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The Battle Of Microsoft Mirrors The French Revolution: The intensely personal argument being fought in comments to my post on Microsoft's document format is the same one at the root of every major philosophical argument underlying revolution: it's the fight between radicals who want to wipe the slate clean and start over (Robespierre, the Bolsheviks) and pragmatists who...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Rob Weir, Gary Edwards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Michael Hickins; Blog posts 2009-07-15

IBM Wins Pyrrhic Format Battle Over Microsoft: By releasing a new service pack for Office that includes support for the open document format ODF, Microsoft appears to be complying with European demands that it play well with others, while putting to rest accusations by IBM that it is still trying to maintain a monopoly over document formats....; Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., Spreadsheet Interoperability, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Michael Hickins; Blog posts 2009-05-11
Alt. Newsweeklies Embracing Social Media: Tucson, AZ. Not all print publications are suffering the same degree of pain during this period of retrenchment for newspaper industry. At the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' annual convention yesterday, it became apparent that some of the smaller, community-based newspapers are proving more nimble in embracing multiple...; Tags: Web, Social Media, Channel Management, Marketing, David Weir; Blog posts 2009-06-26