How Times change. The original NYT front page was a GIF with an image map: web.archive.org/web/1996111218…
"recent white papers" [no link]
The "Introducing JelIy" video reads like a parody of itself posted by CollegeHumor tomorrow: blog.jelly.co/post/725634983…
The preview of tomorrow's NYT redesign: nytimes.com/redesign/ (Main takeaway: no more pagination.)
I know how my shredder and I will be spending the remainder of the afternoon.
Found at the back of the closet: a dusty plastic LCBO bag, packed hard as a cannonball with receipts for everything I bought in 2003.
A hockey referee with a helmet-mounted GoPro camera produces some pretty fantastic footage: youtube.com/watch?v=ZEBoOr…
@kattancock MediaScout!
Here's the new @CdnBusinessMag digital team's first product: The Winners & Losers of 2013: site.canadianbusiness.com/winners-and-lo…
@Scaachi Canadian Memeness
@boyreporter Thanks, Ron — means a lot!
@TheGameSheet Quiet, you. (also: thanks!)
Watch this space as I slowly go mad with power.
It's true: I'm now @CdnBusinessMag's managing editor of digital. Looking forward to being all up in your internet in 2014.
@lisanjutras "They cannot do that at <boldface>Staples</boldface>"
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@ivortossell @jm_mcgrath I thought more of a folk/bluegrass band.
RT @jamescowan: Exciting news! Canadian Business and Profit merging to make the Voltron of business magazines! newswire.ca/en/story/12766…
@jamescowan Truly, the Greatest Generation™
@jamescowan That's the joke! I should stop trying to be ironic on Twitter.
Wish I could muster the will to write a letter to the editor refuting this vague, windy nonsense: thestar.com/news/insight/2…
RT @Mr_Turley: The accompanying photo with this story nytimes.com/2013/12/09/bus…
@navalang ONE MILLION DOLLARS
A fun look at the (surprisingly non-evil) ways that farmers manipulate the colour of egg yolks: modernfarmer.com/2013/12/market…
@ivortossell MARKETING
@ivortossell So I would imagine! Why did you follow in the first place?
Like FB, Twitter's problem is balancing need for $$$ with need to keep out ads that expose how low-rent it is: 
RT @doingitwrong: How many spies are activists? RT @AmberLyon: Report: One in Four ‘Activists’ May be Corporate Spies bit.ly/1b9qLIy
@lisanjutras Those teens—always finding novel ways to rebel. #teens
@karenmcgrane The synopses appear out of order, too!
Compare it to this classic overproduced hot mess from Microsoft. Slickness makes it too fanciful to take seriously: youtube.com/watch?v=3KnIJo…
Note the Amazon drone video's strategic artlessness—crappy lighting, handheld video, no cute music. Verité=credible. youtu.be/98BIu9dpwHU
@habitualpixel I also think "Mercury" might give people pause. But Tungsten — there's a square-jawed lunk of a cologne-name.
Perhaps not "Knockout"
But seriously, I think a line of @H_FJ colognes and perfumes would sell. Archer, Requiem, Gotham, Forza...
Helvetica, "the ultimate modernist perfume." No smell whatsoever — $62 for 2oz! Delightful: helvetica-the-perfume.myshopify.com/products/helve…
@AmandaFactorOMG @chantalbraganza Who can even tell in this, the Age of Listicles?
Like Christmas, Year-End Thinkpiece Season starts earlier every year.
Were I a law firm, I feel like there would be a lucrative niche in hybrid PR-legal advice. (Is this a thing that exists, and goes unused?)
So many PR nightmares are caused by PR-clueless lawyers sending off rote legal threats. mashable.com/2013/11/27/gol…
...The theory "that as civilization wears on, people choose more humble and risible figures for leaders and heroes."
Also pertinent this week from that essay: Martin Amis's "Theory of Increasing Humiliation":
"Assassins follow trends like the arts do. [Lee Harvey] Oswald bridged modernism and postmodernism": suck.com/daily/2001/02/…
@ivortossell Yeah, snooping the source it's pretty clear the template could be reused, which is the only way it makes sense. It's good!
@ivortossell Perhaps! I think if you're getting into video onscroll events etc, day-to-day practicality and cost-effectiveness degrade fast.
Though I seriously wonder about the Starbucks "Share Joy" banner ad plunked in the 2nd graf of a feature about epic human misery.
Readable text, big images. Some minor scripting/font-face flourishes. This is more doable and scalable for publications than Snowfall jazz.
"Dream Boat" is the kind of high-design longform more publishers could actually pull off: nytimes.com/2013/11/17/mag…
@karenatcmg Press release isn't online, far as I can tell, but twitter/iceberg has it. (successful newsjacking, as @scroll points out)
@mostlyyalit Well, I got a small, so if you want to trade... well, you're out of luck. PSYCH
@KSpeicher I did! I'm not sure where to stick them, though. I'm not really a sticker-adorning person.
Inbox delight: press release from Iceberg Vodka distancing itself from Rob Ford.
