Jason, regarding the second comment… I love where the web is going, but I see far more hype than is needed. I am not seeing much clear thinking, it is there, but cool is trumping smart. This cool over smart and having money follow cool over smart is where we got into problems the last time. Investors plunking down money on features not applications or stand-alone products.This does require information to be open to some degree, but that is a tough sale. Unfortunately, it is a tough sale in government as it is in the commercial side of the world. In my experience most of the information that the government has is not structured in a manner to make it easy to use outside the organization, or more correctly outside the sub-sub-organization. There is much work on the data side of the house to make the information available in a format that could have another presentation layer applied, but then again that is the case in many instances their is more central organization in companies as they have found the economic value in that approach.What to do? Begin with structuring the information and organizing the information for use and reuse. But, this has pretty much always been the first step.All of this is in what I have been working on for nearly four years. It is what I have been presenting and parts of it made it into work the past few years, where it made sense and where it was permitted.I will be writing on this a lot more and it is what my new company is focussing on helping other organizations with, so to better connect with the people who have an interest in their information and to ease the interaction between the information/content/data provider and those who want to use it and reuse it to make better decisions or ensure they make good economic decisions for themselves.