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Joe Clark - To Hell with WCAG 2 - A List Apart
Well known for his writing on accessibility, Joe Clark slams the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0 recently announced for comment. How often does this happen to standards bodies: "The process is stacked in favour of multinationals with expense accounts who can afford to talk on the phone for two hours a week and jet to world capitals for meetings." And the result, writes Clark, is predictable: a confused, convoluted and dysfunctional set of standards. [
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Nate Anderson - Making Money Selling Music Without DRM: The Rise of eMusic - Ars Technica
Interesting article about a site that is making money selling independent music by subscription in MP3 format - with no digital rights management (DRM) at all. The major lables, of course, cannot fathom how such a business could make money, but eMusic is the number two retailer of downloadable music behind the iTunes Music Store. Also worth noting is that the company decided "to hire several distinguished music critics to serve as 'curators' for the site." This is the beginning of the newsmastering rend. As
OLDaily on May 23, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Katherine Seligman - Young and Wired - San Francisco Chronicle
More about the phenomenon of computer use among the young. Good article overall, with a good summation of the major issues. Janice Friesen
introduced this article on WWWDEV with the comment, "I think we may be raising a generation of screensuckers." Ironic, coming from the generation that was raised on televsion and the telephone. [
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Stephen Downes - Niagara Falls - Stephen's Web
As promised, photos from our visit to Niagara Falls on Friday. The Falls were much more impressive than I thought they would be, and we did the whole thing - the Maid of the Mist and the tour behind and under the Falls. Enjoy. [
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