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BlogsTags > StandardsDesigning resilient communitiesBy Andy OramApril 15, 2013 In the open source and free software movement, we always exalt community, and say the people coding and supporting the software are more valuable than the software itself. Few communities have planned and philosophized as much about community-building as ZeroMQ. … Four short links: 22 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 22, 2013 Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards (EFF) — W3C is there to create comprehensible, publicly-implementable standards that will guarantee interoperability, not to facilitate an explosion of new mutually-incompatible software and of sites and services that can … Four short links: 13 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 13, 2013 What Tim Berners-Lee Doesn’t Know About HTML DRM (Guardian) — Cory Doctorow lays it out straight. HTML DRM is a bad idea, no two ways. The future of the Web is the future of the world, because everything we do … Saint James Infirmary: checking the pulse of health IT at HIMSSBy Andy OramMarch 11, 2013 I spent most of the past week on my annual assessment of the progress that the field of health information technology is making toward culling the benefits offered by computers and Internet connectivity: instant access to data anywhere; a leveling … The ISBN still has a place in the digital worldBy Jenn WebbMarch 7, 2013 A recent post at The Economist declared the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) an analog relic that “increasingly hampers new, small and individual publishers,” and an industry shift toward digital is “weakening its monopoly.” The post stated: “Self-published writers are … Singin’ the Blues: visions deferred at HIMSS health IT conferenceBy Andy OramMarch 5, 2013 HIMSS, the leading health IT conference in the US, drew over 32,000 people to New Orleans this year (with another thousand or two expected to register by the end of the conference). High as this turn-out sounds, it represents a … Rich multi-media and a web of devices is driving us to a world of standardsBy Jenn WebbFebruary 28, 2013 At the recent TOC conference in New York, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeff Jaffe, CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium, to talk about the Open Web Platform and standardization issues. In our video interview (embedded … Exploring web standards for high data density visualizationsBy Nicolas Garcia BelmonteJanuary 30, 2013 Strata Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks, the Strata Community Site will be providing sneak peeks of upcoming sessions at the Strata Conference in Santa Clara. Nicolas’ sneak peek is the first in this series. Last year was a … Ebook problem areas that need standardisationBy bbjarnasonNovember 1, 2012 The “best price” phase of TOC NY 2013 registration is about to end. Don’t wait or you’ll end up paying more than you would today. To save even more on your registration, sign up here and use the discount code … Top Stories: April 30-May 4, 2012 
By Mac SlocumMay 4, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: We learned how the U.K. government is facing pressure from all sides as it evaluates open standards, Maximiliano Firtman evaluated two years' worth of mobile web developments, and the utility of functional languages was put in the spotlight. Four short links: 3 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 3, 2012 The History of Key Design (Slate) -- fascinating and educational. I loved the detector lock, which shows you how many times it has been used. Would be lovely to see on my Google account. (via Dave Pell) Why Telcos Don't Grok Open Standards (Simon Phipps) -- Their history is of participants in a market where a legally-constituted cartel of... The UK's battle for open standards
By Simon WardleyMay 2, 2012 Influence, money, a bit of drama — not things you typically associate with open standards, yet that's what the U.K. government is facing as it evaluates open options. The give and take between e-publishing standards and innovationBy Jenn WebbMarch 20, 2012 In this video interview, Bill McCoy, executive director of the IDPF, says it's important to emphasize and encourage the innovative aspects of building upon EPUB 3, as long as that innovation doesn't lock consumers in to one closed silo. The give and take between e-publishing standards and innovation March 20, 2012 In this video interview, Bill McCoy, executive director of the IDPF, says it's important to emphasize and encourage the innovative aspects of building upon EPUB 3, as long as that innovation doesn't lock consumers in to one closed silo. Permission to be horrible and other ways to generate creativityBy Suzanne AxtellMarch 1, 2012 Author and web design consultant Denise R. Jacobs reveals lessons she learned about creativity while writing her first book. She also discusses her efforts to give women and people of color more visibility in the tech world. Joaquín Almunia gets it: "Owners of ... standard essential patents are conferred a power .. that they cannot be allowed to misuse. "
By Rick JelliffeFebruary 12, 2012 I think Almunia's speech does not go far enough: it still sees standardization as an escape hatch that a company that finds itself in a market dominating position can use when challenged. Developer Week in Review: A pause to consider patents 
By James TurnerFebruary 10, 2012 We take a look at two major events that rocked the technology intellectual property wars, centered on a courtroom in Texas and a standards body a continent away. What VMware's Cloud Foundry announcement is about
