March 2011

Twitter Powers of Ten

March 25, 2011

Time-Based Profiling Before any of this will make sense, I ask you to imagine doing a survey of your local shopping mall or other busy commercial shopping district.  You want to know where people congregate, where they spend most of their time.  Is it in a particular shop, in the food court, or in some [...]

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OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification Approved

March 25, 2011

A few quick ODF updates.  We have a number of projects moving forward at multiple levels. First, just last week the OASIS ODF TC approved the ODF 1.2 Committee Specification.  This is the highest level of approval we can give to the specification in the technical committee. As some of you probably know, most standards [...]

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Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF Documents

March 10, 2011

In the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC we have recently started work on a new document, a “Committee Note” which will be called, “Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF Documents”. I will be the editor for this document. If you are not yet familiar with a “Committee Note”, it is a new category of [...]

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The BSA’s New Candlemakers

March 3, 2011

The Business Software Alliance  (BSA) is at it again.   They are claiming that new UK Cabinet Office policy in favor of open standards — the kind of standards that the web is built on and which has created billions in new economy jobs –  is actually a bad thing, since it would (according to the [...]

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