Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]
Interesting article, some of which I already knew, but puts things in context.

Giz Explains: Why Every Country Has a Different F#$%ing Plug - Worldwide electric plugs - Gizmodo
uk plugs are big and bulky, and seem to be one of the few with a built in fuse

GCSEs require little maths and science - Times Online
"The report was not publicised by the Department for Children, Schools & Families, although it had partly funded the research with the Gatsby Foundation, a charity set up by Lord Sainsbury, the former science minister. … The researchers’ job...

Xiph.org: About
Case for opensource

Announcing Living Building Challenge Version 2.0 — ILBI
For those unfamiliar with ILBI, think of it as uber-LEED: "Version 2.0 of the Living Building Challenge expands its focus to local food production, unrestricted access to nature, no gated communities and other equity issues."

SPDY: Google Wants to Speed Up the Web With New Protocol
No kidding. In a lab testing environment the new protocol (pronounced «speedy») demonstrtes up to two thirds better performance. And yes, if it ever comes to SPDY replacing HTTP, it will certainly be a migration that takes it’s share of time…

OpenSocial - It's Open. It's Social. It's up to you.
Lots of people have helped OpenSocial move the social web forward -- from huge social networking sites, to two-person startups writing social apps. Everyone works together to iterate on the OpenSocial Specification and collaborate on the OpenSocial Wiki....

A conversation with Ville Vesterinen about standards and the open social web | FactoryCity
I sat down for a conversation with Ville Vesterinen ( @vesterinen) — co-founder and editor of the ArcticStartup blog — last week while he was visiting from Helsinki. Following up on the post that Jyri Engeström and I wrote on the web at a new...

Opera: Web Standards Curriculum
"Opera has created the Web Standards Curriculum (WSC) in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network. This tutorial course takes students from complete beginner to having a solid grounding in standards-based Web design, including HTML, CSS, and...

oEmbed
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the...

EHR Firms: Go With Existing Standards
A coalition of electronic health records vendors is urging the HIT Standards Committee to focus its efforts on achieving implementation of data standards that the committee already has recommended to federal officials, rather than reopening decisions...

Beyond Social Media
Individually-empowered customers are the ultimate greenfield for business and culture. Starting with the social keeps us from working on empowering individuals natively. That most of the social action is in silos and pipes of hot and/or giant companies...

Un point sur les normes en e-learning | Si loin Si proche
La présentation de Bernard Blandin intitulée Normes pour la FOAD : où en est-on dix ans après ? est une excellente occasion de faire le point sur les normes e-learning existantes et à venir. Saviez-vous par exemple que, contrairement aux normes ISO...

Security Configuration Guides - NSA/CSS
Information Assurance at NSA

One Mobile App for Multiple Platforms Almost a Reality
As the smartphone market evolves, we are unlikely to see a clear winner as we did in the PC business; and because of that, developers will be forced to write for multiple platforms. But for the first time in a decade, developers have options for...

Normes e-learning : où en est-on dix après ?
présentation rich média de bernard Blandin

One Mobile App for Multiple Platforms Almost a Reality
Finally, it feels like the holy grail of mobile development is at hand. This problem has persisted since Microsoft released its Palm-sized PC operating system to compete with the Palm OS a decade ago: as a mobile developer, the cost of supporting...

Open Web Foundation
The Open Web Foundation is an independent non-profit dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies.