Crowd Sourced Legislative Tracking for Crowd Sourced XBRL Disclosure
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...
View ArticleXBRL: New Structure and Price of Information Focus of Day 1
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...
View ArticleXBRL Summit Day 3 – Eternal Business Questions Even XBRL Can’t Answer
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...
View ArticleStandards Question: NIEM is to XBRL as United States Customary Units are to...
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...
View ArticleA Set of Economic Comments
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...
View ArticleGoogle, SAP, and Salesforce.com Could Save Credit Markets and Journalism
Saturday’s Barron’s had a pithy review of Ken Aulettta’s Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.To sum it up, reviewer Mark Veverka says, “Google’s science exposes the inefficiency of traditional...
View ArticleXBRL, Journalism, Lawyering, Business, Charlie Hoffman, and the Semanitc Web
Charlie Hoffman just made the most enlightening post I’ve read in a long time. It’s no accident that the best journalism is the most direct: subject, verb, object. Similarly, clarity is essential to...
View ArticleWords for 2010
If you’re not one of the 41,697 who have read this on Scribd or among those who have read it elsewhere, take a look. Among my favorites are facts, sleep, attention, and thnx. What Matters Now
View ArticleWhat if Some of this Waste Had Instead Gone to Passenger Intelligence IT?
We taped this story at the intelligence facility responsible for passenger manifest information. Given the focus of attention on the use of intelligence about passengers in recent days, the choice of...
View ArticleCommented on “A VC”
The Dragon App for the iPhone works pretty well too — it seems faster and almost as accurate as V10 of the full program on my PC, although as someone who was trained to write on a keyboard, I’m more...
View ArticleDavos Mistakes about Securitization
I watched a C-SPAN replay tonight of a Jan. 29 panel at Davos in which five industry leaders pontificate about the future of the world. This was after tonight’s 60 Minutes lead report on the exclusive...
View ArticleLocal Investing Can Build Global Markets
I’ve been the strongest possible advocate for global free trade ever since my Soviet Economic Institutions professor diverged from the syllabus to draw Ricardo’s theory on the board and prove...
View ArticleMy Fortune.com Piece: California Sunshine for Shadow Banking
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....
View ArticleOn the Other Side of Transparency Street
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...
View ArticleRep. Gingrich: Text of Special Order on “Freedom’s Future: The Free World and...
Given the conversation among Elliott Abrams, @RichLowry, Jeffrey Lord, and others about the March 21, 1986, House special order speech by Rep. Newt Gingrich, I figured I’d read the speech. I posted it...
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