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Briefly Noted from 2008

• Data cleaner

  A great Web-based tool for those who hate regex and need to normalize data

  Dec 1 2008 at 7:25 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Pownce says goodbye

  The potential Twitter-killer has been sold to Six Apart and will be going offline

  Dec 1 2008 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topic: Social Media

• Summarizing the poitical sentiment

  Discussion about a change in Canadian government grew to 1,200 comments and Mathew Ingram read through them all to find the best ones

  Dec 1 2008 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Politics

• Helvetireader

  Brilliant skin to Google Reader (and love the article sampled, too)

  Nov 26 2008 at 6:37 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Search Engines

• New Google Map controls

  Streetview on Google Maps introduces an terrific new interface for the map controls

  Nov 26 2008 at 4:17 PM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Search Engines

• The Souvenir Shop

  Pseudo-souvenirs of Canada from some country's best emerging designers

  Nov 26 2008 at 1:11 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Culture

• Discover related keywords

  Chris Heilmann demonstrates how to use Yahoo's API to uncover related keywords

  Nov 26 2008 at 1:11 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, JavaScript

• All-in-one browser

  One browser, three rendering engines (IE, Firefox, and Safari); great for testing

  Nov 25 2008 at 4:55 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Reason #80211 why I like Virgin America

  In-flight Wi-Fi

  Nov 25 2008 at 12:54 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• New ideas for newspapers

  Seth Godin has some original ideas to help newspapers survive online.

  Nov 24 2008 at 12:30 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Skewing images with JavaScript

  A clever script to do projective transformations of Web-based images using canvas and JavaScript

  Nov 13 2008 at 3:51 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML

• Making decisions about user research

  Eight questions to ask when debating when to do research

  Nov 12 2008 at 6:52 PM EST

  Topic: Usability

• News site design trends

  Overview of the current design looks of news sites (include my place of employ)

  Nov 11 2008 at 4:59 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Work

• Lessons learned about iPhone sites

  Good insights from the folks at Flickr about how to design an optimized mobile site

  Nov 11 2008 at 4:42 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, iPhone

• Gmail vs. Skype

  Google introduces video chatting to its Gmail messaging service

  Nov 11 2008 at 4:06 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines

• ClusterShot

  Silverorange launches a new service that allows you to be your own stock photography agency

  Nov 10 2008 at 12:41 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Buy pieces of BSG

  Props and costumes from Battlestar Galatica are being auctioned off. Tempting...

  Nov 6 2008 at 8:53 PM EST

  Topic: TV

• Hipster apocalypse

  A "now hiring" sign at American Apparel store sparks an inspired rant

  Nov 6 2008 at 7:18 PM EST

  Topics: Culture, Toronto

• U.S. election night homepages

  An amazing collection how major news sites looked every 30 minutes on November 4, 2008

  Nov 6 2008 at 1:18 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Politics

• Mathew Ingram and community

  The hardest working blogger in Canada is now heading up The Globe and Mail's community efforts

  Nov 4 2008 at 1:55 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media

• Less national Post

  The National Post continues to whither in relevance as a relevant newspaper in Canada

  Nov 4 2008 at 1:55 PM EST

  Topic: Newspapers

• CS Monitor replacing print with Web

  The 100-year-old news organization will cease publication of its printed newspaper in April 2009

  Oct 28 2008 at 3:44 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Delaying JavaScript execution

  A simple script to delay the execution of JavaScript when event's fire

  Oct 28 2008 at 11:33 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• NYTimes.com visualization lab

  Equating it with reader comments, The New York Times invites readers to create their own visualizations of its data

  Oct 28 2008 at 11:26 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Cameras for guns

  The Toronto police are running an amnesty that offers Nikon Coolpix cameras for illegal handguns

  Oct 23 2008 at 9:00 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Multi-touch Firefox

  The gestures don't sound intuitive, but its a nice start to browsing the Web with your fingers

  Oct 22 2008 at 1:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Usability

• Typocalypse

  A series of images revealing what a typeface really says

  Oct 22 2008 at 1:27 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• CSS3 via JavaScript

  Eric Meyer sees JavaScript as a way to boot-strap CSS3 support in browsers

  Oct 22 2008 at 10:27 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, JavaScript

• TimesTags

  Millions of folksonomists rejoice at the availability of tagged NYTimes.com content

  Oct 21 2008 at 9:37 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Progressive Enhancement with CSS

  Excellent documenting a lot of the CSS tricks used to serve up style to browsers

  Oct 21 2008 at 12:35 PM EDT

  Topic: CSS