(data) medium is the message

After a week spent wondering why some RDF people seem intent on
colonizing XML while some relational database people seem intent on
blasting it as a false god, I've posted a piece that takes a brief look
at different options for representing, storing, and processing
information - and come to the odd conclusion that they're all useful, if
very different and not necessarily combinable.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3139

What we do here is a lot more than "just data".

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org