The XBRL showcase on the XBRL International website has a lot of interesting and useful information about individual projects around the world. click on any of them and the detials, especially the project overview sections are revealing of numerous issues that were faced and how they are overcome.
See: http://www.xbrl.org/ProjectDetails/

The slides and presentions for the recent meeting of XBRL US in San Jose on Jan 17 - 19 are now available on the XBRL US website. The URl is: Welcome to XBRL

The IASC foundation has a page of demos outlining the use of XBRL. Many are in flash or video format and provide an excellent tool for teaching or demonstraqting the use of XBRL. Use of IFRS & XBRL

There's a pretty good chance that the SEC's EDGAR system is going to be modified to accomodate XBRL. Maybe that will help to convince companies that the SEC is serious, and wants to have its future filings in XBRL format. Wall Street & Technology : Is EDGAR Headed for XBRL?

The chairman of the SEC, Christopher Cox, recently gave a speech at the meeting of XBRL-US, in which he reaffirmed the commitment of the SEC to the implementation of "interactive data" in the form of XBRL. He sees an early benefit being the streamlining of the reporting around mutual funds. SEC Speech: Videotaped Remarks XBRL Conference, San Jose, California, January 18, 2006 (Chairman Christopher Cox)

The SEC, in an important announcement, has announced that it is going to offer incentives for companies to participate in its voluntary program for filing in XBRL. The SEC has been very much behind promoting the use of XBRL for filing purposes, in order to streamline its processing capabilities. However, the numbers of companies participating so far has been quite small. This move is intended to encourage more filings. Recently, the SEC also urged software companies to improve their XBRL related products to make it easier for companies to generate XBRL documents. SEC Offers Incentives for Companies to File Financial Reports with Interactive Data; Press Release 2006-7; January 11, 2006

Dr Saeed Roohani of Bryant University has published a listing of articles published about XBRL from 2000 to May 11, 2005. It contains 750 articles and is an amazing resource for researchers and for those interested in XBRL. The list is at http://bryant2.bryant.edu/~xbrl/XBRL_Articles.pdf

A summary of the recent conference held by XBRL Canada on enhancing Business Reporting has been filed on the Canadian XBRL site as follows: Welcome to XBRL Canada