, too)
Topics: Web Design, Search Engines
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New Google Map controls
Streetview on Google Maps introduces an terrific new interface for the map controls
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
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The Souvenir Shop
Pseudo-souvenirs of Canada from some country's best emerging designers
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Discover related keywords
Chris Heilmann demonstrates how to use Yahoo's API to uncover related keywords
Topics: Search Engines, JavaScript
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All-in-one browser
One browser, three rendering engines (IE, Firefox, and Safari); great for testing
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Reason #80211 why I like Virgin America
In-flight Wi-Fi
Topic: Web Technology
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New ideas for newspapers
Seth Godin has some original ideas to help newspapers survive online.
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Skewing images with JavaScript
A clever script to do projective transformations of Web-based images using canvas and JavaScript
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Making decisions about user research
Eight questions to ask when debating when to do research
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News site design trends
Overview of the current design looks of news sites (include my place of employ)
Topics: Web Design, Work
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Lessons learned about iPhone sites
Good insights from the folks at Flickr about how to design an optimized mobile site
Topics: Web Design, iPhone
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Gmail vs. Skype
Google introduces video chatting to its Gmail messaging service
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
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ClusterShot
Silverorange launches a new service that allows you to be your own stock photography agency
Topic: Web Technology
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Buy pieces of BSG
Props and costumes from Battlestar Galatica are being auctioned off. Tempting...
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Hipster apocalypse
A "now hiring" sign at American Apparel store sparks an inspired rant
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U.S. election night homepages
An amazing collection how major news sites looked every 30 minutes on November 4, 2008
Topics: Online Journalism, Politics
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Mathew Ingram and community
The hardest working blogger in Canada is now heading up The Globe and Mail's community efforts
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Less national Post
The National Post continues to whither in relevance as a relevant newspaper in Canada
Topic: Newspapers
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CS Monitor replacing print with Web
The 100-year-old news organization will cease publication of its printed newspaper in April 2009
Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism
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Delaying JavaScript execution
A simple script to delay the execution of JavaScript when event's fire
Topic: JavaScript
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NYTimes.com visualization lab
Equating it with reader comments, The New York Times invites readers to create their own visualizations of its data
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Cameras for guns
The Toronto police are running an amnesty that offers Nikon Coolpix cameras for illegal handguns
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Multi-touch Firefox
The gestures don't sound intuitive, but its a nice start to browsing the Web with your fingers
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Typocalypse
A series of images revealing what a typeface really says
Topic: Web Design
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CSS3 via JavaScript
Eric Meyer sees JavaScript as a way to boot-strap CSS3 support in browsers
Topics: CSS, JavaScript
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TimesTags
Millions of folksonomists rejoice at the availability of tagged NYTimes.com content
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Progressive Enhancement with CSS
Excellent documenting a lot of the CSS tricks used to serve up style to browsers
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100E2R
Terrific case for having big, onscreen text
Topics: Web Design, Usability
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3D cube in JavaScript
The simple approach could be a foundation for an impressive parallax effect
Topic: JavaScript
Inside
This Just In
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5 steps to CBC success
How to program a national public broadcasting corporation: Operate a…
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Just the facts (and more)
Open source can have a transformational effect for companies, and news organizations are starting to figure that out.
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Canadian election hangover
With the Canadian 2008 election producing no real change, but a lower participation level, it might be time to look into voting alternatives.
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Election blackout in Canada
Watching the election results not come in from the West coast of America is a surreal experience.
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Canadian political slander
Keeping track of the various ways Canadian politicians insult one another from the perspective of a Canadian watching his country's election while living through an American election.