Archive for December 2010

Canadian Word of the Year 2010    (2010.12.16)

G20

Hacks & Hackers Toronto II    (2010.12.16)

At the second Hacks & Hackers event, only two of the demos were journalistic. And why are we still doing demos?

I’m not the only one who thinks comments are harmful on news sites    (2010.12.14)

Ask Ben Hammersley: Chasing “the conversation” is “actually almost a cultural crime”

Microsoft: ‘We were incompetent on this’    (2010.12.14)

Why isn’t Windows Phone 7 accessible to blind people? Ask Microsoft. Somebody did, and here was the answer: “We were incompetent on this”

All the allegedly Canadian words in the OED    (2010.12.10)

All 573 Canadian English headwords from the OED

Tell Roger Ebert and Pat Bowes about HCO    (2010.12.10)

Roger Ebert and Pat Bowes can actually still use the phone, via hearing carryover (HCO) at the relay service. Won’t somebody tell them?

Magazine editor thinks like magazine editor    (2010.12.09)

Virginia Heffernan gets set straight by Graydon Carter. Oh, and the Ontario government flew her up here to give us advice last summer

‘Mad Men Unbuttoned’: Sometimes blogs should stay blogs    (2010.12.08)

Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s Mad Men Unbuttoned worked better as postings on the Awl

Brûlé’s ‘Monocle on Bloomberg’: ‘The Desk’ manqué    (2010.12.07)

Tyler Brûlé’s new show on Bloomberg will be familiar to Newsworld and BBC Four viewers who remember The Desk (2005)