Archive
March 2007’s Posts.
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Going to London, from Toronto
Google Maps tells you how (with step 26 being key)
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It's what we call the news
JibJab on the state of the news media.
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Toronto's new street "furniture"
Joe Clark has extracted the renderings of the street furniture proposals and posted them on Flickr.
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EyeTrack07
Finally: some hard data to counter the perception people only scane text while reading online.
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Worldmapper
Redrawing the world according a range of economic and social measures
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CBC unleashes more podcasts
Selections include Radio News, World at Six, The House and some podcast-specific offerings
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NADbank 2006 Readership Study
Canada's newspaper readership in the top markets is stable, and more than 17 percent read an online edition.
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State of the (U.S.) news media in 2007
Excellent overview of the journalism industry as it heads into 2007.
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How to save newspapers
Doc Searls offers some smart advice for improving newspapers fortunes online
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Web apps outside the browser
A comprehensive summary of Apollo (and WPF/E) and what it means for Web app developers.
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dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide
Brian Fling's ebook on Web development for the mobile world is available as a free download.
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Dean Edwards' base2.DOM
A JavaScript library that makes sure every browser does the DOM scripting the W3C way.
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CakePHP v. CodeIgnitor
Snook does an excellent comparision of the two PHP-based MVCs
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Installed fonts
As detected by CSS and JavaScript (this version has a nicer UI than the original)
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24 killing the Sun?
It looks like Quebecor's free, daily newspaper mortally is wounding it's paid-circulation tabloid.
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Management By Optimism
This nails a nasty little trend I've been seeing quite frequently.
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Web-based project tools
An overview of Web-based tools for planning, budgeting, and developing projects.
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Em Calculator
Useful for any CSS developer looking to figure out what 0.625em actual is.
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W3C relaunches HTML
First draft due this summer, final recommendation 2010. Expected adoption: 2015.
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Opera wants a VIDEO tag
The browser vendor is proposing a new element for video in HTML5. What OBJECT doesn't work for you?!
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Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOMs
Three top guns from three top browsers talk DOM in this Yahoo Video.
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Reaction to the new USAToday.com
Bout sums it up
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Newspapers have 25 years left
More predictions on the death of the newspaper in the face of online news outlets
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MySpace for finance geeks
Reuters plans on launching a social networking service
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Prototype/script.aculo.us TextMate bundle
For all those TextMate users who do JavaScript work, this is for you.
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