Author archive

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)

The crisis in book design (for once, averted)    (2010.12.03)

I have the scoop on the design of the Giller-winning Sentimentalists. Also: Family Compact publishers, could you go fuck yourselves?

Canada’s national newspaper covers the pressing issue of ‘diary subsidies’    (2010.11.28)

There is no central copy or readback desk at the Globe and Mail. The tale of Australia’s “diary subsidies” tells us why that is actually not a good idea

Newspaper sites are so bad they require ‘public integrity’ to rescue them    (2010.11.28)

Why do newspapers think an “HTML5 product” will do anything their existing Web sites can do? (Updated 2010.12.06)

Even Paul Rand cannot overcome the influence of a medium    (2010.11.27)

You don’t have to be Andrew Keen to recognize that each medium has his own biases and changes the way you communicate. Just ask Angry Paul Rand