Weekly digest of W3C news and trends

This is the first edition of a "Weekly digest of W3C news and trends"  
prepared by the W3C Communications Team for the W3C Membership and  
public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived  
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-digest/>).

The "Weekly digest of W3C news and trends" aggregates information about  
W3C from online media, a snapshot of how W3C and its work is apprehended  
outwardly.

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This edition spans 21-28 September 2012.

Notable activity last week includes:
  - more than 25 press articles about the proposed HTML5 spec Plan for 2014,
  - a gross increase of 450+ Twitter followers,
  - 23 posts to StatusNet, Twitter and Facebook between Sep 17 and Sep 24  
(35K clicks, delivered to 53K connections).

Below is the compilation of what I harvested monitoring the  
(micro)blogosphere and press.



W3C-related Twitter buzz
------------------------
[Things that were tweeted frequently, things that caught my attention, etc.
  Most *recent* first (popularity is flagged with the figure between  
parenthesis —that is the number of times the same URI or tweet was  
quoted/ReTweet’ed.]


* (35) REC: R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-r2rml-20120927/>


* Do-Not-Track in the news, a week before a W3C's tracking protection  
group meeting:

(29) FTC Defends W3C's Do-Not-Track Initiative To Congress
<http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/183963/ftc-defends-w3cs-do-not-track-initiative-to-congr.html>

(25) ‘Do Not Track’ Dysfunction: Industry, Privacy Advocates Appeal to FTC
<http://www.adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/do-not-track-dysfunction-industry-privacy-advocates-appeal-to-ftc/>


* (10) DRAFT Workshop homepage: eBooks: Great Expectations - A W3C  
Workshop on Electronic Books and Open Web Platform - 15-16 February 2013
<http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/>


* Pointer Events W3C submission from Microsoft:

(138) Pointer Events Specification
<http://www.w3.org/Submission/2012/SUBM-pointer-events-20120907/>

(40) IE Blog: Towards Interoperable Pointer Events: Evolving Input Events  
for Multiple Devices
<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/09/24/towards-interoperable-pointer-events-evolving-input-events-for-multiple-devices.aspx>

(26) Art Barstow’s tweet: “One Touch model for the Web? @Microsoft submits  
Pointer Events spec for standardization @W3C http://t.co/274DOawe  
@adrianba @jacobrossi”
<http://twitter.com/afbarstow/status/250269453806342145>

(24) Dominique Hazaël-Massieux’ tweet: “Microsoft submitted their richer  
alternative approach to touch events to @W3C http://t.co/1VhRljL7 ; likely  
candidate for Rec-track work!”
<http://twitter.com/dontcallmedom/status/250254641059729408>


* (16) WebEd wiki: HTML/Elements
<http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/HTML/Elements>


* (253) Proposed HTML spec Plan 2014
<http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html>



W3C in the Press (or some blogs)
--------------------------------

Highlights:

  * HTML WG Plan 2014 (26 articles in addition to last weeks’ 13, including  
in Dutch, French, Russian, German, Chinese, Spanish, Italian)
  * "Pointer Events" submission
  * Do Not Track


[Most recent first.
  title, source (date), link.
  Find keywords on our Press clippings page:  
http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles ]



    Building Connected TV Apps
    BBC Internet Blog (28 September)
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/09/connected_tv_apps.html


    FTC Defends W3C's Do-Not-Track Initiative To Congress
    Online Media Daily (27 September)
    http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/183963/ftc-defends-w3cs-do-not-track-initiative-to-congr.html


    Transforming Relational Data to RDF – R2RML Becomes Official W3C  
Recommendation
    semanticweb.com (27 September)
    http://semanticweb.com/transforming-relational-data-to-rdf-r2rml-becomes-official-w3c-recommendation_b32395


    Towards Interoperable Pointer Events: Evolving Input Events for  
Multiple Devices
    IEBlog (24 September)
    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/09/24/towards-interoperable-pointer-events-evolving-input-events-for-multiple-devices.aspx


    The W3C has accepted and published Microsoft's "Pointer Events"  
submission
    The Next Web (24 September)
    http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/09/24/the-w3c-accepted-published-microsofts-pointer-events-submission/


    W3C Announce HTML5 2014 Delivery Plan
    SitePoint (24 September)
    http://www.sitepoint.com/w3c-html5-2014-plan/


    W3C Announces Plan To Deliver HTML 5 by 2014
    Slashdot (21 September)
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/21/0345212/w3c-announces-plan-to-deliver-html-5-by-2014


    W3C reveals plan to finish HTML5 and HTML 5.1
    The Register (21 September)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/21/w3c_html5_plan_proposed/


    Why Do Not Track is worse than a miserable failure
    ZDNet (21 September)
    http://www.zdnet.com/why-do-not-track-is-worse-than-a-miserable-failure-7000004634/


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