Sun’s Erwin Tenhumberg fights some FUD about ODF and in passing provides a link that is worth a few more words. It appears that Science, the journal of the America Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), itself the largest scientific society in the world, has updated its authoring guidelines to include advice for Office […]
Archives for April 2007
Sometimes I need to remind myself
Tim Anderson has an interesting article up on his ITWriting blog, “Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on the XML document debate”. Of course, I treat anything Jean Paoli says on XML with such attention as I usually reserve for listening to the isorhythmic motets of Philippe de Vitry. Like de Vitry, Paoli can be understood on several […]
The Case for a Single Document Format: Part III
This is Part III of a four-part post. In Part I we surveyed of a number of different problem domains, some that resulted in a single standard, some that resulted in multiple standards. In Part II, we described the forces that tend to unify or divide standards and showed in particular how network effects can […]
The first harvest of the season
Spring is here. In the last two weeks I’ve seen the snowdrops and the crocuses bloom. Spring is here. But don’t look outside. Forgot the newly-fallen snow. This is New England. Late snow fall is unwelcome, though not unusual. But in no case will it stop the season’s first harvest. Harvest?! What can one harvest […]