"Looking forward to the new column, Jon. Welcome back to the "punditocracy"...*wink*. I was actually just getting ready to email you...have you seen/been following scraperwiki.com? Some interesting tools in this same sort of "personal cloud" space, specializing in getting data out of non-machine readable formats (poor web layouts, PDFs, etc.), into databases, and providing visualization capabilities. Looked like something you'd be interested in." - Ken Kennedy