BBC News: Local spending survey blocked by government
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 12:33
"The BBC's attempts to collate this spending data largely avoided some obstacles placed in the way of alternative research being carried out by other media. … Local Government Chronicle (LGC) was pursuing a similar survey. But it appears to…
Telegraph: Secrets put on internet in Whitehall blunders
Monday, 18 April 2011, 10:19
Haven't we heard all this before? Amazing this still happens: "Some officials use a software programme such as Photoshop to paste a black patch over secret text, obscuring it but not removing it. When documents are edited in this way, normal …
ReadWRiteWeb: Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut
Friday, 1 April 2011, 16:16
"Today the Sunlight Foundation and Federal News Radio reported that the public projects Data.gov, USASpending.gov, Apps.gov/now, IT Dashboard and paymentaccuracy.gov as well as a number of internal government sites including Performance.gov, FedSp…
New York Times: Patterns of Speech: 75 Years of the State of the Union Addresses
Wednesday, 26 January 2011, 11:39
Very nice graphic charting key words and phrases used in Presidential State of the Union addresses since 1934. Technically clever too. All Javascript and Raphaël. Not a Flash file in sight.
The Dan Slee Blog: Open Floodgates: What publishing Whitehall data means for local government
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:58
"What's next? … Historical data will be released … More public agencies will follow … There will be a right to data … Open data will move from spending into crime… "
Journalism.co.uk: Rise in political blogging results in more government press officers
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 07:28
"Sir Gus O'Donnell, cabinet secretary and head of the Home Civil Service, today defended an increase in the number of press officers in government and said the increase was a response to the 1,600 political bloggers in the UK."
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 22:13
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"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…"
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 11:07
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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."
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 19:52
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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."
Thursday, 25 October 2007, 17:55
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"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"
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 08:36
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"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."
Monday, 30 July 2007, 15:44
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"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."
Friday, 27 July 2007, 17:12
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Council uses blog for up-to-date flood relief news…
Monday, 2 July 2007, 18:45
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"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."
