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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: simon-wardley</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/simon-wardley.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-04-19T16:26:28+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Quoting Simon Wardley</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/19/bits/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-04-19T16:26:28+00:00</published><updated>2008-04-19T16:26:28+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/19/bits/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://blog.gardeviance.org/2008/04/more-from-less.html"&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've become increasingly convinced that what CEOs should be crying out for is not more innovation but fewer self-imposed obstacles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://blog.gardeviance.org/2008/04/more-from-less.html"&gt;Simon Wardley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/innovation"&gt;innovation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/simon-wardley"&gt;simon-wardley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="innovation"/><category term="simon-wardley"/></entry><entry><title>Quoting Simon Wardley</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/5/bits/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-10-05T23:38:20+00:00</published><updated>2007-10-05T23:38:20+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/5/bits/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://swardley.blogspot.com/2007/10/with-thanks.html"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, everyone knows that patration means "the freedom and portability to move from one service provider to another without hinderance or boundaries"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://swardley.blogspot.com/2007/10/with-thanks.html"&gt;Simon Wardley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/coinage"&gt;coinage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/patration"&gt;patration&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/simon-wardley"&gt;simon-wardley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="coinage"/><category term="patration"/><category term="simon-wardley"/></entry><entry><title>How much is that standard in the window, the one with the lovely tale?</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/3/bits/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-09-03T16:49:12+00:00</published><updated>2007-09-03T16:49:12+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/3/bits/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://swardley.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-much-is-that-standard-in-window-one.html"&gt;How much is that standard in the window, the one with the lovely tale?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
“The real loser in this could be ISO’s reputation itself.” Simon Wardley summarises the embarrassing shenanigans surrounding ISO’s rubber stamping of Microsoft’s OOXML.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iso"&gt;iso&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft"&gt;microsoft&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/office"&gt;office&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ooxml"&gt;ooxml&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/simon-wardley"&gt;simon-wardley&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/standards"&gt;standards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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