Random Entries I Could Have Written
October 6, 2003
I have been very busy with some client work recently, so the blog has lagged behind some thinking I have been doing. Among the topics that I have been considering lately:
- There is a growth in the number of tools for converting content in and out of XML. I got an update from Rizwan Virk at Cambridge Docs. I liked their xDoc Converter when I reviewed it earlier this year for eContent magazine. They have since expanded on a product line that they bill as an “XML Document Backbone.”
- I keep thinking that Digital Rights Management has a place in the homeland security mix. I am sure that I am not the only person that has thoughts about this, and I know the security agencies are beginning to use it. To me, the real power of DRM in a security apparatus is not in protecting content from access; rather, it is in the ability of DRM technology to let people freely access it while keeping track of how it is being used.
- I was playing with the MovableType editing interface on my Palm wireless (I use a Treo 270). The forms worked great. The challenge is the text entry and editing itself. I am now using a combination of the micro-keyboard and graffiti, but it is less than efficient.
- I have been looking at Adobe forms as part of a potential project. I have never been more than a practical user of Acrobat, and have typically favored XML-based approaches to content and document management. But forms are a different thing. Design is intrinsic to forms. Isn’t it?
Bill Trippe
btrippe@nmpub.com
Posted by Bill Trippe at October 6, 2003 4:55 PM
