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This book is the product of a research project conducted for Paul Nakazawa's course "A New Framework for Practice" at Harvard's Graduate School of Design during the Fall 2010 semester. It is a proposal for a networked model of professional design practice in the context of a globalized economy and increasingly international scope of design practices.

The HTML spec has jurisdiction only because people choose to apply it to their documents. If people choose to apply some other specification instead, or in combination, the HTML spec can't stop them. If an entirely separate group completely redefines what “HTML” means and publishes that as a rival spec, what matters is not what either spec says is permissible to do with the term “HTML”, but which spec users of HTML choose to follow.

Traduction : les gens font ce qu'ils veulent, donc les standards sont inutiles, donc le WHAT WG est inutile.

This morning newly elected Governor, Jerry Brown, released his 2011-12 Budget proposal, calling it “painful” and one that “requires sacrifice from every sector of the state, but we have no choice.”  The plan recommends a whopping $12.5 billion in cuts and $12 billion in revenue options in order to address the staggering $25 billion Budget, as well as a “vast and historic restructuring of services,” as part of the Governor’s realignment proposal.

karl dubost said at 4:32 am on December 14th, 2010:

Matthew Gertner: “I’ll concede that I have more experience with W3C standards than with those of other organizations. ”

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Matthew Gertner: “Someone at the W3C, the de facto master of all things web, decided that we needed a proper schema language for XML.”

Ah? It is usually not the way it is happening. Someone with experience of W3C knows that usually some companies being W3C members have interests in developing a market (because they need interop, because they need to sell products, because… etc.). These companies under the umbrella of W3C organize a Workshop where they gather position papers. After this Workshop, a report is written and published. If more interests, an activity proposal is drafted. This activity proposal is then sent to W3C Membership for reviews and comments. More comments, more modifications. Basically the goal is to establish if the Members have enough interests to commit resources for developing the work. WG charters are established along the same line.

XML at W3C has been pushed because companies had developed tools for handling it and thought that because invested a lot of efforts in the XML toolchain, let’s reuse pieces of it.

IMHO, the standards activities anywhere (including W3C) derail when Marketing dept/Product groups have too much impact on the specification itself. The standard is not anymore driven by the market needs, but the companies are creating the market. HTML5 starts to become known outside of the tech sphere and I think we will have surprises.

The top-down approach in a standard organization seems bit strange considering that the work is the result (usually) of a community of practice.

As for an individual or a small group is not “best” for creating technical specs, it is just easier and address the needs of this small group. So indeed it is easier to produce something which is consistent for this group, which goes faster to implement, to market, etc. That doesn’t mean the technology is better :) The bigger the committee the larger the number of issues. This is a truism. All communities are working like this.

Matthew Gertner: “I’d rather see companies get their tech out there and open it up afterward because it’s in their interest (which is usually is).”

Yes and it is what happens most of the time. That doesn’t mean it will necessary solve things. A good example has been SVG. Three “proprietary” specifications were published before the SVG work with people having things implemented in products. But the spec grew too big, with many people wanted to have their own feature, domain introduced in the specs. Standardizing means reducing diversity, and it’s sometimes take times. For SVG, Macromedia (which was bought far later by Adobe) was on the initial SVG WG… as lurkers and unfortunately not really active participants. This is another reality of standards organization.

There are many more issues. W3C (the organization) is doing a fair job at balancing the interests of everyone. There are frictions, nothing is perfect, but there has been always room for improvements. The process has always been flexible for welcoming new use cases.

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I've described above some of the reasons why WordPress is, I believe, a good candidate as the basis for an online book-publishing platform. Here is a proposal for some very rough product specs:

Versioning allows you to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Once enabled for a bucket, Amazon S3 preserves existing objects anytime you perform a PUT, POST, COPY, or DELETE operation on them. By default, GET requests will retrieve the most recently written version. Older versions of an overwritten or deleted object can be retrieved by specifying a version in the request.

Local Code : Real Estates uses geospatial analysis to identify thousands of publicly owned abandoned sites in major US cities, imagining this distributed, vacant landscape as a new urban system. Using parametric design, a landscape proposal for each site is tailored to local conditions, optimizing thermal and hydrological performance to enhance the whole city’s ecology—and relieving burdens on existing infrastructure. Local Code’s quantifiable effects on energy usage and stormwater remediation eradicate the need for more expensive, yet invisible, sewer and electrical upgrades. In addition, the project uses citizen participation to conceive a new, more public infrastructure as well —a robust network of urban greenways with tangible benefits to the health and safety of every citizen.

architects Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder “have created a virtual map to guide users around Manhattan to sites where projects they describe as ‘visionary’ were planned but never built. The map is available as an interactive iPhone application…that uses GPS technology to detect when a user is near any of the roughly 50 notable sites, triggering a feature that allows the user to learn about the proposal through the architect’s foiled designs and words.

Via Stefan, a proposal from the WSO2 gang for an approach to decentralizing media types and removing the requirement for the registration process.

Methodology

We first created three different variants based on the original microdata proposal

Google n'embauche que le top 1% des développeurs. Google embauche tous les PhD qu'ils peuvent. Et pourtant, Google nous sort des "études" qui dès la première ligne nous font penser à un sondage Opinion Ways : une problématique exposée foireuse soutenue par des questions biaisée. Google : le JC Decaux d'internet.

Les RDF Men présentent leur nouveau champion : Manu Sporny. Pour une nouvelle réécriture des Textes Sacrés : plus d'éditeurs, plus de spécialistes, plus d'accessibilité, plus de modularité, plus d'attention envers les orphelins (RDFa).

Il semble que Manu soit de très bonne famille et œcuménique par dessus ça : il est éditeur de vocabulaires RDF et microformat.

In 140 chars: Twitter Data lets people embed bits of data in their tweets so that computers can read the data and do cool stuff #twitterdata

Data Walk: Bringing Demographics to the People is a project proposal that seeks to unfurl one of the most used data sets into the real world by mapping Census data directly onto the NYC landscape.