Thoughts on policy, business, disclosure, and communications
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 [...]
Having tried and failed for two weeks to find time to give Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder the thoughtful consideration and worthy review it deserves after hearing author David Weinberger speak at last month’s Managing Electronic Records Conference, the recent distraction of responding to several bloggers’ misinformation and misunderstanding of [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday I blogged about a Wiki I posted to improve the public comment process for federal regulation. I seeded the Wiki with a proposal to let the market solve the short selling controversy by letting issuers or shareholders set their own rules about what investors can do with shares in their particular company. Then the [...]