Weekly digest of W3C news and trends: Data Activity launched, HTML 5.1 Nightly's Crocoduck, MDN redesigned, etc.

This is the 6-13 December 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/


1) W3C and HTML5 related Twitter buzz
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[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.]


* (23) Spec: Last Call: XSLT 3.0
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3504>

* (48) semanticweb.com: W3C’s Semantic Web Activity Folds Into New Data  
Activity
<http://semanticweb.com/w3cs-semantic-web-activity-folds-new-data-activity/>

* (10) W3C Tweet: W3C Names Two New Leads for work on Technology and  
Society; Information and Knowledge
<http://twitter.com/w3c/status/410621394536660992>

* (16) HTML 5.1 Nightly: section 4.7.1.1.13 shows a crocoduck  
[<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html>]
<https://twitter.com/stowball/status/410724374811910146/photo/1>

   This resurfaced this week but had been resolved last May. See related:

* (28) Bugzilla: Bug 21941 – Spaghetti Monster reference is provocative,  
Heydon Pickering
<https://twitter.com/heydonworks/status/332442810097745920>

* (198) TheNextWeb: Dailymotion Acquires Jilion for Video Skills, New Web  
Player Incoming
<http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/10/dailymotion-buys-jilion-html5-sublimevideo-skills-new-web-player-way/>

* (16) W3C News: Fourth W3C Web and TV Workshop: Web and TV Convergence
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3470>

* (50) GenBetaDev: Eventos para desarrolladores Diciembre 2013: Droidcon,  
WordCamp, W3C, Richard Stallman y muchos más (Developer Events December  
2013: Droidcon, WordCamp, W3C, Richard Stallman and many more)
<http://www.genbetadev.com/formacion/eventos-para-desarrolladores-diciembre-2013-droidcon-wordcamp-w3c-richard-stallman-y-muchos-mas>

* (14) W3C News: W3C Workshop on Web Payments: How do you want to pay?
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3466>


2) Open Web & Internet
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* Mozilla/MDN: The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face, posted 9  
December 2013
<https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/the-mozilla-developer-network-has-a-new-face/>

* South China Morning Post: Anne Jellema says a freer, more accessible  
internet can serve China in many ways, not least by making it more  
competitive and innovative, the key to achieving its 'Chinese Dream’,  
posted 9 December 2013
<http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1374672/china-risks-being-left-behind-unless-it-builds-web-thats>

* [video] CNN feature: Tim Berners-Lee weighs in on the tide of censorship  
and surveillance on the internet, posted 23 November 2013
<http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2013/11/22/berners-lee-hodgson-web-internet-ranking.cnn.html>


3) W3C in the Press (or blogs):
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2 articles this week.

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


    Dailymotion acquires Jilion for HTML5 and SublimeVideo skills, new Web  
player on the way
    The Next Web (10 December)
    http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/10/dailymotion-buys-jilion-html5-sublimevideo-skills-new-web-player-way/


    W3C’s Semantic Web Activity Folds Into New Data Activity
    Semanticweb.com (10 December)
    http://semanticweb.com/w3cs-semantic-web-activity-folds-new-data-activity/



-- 
  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Friday, 13 December 2013 16:09:18 UTC