Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic) is a W3C Recommendation

Fragments are probably the most misunderstood concept on the web, but very
important to the RWW.  Great that the W3C has put together some guidance.

My own personal take on this is that the Web started out as a Web of
Documents, but the intention was always to be a web of data.  'Everything
connected to everything' as expressed in Weaving the Web.

It took me many years to appreciate what a neat idea the Web of Documents
was.  Perfectly natural as human civilization has been strongly influenced
by documents for 5000 years.  Then I ask myself the question: "Is it a
reasonable thing to split documents up into sections?".  I came to the
conclusion, absolutely yes.  It's also what humans have done for 1000s of
years.  This is the secret weapon of the web and allows parts of documents
to be annotated as data.  And the # character is at the center of it all.

I think a good understanding of the # character is essential to seeing the
FULL vision of the WWW and RWW.  Read more below!

http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2012/09/27/media-fragments-uri-1-0-basic-is-a-w3c-recommendation/