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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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• 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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• Font Squirrel
  Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
• css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
  The Nerw Road to Enlightenment.
• Design View / Andy Rutledge – How Well Do You Understand Design?
  In order to help spark a bit of interest in fundamentals and/or inspiration for readers (I hope) I’ve put together a little multiple-choice quiz to help test your understanding of design.
• mezzoblue § Isolation
  You probably experience this on a regular basis: a client sends you an illustration or a logo they’d like to use in a project, but it’s a low-res bitmap or a flat image file with a background texture.
• Reinventing HTML | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
  Making standards is hard work.

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• Mike Davidson – Lessons From The Roundabout SEO Test
  The Google Vacuum Tests.
• Google SEO Test – Google Prefers Valid HTML & CSS | Hobo
  Well we’ve started to get some results in from our qualitative Google SEO Mythbuster Test #1 (Does Google Like Valid Code?) and the results we have….is yes!
• Is the link economy of UK news sites managing or making abundance? | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Nick Bilton discovered for UK Wired this month, that news sites average around 450 links on their homes pages, whereas 10 years ago they averaged just 12 links per home page.
• Perfect Pitch
  So let’s get this straight. In a discussion about perfect pitch, someone mentions the website perfectpitch.com. They don’t repost any materials from the site. They don’t even link to the site. They don’t really say anything particularly disparaging. But it all takes is for the owner of perfectpitch.com to abuse the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act with a spurious complaint and just like that, Google removes the discussion from its search index.
• Realigning For A Beautiful Web using HTML5, CSS transforms and transitions | For A Beautiful Web
  HTML5 and CSS transforms and transitions to spice up the interface.
• 10 problems your content management system will not solve and how to overcome them « Boagworld
  Content management systems are often perceived as a silver bullet that will solve all your content problems. In reality having a CMS is not enough. You must also address broader issues associated with the content of your website.

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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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• 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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• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design | CSS | Smashing Magazine
  50 fresh CSS tricks, techniques and tutorials that will help you to improve the quality of your next web design.
• QuickFlip 2
  The jQuery Flipping Plugin Made Faster and Simpler.
• Why Standards Fail – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  Design is for people.
• The Power of HTML 5 and CSS 3 • Perishable Press
  Goodbye <div> soup, hello semantic markup.
• Box-shadow, one of CSS3’s best new features – CSS3 . Info
  The CSS3 backgrounds and borders module has a nice new feature called box-shadow.

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• How openness unlocks the web’s power – at ZDNet.co.uk
  Two factors have helped make the web what it is — and their legacy still holds the key to its future, says Bruce Lawson.
• Sports Illustrated’s Slide Show – Photos – SI.com
  Diapositive e metadati.
• Microformats, Key Flaws – Jens Meiert
  I like the idea behind microformats, but I’m still not convinced of the way that idea is brought to life.
• A List Apart: Articles: Unwebbable
  It’s time we came to grips with the fact that not every “document” can be a “web page.” Some forms of writing just cannot be expressed in HTML—or they need to be bent and distorted to do so.

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