Lemme tall ya, your coworkers' esteem for you shoots up when this gets delivered to your desk: 
@ElwinKaren Mostly a lot of productive work hours lost to refreshing Twitter for the latest gong-show developments!
RT @richardwarnica: @gfscott @CityNews Later I'll be discussing Rob Ford's effect on Canadian Business, the magazine. Bad jokes are way up.…
I'll be on @CityNews in a few minutes to talk about Rob Ford's effect on Toronto business. (Spoiler: not great!)
The body language in this photo gives me the fantods: calgaryherald.com/news/national/…
@emilymkeeler @NatalieZed Surely the song of the day is Khia's "My Neck My Back": youtube.com/watch?v=jMCMlN…
RT @Mastheadmag: Aaaaand Website of the Year goes to... Canadian Business! #copawards
RT @ivortossell: An attempt to map out the emerging connections in the Rob Ford scandal: The Ford Explorer. ivortossell.ca/fordexplorer/
BRB, just travelling back in time to prevent Microsoft Outlook from being invented
Publishers! The new expanded in-stream Twitter images are 440x220 pixels. You could optimize for that. 
I feel this is an opportune time to note I've added a realtime open API to the countdown clock: howlonghasrobfordbeenmayor.com/api/
@laura_godfrey @jkdegen Yes. Obviously huge props to the Star writers here, but calling this a victory for print—afraid I don't buy that...
@jkdegen C'mon, that's just not true. Gawker broke it; the Star went way deeper (and good for them!) And every detail appeared online first.
It's like we're living in a Scarface remake directed by John Waters.
@christindal Yeah, it's pretty nifty, although I'm wary of a proprietary setup. Still.
Content/publishing dorks: just took a little spin through API-based CMS contentful.com and it looks v. promising.
I am going to try to get my hands on this reissue of "The Big Bus," a forgotten childhood fave: thedissolve.com/reviews/320-th…
Photos of people giving the finger to Ai Wei Wei's photos giving the finger to major landmarks
@trevormelanson @richardwarnica You can't police our IDEAS, man.
@ty_olsen It's kind of demented, for a site that's supposed to be this evil retail genius. This strikes me as basic functionality.
...abandon the cart once they realize they're on the wrong geographic site. So, er, get on that, someone.
Were I an author with a book on Amazon, I would be peeved that people click my (affiliate, revenue-generating?!) link to .com and then...
Despite the fact that a) I am fully signed in to my Amazon account; b) I voluntarily *told them where I live*
Highly odd that if I click on an Amazon.com link, Amazon makes no attempt—zero—to translate it into an Amazon.ca sale ...
@balkissoon Irony! But now I've paid $2 and it's on my phone and will bug me periodically. Stay tuned
Already digging "Unfuck your Habitat," an app providing "Terrifying motivation for lazy people with messy homes" play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Hug a fact-checker today.
Daft Pumpkin: 
Seems like sufficiently diverse newsrooms might have had a chance to surface that story in other ways, and sooner.
This says a) the direness of the UK immigration regime, b) something about the social class that journalists come from, and who they know
What strikes me as most bizarre is that it took an FOI request to bring it to light. 39,100 "deporting u" texts and no reporter stumbled on?
This story, about the UK government sending 40,000 "We're going to deport you" text messages is pretty wild: theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/o… BUT
This is a web thing that I've been working on with @michaelcwheeler and @sarahgstanley since the summer: spiderwebshow.ca #CdnCult
RT @michaelcwheeler: Excited to launch @SpiderWebShow today. Co-Created with @sarahgstanley & Digital Dramaturgy by @gfscott: http://t.co/l…
"I no longer know what I like. I worry that I’ve been wrong about every opinion I’ve ever held." theawl.com/2013/10/the-fi…
@dtopping It's almost like Silicon Valley billionaires aren't interested in the tortured nuances of our grim little lives.
The fact that it has no good way of accounting for people who don't have [A Job Title] at [A Company] is ridiculous in 2013.
LinkedIn's freelance-blindness is insane for a network that's supposed to be a modern reflection of how we work. "Writer at Freelance"?
"Where do advertisements come from?" "Well, when a person and a brand achieve a fused identity..."
mblm.com/brandintimacy/…
The inventor who perfected iron-free cotton textiles died last week: nytimes.com/2013/10/08/bus…
@kelkord @chantalbraganza YES and there's actually an even better solution that Big Elevator is hiding from us: theatlanticcities.com/design/2013/09…
Same with Sorkin's deliberate cluelessness in making The Social Network: treating wilful ignorance as critical distance.
This is good: gawker.com/circle-jerks-w… — articulates a frequent frustration with how tech is mis/understood in literature.
@jasonmcbride68 @ivortossell I especially like that the first comment is a paean to the oroginal Palm Pilot.
Seymour Hersh: "Get rid of 90% of the editors that now exist and start promoting editors that you can't control." theguardian.com/media/media-bl…
RT @jamescowan: Rogers launches "Netflix for Magazines:" canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-…
Not-so-fun fact: the internet has a bigger carbon footprint than the entire global aviation industry: alistapart.com/article/sustai…
@lisanjutras Noted.