How the Herald could make that list of state employees actually usable

The Herald today posted a list of a whole ton of state employees and how much each makes. A list nearly 4,000 pages long.

Guys: Good step, but really, a 4,000-page list is way too unwieldy to be of any practical use to anyone. Your URLs (like this) suggest you've put them in some sort of database (but please tell me it's not just Access running on Windows XP; that would just make me cry). If you really want to make the thing interesting, give people the ability to sort it and search it. That's what databases are for, after all (also: it would be nice to make sure you have the bandwidth and server capacity to support something like this before you go live with it).

Actually, what databases are also for is finding the relationships between things. So why not get a data dump of the state's campaign-donation database and match it up with the employee records? The possibilities are endless.