Linked List: March 7, 2007

Wednesday, 7 March 2007

W3C Restarts HTML Effort 

The analogy that springs to mind is that the WHATWG is to the W3C as Firefox is to Microsoft Internet Explorer. You snooze, you lose. Go WHATWG.

Jackasses of the Week: ‘My iPhone’ 

How to start a new weblog about the iPhone, the jackass way:

  1. Copy James Duncan Davidson’s wonderful photograph of spectators reverently surrounding an iPhone demo unit at Macworld Expo.
  2. Crop out the watermark and publish the photo on your web site without giving any credit to Davidson whatsoever, both of which actions violate the very generous terms of the CC license Davidson released the photo under.

Update: Problem solved.

Aura of Inevitability (Or: When a Technology’s Time Has Come) 

Nice essay by Christopher Fahey on why it sometimes takes a long time for “obvious” products to appear.

Apple TV to Double as Casual Gaming Device? 

A bunch of strings in iTunes 7.1 deal with game synching to Apple TV, plus some iPod game developer blabbed to Wired last month that his company was working on games for Apple TV.