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• Ipertesto e postmoderno nella letteratura statunitense – Treccani Portale
  Ti arrivano addosso quattro miliardi di bit, il novantanove per cento merda, e selezionare è un'impresa impossibile.
• Best Buy and RDFa
  “In his talk at the Search Engine Strategies 2009 conference in Chicago, Jay Myers, Lead Web Development Engineer for Best Buy, Co., Inc., reported very surprising effects of adding GoodRelations and RDFa to their products pages:
• Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users.
• Letteratura e informatica – Treccani Portale
  In una prospettiva in cui si allarga vistosamente lo spettro della 'comunicazione', nel mentre si assottiglia la 'conoscenza' non solo mutano lavori e saperi tradizionali: di nuovi ne sorgono, nuove competenze sono richieste e divengono necessarie, e dunque val la pena di interrogarsi se ci troviamo davvero dinanzi a una svolta epocale, a una mutazione interna, tipologica dell'equilibrio fra scrittura e lettura che ha funzionato fin qui.
• Gearing up for 2012 International AIDS Conference | The White House
• The Web Standards Mafia
  I may refer to the WaSP people as a group, but in reality they were more like the Mafia with the mission to end bad browser support.

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• "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
  For the longest time, we have focused on sites of information as a destination, of accessing information as a process, of producing information as a task. What happens when all of this changes?
• Daring Fireball: The OS Opportunity
  There are massive business markets where Windows remains essential. But the Web is a bigger platform than Windows. The Web is universal. Every computer is on the Web. The Web provides us with a core set of software and APIs that work everywhere.
• Obama Team Challenges Web Developers — Open Source — InformationWeek
  The White House is planning to make increasing use of RDFa, a way of tagging metadata to content that could make hard-to-find data more searchable. "We have a lot of primary source content and have it exposed in ways that traditionally hasn't been done by government," Cole said. "Instead of just having PDFs that are scanned, we're trying to reverse that trend."
• A Design Apart: Q&A with Jeffrey Zeldman | Sparksheet
  Content informs design; design without content is decoration.
• An Entirely Other Day: Birdhouse for Your Soul
  That small obituary — hosted on some cheesy advertising circular’s Web site, last modified in January 2001 — has sat out there, patiently waiting for someone to need it.
• Typekit
  Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.

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• Typography on the Web: Questions for Jeffrey Zeldman—Part 1
  The difficulty has to do with the fear of piracy. Thus, while modern versions of Safari, Firefox, and Opera all support @font-face embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts, Microsoft's Internet Explorer only supports @font-face embedding of Embedded OpenType (.EOT), a format that embeds fonts on the page but obscures them so they cannot be pirated.
• A List Apart: Articles: Real Web Type in Real Web Context
  Now that browsers support real fonts in web pages and we can license complete typefaces for such use, let’s move past the hype of web type and think pragmatically about how to use real fonts in our web projects.
• Nice Web Type – Where to get web fonts
  Let’s revisit WOFF, talk about EULAs, and list some places to find typefaces that are legal for use with the CSS @font-face property, including type delivery services, free font libraries, and curated lists of fonts available for web linking.
• Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
  By supporting semantic web standards, Yahoo! Search and site owners can bring a far richer and more useful search experience to consumers.
• XML.com: The Web is Ruined and I Ruined it
  Some people say I've ruined the Web, and to them it's true.

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• The Berlin Wall, 20 years gone – The Big Picture – Boston.com
  Twenty years ago, on the night of November 9, 1989, following weeks of pro-democracy protests, East German authorities suddenly opened their border to West Germany.
• Una morte "percepita" – Treccani Portale
  A essere in pericolo non è il congiuntivo, bensì il dovere del dubbio, la capacità di parlare in termini di possibilità e non di sole (e improbabili) certezze, la credibilità di una classe dirigente abituata da almeno quindici anni a vendere slogan al futuro (faremo, costruiremo, approveremo) e non speranze al congiuntivo (che si possa, che si riesca, che funzioni).
• Se li azzecca pure Homer Simpson… – Treccani Portale
  Da decenni, con geometrica regolarità, commentatori più o meno autorevoli tessono, contemporaneamente, l’elogio e il necrologio del congiuntivo, esaltandone le qualità raffinate e constatandone, contemporaneamente, il decesso o l’irreversibile agonia, in particolare nell’italiano parlato.
• Peachpit: The Future of Web Standards
  A Mother Lode of Inventions.
• “Web 2.0 Will Change Everything!” But How? « UK Web Focus
  If Web 2.0 changes everything, why that doesn’t apply as much to professional bodies and universities as it does to high street bookshops?

