Just back from sunny Florida. When we left Palm Beach Gardens on Thursday it was 84 degrees and blue skies. It was a bit cooler when we got to Palm Coast and St. Augustine Beach. There was construction everywhere — condos, homes, malls, highways, and infrastructure. Seems like a "bubble" is a legitimate concern.
The sky was blue in Connecticut today too but the temperature was only in the high twenties. The Widder electric gloves and vest kept me warm for a short twelve-mile motorcycle ride. The wind chill made it well below freezing.
There is a lot of conference activity coming up in the next few months. I am looking forward to all of it but have a lot of preparation to get ready for the three panels I will be moderating — one at SIIA and two at Demo. Stay tuned for more about them.
Word (no pun intended) is that Massachusetts is hanging tough with their decision to require the OpenDocument Format. It is shaping up to be a battle of Microsoft versus the people. It is not about Office and it is not about open source. It is about the ownership of documents — do they belong to the person who created the document or do they belong to the application which created the document? That is the issue.
Opera Software continues to innovate in Web browser technologies. This past week they announced a partnership with Industria, a leading broadband communication solutions provider and IPTV systems integrator in Iceland. This is the tip of the "iceberg" that will accelerate the move toward the use of open Web technology in Television — the word is already starting to sound old-fashioned.
Many more things in the blog queue to write about. Stay tuned.