http://saraewood.com/2009/05/06/data-nerdery/ so, now what? Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:35:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://saraewood.com/2009/05/06/data-nerdery/comment-page-1/#comment-23126 Michael E. Driscoll Fri, 15 May 2009 22:47:55 +0000 http://saraewood.com/?p=283#comment-23126 Transparency is wonderful, but it's not a panacea. Publishing content is hard, and publishing data -- that is, documenting it, removing artifacts, and putting it in a usable form -- is even harder. The costs of publishing data have got to be recouped, and there have go to be market incentives that push this process. Google's vision of the world giving freely publishing its data is good for Google, but bad for providers. Transparency is wonderful, but it’s not a panacea. Publishing content is hard, and publishing data — that is, documenting it, removing artifacts, and putting it in a usable form — is even harder. The costs of publishing data have got to be recouped, and there have go to be market incentives that push this process. Google’s vision of the world giving freely publishing its data is good for Google, but bad for providers.

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