This is terrible, but I was cleaning out my bookmarks today and came across blist, so I clicked on it. Then I remembered the cute little list-based app. Chicken recipes, cleaning techniques, and so forth. Blist came up and -- they've gone professional! Gone is the little dorm-room logo and identity. They've upgraded, up-named and upclassed, and now they're filled with very applicable government information lists (and of course a list of Bernie Madoff's bilkees.)
Personally, I'd like to be able to view their data architecture from the top level. How about a template for that? One that you could customize, so that you could use terms that you wanted or a structure you preferred.
Hmmn. Actually, why doesn't someone just create an information front end, period. Wouldn't that be nice? You could have your own custom view of life and applicable data.
Blist -- excuse me - Socrata is nice, but for those of use up to our necks in data, the "search for it if you want it" approach might just be too hard. I look forward to seeing what they'll do next.