"Structured data is so 2006. ... [L]ooking ahead, we have a new opportunity: unstructured data -- all that stuff stored in documents, speeches, interviews and our own archives. In terms of utility, moneymaking potential, and our role in shaping democracy, text is the new data. ... I have spoken with at least one large newspaper company that is laying infrastructure at the corporate level that could facilitate large-scale text-mining of news content. Whether and how they will use it, I have no idea. But the prospect is exciting." Read More...