Weekly digest of W3C news and trends: WWW 20 years in the Public Domain, Proposed Permissive Copyright Experiment, W3C brand Survey, etc.

This is the 26 April - 3 May 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 900 stories about W3C on Twitter in 7 days.
- over 3000 mentions of W3C in 7 days.
- With 60428 Twitter followers, net increase of 588 followers in the past  
week.
- 11 posts that dlvr.it posted between Apr 21 - Apr 28 got 28K (+16%)  
clicks and reached 69.7K (+1%) connections.
- Peaks on 30-Apr (580 mentions) for top story on DNT proposal ahead of  
the Working Group face-to-face meeting [1], and 2-May (738 mentions) for  
top story on RMS urging W3C to reject DRM in HTML5 [2].

[1]  
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/do-not-track-framework-doc-stirs-controversy-ahead-w3c-meeting-149041
[2] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/w3c-soul-at-stake


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.]


* (25) Semanticweb.com: "It’s Time To Get Formal With Linked Data”
<http://semanticweb.com/its-time-to-get-formal-with-linked-data_b36870>

* (31) W3C brand Survey:
<http://pull.erssurvey.com/W3CT>

* (569) NPR: 'The Single Most Valuable Document In The History Of The  
World Wide Web'
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/01/180255276/the-single-most-valuable-document-in-the-history-of-the-world-wide-web>

* (22) W3C Blog: Proposed Permissive Copyright Experiment in HTML Working  
Group, by Philippe Le Hégaret
<http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/05/proposed_permissive_copyright.html>

* (221) TechCrunch: OpenStreetMap Makes It Easier To Suggest Corrections,  
New HTML5-Based Editor Coming Later This Year
<http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/29/openstreetmap-makes-it-easier-to-suggest-corrections-new-html5-based-editor-coming-later-this-year/>

* (50) HTML differences from HTML4
<http://html-differences.whatwg.org/>

* (46) Adweek: Do Not Track Framework Doc Stirs Controversy Ahead of W3C  
Meeting
<http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/do-not-track-framework-doc-stirs-controversy-ahead-w3c-meeting-149041>

* (354) The Guardian Apps blog: Financial Times: 'There is no drawback to  
working in HTML5'
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/appsblog/2013/apr/29/financial-times-html5-no-drawbacks>

* (37) Reminder that 10 years later, W3C required that *ALL* Web standards  
be Royalty-Free: W3C Director's Decision on Patent Policy
<http://www.w3.org/2003/05/12-director-patent-decision-public.html>

* (18) CERN: 10 Years Public Domain
Public Domain document of 30 April 1993: Page 2 and signatures.
<http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Declaration/Page2.html>


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

24 articles. Highlights:
  * 20 years ago, CERN gave WWW to the world (articles in English, German,  
French)
  * DRM in HTML5 (articles in English, French, German)
  * DNT

A selection follows.

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


    FSF campaigns against standardisation of DRM
    ITWire.com (3 May)
    http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/59699-fsf-campaigns-against-standardisation-of-drm


    'The Single Most Valuable Document In The History Of The World Wide Web'
    NPR (2 May)
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/01/180255276/the-single-most-valuable-document-in-the-history-of-the-world-wide-web


    It’s Time To Get Formal With Linked Data
    Semanticweb.com (2 May)
    http://semanticweb.com/its-time-to-get-formal-with-linked-data_b36870


    The W3C's Soul at Stake
    Free Software Foundation (2 May)
    https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/w3c-soul-at-stake


    Hot in web standards: March/April 2013
    .net magazine (1 May)
    http://www.netmagazine.com/features/hot-web-standards-marchapril-2013


    First standard for provenance of information on the Web published
    University of Southampton | Electronics and Computer Science (1 May)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/4231


    First-ever Web site is brought back to life
    CNET (30 April)
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57582117-235/first-ever-web-site-is-brought-back-to-life/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title


    Der Anfang des Internets vor 20 Jahren war zäh (The beginning of the  
Internet 20 years ago was tough)
    Die Welt (30 April)
    http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article115740189/Der-Anfang-des-Internets-vor-20-Jahren-war-zaeh.html


    Do Not Track Framework Doc Stirs Controversy Ahead of W3C Meeting
    Adweek (30 April)
    http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/do-not-track-framework-doc-stirs-controversy-ahead-w3c-meeting-149041


    Financial Times: 'There is no drawback to working in HTML5'
    The Guardian Apps Blog (29 April)
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/appsblog/2013/apr/29/financial-times-html5-no-drawbacks


    OpenStreetMap Makes It Easier To Suggest Corrections, New HTML5-Based  
Editor Coming Later This Year
    TechCrunch (29 April)
    http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/29/openstreetmap-makes-it-easier-to-suggest-corrections-new-html5-based-editor-coming-later-this-year/


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

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