I’ve been burning the candles at both ends trying to persuade Web servers to behave and tame Netscape 4. The resulting production is a bit less valid and accessible than I’d like, but is a big step forward for the sites in question. Any way, there’s been a lot of good pieces online lately, and before the links rot, I’ll dump them here. (Things should return to normal in April.)

• the ZeD album;
• the CIRA lawsuit threatens anonymity online;
• Opera 7.5 is coming soon — the beta, out on Windows, marks Opera’s return to the Macintosh;
• Toro reads the National Post’s tea leaves;
• Canadian media news from a Leftist bent;
• even if I was amendable to the idea to begin with, the spam from the Citizens for a Canadian Republic sure won’t help convince me we should elect our Governor General;
• The State of the News Media 2004 annual report creates buzz in USA Today and the OJR, among many others;
• how news travels the Net and how that story travelled;
• how two big Canadian ISPs/portals are using Americans to help beat each other at the numbers game (this is where convergence becomes merely a tool for the duopoly to spend more money swapping the same few customers back and forth);
• a GUI gallery;
• Veen on accessibility;
• Web design might be heading the wrong direction (the “right” one may not be what you’d expect);
• Shea on CSS design and his notes on the good, the bad, the ugly of CSS;
• and, finally, the 100 most often mispronounced and misspelled words.
• public relations makes the news into propaganda
• the big sites, circa 1996
• an XForms validator
• RSS+BitTorrent = new form of webcasting?