We watched a video today from TED (Technology Entertainment Design) that was of Ted Berners-Lee talking about the “New Web”.  He is the person that started the World Wide Web writing code as a side project.  He said that the Web needs more data and explained the difference between Information and Data.  Information is like your name, where you live, and your eye color, but Data is like a hyperlink on where you live that will take you to another page to learn about where you live which will take you to another page that talks about the economy in your area and so forth.  He said that Government Data will be on the Internet as linked data soon.  Also explained that everyone puts data on the Internet all of the time and doesn’t even realize it.  Everytime you link anything on Facebook or MySpace you are contributing Data to the Internet.  Every aspect of our lives is linked data.