Thoughts on policy, business, disclosure, and communications
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 [...]
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 [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The day 3 agenda of the XBRL Pacific Rim Technology Workshop and Summit was simple – approaches to tagging and “rendering” XBRL, data consistency, putting tagged data into databases, and something about “impact investing.” But it generated complex questions: • How can technologists help millions of data users get the different [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Day 2 of the XBRL Pacific Rim Technology Workshop and Summit included calls for business and government to use open business standards to disclose information about spending, pollution, and important business changes. Representatives from DTCC and SWIFT, the consortia responsible for technology to support securities and cash transactions around the world, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]