The government has released the long-expected data.gov catalog of public datasets. Not a ton on there yet, but it’s a good place to watch and a potentially-invaluable resource in the future. I prefer Ali’s conceptual mockups to their design, but with the exception of the overuse of boldface text, it looks decent.

Now if only they’d stop with the use of the word “raw” (in quotes on the site too). It’s all over the place, visually distracting, and annoying. It’s like they wanted to be hip, but some bureaucrat decided it needed to be obviously figurative. Lame.