Archive
February 2005’s Posts.
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Jef Raskin dies
The man how developed the Mac interface has died.
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Newspaper runs embedded text ads
The New York Post IntelliTXT ads test go public.
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WSJ faces irrelevance, too
Adam Penenberg (weakly) argues Wall Street Journal needs drop subscription.
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Number portability coming to Canada
Finally mobile customers will be able to dump their carriers but keep their numbers
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$9/hour for Wifi!?
Second Cup and Rogers will charge 15¢ a minute in great this infobahn robbery.
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Canada blocks Firefox users?
Good news: Canada wants its citizens to connect with federal departments online in a secure and a consistent manner. Bad news: only Internet Explorer on Windows seems to be supported.
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Thomson offers $1.5B for Bell Globemedia
This is either a low-ball offer for Bell Globemedia, or a rich offer for The Globe and Mail.
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XForms vs. Web Forms
A in-depth explanation of the fight to find the best way to mark-up forms.
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Codename: Ajax
JJG describes the new Web application interface model.
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The Doctor is dead
Hunter S. Thompson has ended his gonzo life.
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Wikinews design contest
Could be worth watching to see what the collective consciousness of the Web comes up with.
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New Washintonpost.com homepage
Clean look, and notably, the left navigation is gone in place of the top nav.
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Microsoft to release IE7
Wow.
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Interview with Salon’s new editor
Founding editor David Talbot has stepped-down, and Joan Walsh explains what she’ll bring the magazine.
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No nostalgia for us, we’re Gen-X
Nice little piece from The New York Times on eighties “nostalgia”
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We are the bunny-earred
Over-the-air TV is the new cool.
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XMLHttpRequest tutorial
The basics on building very dynamic Web interfaces.
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Good news and bad news for Wikinews
Google offered to share its server-space to ease the hosting and bandwidth demands of Wikimedia, owners and operators of Wikipedia and Wikinews. Greg Linden points out although its not a entirely selfish act, its not evil. John C. Dvorak disagrees, citing the erosion of the Usenet database as an example. The geeks at Slashdot feed the fire..
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Ask Mozilla
The also-ran search company Ask Jeeves is making some interesting plays lately. First, it bought Bloglines *the Web-based RSS aggregator) and now it’s talking up the Mozilla Foundation. Ask Jeeves has suggested it might donate it’s desktop search product to Mozilla and making it open source; as well there’s talk of building a Ask Jeeves-branded Firefox browser this year.
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RSS big driver for NYTimes.com
The NYTimes.com site got more than 4.5 million page views in Janaury from RSS.
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Google maps
Consider this the first wave. Mix this, keyhole, and local (or news) and you got one fine mapping tool. (U.S. only.)
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Watch Chrétien testify
Canada’s ousted PM defends his role in the sponsorship inquiry.
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The New York Times: “Smaller Than a Pushpin, More Powerful Than a PC”
Crazy-small 64-bit processor could reshape the home computing landscape.
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CTV wins Olympic broadcast rights
CBC loses big: the Vancouver Olympic broadcast rights go to CTV-Rogers
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Standards-based phishing exploit
This one is nasty, and affects standard-compliant browsers but leaves IE unaffected.
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O’Reilly’s Web design books online
The full-text of early classics on HTML, CSS, and IA.
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SXSW’s 2005 Web Awards Finalists
Finalists include Digital Web Magazine, a redesign I worked on.
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Picking a pope
A old, yet timely Slate article on the process involved in selecting the next Catholic pope.di
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The Esquire covers
Watch the magazine go from cutesy to classy to trashy.
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Creating a custom DTD
A List Apart reveals how to create and validate a custom DTD.
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Rosen questions Akin
David Akin reveals how blogging has changed his journalism.
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MSN picks the “worst browser”
Guess which browser Microsoft thinks is the worst?
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Interview with the other Craig
Craigslist founder ponders citizen journalism and more.
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MSN redesigns
The very, very dull page at least uses a semantic, CSS-based layout/
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