More on Open Data
So Dave Winer opened up an interesting post on the want of controlling your data. Everyone is crying out for “my data as XML” and this is only a partial requirement of open data. Not only do we need access to the data but full control of that data. As it stands my interpretation of the demand for openness, albeit simple, is like being able to see your money in the bank, manipulate it but never actually get to use it. Kinda like a glass pane in front of your money… you still can’t ultimately control it.
Along with a blog posting by Tim Berners-Lee on “the Graph”, open, controllable data is becoming more and more an issue and one we all should be concerned. This control is something that we hope we can provide by further developing our ideas here! 
Another two interesting projects of note are the attention trust and dataportability.org
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