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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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