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[document changing rapidly] WHATWG is a growing community of browser vendors (Apple, Mozilla, Opera), web developers.. interested in dev of next generation of HTML - specifically to allow authors to write and deploy applications over the Web

sad tale beginning '..brand-new oh-so-1997 website of the Department of Trade and Industry, built by Fresh 01 and Fujitsu for a cost of £200,000, yet fails to meet a reasonable level of accessibility, even though it is clearly required in the specificati

links to 2.7MB PDF doc + 6 sept docs for sections: Data and information creation| Preservation and curation| Search and navigation| Virtual research communities| Networks, compute and data storage| AAA (authent'n/authoris'n/account'g), middleware & DRM

really has to be seen to be believed

THE LIST: fast, arbitrary node-matching API | better error reporting | mutable DOM prototypes | bring IE event system in line with the W3C event model | CSS: implement generated content | fixing CSS bugs | various form control fixes | ...

nice resource for brave non-techie web authors.. 'The Embedded HTML Media Generator is provided AS-IS. No warranty is implied or extended with respect to its accuracy or utility. Feedback is welcome, but we will only be able to respond to questions from U

ahh... our mate Fiona's grandmother Sofka in a new book by cousin Sofka.. Sofka Zinovieff's grandmother, a Russian princess turned card-carrying communist, led an extraordinary life - the consequences of which are still being felt down the generations

'We learn through our interactions with others and the world, he says, and there’s no more perfect medium for enabling this than an increasingly open and organized World Wide Web.

'Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word processor documents in two different formats.

over a quarter of online Americans - 28% - had tagged content such as a photo, news story or blog.. for users of social networking sites it is just an obvious tool to navigate around the sites they visit.

'Teresa Burgess studied a longlasting listserv community of nurses and found 8 critical components; shared purpose, trust, guidelines, humor, flexibility, accessibility, expert facilitation, and storytelling. All of these seem important but there is littl

'This 99 page document overviews a Delphi study in which Zarb engaged 12 virtual communities ‘experts’ to get a collaborative sense of their sense of the factors that promote and constrain participation in virtual communities of practice (VCOP).

"We are learning in and through our interactions with others while doing real things," Seely Brown said. "I'm not saying that knowledge is socially constructed, but our understanding of that knowledge is socially constructed."

(must hand-enter a username to start; shows transitive relations too).. Legend: nodes=[Green: main person | Orange: current person (last clicked) | Lightgray: unexplored people | Size: number of fans] lines=[Red: 2-way fandom | Blue,Yellow: 1-way fandom]

'Watch Your Mouth' monitors the BBC's 'Have Your Say' website and detects when comments get censored. Revisionista monitors news websites and detects when articles change.. versions are viewable and the changes are highlighted.. suggest other feeds to us.

Machine tags have a namespace, a predicate and a value. The namespace defines a class or a facet that a tag belongs to ('geo', 'flickr', etc.) The predicate is name of the property for a namespace ('latitude', 'user', etc.) The value is, well, the value.