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Monthly Archives: January 2009
New theme
January 29, 2009 – 3:37 pm
Still working out some kinks… probably looks pretty funky in Internet Explorer.
XHTML validates, but there’s fairly extensive use of non-standard CSS to achieve the transparency (should be cross-browser) and rounded corner effects (Mozilla and Safari 3 only).
Canada: a brief history of failed GHG reduction policies
January 24, 2009 – 10:04 am
Attended a talk entitled Getting Climate Policy Right yesterday, presented by Mark Jaccard and co-sponsored by University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy & Governance and the Centre for Environment. Jaccard is a leading expert, not just in Canada but internationally, on climate change policy and economic modelling, and delivered an informative, stimulating and engaging [...]
The future of journalism
January 21, 2009 – 3:11 pm
From one of my favourite e-newsletters, J-Source, comes a provocative article by Alan Bass, assistant prof at Thompson Rivers University School of Journalism, that takes journalists themselves to task for failing to preserve the vitality of journalism and for failing to make the case for the relevance of journalism vis-a-vis the infotainment that constitutes the [...]
As the web gets smarter, will our anonymity evaporate?
January 18, 2009 – 1:25 pm
One of the most exciting things going on in webland today, I think, is the myriad of technologies, user experiences, and computer-to-computer interactions that typically pass under the monikers of “Web 3.0” or “the semantic web.” There isn’t a lot of general agreement on what precisely these terms mean (though I think the latter is [...]
Motto for web writers: cut!
January 18, 2009 – 1:07 pm
The Brain Traffic blog has some good quotations to remember when you feel your web writing is starting to get a bit frilly: Cut.
Reminds me of another good line, from Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.