It's not an obsession, I wrote it because I needed something like this for my current work. I know there are quite of bunch of javascript frameworks out there, but the ones I looked at where either too huge or clunky, or didn't fit my needs.
My intention was merely to share it with the community and propose the base for a hopefully collaborative project.
I have the sense that information is content, and that data is content in a specific form.
I think the difference is plain if you think about file formats. I would be inclined to say that .wav and .mp3 versions of the same audio recording consist of very different data, but carry very similar information (not the same because of the quality degradation inherent in compression)