By Andy OramApril 13, 2011 By now, the popular APIs for IaaS have been satisfactorily emulated so that you can move your application fairly easily from one vendor to another. But until now, the PaaS situation was much more closed. 4G is a moving target March 16, 2011 The "4G" mobile companies are touting isn't necessarily in line with the formal specification. The big question is: Do consumers really care? Four short links: 1 March 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 1, 2011 Implementing Open Standards in Open Source (Larry Rosen) -- Companies try to control specifications because they want to control software that implements those specifications. This is often incompatible with the freedom promised by open source principles that allow anyone to create and distribute copies and derivative works without restriction. This article explores ways that are available to compromise that... Four short links: 24 February 2011
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 24, 2011 Charles -- a debugging proxy that lets a developer view all HTTP and SSL traffic between their machine and the Internet. (via Andy Baio's excellent "How I Indexed The Daily) The Rise and Rise of Mobile Broadband -- the Blackberry is now the standard measure of traffic, apparently. The outcome is simple - Cisco estimates that global mobile data... An era in which to curate skills: report from Tools of Change conferenceBy Andy OramFebruary 18, 2011 Three days of intensive discussion about the current state of publishing wrapped up last night in New York City. Research and sales, authoring and curation, are all still important skills. An era in which to curate skills: report from Tools of Change conferenceBy Andy OramFebruary 18, 2011 Three days of intensive discussion about the current state of publishing wrapped up last night in New York City. Research and sales, authoring and curation, are all still important skills. An era in which to curate skills: report from Tools of Change conference
By Andy OramFebruary 18, 2011 Three days of intensive discussion about the current state of publishing wrapped up last night in New York City. Research and sales, authoring and curation, are all still important skills. An era in which to curate skills: report from Tools of Change conference
By Andy OramFebruary 18, 2011 Three days of intensive discussion about the current state of publishing wrapped up last night in New York City. Research and sales, authoring and curation, are all still important skills. ePayments Week: Does Apple deserve a bigger bite? February 17, 2011 Apple's plan to charge publishers 30% of in-app subscriptions was undercut by Google's 10% One Pass program the next day. But is Apple's service worth a premium? Plus: Giant companies mull a mobile payment standard and Bling Nation shifts its website to Facebook. Australian Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment Policy and OOXML - AGIMO boots OpenOffice but Libre Office reboots OpenOffice?
By Rick JelliffeJanuary 28, 2011 Two big stories this week: AGIMO's COE and LibreOffice. AGIMO is the Australian Government Information Management Office. They are the ones who set policies such as requiring govt web page meet the W3C's WCAG 2.0 guidelines for accessibility, or that... Developer Week in Review
By James TurnerOctober 20, 2010 This week, Microsoft loses their chief architect, Apple continues to own the news cycle, the BSA tries to put the kibosh on open standards, and a well-known language reaches a milestone. A Non-Technical Field Guide to the HTML 5 Family
By Jon ReidSeptember 29, 2010 Part Two: The Newest Family Members In my last entry, I wrote about the HTML 5 family and its history. This entry will be about the latest incarnation of the standards, some of the new features, and why they're important.... A Non-Technical Field Guide to the HTML 5 Family
By Jon ReidSeptember 14, 2010 HTML 5 is on everyone's mind these days, most notably is the Flash vs. HTML 5 debate which has garnered industry-wide attention. There's a lot of information about HTML 5 out on the web, but much of that information is technical and geared towards developers and their questions... Deliberate non-conformances in XML Schema implementations - Really, how could it be any other way?
By Rick JelliffeAugust 6, 2010 From SAXON's Michael Kay, on the XML-DEV mail list today: On interoperability, there are at least three reasons why you might get different results from different processors. One is because the specification leaves the behaviour of certain things implementation-defined (for... OpenStack offered as Rackspace's answer to calls for an open cloud
By Andy OramJuly 20, 2010 When Rackspace and NASA announced OpenStack, I thought of it as either a PR or yet another attempt to impose some pet project on the world as a standard. But it may actually a newsworthy intervention into the furiously evolving cloud industry. Land of long white cloud sees through the fog - An end to embedded software patents
By Rick JelliffeJuly 16, 2010 Dawn comes first in New Zealand! From the New Zealand governments Beehive.govt.nz website: Commerce Minister Simon Power has instructed the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) to develop guidelines to allow inventions that contain embedded software to be patented.... Three 'Internets'
By Rick JelliffeJuly 16, 2010 I am used to the idea that there is an 'internet' of people (email, blogs, twitter, social media, phones, mail) and an 'internet' of data (WWW, W3C Linked Data/RDF, wikipedia, Atom feeds, HTML, ATM machines, etc), but an EU discussion... Europe to force all 'significant market players' to provide information necessary for interoperability?
