Archive
January 2002’s Posts.
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The buzz on Shift.com
With the dearth of original, Canadian content online, I have to remind myself to go to Shift.com more—after all, I’m now receiving its email newsletters.
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CanWest defending national editorial; Salon in print
Ironically, two days after a major U.S. paper ran a scathing report on CanWest’s policy of imposing national editorials, a CanWest national editorial appears defending the policy.
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January 28, 2002
Made the main navigation DOM-compliant, and as a result it is a bit “smarter”—the title now provides more helpful tips. Unfortunately, it still does not work in IE 5 on the Macintosh
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The colour of the Tennenbuams
As you can probably tell from the muted tones on this site, combining different colours together is not one of my strengths.
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January 24, 2002
Added dates to this News page’s items. In DOM-compliant browsers, the actual date of the entry will be displayed. All browsers will have the items broken down by month
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online; Gzowski has died
J.D. Lasica’s latest OJR piece is out, and this one focuses on one-person consumer and community reporting, done with the help of the Web. For online journalism, niche reporting is where it’s at and its nice to see some light being shed on the topic, too.
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January 23, 2002
More work on Living Can Kill You, this time altering the way the archives are listed in an attempt to make the search-engine-friendly
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January 23, 2002
Moved the Living Can Kill You blurb into the centre, and the Site News into the right column. Looking into a way to automatically push the LCKY item to the top when it’s new…
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Peter Gzowski ill
With a item like this, the blog’s title seems horribly inappropriate. Nevertheless…
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“Hip” Toronto and bad writing
Funny how these themes emerge. Today, writing.
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CanWest’s editorials; hip iMacs; dull newscasts
A whole bunch of media stories caught my eye today.
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January 14, 2002
Added a small BlobSnob ad under the Reading List of Living Can Kill You. These grassroots initiatives to promote each other’s work are admirable—this one was initiated by an 18-year-old in India
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Intelligent targeting; new economy unions
Meant to link to this story about DoubleClick abandoning its attempts to target individual users on Friday—quite interesting in light of the shrinking ad industry, and the company’s closure of its Canadian branch.
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Back…
Well, that took longer than I’d imagined. After answering a former students questions about online journalism, I decided I will be adding to the Web Journalism section a FAQ about the craft/industry. One of these days I’ll get around to finishing my five-year-old treatise about online writing.
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