September 1st, 2010 by Paul
A brilliant classmate at Northwestern University on his way to medical school used to break into “On the Sunny Side of the Street” every once in a while. I don’t remember exactly why, but it’s a wonderful memory.
And I’m not sure why that comes to mind now, but there’s probably a cognitive relation among the ideas I’m pondering about transparency and understanding. The hackneyed metaphor of sunlight as a disinfectant and my time at the SEC are probably related.
Ever since deciding to study journalism at NU nearly three decades ago, a big idea in my life has been Continue reading ‘On the Other Side of Transparency Street’
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’
March 6th, 2010 by Paul
New Fortune.com managing editor (and ’95 Medill grad) Daniel Roth (@danroth) gave me a chance the other day to write a guest column on transparency and financial recovery and XBRL. It’s now here.
Thanks to another Fortune.com editor, I’m reminded of a lesson Continue reading ‘My Fortune.com Piece: California Sunshine for Shadow Banking’
May 1st, 2009 by Paul
My blogging pace has slowed because I’ve been able to Tweet most urgent matters and have been spending time away from ranch work on phone calls, most of which are related to business process technology and, potentially, XBRL. This new article from Government Technology this morning just came across Twitter. It’s relevant to Continue reading ‘XBRL, the Business Process, and the New Information Era’
March 29th, 2009 by Paul
Monday’s Information Age column by Gordon Crovitz is all about XBRL. The headline is the message: “Transparency Is More Powerful Than Regulation.”
Sorry, Midnight — late breaking news has bumped you off top billing, but if it helps the economy recover, maybe we can upgrade your dog food.
March 29th, 2009 by Paul
Three walks a day are usually enough. He likes the other dogs, the horses, and the goats in the neighborhood, but doesn’t pay much attention to the camel.
March 17th, 2009 by Paul
A redeeming thing about a crisis is that it brings out good things in people. The debt crisis has delivered an onslaught of good writing made particularly visible by the coincidental and exponential development of Internet publishing. Having enjoyed the luxury of time to read some of it the past few days and having personally joined the Internet publishing world, I’m drawn to comment.
Continue reading ‘Reconciling Shirky, Noonan, Glassman, a Marine, and two Op-Eds’
