On behalf of my employer Valtech, I’ve written a piece on why I dislike SOAP, and favor REST. I originally wrote it in english, but the published version is in swedish.
For some REST preaching in hum-humpty-dum-dee-dum’ish go to
http://valtech.se/templates/JobSubPage.aspx?id=2582.
Update: As suggested by people more intelligent than myself, anchor tags really should have text inside them to be useful :).