I have been looking for a lightweight spreadsheet software, as Excel isn’t in universal yet and is nearly as slow as NeoOffice to start up. Often, I only need some basic spreadsheet functionality like summing a bunch of numbers, etc. and then it isn’t worth the effort opening one of the mastodont programs.
So I have been looking for something similar to TextEdit in the spreadsheet world. Strangely enough, the only program I have found so far is BC Spreadsheet. It is freeware, which is great of course, and does the basics. The only thing I don’t like about it is that it saves to its own format, and it can only eport csv-files. It would have been nice if it could have been saving to an open office (or even xls) file.
Google Docs.
On one hand, you have to be ok with Google having your docs somewhere in the sky. On the other hand, Google is keeping your docs in the sky.
I too was going to suggest Google Docs… Since you are ultimately publishing your data it may not matter that ‘Google is watching’