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In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so (or actually have a life), then you’ll have noticed that the cabinet office have started to release a big load of open data to a select few developers to have a play.
Much of this data is still in very ‘flat’ formats [...]

Well, it looks like I’m going to break a record, two blog posts in one week, aren’t you lucky people? Well, this blog post, as the title suggests, is about last night’s data mashups and APIs event in Brum, hosted by the Birmingham Social Media Cafe peeps at the lovely and awesome and oh-mi-god-i-wish-i-worked-there Fazeley [...]

Recently causing a stir in the online government world has been the new Lancashire County Council homepage. Basically, it rejects the old school (or should that be ‘old skool’?) facets of council homepages, and replaces them with a few links, and a search box. Most of the screen real estate seems to be taken up [...]

It seems that these days you can’t move for negative press coverage of Twitter, newspapers love to paint it as a haven of banality where people can reveal every detail of their pointless existence (of course, when columnists do it, it’s different somehow). They seem to thrive on sneering [...]