The database genius also known as Rudy writes about his experiences in trying to get a news feed from ITToolbox.com working on his site and having it still validate. Anyone who has tried to do this on the client-side will recognize some of the hurdles he encounters. Oh, and his final suggestion…take it with a grain of salt. ;)

Lately, I find myself reading print-versions of Web sites to get rid of the pizzazz polluting a lot of the pages — especially on news sites. Serendipitously, Jakob Nielsen has just written a worthwhile column about the advantages of “low-end media” Web sites.

For what its worth, if you find the bells and whistles of this site distracting you can switch to either the “Clean” or “Bare Bones” style sheet (on a per-page basis) or view the text-only edition of this site by appending (for now) “?lowfi” to the URL, like so.

By the way, I accidentally deleted my core style sheet yesterday, so the one in use now is a back-up. Unfortunately that back-up was not a recent copy, so you may see some weirdness until I re-implement the undocumented changes.

The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled that any libel published to the Internet is actually a “broadcast,” thereby exposing a defendant to much higher damages. This builds upon a ruling last year that stated a newspaper’s site, is in legal terms, a “newspaper’. Careful what you blog.