Archive
August 2007’s Posts.
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Twelve online news biz tips
Twelve real lessons from online newspapers as editors reveal the successes and failures.
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Podcasting down, video up
One of the topics I’ve been speaking about over the past year has been online news trends, and there’s a few recent pointers from The Editors Weblog that speak a bit more in-depth about two of my themes: video and podcasting.
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The death of A1
Jack Shafer talks about how the inside pages of a newspaper are of more value now.
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Making online news forget
Clive Thompson riffs on reputation management when it comes to online news.
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iPhone unlocked
So will Rogers brings an official one to Canada or will we will Canucks need to hack it?
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The Mullet Strategy
Let the users play on the secondary pages, but keep the primary ones under in-house control.
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Hockey Night in Canada streamed online
The entire 85-game schedule is to be streamed online and will include pre/post-game shows.
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More electronic editions
Electronic editions of newspaper serve no-one but the circulation figures (possible exception: those like NYTimes Reader)
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More electronic editions
Electronic editions of newspaper serve no-one but the circulation figures (possible exception: those like NYTimes Reader)
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On the TTC redesign RFP
Joe Clark analyzes the RFP, with a clarity and intelligence that shows why he deserves to be (but isn't) well paid.
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Globeandmail.com and GMaps
The Globe and Mail is now embedding contextual GMap within articles.
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Gigapixel images in Firefox
HD View plugin, which allow you to view super-high resolution images, is now available for Firefox
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JQuery for JavaScript coders
Another excellent tutorial from Simon Willison, this time explaining the strengths of jQuery.
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Web-code syntax
Code standardizing one's coding style improve the Web for the better?
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Setting up IMAP
Mini-tutorial for setting up IMAP in Apple Mail
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Google New going comments
Seems Google is experimenting with a way to allow the subjects of a news story to comment on it.
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Google New going comments
Seems Google is experimenting with a way to allow the subjects of a news story to comment on it.
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Blueprint: a CSS framework
More and less than a template, I think this concept could catch on.
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Stop the mobile browser war
Eric Meyer urges everyone to resist designing mobile Web apps just for the iPhone.
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FacebookCamp Toronto: Follow-up
The first FacebookCamp Toronto is done, and kudos to the organizers for holding such a successful event. The reported turnout was about 450 people, making it the biggest Facebook Developer Garage yet (other cities, like San Francisco, often have had ten times less people); and, despite the buzz Facebook is creating in the marketing world, nearly half of the attendees were developers, and a quarter of those were actively developing Facebook apps.
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FacebookCamp Toronto
What started out as a little gathering for 30 TorCampers to showcase some development techniques with Facebook’s developer platform has exploded. First it jumped to 60, now it is being held at MaRS and although the declared maximum is 350, more than 600 people have signed up.
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No more TimesSelect
The New York Times is reported to be ending its online subscription service
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