May 18th, 2010 by Paul
UPDATE: CROP Walk web donations are closed but you can designate gifts (or make general donations) via the DonateNow or JustGive buttons on the RUMC home page.
First, go to the Ramona United Methodist Church CROP Hunger Walk page. Donate a few dollars. A half dozen of the folks with whom I go to church and I are participating in this event; with a few mouse clicks so can you. You’ll get more satisfaction than from anything else you could do on the Internet right now.
Second, if you’re interested in how technology like that page might help make things better for more people, go to the Texas Review of Law and Politics (TROLP) table of contents for the most recent issue and read the third article, Continue reading ‘Technology, Social Justice, and Making Things Better’
October 9th, 2009 by Paul
Dealbook on the New York Times for the past several days has published a series of articles on the financial crisis and the way forward. It’s a modern media approach to exploring and perhaps developing economic policy.
Say what you will about Web 2.0 and its effect on traditional media. If the Gray Lady can accelerate progress toward better functioning markets by building on its historic place as “the newspaper of record” (should it be “the news source of record” in the 21st century?), more power to it. By opening its content to a wider variety of voices, it might even mitigate the problem it created for itself over the past several decades of being criticized for bias.
As you can see in the right column on my home page, I link to my aggregated comments in several fora. Continue reading ‘A Set of Economic Comments’
May 19th, 2009 by Paul
CHICAGO—Introducing myself to participants at the 16th National Conference on Managing Electronic Records Conference the past two days, I explained my recent work not as managing electronic records per se, but as helping to mandate their use – specifically the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language by public companies, mutual funds, and credit rating agencies.
Most MER Conference speakers and some participants have heard of XML-based XBRL standards. Not surprisingly, participants understand intuitively how bad electronic records practices contributed to the credit crisis by making it difficult to subject information about asset-backed securities to market scrutiny.
Notwithstanding commiseration on the sidelines about ASCII-based non-standard and unstructured “disclosure” and how credit rating agencies exploited Continue reading ‘The Search for Killer Apps in the Knowledge Capital Economy and XBRL World’
