Archive
January 2005’s Posts.
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Media Bistro redesigns
Now includes five Denton-fighting blogs.
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CBC.ca Arts redesigns
Stylish standards-based, CSS layout holds the promise of good content.
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Blogs won’t change the world
Jack Shafer says what the open-source journalists/bloggers don’t want to hear.
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RSS recommendation reader
This Web-based RSS aggregator also acts as a simple recommendation service.
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Best American online newspapers
The Newspaper Association of America just released its 2005 Digital Edge Award Finalists.
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Giving them what they want
A List Apart offers some ideas for pleasing Web site visitors.
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Goodger goes to Google
Google will fund his Firefox work. GBrowser = Goodger?
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Scrivs sells CSS Vault
The price is cited, in his enigmatic way, as $XX,XXX. If true, that’s a hefy bit of cash for a gallery site.
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People’s search behaviour
Pew asks people how they feel about and use search engines.
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Online ad boom
Dow Jones has revealed the real reason for the MarketWatch purchase: the financial site was bought to ease a potential ad inventory crunch. The company spent six times MarketWatch’s 2004 revenue to be sure it gets some of the U.S.$10 billion online advertising spending.
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Canadian New Media Awards return
No mention on the site, but an email suggested they were looking for nominations.
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Amazon.ca opens to Web services
The Canada site releases its API.
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Akin to the Hill
Long-time technology reporter moves to CTV’s Parliamentary bureau.
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GeoCities or CSS Zen Garden?
Scarily enough, it’s all real…
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Quoting in Canada
Joe Clark covers everything you need to know about citing other work in Canada online.
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Gillmor on the end of objectivity
Dan Gillmor posts a draft of an essay on the irrelevance of objectivity in journalism.
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Ta-da: a to-do list
37signals release a sub-component of Basecamp: a Web-based to-do list that’s brilliantly simple.
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Carnivore dies
American law enforcement has abadoned its Internet surveillance technology.
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News and blogger comment
This news aggregator appends blogger’s comments about each story.
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rel="nofollow"
Will this end up killing the notion of a reputation engine? Not sure if the ends justify the means here.
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Choosing the Word of the Year
A story only a language obsessive could enjoy.
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Copyright killing culture
The Globe and Mail has a provocative article on how copyright is destroying documentaries.
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Musical pablum
Using AI, music labels are now able to predict the next charting-topping track.
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Slashdot on the future of online news
The uber-geeks riff on what the future of news on the Internet will be like.
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Real-world accessibility guidelines
A fantastic collection of guidelines built after watching people who actually work with screen readers regularly.
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Anti-Hit List Star-bound?
Seems like my former co-worker is going to our former competition. Good on, Sakamoto.
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The 2004 Canadian Blog Award winners
Like a high school election, it’s all about popularity.
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Bill Doskoch on Canada’'s first maga-paper
The Sunday Toronto Star rejigged itself to be more like a magazine.
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The New York Times flirts with paid subscriptions
Rumour has it that the The New York Times is planning on doing what The Globe and Mail did (partially) four months ago: introduce a subscription fee to read it online. Unlike here in Canada, the critics are quite vocal.
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Find contributions to Canadian political parties
Find out who your boss (or family) is giving to.
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The future of the Internet
Experts tell Pew what they thik the Net will be like for us in a decade.
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Village Voice embraces online
Weekly print publication now publishing daily online.
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Editor of Maclean's resigns
Anthony Wilson-Smith decides to leave the magazine after a series of high-level shake-ups.
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How online newspapers are remaking themselves
Online newspapers are reshaping themselves to better accomadate blogs and RSS.
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A National Web library
Michael Geist proposes Canada be
the first country in the world to create a comprehensive national digital library
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The creators of CSS
A mini-history lesson on the origins CSS
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Zed now open source
The software built to power CBC TV’s great, late night show is now open source.
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Steps to open online newspapers
Greensboro News & Record gets some great advice on how to make its Web site more “open source”
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Technorati tracks keywords
The innovation improves Technorati’s service tremendously.
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Complex table inspector
Ever since I diteched tables for layout, I’ve tried to make true tables as accessible as possible. This bookmarklet exposes the metadata of those tables.
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Wikipedia defence
Clay Shirky rebuts anti-elitism criticism.
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CanWesties paid to advertise
Employees at CanWest get up to $3,600 a year to turn their car into a moving ad.
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Wikipedia criticism
The “anti-elitism” issues reflect my concerns about citizen journalism.
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2004 Canadian blog awards
Most of those I don’t even know, but hey…
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The 2005 colour forecast
Purples, browns, desaturateds, and trippy tints.
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Looking back to the year that 2004 was
The Internet turned 35 this year yet somehow 2004 managed to create an air of excitement about the medium’s potential. The sense of possibility is almost as rich as it was a decade ago. In fact, some of this year’s trends harken back to then, too. Read my year-in-review for 2004
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BLC’s Year in Review
Better Living Centre reviews the media year that was.
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Banished words for 2005
Includes election jargon, “blog,” and “safe and effective.”
View all (it might be a looong page, though)