Archive for category: Web & infrastructure

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?

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

Hacks & Hackers Toronto    (2010.10.22)

Last night (2010.10.21) was the first mixer for Hacks & Hackers Toronto. Now let’s get to work

BookNet Canada Technology Forum pitch    (2010.10.07)

I proposed a session on structured documents for managers and editors for the BookNet Canada 2011 Technology Forum. The deadline for submissions was an insane six months in advance

Print-hostile pages    (2010.08.05)

New York outdoes itself in fucked-up “print-friendly” pages

‘My fundamentalism is better than your fundamentalism’    (2010.07.28)

If Nicole Sullivan thinks more women should work in technology, my question is: Why? (Minor updates)

Famous last words    (2010.07.16)

Tara Ariano finally got her green card. Was she ever Canadian?

What’s design criticism worth? About 12¢    (2010.05.28)

Established design critic John Thackara thinks kids today should live in squats and write design criticism for 12¢ a pageview