I remember some time in 2002 or 2003 sitting in a Director-general's office at Industry Canada - wincing in pain from a badly sprained ankle, the victim of uneven Ottawa sidewalks - and outlining how the Government of Canada should employ RSS to leverage reporting and statistical operations. Somewhere some RSS advoctae made the case to someone because now we have this, from Tim Bray: "the key reporting data be available in a syndication feed, and I quote: 'preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS'. I can't think of anything to add." Aaron Swartz details the feed contents. Now - why can't Industry Canada do this: have every company in Canada have an XML (RSS or Atom) document available for public harvesting, so we can have instant statistics, staffing, contact information, and the rest in a format that at all levels can use?
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