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Consider This…

Reflections on Life, Standards and Everything

The study of standards has a reputation for being, how to say tactfully, not exactly riveting. Or, as Monty Python's John Cleese might pronounce it: "Dreadfully dull — dry as dust and thoroughly drab and awful, really". The purpose of this section of ConsortiumInfo.org is to convince you that the study of standards, as they are used everywhere in the world around us, can be interesting as well as necessary. And sometimes, perhaps entertaining as well.

Consider This Archive

2010

2010 Consider This Entries
Date Number Entry
January 2010 62 The New Yorker Story (J.D. Salinger, R.I.P)

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2009

2009 Consider This Entries
Date Number Entry
October 2009 61 Jazz, Jazz Standards, and Open Source
October 2009 60 The Constantine Code and the Missing Standard!
June 2009 59 Digitization and the (Vanishing) Arts of the Book
April 2009 58 Googling to Newspaper Solvency
February 2009 57 Killing the Cockroach: The Incredibly Illogical,
Fundamentally Odious — but Seemingly Ineradicable
— Billable Hour

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2008

2008 Consider This Entries
Date Number Entry
December 2008 56 Standards of Patient Care
October 2008 55 All Politics are Tribal:
The Myth of "One Citizen, One Vote"
April 2008 54 All Standards are Created Equal
(but some are more equal than others)
February 2008 53 Steve Jobs' Endangered Second Act

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2007

2007 Consider This Entries
Date Number Entry
December 2007 52 How to Challenge a Virtual Brontosaurus
October 2007 51 On Guilt or Innocence, and the Space Between
August 2007 50 Standards, Virtual Worlds and The Big Question
May 2007 49 Walking Among Great Trees: A Meditation on Heritage
April 2007 48 The Slippery (and Colorful) Business of Standards
March 2007 47 Standards and Innovation (and Standards Degradation)
March 2007 46 Language Codes and a "Philosophy of Three-Part Service"
January 2007 45 Product Evolution and Standards "Swarms"

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2006

2006 Consider This Entries
Date Number Entry
November 2006 44 A Level Playing Field
October 2006 43 The Wikipedia and the Death of Archaeology
September 2006 42 Sovereignty, World Trade and Human Rights
July 2006 41 Live'n the WiFi LifeStyle: the iPod Bows to the Router
June 2006 40 Microsoft, Adobe and What's Wrong With RAND
May 2006 39 Thinking About Standards Inside of the Box
April 2006 38 The Minnesota Open Formats Bill: Bandwagon or Babel?
March 2006 37 Where (if anywhere) are the Boundaries of the Open Source Concept?
January 2006 36 Body Type Standards, Crash Test Dummies, and Sleeping with Big Agnes

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2005

2005 Consider This Entries
Date Number Entry
December 2005 35 Objectivity and my Secret Life as Simon Hoggart
November 2005 34 The way ain't far, but you can't get there from here
October 2005 33 Tell the Government What You Think About the Future of the Internet
September 2005 32 Clay Tablets, iPods and Evo/Devolution
August 2005 31 How do you Define a Wilderness?
July 2005 30 Standards Relativity and the Return of the Shuttle
June 2005 29 For Your Reference
May 2005 28 All Social Standards are Local (or are they?)
April 2005 27 Social Standards, School Violence and Taboos: In respect of Red Lake
March 2005 26 Creation 3.0
February 2005 25 How strict a standard? In Praise of the Hammond B-3 Organ
January 2005 24 Two Canyons

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2004

2004 Consider This Entries
Date Number Entry
December 2004 23 Railroads, Standards, Lock In and Conventions
November 2004 22 This One's for You, Albert
October 2004 21 Soy Sauce, Kimchi, and the Golden Rule
September 2004 20 Predictability and Standards Denial
August 2004 19 A Standard for the Ages
July 2004 18 Standards, the Constitution and (Im)Mutability
June 2004 17 Avoiding a New Dark Age
May 2004 16 RMBS and (Another) Dark Side of the Internet
April 2004 15 Is Iraq "Another Vietnam?"
March 2004 14 Dan Mullen, Andrew Jackson and the Dark Side of the Internet
March 2004 13 The Knowledge of the Spheres
January 2004 12 I have the virus du Jour (you know, the whatchamacallit)
January 2004 11 From Postal Runners to Email
January 2004 10 Round Three: The Judge Gives it to Eolas:

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2003

2003 Consider This Entries
Date Number Entry
December 2003 9 Betamax and the Blu-ray Group: Will History Repeat Itself?
December 2003 8 Standards, New Frontiers and ROI.
November 2003 7 A Second Chance for Self-Regulation.
November 2003 6 What a Difference a Decade Makes (or does it?)
November 2003 5 If XML be the standard of music, code on.
October 2003 4 Savoring the Unicode.
October 2003 3 Standards, Similes, Pancakes and Kansas.
October 2003 2 Alpha Predators and Cyber Insecurity
October 2003 1 A What Blog?

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