Archive
September 2009’s Posts.
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Making the free model work
Some advice on building a successful business publishing online content free
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Google reads your images
A new feature of the Google Docs API offers an OCR service
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Building iPhone apps with Web standards
A Web-based O'Reilly reference for developers of the mobile Web
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Twitters and TV
TODAY's Twitter audience share some interesting pics of how & where they watch the show
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Owning the design
A lengthy rant about how collaboration can destroy the very design process its intended to help
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Canadian fascists in 1938
Google Books makes available an early Life article exposing racists in pre-WWII Canada
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Patterns for the colour blind
Colour patterns for infographics and other visualizations
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Optimizing JavaScript rendering time
Gmail for Mobile hides the scripts in a comment blocks to speed startup
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Spelling Gadhfi
The name of Libya's leader has 32 spelling variants
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Trendsmap
well-executed, location-aware map of trending Twitter topics
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Newspaper wins Emmy for online effort
The Globe and Mail's exceptional Talking to the Taliban wins yet another
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Five-star rating systems fail
YouTube shows using five stars to rate something is three too many
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Design love Google
Some unique designs and portfolios powered by Google Maps
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Julie Doiron wins NxEW's Shadow Polaris Poll
My one-time house guest's latest album, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, is picked as the NxEW's readers favourite
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hulu.cbc.ca
The case for CBC bringing Hulu to Canada
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Preserving a free and open Internet
Momentous... the U.S. government has pledged that every citizen has access to open and robust broadband
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Happy birthday, New York Times
The front page from the first edition, printed 158 years ago today
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Toronto wants Canadian English
City Hall asks for software that spells councillor with two "l"s, for example
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Everything you wanted to know about A/B testing
But were afraid to ask (answered in the form of 114 slides)
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Canadian Online Publishing Awards
Finalist announced in 20 categories
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Google's Fast Flip
The mobile version shines on the iPhone, where the desktop version feels awkward
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Excellent advice online magazines
Joe Clark shares some thoughts that publications would be smart to follow
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The down and dirty revolution
Good post on how journalism (and other corporate enterprise) could benefit from getting a little messier
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W3C on open goverment data
The people behind the Web standards offer some best practices for governments looking to open their data
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Ready to pay the price
Advertisers and readers may finally be ready to see the online medium as a place worthy of paying for.
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NowPublic finds a buyer
Citizen-journalist news site sold to Denver's Examiner.com
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The HTML5 Super Friends
Some smart standardistas want to help polish HTML5
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