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• A Form of Madness – Dive Into HTML5
  Everybody knows about web forms, right? Make a <form>, a few <input type="text"> elements, maybe an <input type="password">, finish it off with an <input type="submit"> button, and you’re done.
• 24 ways: The Web Is Your CMS
  It is amazing what you can do these days with the services offered on the web.
• Using HTML Symbol Entities
  Have you seen the snowman ☃ symbol before? If not, continue on this post to find more surprises.
• Gibberish rock song written by Italian composer to sound like English – Boing Boing
  People, you won't believe how stupid italians are: this discussion became the most important news on italian tv today! They are talking about it in every channel, reporting that the guy who runs this site said that Celentano has invented rap (and this a completely fake report, since just some of the folks here wrote that thing about rap in the comments).
• The brains behind: Internet Archaeology – .net magazine
  GeoCities may be dead and gone, but Ryder Ripps, director and founder of the Internet Archaeology project, explains how he’s keeping the memories alive.
• Exploding the myths of web design – .net magazine
  Everyone knows it, so it must be true, right? Wrong! Craig Grannell talks to industry figures to uncover some major misconceptions in web design and development.

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• Microsoft-Ue, la guerra è finita Ora il browser si potrà scegliere – Tecnologia – Repubblica.it
  Si è chiuso il lungo braccio di ferro tra l'Antitrust europeo e il colosso di sotware americano. Che evita una supermulta. Cosa cambia per gli utenti europei di Windows
• 24 ways: Going Nuts with CSS Transitions
  I’m going to show you how CSS 3 transforms and WebKit transitions can add zing to the way you present images on your site.
• Old News: News Sites
  In an industry that is trying to figure out how to handle itself online, maybe the axiom of less being more really does apply.
• Mockingbird
  Create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
• Welcome to Pictory – Pictory
  Your besto photo stories.

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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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• Stop designing websites, start designing posters « Boagworld
  A new generation of websites are emerging that look less like websites and more like posters. They are easy to use, visually engaging and most of all different.
• Which is more useful? Google’s links or the actual home page? – (37signals)
  It’s interesting how many of Google’s expanded listings have become even more useful than the home page behind the link.
• The Information Architecture of Behavior Change Websites
  The information architecture (IA)—the structure of website information—is an important but often overlooked factor to consider when adapting behavioral strategies developed in office-based settings for Web delivery.
• Sequel Pro
  MySQL database management app for Mac OS X.
• The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
  Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated] | Personal Democracy Forum
  WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal.
• White House Now Uses Drupal | drupal.org
  White House Now Uses Same Open Source Platform CampaignFoundations.com Uses to Host your Campaign Website.
• 51 Web Apps for Web Designers and Developers – Web.AppStorm
  Web design and development has significantly changed over the years, as have the tools and technologies involved. With these advancements come tools to make our lives easier, provide higher quality work and better services for our clients.
• A top down look at the CannyBill redesign | For A Beautiful Web
  With the first phase of the CannyBill redesign process drawing to a close, I would like to say a huge thank-you to the CannyBill team for encouraging a public, open design process and to everyone who has commented and tweeted their helpful suggestions.
• The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing | cxpartners
  Why we don’t worry about the fold.

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