July 29th, 2009 by Paul
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, [...]
July 28th, 2009 by Paul
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The XBRL Pacific Rim Technology Workshop and Summit kicked off Tuesday afternoon with experts agreeing about the quality of the first 42 mandatory U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings and demonstrating palpable ambition for the future of free financial information. Well, mostly free.
June 17th, 2009 by Paul
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 [...]
June 7th, 2009 by Paul
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 [...]
June 4th, 2009 by Paul
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 [...]
May 19th, 2009 by Paul
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. [...]
May 5th, 2009 by Paul
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa tweeted a link this morning to this video, a compelling story of the success of education choice in the District of Columbia and the unfathomable decision to terminate it. There’s also a link to a Washington Post editorial on the Reason site,
