Avinash Kaushik (aka, My Analytics Hero) has a great post today on The “Action Dashboard” (An Alternative To Crappy Dashboards). In his typically tangible, engaging way, Avinash has mounted one of my all-time favorite soapboxes — it is a grand misconception to see “using data” as primarily an exercise of capturing data and then making that data accessible.
I recently came across a great article on The Future of RSS by Alek Iskold http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_rss.php. Alek discusses the possibility of adding more items to the standard RSS format in order to deliver a lot more information. Comments to his blog range from “I hope it happens to RSS” to “RSS was never intended for this level of information.”
