This week at W3C: W3C TAG Nominations, successful 2013 #html5j conference, TimBL at #UNRightsAt20, etc.

This is the 29 November - 6 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.]

• (17) Event: W3C Office in Italy holds a LOD event in Rome on 20-21 February 2014
• (10) internetacademy.jp: Press release: Japanese version of the W3CDevCampus HTML5 training to start 8-Dec
• (27) Election: W3C TAG nominations
• (15) W3C News: W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring
• (3.2K) Conference: 2000 attended the HTML5 Conference 2013 (#html5j) near Tokyo on 30 November. (Last year’s conference attracted 1000 persons.)
• (1)Photo: close-up of W3C Stickers, Japan (possibly at #html5j?)
• (35) Web Standards: W3C blue beanie logo for the 7th annual Blue Beanie Day, in support of Web standards

Open Web & Internet

• United Nations: TimBL gave the opening remarks about building a World Wide Human Rights Web at the United Nations’ Human Rights Day 2013 #UNRightsAt20
• World Wide Web Foundation: Announcing the Web We Want
• Web We Want: Celebrating the free, open, universal Web by “Drafting an Internet Users Bill of Rights for every country, proposing it to governments and kickstarting the change we need”

W3C in the Press (or blogs)

7 articles in the past week. A selection follows.

• HTML Goodies (4 December), Real World HTML5 Hybrid Apps
• The Guardian (3 December), Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines the web
• ReadWrite (2 December), Why The HTML5 Vs. Native Debate Obscures The Real Challenges Of Mobility
• strong>Access iQ (29 November), W3C Web Accessibility Initiative: 2013 in review