This week at W3C: CSS is 17, W3C Spain office 10-year anniversary, TimBL on mass surveillance, etc.

This is the 13-20 December 2013 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends" --the last of the year, that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media. You may tweet your demos and cool dev/design stuff to @koalie, or write me e-mail. If you have suggestions for improvement, please leave a comment.

W3C and HTML5 buzz in Twitter

[What was tweeted frequently, what caught my attention. Most recent first (popularity is flagged with a figure —number of times the same URIs or tweet was quoted/RTed.]

• (150) W3C Spain: Día del W3C en España 2013 #diaw3c13, and 10-year anniversary of W3C Spain Office
• (25) Hire: Eric Eggert is W3C newest Web Accessibility Specialist.
• (21) Funny Tweet: “Sudden realisation: “W3C” sounds like a wrestling franchise, not a standards organisation. Tim Berners-Lee in an HTML-tag-team match.”
• (77) Milestone: Happy 17th Birthday CSS, by John Allsopp
• (225) html5rocks: JavaScript Promises: There and back again, by Jake Archibald

Open Web & Internet

• World Wide Web Foundation: Signature of statement of concern on secret mass surveillance, 19 December
• The Guardian: Tim Berners-Lee leads call for more transparency over mass surveillance, 18 December