Weekly digest of W3C news and trends: W3C rejects DAA’s DNT proposal, new TAG member elected, Accessible SVG Community Group launched, etc.

This is the 12-19 July 2013 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and  
trends" that the W3C Communications Team prepares for the W3C Membership  
and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived [1]) [sent  
separately]. This digest aggregates information about W3C from online  
media, a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-digest/


Notably this week :

- over 800 stories about W3C on Twitter in the past week.
- over 2400 mentions of W3C in past week.
- 65832 Twitter followers.
- 15 posts that dlvr.it posted between Jul 07 - Jul 14 got 16K (-16%)  
clicks with a potential reach to 74.1K (-2%) connections.
- Peak 16-Jul (1026 mentions) for top story “W3C rejects Ad industry’s Do  
Not Track proposal" [1]
[1] http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/2013-july-decision/


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


W3C and HTML5 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 URIs or tweet was  
quoted/RTed.]


* (34) Sergey Konstantinov, newest elected member of the TAG

* (175) Gigaom: Netflix presses ahead with HTML5, as free software  
activists call for boycott
<http://gigaom.com/2013/07/18/netflix-presses-ahead-with-html5-as-free-software-activists-call-for-boycott/>


* (1022) W3C rejects DAA’s DNT proposal
[tallied from 40 sources including Tweets, News outlets, Slashdot, blogs.]

(161) CNET: Do Not Track standards group shoots down advertiser proposal
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57593907-93/do-not-track-standards-group-shoots-down-advertiser-proposal/>

(24) W3C Blog: Establishing the Meaning of Do Not Track
<http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/07/establishing_the_meaning_of_do.html>

(319) NYTimes: ‘Do Not Track’ Rules for Advertising to Web Users Come a  
Step Closer to an Agreement
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/technology/do-not-track-rules-for-advertising-to-web-users-come-a-step-closer-to-an-agreement.html>


* (20) Call for Participation in Accessible SVG Community Group
<http://www.w3.org/community/blog/2013/07/17/call-for-participation-in-accessible-svg-community-group/>

* (19) Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business - 7-8th August  
2013
<http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/agenda.html>



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

24 articles. Highlights:
  * DNT (in English, French, Dutch, Japanese) A few articles prior to the  
Tracking Protection WG decision, and a lot afterwards.

Only one of the 24 was not about DNT, it was about EME.

A selection of articles follows.


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


    Netflix presses ahead with HTML5, as free software activists call for  
boycott
    Gigaom (18 July)
    http://gigaom.com/2013/07/18/netflix-presses-ahead-with-html5-as-free-software-activists-call-for-boycott/


    W3C rejects ad industry attempt to hijack do-not-track specs
    PCWorld (16 July)
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044472/w3c-rejects-ad-industry-attempt-to-hijack-donottrack-specs.html


    Do Not Track proposal is DOA
    CNN Money (16 July)
    http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/16/technology/do-not-track/index.html


    Do Not Track standards group shoots down advertiser proposal
    CNET (15 July)
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57593907-93/do-not-track-standards-group-shoots-down-advertiser-proposal/


    ‘Do Not Track’ Rules for Advertising to Web Users Come a Step Closer to  
an Agreement
    The New York Times | Technology (15 July)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/technology/do-not-track-rules-for-advertising-to-web-users-come-a-step-closer-to-an-agreement.html


    Mozilla Questions IAB's Do-Not-Track Estimates
    MediaPost Daily Online Examiner (12 July)
    www.mediapost.com/publications/article/204456/mozilla-questions-iabs-do-not-track-estimates.html


    Ad Industry Proposal: 'Do Not Track' Should Let Us Track Anyway
    Advertising Age (12 July)
    http://adage.com/article/privacy-and-regulation/ad-industry-proposal-track-track/243077/


-- 
  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +33643220001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
-- 
  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +33643220001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

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