Weekly digest of W3C news and trends: misconceptions on DRM into HTML5, JSON-LD, Net Neutrality, etc.

This is the 10-17 January 2014 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.
  For this edition the most *ancient* appears first(popularity is flagged  
with the figure between parenthesis —that is the number of times the same  
URIs or tweet was quoted/RTed.]


* (313)Terence Eden: Malicious Use of the HTML5 Vibrate API
<http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/01/malicious-use-of-the-html5-vibrate-api/>


* (1.9K) Misconceptions: W3C pushing DRM, Secrets at the W3C

- (118) Robin Berjon: On DRM, Austening Ourselves to the Full Brontë
<http://berjon.com/blog/2014/01/yummy-drm.html>

- (136) Eleanor Saitta tweeted swear words about Netflix and us in  
particular, spreading Cory Doctorow’s article
<http://twitter.com/Dymaxion/status/421760813008179200>

- (283) Mark Watson via the public-restrictedmedia Mailing List, wrote  
that Neflix’ content licenses are confidential. Unfortunately, the link,  
posted in Hacker News, was spread as “W3C is secret”.
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2014Jan/0060.html>

- (110) Duncan Bayne via the public-restrictedmedia Mailing List asked for  
more transparency.
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2014Jan/0061.html>

- (8) Jeff Jaffe via the public-restrictedmedia Mailing List requested  
that Netflix’ requirements be public. 7 out of 8 are our own replies to  
individuals having spread that W3C is secretive. The lack of spreading  
shows a certain bias, unfortunately.
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2014Jan/0067.html>

- (590) Boing Boing: Requirements for DRM in HTML5 are a secret
<http://boingboing.net/2014/01/14/requirements-for-drm-in-html5.html>

- (28) Adrian Roselli: W3C EME is not DRM (nor other fear-mongering TLAs)
<http://blog.adrianroselli.com/2014/01/w3c-eme-is-not-drm-nor-other-fear.html>

- (156) Korben.info: Le W3C tient secrètes les discussions sur le DRM dans  
HTML5 (W3C holds secret discussions on DRM in HTML5)
<http://korben.info/le-w3c-tient-secretes-les-discussions-sur-le-drm-dans-html5.html>


* (307) JSON-LD is a standard

- (95) W3C News: JSON-LD is a W3C Recommendation
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3589>

- (57) Markus Lanthaler: After more than 2,000 commits, 2,500 emails, and  
100 telecons JSON-LD is now an official @W3C standard
<http://twitter.com/markuslanthaler/status/423834613765931008>



2) Net Neutrality & Open Web
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* Wired: The Feds Lost on Net Neutrality, But Won Control of the Internet,  
17 January 2014
<http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/one-talking-comes-net-neutrality/>

* The New York Times: Rebuffing F.C.C. in ‘Net Neutrality’ Case, Court  
Allows Streaming Deals, 14 January 2014
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/technology/appeals-court-rejects-fcc-rules-on-internet-service-providers.html?_r=0>

* latimes.com: Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your  
overlords, 14 January 2014
<http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-net-neutrality-20140114,0,522106.story>



3) W3C in the Press (or blogs):
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10 articles this week. A selection follows.

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


    Web steps closer to baking-in support for NFC payments and data swapping
    ZDNet.de (17 January)
    http://www.zdnet.com/web-steps-closer-to-baking-in-support-for-nfc-payments-and-data-swapping-7000025297/


    JSON-LD is an official Web Standard
    semanticweb.com (16 January)
    http://semanticweb.com/j-son-ld-official-web-standard_b41441


    HTML5: Myths and misconceptions
    SD Times (13 January)
    http://sdt.bz/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=67571&page=1


    App Monetization To Get Tougher Still, With Gartner Predicting 94.5% Of  
Downloads Will Be Free By 2017
    TechCrunch (13 January)
    http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/making-apps-pay-gets-harder/


    Hollywood Needs The Internet More Than The Internet Needs Hollywood...  
So Why Is The W3C Pretending Otherwise?
    TechDirt (13 January)
    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140110/17234225840/hollywood-needs-internet-more-than-internet-needs-hollywood-so-why-is-w3c-pretending-otherwise.shtml


    Two decades on, we must preserve the internet as a tool of democracy
    The Guardian (12 January)
    http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/12/web-tool-democracy-tim-berners-lee




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

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