Thoughts on policy, business, disclosure, and communications
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 [...]
Update: CBO has published its cost estimate for H.R. 2392. Bipartisan legislation to make XBRL the standard for disclosure to the U.S. government has been approved in committee and reported to the full House of Representatives for consideration. Here’s the widget to track it from opencongress.org: Go to the bill on the opencongress.org Web site [...]
This May 26 speech by David Cameron is a reason headlines have him winning today in the U.K. My two favorite paragraphs: In media, shopping, travel, entertainment and music we have huge choice and control, from many organisations that offer us incredible service and value. But when it comes to the things we ask from politics, government [...]
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. [...]
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
Will the Coming Political Realignment Get It Right? I received New York Law School Professor and Obama administration adviser Beth Simone Noveck’s new book, Wiki Government, Wednesday. I thought about reviewing it on my own, but then figured — hey, I just downloaded Wikipedia’s software to my own server (more accurately the space I rent [...]
“We believe that administrative governance by a professional elite is the best way to organize decision-making in the public interest.” That sums up a big chunk of contemporary conventional wisdom. It’s from the lead of a Winter 2008 article entitled “Wiki-Government,” by Professor Beth Simone Noveck in Democracy. Professor Noveck, whose book Wiki Government: How [...]