RIAA, Web Payments, pervasive surveillance, Net Neutrality, CSV, HTTPS

This is the 13 -19 April 2015 edition of the "weekly digest  of news and trends" that the W3C Communications Team prepares for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived [1]) 

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

1) W3C, Web and HTML5 related Twitter trends
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[What was tweeted frequently, caught my attention, etc. - Most *recent* first ]

17 April 2015
@sideshowbarker
If you ever wondered what @w3c chairs do(or should do)here’s an example of a very good chair—@hillbrad—doing it well https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2015Apr/0148.htmlhttps://twitter.com/sideshowbarker/status/588987451261124608

* 16 April 2015 
@w3c  #W3Cmember Recording Industry Association of America joined W3C http://dlvr.it/9Qfd0W
https://twitter.com/w3c/status/588813695699980288
(this tweet earned 19,977 impressions)

* 16 April 2015
@w3c  First Public Working Draft: Web Payments Use Cases 1.0 http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4616https://twitter.com/w3c/status/588726762609213440
(this tweet earned  13,177 impressions)

* 15 April 2015
@w3c  W3C @w3c Apr 15 We strongly oppose pervasive surveillance, and are very concerned by France's intelligence bill. w3.org/blog/2014/02/s… #NiPigeonsNiEspions
https://twitter.com/w3c/status/588372724805951488
(this tweet earned 128,831 impressions and is the top W3C tweet with 948 Retweets)

14 April 2015
@w3c #W3Cmember Alfasado, Inc. joined W3C http://dlvr.it/9PDd3V
(this tweet earned 14,145 impressions)

April 14th: 
@leoniewatson: RT @stevefaulkner: ARIA in HTML W3C First Public Working Draft 14 April 2015 http://t.co/s82BgTjvL3web developer rules for use of ARIA att…
https://twitter.com/stevefaulkner/status/588048872225820674
(this tweet had 181 interactions)

2) Other news: (open web and net neutrality)
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* What is Net Neutrality?
19 April 2015
Microfinance Monitor
http://www.microfinancemonitor.com/2015/04/19/what-is-net-neutrality/


*  Shots fired in new Web war
19 April
The Hill
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/239302-shots-fired-in-new-web-war


* There are good reasons to be anti-net neutrality – but you need to really trust telecom companies
19 April 2015
Scroll.in
http://scroll.in/article/721352/There-are-good-reasons-to-be-anti-net-neutrality-–-but-you-need-to-really-trust-telecom-companies


* Net Neutrality - The voice of freedom: Is the long ruled principle of online freedom here to stay, or will it be rejected..?
19 April 2015
Blasting News
by Vint Cerf
http://uk.blastingnews.com/tech/2015/04/net-neutrality-the-voice-of-freedom-00354189.html


*  'Clearing the misconceptions around Airtel Zero': CEO Gopal Vittal's email to customers
18 April 2015
Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Clearing-the-misconceptions-around-Airtel-Zero-CEO-Gopal-Vittals-email-to-customers/articleshow/46970513.cms



3) W3C in the Press (or blogs)
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6 articles 
[Most recent first. Find keywords on our Press clippings page: http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles ]

*  Microsoft’s New Spartan Browser Will Not Enable ‘Do Not Track’ By Default
18 April 2015
http://www.worldtvpc.com/blog/microsofts-new-spartan-browser-will-not-enable-do-not-track-by-default/


*  E-commerce companies are quickly shutting down websites. Where is mobile web heading?
18 April 2015
Yourstory.com
http://yourstory.com/2015/04/future-of-mobile-web/


*  CSV on the Web: Seeking comments and implementations
16 April 2015
W3C Blog
http://www.w3.org/blog/data/2015/04/16/csv-on-the-web-seeking-comments-and-implementations/


*  Sites et applications de banques pour les déficients visuels et les handicapés moteurs (Sites and banking applications for the visually impaired and physically disabled)
15 April 2015
Banque en ligne 
http://www.banqueenligne.eu/actualite/sites-et-applications-de-banques-pour-les-deficients-visuels-et-les-handicapes-moteurs


*   On HTML belts and ARIA braces (The Default Implicit ARIA semantics they didn’t want you to know about)
14 April 2015
HTML5 Doctor 
http://html5doctor.com/on-html-belts-and-aria-braces/


*   Want fancy Firefox features? Secure your website
14 April 2015
CNET
http://www.cnet.com/news/want-fancy-firefox-features-better-secure-your-website/



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Amy van der Hiel
World Wide Web Consortium
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32 Vassar Street, G532
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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amy@w3.org

Received on Monday, 20 April 2015 18:18:37 UTC