I've been thinking some more on the past, present and future of documents. I don't know exactly where this post will end up, but I think this will help me clarify some of my own thoughts. First, I think technology has clouded our thinking and … [Continue reading] about Document as Activity versus Document as Record
Announcing OpenLibreOffice
2014-04-01 The Internet The Apache OpenOffice project and The Document Foundation are pleased to announce that an agreement has been made to combine resources and jointly develop a next-generation open source office suite, to be called … [Continue reading] about Announcing OpenLibreOffice
ODF 1.2 Submitted to ISO
Last Wednesday, March 26th, on Document Freedom Day, OASIS submitted Open Document Format 1.2 standard to the ISO/IEC JTC1 Secretariat for transposition to an International Standard under the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) procedure. If … [Continue reading] about ODF 1.2 Submitted to ISO
The Words Democrats and Republicans Use
It came to me after listening to the State of the Union Address: Can we tell whether a speech was from a Democrat or a Republican President, purely based on metrics related to the words used? It makes sense that we could. After all, we can … [Continue reading] about The Words Democrats and Republicans Use
First Move Advantage in Chess
The Elo Rating System Competitive chess players, at the amateur club level all the way through the top grandmasters, receive ratings based on their performance in games. The ratings formula in use since 1960 is based on a model first proposed by … [Continue reading] about First Move Advantage in Chess