Goodbye Helicopter pretty much wrote the way I feel about the lack of insight (or interest) given by many organizations to data formats and the idea of data exchange. I think a lot about data exchange, sorry thats just me. Not sure what my favourite part of the article was thought. It could have been…

“…personally disgusted and turned off by schools and government agencies that provide the most current information in a downloadable PDF or Word format only! All this means is that their technology implementation and employee skills are crap.”

That pretty much hit the nail on the head for me. I know there are hr and budget constraints and so on, and so on. Would the technology advocate in these places please stand up.

A close second was the line…

“Use stinking XML for what it was designed for.”

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You should really read the intact article. No really… you can find it here.