Thoughts on policy, business, disclosure, and communications
The Dragon App for the iPhone works pretty well too — it seems faster and almost as accurate as V10 of the full program on my PC, although as someone who was trained to write on a keyboard, I’m more comfortable typing — even though I think my writing may sometimes be better when it’s dictated first and then manually edited. Continue reading ‘Commented on “A VC”’
We taped this story at the intelligence facility responsible for passenger manifest information. Given the focus of attention on the use of intelligence about passengers in recent days, the choice of location seems all too prescient. The reason we chose the location was to illustrate the point of the story: the homeland security budget process was broken and needed to be fixed. Continue reading ‘What if Some of this Waste Had Instead Gone to Passenger Intelligence IT?’
If you’re not one of the 41,697 who have read this on Scribd or among those who have read it elsewhere, take a look. Among my favorites are facts, sleep, attention, and thnx.
Charlie Hoffman just made the most enlightening post I’ve read in a long time. It’s no accident that the best journalism is Continue reading ‘XBRL, Journalism, Lawyering, Business, Charlie Hoffman, and the Semanitc Web’
Saturday’s Barron’s had a pithy review of Ken Aulettta’s Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.
In other words, as went record labels and travel agents, so goes my first chosen profession, journalism. The inefficiency of Continue reading ‘Google, SAP, and Salesforce.com Could Save Credit Markets and Journalism’
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’
True or false?
NIEM is to XBRL as United States customary units are to the Metric System.
The good news is people are working to make sure we don’t need to care. Diane Mueller links to that work from her latest thoughtful piece on the state of transparency. There are alternatives to linking to show authenticity — Continue reading ‘Standards Question: NIEM is to XBRL as United States Customary Units are to the Metric System?’