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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Day 2 of the XBRL Pacific Rim Technology Workshop and Summit included calls for business and government to use open…

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…

In the March 30 edition of Advertising Age, Esther Dyson asks if transparency can be a business model. She makes “a proposal for a place to talk to your critics and tell the world how your products are made.” It is, like every word…

XBRL US produced a remarkable 29-page document explaining how adoption of an industry standard computer language could expedite economic recovery. The organization’s CEO, Mark Bolgiano, presented it to Congress…

There was much talk about the Great Depression on Meet the Press this morning. Since the Depression, we’ve created nuclear energy, solar energy, lunar travel, Internet technology, and a global economy, so today’s crisis needn’t resemble the Depression. In fact, there’s a great…

There’s an interesting discussion here that for the most part speaks for itself. I’ll only add that consensus is building that more useful data is required. Decisions about what to do with the data needn’t be made now, and uses will evolve over time, just as reporting of…

On Dec. 22, 2004, eight months before I arrived at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commission unanimously adopted a rule…

This morning’s Bloomberg report makes it sound like the idea of transparency is gaining salience:

The philosophy behind both the public-private partnerships and the stress tests is that the more…

Here’s the text of a letter published by the WSJ from me commenting on the excellent column by Gordon Crovitz last week:

Let’s Use Technology to Help Value Toxic Assets