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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

Where open-source is as good as Microsoft    (2010.11.25)

Android, Windows Phone 7, and Windows itself are all inaccessible – because nobody at the top demanded otherwise. Bad taste has a cost people with disabilities pay

How not to be richer than straight people    (2010.11.14)

Be a gay man. (Originally from 2003.07.07, this posting documents early research on lesbian & gay economics by M.V. Lee Badgett)

TTC to passenger: Drop dead    (2010.10.26)

Do you want a safe transit system or not? Safe for whom, exactly?

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

‘175 Key Toronto Films’    (2010.10.22)

Toronto on Film lists “175 Key Toronto Films.” Since TIFF won’t publish the list, I will