RSS Spec Moves to Berkman, Advisory Board Formed UserLand has transferred ownership of its RSS 2.0 spec to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. The spec is now licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike license. An advisory board was formed to support and advocate RSS. Its initial members are Dave Winer, Jon Udell, and Brent Simmons. Dan Gillmor: RSS Moves a Step Forward. Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:21:08 GMT

User-Centered URL Design Jesse James Garrett on human-friendly URLs: “The advent of content management systems has been a boon in many ways, but the readability of URLs is not one of them.” Of course, it’s important to point out that some CMSes do allow one to use human-readable URLs. In fact, I’d be willing to state Brent’s Law of CMS URLs: the more expensive the CMS, the crappier the URLs. Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:54:13 GMT

Five site-accessibility tips to help comply with Section 508 Builder.com presents some tips for complying with the U.S. government’s web accessibility law. Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:31:01 GMT

Scalability’s New Meaning evolt.org: “The funny thing was that many developers were finding that their applications were able to support greater demand than expected. So much more than expected, that managers were becoming less worried about the scalability of their applications and more worried about the scalability of their development teams. What caused this apparent change in attitude? A law that has governed the computer industry since its inception caused this change.” Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:44:25 GMT