"The UK has one of the planet’s more granular postcoding systems, with each of the nation’s 1.8m individual postcodes covering on average 15 houses. In IT terms, that’s a remarkably accurate piece of geocoding data…"

David Miliband: "In accordance with the Information Tribunal’s decision of 22 January 2008, I have today released what has been described as John Williams’ draft of the September 2002 Iraq weapons of mass destruction dossier."

Simon Dickson: "I haven’t yet seen official confirmation, but I’m reliably informed that Tom Watson is the new minister for e-government, post-reshuffle. … Tom Watson was famously the first MP to start a blog, back in 2003."

"Gordon Brown’s invitation to the Daily Mail editor to investigate access to government documents shows once again that the prime minister keeps his friends close and his enemies closer"

"What became ‘brand Madeleine’ arose from a combination of brilliant media-handling skills and, for the first time, interactive websites telling editors how much the public craved such a story."

"Some 70% of central government departments do not check that data has been wiped from IT equipment they are disposing of, exposing them to potential security breaches, a ­report released yesterday by the National Audit Office has found."

Council uses blog for up-to-date flood relief news…

"In her first despatch box appearance in the role, Harriet Harman told MPs on Monday that she and Gordon Brown believe that ministers must make major statements in the Commons before briefing details to the media."

Mashups and wiki-based "political reporting resources like Congresspedia, are increasingly giving ordinary citizens the ability to easily document the flow of special-interest money and how it influences the legislature."