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• 5 Simple, But Useful CSS Properties
  Old CSS2 properties such as: clip, min-height, white-space, cursor, and display that are widely supported by all browsers.
• Condannati a una mediazione – Tecnologia – Repubblica.it
  La guerra è cominciata, violentissima, non inattesa.
• Ddl Finanziaria, riforma approvata ma il governo va sotto due volte – economia – Repubblica.it
• Structured Meaning in HTML5 | ClearType Press – Building a Better Government Web
  In this post, we examine Microformats that provide real-world design principles, RDFa which enables extensible vocabularies and the new Microdata features of HTML5. All three seek to combine machine-readable data with human-readable content.
• Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]

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• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Help us make the web better: An update on Rich Snippets
  If you have review or people/social networking content on your site, it's easier than ever to mark up your content using microformats or RDFa so that Google can better understand it to generate useful Rich Snippets.
• Detecting HTML5 Features – Dive Into HTML5
  HTML5 is not one big thing; it is a collection of individual features.
• Drupal Moves Into the White House – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
  The fact of the matter is that Drupal seems to be doing just fine with or without government support.
• jQuery for Designers – Tutorials and screencasts
  Learn how easy it is to apply web interaction using jQuery.
• A List Apart: Articles: Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason)
  The formation of strategy isn’t one of the most popular aspects of web development, but it should be.
• Shorewalker.com – Why Mr Web Design changed direction
  David Siegel doesn't really design Web sites any more. These days he advises companies on Web strategy.

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• MediaPost Publications Report: Top Keyword Price Nears $100 Per Click 10/15/2009
  The highest-priced keyword in the United States last month sold on Google for $99.44 per click, according to the AdGooroo Search Engine Advertising Update: Q309.
• CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 « Smashing Magazine
  One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8.
• Panatta e le magliette rosse "Così sfidai il dittatore Pinochet" – la storia – Repubblica.it
  L'impresa della Davis del 1976 ora diventa un film di Mimmo Calopresti.
• W3C Semantic Web Activity News – HTML+RDFa First Draft Published
  The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML+RDFa.
• The Coming HTML 5 Train Wreck | XML Today
  We'll be back to the days of the late HTML 3 spec, where web designers despaired of having their web pages act even remotely consistently between browsers, where coders will continue to learn bad habits that not only create more headaches for other coders but also contribute to the overall cost of products, will have web browsers on the desktop that are increasingly out of step with their XML-compliant counterparts in mobile devides.

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• Bruce Lawson’s personal site  : This millenium in HTML 5 (politics)
  OK, so it’s not quite a millenium but the flame wars, bitch fests on the mailing list make it feel that way.
• HTML 5: The Markup Language
  This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents.
• Google inimitabile brevetto sul sito – Tecnologia – Repubblica.it
  Per la prima volta il design di un'homepage viene vincolato a copyright. Il colosso dei motori di ricerca afferma così un primato e crea un precedente.
• 20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples
  JavaScript allows you to add interactivity and feedback, making the user’s experience better and more intuitive.
• Concept Feedback | Free Concept Reviews for Marketers, Designers and Developers
  Getting ready to launch a brand new concept? Would you like to know what other professionals think before you release it to the world?

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• Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » See More SearchMonkey in Your Search Results
  Want a little more SearchMonkey in your Yahoo! search results? Starting today, more enhanced results for product, local, entertainment, reference, social, and tech sites will appear automatically in your results, putting more information and answers right at your fingertips.
• Copyediting: Man vs. Machine – (37signals)
  Lesson learned: Don’t be so quick to dismiss the old in favor of the new just because the new seems like it should be better.
• Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces
  Typedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces.
• Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky
  For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question.
• Loving HTML5 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  Some friends and I gathered at Happy Cog’s New York studio to hash out the pros and cons of HTML5 from the perspective of semantic-markup-oriented web designers.

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• Benlog » Real-world usage sometimes includes things you don’t like
  If HTML5 fails to specify how to include RDFa markup, then the HTML Working Group has failed to capture real-world usage.
• Taming Advanced CSS Selectors | CSS | Smashing Magazine
  Despite the fact that we are all well aware of its usefulness, CSS selectors are still not used to their full potential and we sometimes have the tendency to litter our HTML with excessive and unnecessary classes and ids, divs and spans.
• Adactio: Journal—The HTML5 Equilibrium
  HTML5 is a strange character with what appears to be a split personality. Hardly surprising then that something so divided would appear to be so divisive.
• Plugins That Make WordPress Into A Company Intranet | StylizedWeb.com
  With these assortments of plug-ins we can use our favorite open source software to improve our businesses, efficiency and offer more solutions to our clients.
• ALA 289: Redesign yourself – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  The hardest redesigns are the ones you do for yourself.
• Text Rotation with CSS
  Thankfully, many of the popular browsers of today support the ability to rotate HTML elements.
• Nice Web Type – Pure CSS text gradient (no PNGs)
  Folks, grab a copy of Safari 4.

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