dive into mark | Important change to the LINK tag

All you early adopters, pay attention. The LINK tag for pointing to a page's RSS feed is changing (just once, and then solidifying forever). Both the type and title attributes are changing to be more specific. The new syntax is this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="url/to/rss/file">

Cool! When Dave linked to BBC News | SCOTLAND | Online plan for Scots dictionary he mentioned me. I'd just like to point out that I'm not at all like the other person Dave linked to. Although my students might disagree - especially the ones that ae studying for, or have just sat, one of my exams ;-)

IBM Scientists Rely on the Principle of Uncertainty To Develop Web-Privacy Answers

Called Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, the research relies on the notion that one's personal data can be protected by being scrambled or randomized prior to being communicated. By applying this technique, a retailer could generate highly accurate data models without ever seeing personal information. "The beauty of this research is that retailers and other Web businesses are able to extract the valuable demographic information they need without necessarily knowing the underlying personal consumer data", said Harriet P. Pearson, IBM's Chief Privacy Officer. "I believe we'll see technological approaches such as this playing a larger role in managing the privacy issues of today and the future."

BBC News | UK | Palace pop spectacle wows Jubilee crowds

More than a million people gathered in London to listen to some of the world's greatest rock and pop legends perform at Buckingham Palace in honour of the Queen's 50 years on the throne.

I missed the first hour of the concert on TV but caught the last two hours. It certainly catered for people of my generation ;-). It was great to see so many rock legends in one place at one time. The fireworks were pretty spectacular too ;-) Thoroughly enjoyable. It made me feel proud to be British.

The World Cup Blog is quite amusing. I've been watching England vs Sweden as a background task - a 1-1 score draw. No doubt there'll be lots of soul (no pun intended) searching about England's performance - pretty dire and lacking in imagination and flair. I don't intend to say much about the World Cup on DJ as there's plenty of media coverage. Even Tennent's, the Scottish beer brewer, is getting in on the act with their http://www.notattheworldcup.com website. I do like the current set of Tennent's TV 'pintlings' ads though ;-)

From Friday's Guardian Unlimited | Netnews | Europe votes to end data privacy

European law enforcement agencies were given sweeping powers yesterday to monitor telephone, internet and email traffic in a move denounced by critics as the biggest threat to data privacy in a generation.

Music Industry Unveils Piracy-Proof Format

"We can state with absolute certainty that no computer in the world can access the data on this disc," said spokesman Brett Campbell. "We are also confident that no-one is going to be able to produce pirate copies in this format without going to a heck of a lot of trouble. This is without doubt the best anti-piracy invention the music industry has ever seen."

I've also heard it said that some audiophiles prefer the sound output from this format of disc ;-)

via vfth - Web Page Design for Designers - Editorial June 2002 - Feature - Style Sheets without Tears - 3

Andrew 'bunnie' Huang has released a PDF version of his web page exposé of the Xbox innards - Keeping Secrets in Hardware: the Microsoft XBox Case Study.