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Language Resources
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Lorem Ipsum
Looking for dummy-text to flow into your designs? Choose from this collection of "Lorem Ipsum" variants culled from across the Web.
Outside
Briefly Noted as Blogmarks
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Canadian Oxford Dictionary: RIP
The entire staff has been laid-off putting the dictionary's future in grave doubt
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Twittering rumours
Mathew Ingram has a honest, introspective piece on the responsibility of journalists on Twitter
Topics: Online Journalism, Social Media
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Poitical sound bites
Jumping to key words in the U.S. debate (like Wall St.) videos exposes how prepped candidates are
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The Canadian political view
"Capitalist free marketers, but believe in collective action, largely through governments, to achieve social, economic, environmental and other aims."
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Homezilla
Awkward name for a good service designed to let home buyers discover the amenities in a neighbourhood
Topic: Search Engines
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10 tips to solidify your business
Advice for start-ups is also good for any company/business to consider
Topics: Web Culture, Work
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The case for designing differently
Andy Clarke argues that progressive enhancement is what we should be doing with CSS to move designs beyond IE6
Topics: CSS, Web Design
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Canadian electoral map
Map of Canadian ridings uses colours to indicate which party is leading where
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electopinion.ca
The Canadian election as reported on Twitter - very engaging
Topics: Politics, Social Media
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David Foster Wallace in Harper's
Everything the late author wrote for the magazine
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WSJ.com redesigns
A big redesign from a site that hasn't in a long while
Topics: Web Design, Newspapers
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Announcing the "Web Foundation"
Tim Berners-Lee introduces a foundation designed to support the open Web
Topic: Web Culture
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All about HTML's alt
With argument like this, it's no wonder HTML5 will take so long
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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David Foster Wallace dead
The author of Infinite Jest and on of the best novelist of the time apparently committed suicide
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ONA win for The Globe and Mail
Ironically, the news is nowhere to be found online yet (even the Twitter account is quiet - I learned via email)
Topics: Online Journalism, Interactive Journalism
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Sample dating pop-culture
Andy Baio crunches the numbers on the samples in reveals some interesting details.
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The logic of HTML5
Understanding HTML5 issues (e.g., video, alt, 2022) is a lot easier if you know Ian Hickson's online persona
Topics: HTML, Web Standards
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Regulating the Internet
A CRTC requested report has some ideas for regulating and funding the Canadian Internet
Topics: Canada, Web Technology
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Resurfacing newspapers
Google plans to scan in old newspapers (including one from Quebec) to make them more publicly available.
Topics: Newspapers, Search Engines
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Microsoft's CSS extensions
IE8 does include support for some CSS3 properties, and will continue to support filters and extensions - but only in a W3C compliant way.
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Publish2: The Web’s Newswire
"A Web-based newswire that makes it easy for journalists and newsrooms to gather, publish, and distribute links to the best news on the Web"
Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology
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Globe's election site critiqued
Wrong sentiment, right questions. Elections sites, though, are hard to do well especially when factoring in extenuating (unspoken) circumstances.
Topic: Online Journalism
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Everything you wanted to know about browser user-agent strings*
* But were afraid to ask
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Google Chrome's story
Like Firefox before it, Chrome is a clean attempt to create a browser for today's Web
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Shadows coming to Firefox
CSS-based box and text shadows should appear in Firefox 3.1
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Drag and drop with canvas
Clever demo of dragging and dropping using a textarea
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Joe Clark's book on Canadian spelling
It's called "Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English" and I can't wait
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Mobile Safari doubles usage
The launch of the iPhone 3G pushes the mobile Safari usage to 0.3%
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Google Chrome
Google's browser means there's a good chance one more test case will have to be run on future Web sites
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Seattle tech start-ups
A list of more than 60 of Seattle's tiny companies
Topics: Seattle, Web Technology
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Also of Interest
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Stay in the Dark
An article, first published in the April 1999 issue of Shift, about the potential privacy risks you face surfing online, and how you can keep from being exposed.
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Webzines: Pulling money off the Net
An article on how magazines are cashing in on the Web first published in Masthead during the fall of 1998.
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Book Review: Concrete Forest
A review, first published in Mindjack, of a collection of urban Canadian fiction.
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Making a Megacity
On December 17, 1996, days before the Ontario legislature was
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Sometimes a Grant Notion
An investigation on how a merged Toronto could affect the grants the city�s writers will receive. Co-written by Jonathan Blackburn.