Putting Data Online At Last

Catching up in Google Reader gives me a couple stories that are basically... all about the online database. The capability of doing an online database only showed up 13 years ago, I continually wonder what takes things so long....

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3215463/ -- NC State Medical Board votes to put malpractice records online.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/337459820/ -- NPR releases an API with access to stories from 1995 on

http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FMitAdvertisingLabFutureOfAdvertisingAndAdvertisingTechnology?hl=en -- Instant price matching with your phone (this is the third positive use for my impending Blackberry I can think of--- after "help, Google Maps, I'm lost" and 24-7 wikipedia.)

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/ -- watch Wal-Mart spread across the nation