This week at W3C: Data Activity launched, HTML 5.1 Nightly's Crocoduck, MDN redesigned, etc.

This is the 6-13 December 2013 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends" 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.]

• (23) Spec: Last Call: XSLT 3.0
• (48) semanticweb.com: W3C’s Semantic Web Activity Folds Into New Data Activity
• (10) W3C Tweet: W3C Names Two New Leads for work on Technology and Society; Information and Knowledge
• (16)HTML 5.1 Nightly: section 4.7.1.1.13 shows a crocoduck. [This resurfaced this week but had been resolved last May. See related next item]
• (28) Bugzilla: Bug 21941 – Spaghetti Monster reference is provocative, Heydon Pickering
• (198) TheNextWeb: Dailymotion Acquires Jilion for Video Skills, New Web Player Incoming
• (16) W3C News: Fourth W3C Web and TV Workshop: Web and TV Convergence
• (50) GenBetaDev: Eventos para desarrolladores Diciembre 2013: Droidcon, WordCamp, W3C, Richard Stallman y muchos más (Developer Events December 2013: Droidcon, WordCamp, W3C, Richard Stallman and many more)
• (14) W3C News: W3C Workshop on Web Payments: How do you want to pay?

Open Web & Internet

• Mozilla/MDN: The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face, posted 9 December 2013
• South China Morning Post: Anne Jellema says a freer, more accessible internet can serve China in many ways, not least by making it more competitive and innovative, the key to achieving its 'Chinese Dream', posted 9 December 2013
• CNN feature: Tim Berners-Lee weighs in on the tide of censorship and surveillance on the internet, posted 23 November 2013

W3C in the Press (or blogs)

2 articles this week:

• The Next Web (10 December), Dailymotion acquires Jilion for HTML5 and SublimeVideo skills, new Web player on the way
• Semanticweb.com (10 December), W3C’s Semantic Web Activity Folds Into New Data Activity