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Drowning in Data

February 9, 2009

Bob Congdon writes on something we’re all living through — the decline “hard media” (paper, LP’s, even CD’s, etc.) and the prevalence of digital media.

From a green perspective, getting rid of all of this hard media is a good thing. Why print out documents when you can read them on your computer? Why should publishers [...]

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Here are my obligatory New Year’s Resolutions. These are my personal ones, what I’m doing for myself. I’ll also have a set of professional resolutions, what we at IBM call “Personal Business Commitments” or PBC’s. I still need to develop those for 2009.

Exercise at least 30-minutes every day. Unlike every other [...]

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The biggest media launch of all time?

September 27, 2007

The news from all directions is that Halo 3 had a big day, with “first day” sales of $170 million, which actually includes advance sales as well. Let’s take the report from the XBox.com web site as the canonical version of the tale:
Microsoft today announced that Halo® 3 has officially become the biggest entertainment [...]

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The most recognized tune of all time

August 10, 2007

Simple question. What tune would you say is the most recognized tune? If we limited ourselves to the United States and the present day, the answer might be “Happy Birthday.”
What if we included all time and all nations? “Happy Birthday” goes back to only 1893. Some tunes are much older, [...]

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The World Ends on May 1st, 2010

February 13, 2007

Actually, at 6:45AM by my calculations.
According to ZDNet’s Dan Farber, quoting an IBM whitepaper, by 2010, “the world’s information base will be doubling in size every 11 hours.”
Every 11 hours? That’s quite a statement. Let’s see what this means. The largest storage system in the universe is the universe. (Let that [...]

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Adobe to Standardize PDF

January 29, 2007

According to the press release, it sounds like Adobe will submit their PDF 1.7 specification to AIIM, where it will be reviewed and refined before submission to ISO, likely to TC 171 . AIIM, if the name isn’t familiar to you, is the Association for Information and Image Management. They have been [...]

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Proposal for an Open Document Developers Kit (ODDK)

September 21, 2006

As mentioned in a previous post, OASIS and the ODF Adoption TC have set up a web site at http://opendocument.xml.org to act as central resource and repository for ODF information, as well as to be a focal point for the ODF Community to discuss items of importance.
I’ve just contributed my first item there, an essay/proposal [...]

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The 96.97 percent problem

August 21, 2006

The press release puts out numbers of awesome import. We finally have the answers we seek, the science of web analytics and super-duper tools has laid all doubts to rest:
Amsterdam – August 14 2006 – OneStat.com, the number one provider of real-time intelligence web analytics, today reported that Microsoft’s Windows dominates the operating system market [...]

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Math You Can’t Use

August 6, 2006

Summary: In this post I will look at MathML, a web standard for displaying mathematical equations. I will show how well established it is on the web, how it is integrated into ODF, and how Microsoft has decided to go off in another direction with OMML, another “stealth” standard hidden in their 4,000 page Office [...]

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Add-in finitum

July 26, 2006

In this post, I will take another look at the Microsoft ODF Add-in debate, suggest some criteria for use in evaluating file format integration, and use those criteria to evaluate both Office 2007’s support for the ODF formats, and OpenOffice’s support for Microsoft’s formats.
My examination of the ODF Add-in for Word (here and here) has [...]

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