By Rick JelliffeJune 12, 2010 Three news items caught my interest this week. all slightly related: Dr. Neelie Kroes has made a significant speech How to get more interoperability in Europe on practical steps on interoperability and standards. She presents this as building on the... Australian Government procurement policy on Open Standard document formats - Open Source and Open Standards: Chicken and Egg or Apples and Oranges?
By Rick JelliffeJune 2, 2010 Over the last few years I have linked to various national government policies on Open Source software and procurement policies. But I see I omitted us in Australia. So here is what I can find, from 2005: Guide to Open... Standard Wishes May 18, 2010 After blog posts, open letters, and many comments on the "Apple vs Adobe Flash" affair, here is an extract from an interview with Adobe founders made in November 2008. But still very actual. Tim O'Reilly State of the Internet Operating System - The consumers are restless
By Rick JelliffeMay 4, 2010 I usually don't link to posts here at oreilly.com (which kindly hosts this blog), but Tim O'Reilly has a strong pair of articles out: The State of the Internet Operating System in two parts: Part 1 and Handicapping the Internet... Report from Health Information Technology in Massachusetts
By Andy OramMay 1, 2010 When politicians organize a conference, there's obviously an agenda--beyond the published program--but I suspect that it differed from the impressions left by speakers and break-out session attendees at Health Information Technology: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs, & Improving Quality. Public draft of next generation of ISO Schematron available for comment - ISO/IEC CD 19757
By Rick JelliffeApril 15, 2010 The Committee Draft (CD) of the new version of ISO Schematron is now available at the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 SC34 Website. In the JTC1 workflow, this is the version that National Bodies comment on over the next 3 months. You... Justifying Standards by Net Benefit - The shift from 'market requirements' to 'market failure'
By Rick JelliffeApril 12, 2010 Standards Australia has released their Net Benefit Guide (PDF). Net Benefit is one of the criteria they use for evaluating potential standards and standards projects. (Standards Australia is not a regulator, and its standards do not have force of law,... What should happen with OOXML/ODF after the i4i patent?
By Rick JelliffeMarch 24, 2010 Alex Brown has a recently blogged on Document Format Standards and Patents. Some points of interest: Alex expects the customXML feature should be taken out of the new OOXML Strict (the dialect of OOXML which represent what National Bodies actually... The Dynamics of Standards - Grafts, shifts and revolutions
By Rick JelliffeJanuary 26, 2010 I had missed this, but academics and practitioners of standards-development might like reminder about Egyedi and Blind's The Dynamics of Standards (it came out in 2008.) From the introduction: The key observations that most of the impact of a standard... What's going on with OAuth? 
By David RecordonJanuary 8, 2010 WRAP attempts to simplify the OAuth protocol, primarily by dropping the signatures, and replacing them with a requirement to acquire short lived tokens over SSL. It is not an even trade-off, and the new proposal has a different set of security characteristics, benefits, and shortcomings. How far can documentation go?
By Rick JelliffeNovember 24, 2009 SAMBA's Jeremy Allison has a great post Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard. What leaps out to me? First, that the method of requiring complete documentation outside a formalized QA process doesn't work real well: The... Four short links: 20 November 2009
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 20, 2009 Spokeo -- abysmal indictment of society, first prize in mankind's race to the bottom. Uncover personal photos, videos, and secrets ... GUARANTEED! Spokeo deep searches within 48 major social networks to find truly mouth-watering news about friends and coworkers. PS, anybody who gives their gmail username and password to a site that specializes in dishing dirt can only be... Open for Business - Designing Social Interfaces
By Christian CrumlishNovember 19, 2009 This is an excerpt from Designing Social Interfaces. From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users. Adam Bosworth on picking standards - Rare nerdy technical post
By Rick JelliffeNovember 11, 2009 I enjoyed Adam Bosworth's Talking to DC. But don't his points apply to most software/interface specifications, without being doctrinaire? What is the difference between his Standards work best when they are focused and, say, Agile's YAGNI?... Leaked Draft of EU Interop Framework
By Rick JelliffeNovember 11, 2009 A Dutch website has what is claimed to be a leaked late draft in English of European Interoperability Framework for European Public Services (EIF) Version 2.0 The Norwegians still get it! - Surfer dudes go with Ogg
By Rick JelliffeSeptember 28, 2009 These all seem the right way to do things: a user decides what it needs for specific uses, is pragmatic or generous about timing, and doesn't exclude any of the technical eco-systems from equal participation. I think it also represents a real challenge to the software vendors: starting 2011 they will have to compete on features, quality and support, not file format: they won't have the supposed lock-in to benefit or excuse them from providing value. 1 to 50 of 103 Next Stay Connected
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