Colour Me Impressed

This may well all have been reported elsewhere, but today I noticed that The Scotsman is now directly linking to other sites from within its stories (see this one for an example), meaning you can go and read exactly what generic “reports” are being referred to from the story.

Even better than that, I also discovered that not only has the Scottish Executive website been completely revamped in full XHTML wondrousness, but they also now support RSS for their recent publications. And all with a sensible URI naming scheme as well (although there are still numbers used when you actually get down to the documents themselves, but I guess that’s ok). Sadly, the Scottish Parliament are lagging a bit, but I assume they’ll catch up at some point.

Hats off to whoever is responsible for getting all this fancy work done! If only our companies could follow similar principles…

Update: There’s also RSS feeds for the latest press releases, and also for press releases by topic.