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	<title>Martin Stabe &#187; foi</title>
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		<title>Honest John: The MoT Files: The Story Behind The Data</title>
		<link>http://good-garage-guide.honestjohn.co.uk/mot-data-the-mot-files/the-mot-files-the-story-behind-our-mot-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good case study on FoI, open data and the how cleaning data is always the first, and often most valuable, step in the data journalism process: "Following the launch of the OpenData website ... we downloaded the MoT data when it became available and set... <a href="http://good-garage-guide.honestjohn.co.uk/mot-data-the-mot-files/the-mot-files-the-story-behind-our-mot-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Good case study on FoI, open data and the how cleaning data is always the first, and often most valuable, step in the data journalism process: "Following the launch of the OpenData website ... we downloaded the MoT data when it became available and set about getting it into a format that could be easily accessed. With more than 355m records, 200m MoTs (all those since the system was computerised in 2006) and 40gb of data, this wasn't an easy task.  Like the BBC, we have also had a few problems dealing with the MoT data that's provided by the Government. Firstly, it's huge and difficult to work with. Secondly, as it's sourced from thousands of technicians - and humans make mistakes - it was littered with errors. There were plenty of cars registered in the 1800s and a few steam-powered Renault Clios to boot. We've done our best to ensure it's as clean as possible, but with such a huge data set, there may still be the odd error."]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Press Gazette: Honest John publishes details of huge UK MoT database</title>
		<link>http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&#038;storycode=49272&#038;c=1&#038;fb_source=message</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 09:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Motoring website Honest John goes live today with a huge data journalism project based on analysis of 24.5m MoT tests conducted up to 30 September 2011. ... The MoT information was released by the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) after a Fr... <a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&#038;storycode=49272&#038;c=1&#038;fb_source=message">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Motoring website Honest John goes live today with a huge data journalism project based on analysis of 24.5m MoT tests conducted up to 30 September 2011. ... The MoT information was released by the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) after a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2010/01/mot_failure_rates_released.html" title="BBC Open Secrets: MOT failure rates released">Freedom of Information battle fought by the BBC</a>."]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>David Higgerson: Remembering that FOI is about more than just getting data</title>
		<link>http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/foi-remembering-that-foi-is-about-more-than-just-getting-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Higgerson sums it up very nicely: "the difference between [Freedom of Information] and open data is that the former allows the public to set the agenda for what should be released, the latter doesn’t." <a href="http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/foi-remembering-that-foi-is-about-more-than-just-getting-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[David Higgerson sums it up very nicely: "the difference between [Freedom of Information] and open data is that the former allows the public to set the agenda for what should be released, the latter doesn’t."]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Guardian: Datablog: How the Datablog obtained and analysed over 100,000 job vacancies</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/apr/09/job-hunting-tax-credits</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Guardian obtained and cleaned the 112,179-record Jobcentre vacancies dataset used for today's splash. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/apr/09/job-hunting-tax-credits">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[How the Guardian obtained and cleaned the 112,179-record Jobcentre vacancies dataset used for today's splash.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Guardian: FoI act has &#8216;hamstrung&#8217; government</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/nov/23/freedom-of-information-act-government?newsfeed=true</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Britain's top civil servant said. Sir Gus O'Donnell told the Commons public administration select committee that [the Freedom of Information Act] had stymied full and frank discussion of options by ministers and others in government." <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/nov/23/freedom-of-information-act-government?newsfeed=true">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Britain's top civil servant said. Sir Gus O'Donnell told the Commons public administration select committee that [the Freedom of Information Act] had stymied full and frank discussion of options by ministers and others in government."]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>FT.com: Gove faces probe over private e-mails</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc4b8272-e2c4-11e0-897a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YR8XnVNA</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;As part of its inquiry, the FT saw or obtained from third parties e-mails discussing government business circulated through private accounts. It then sought disclosure of all or part of seven of them using targeted FOIA requests. The requests exp... <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc4b8272-e2c4-11e0-897a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YR8XnVNA">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;As part of its inquiry, the FT saw or obtained from third parties e-mails discussing government business circulated through private accounts. It then sought disclosure of all or part of seven of them using targeted FOIA requests. The requests explicitly asked for checks on named private accounts. In each case, the department said the information was not held.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Telegraph: Government &#8216;will take 35 years to recoup tuition fee losses&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8769269/Government-will-take-35-years-to-recoup-tuition-fee-losses.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Official estimates suggest the amount of money loaned to students will balloon to a record level by 2047 before the Treasury starts to recoup the losses from graduates. ... Estimates obtained after a Freedom of Information request show that the s... <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8769269/Government-will-take-35-years-to-recoup-tuition-fee-losses.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Official estimates suggest the amount of money loaned to students will balloon to a record level by 2047 before the Treasury starts to recoup the losses from graduates. ... Estimates obtained after a Freedom of Information request show that the size of the loans bill will grow for 35 years. This is based on the Government paying out an average fee loan of just over £7,500. &quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Belfast Telegraph: FCO red-faced over briefing blunder</title>
		<link>http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/fo-redfaced-over-briefing-blunder-16013518.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The embarrassing blunder comes just two months after the Ministry of Defence was forced into an emergency retraction of secret information about Britain&#039;s nuclear-powered submarines it posted online. Both official documents contained sensiti... <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/fo-redfaced-over-briefing-blunder-16013518.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;The embarrassing blunder comes just two months after the Ministry of Defence was forced into an emergency retraction of secret information about Britain&#039;s nuclear-powered submarines it posted online. Both official documents contained sensitive material that appeared to be blacked out but could in fact be read by anyone using a computer to copy and paste it into another file.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mail Online: Foreign Office&#8217;s leaked memo says EU chief Cathy Ashton is not up to the job</title>
		<link>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005587/Foreign-Offices-leaked-memo-says-EU-chief-Cathy-Ashton-job.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The memo on the Foreign Office website was blacked out as ‘likely to prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and other EU member states’. But the words reappeared if they were copied and pasted into another file. The memo has since bee... <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005587/Foreign-Offices-leaked-memo-says-EU-chief-Cathy-Ashton-job.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;The memo on the Foreign Office website was blacked out as ‘likely to prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and other EU member states’. But the words reappeared if they were copied and pasted into another file. The memo has since been removed.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>David Higgerson: The council which only wants one FOI request from you every 60 days</title>
		<link>http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/foi-the-council-which-likes-to-say-well-not-very-much-at-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Nottingham City Council [is] imposing its own cap on the number of FOI requests an individual can make before they are being ‘vexatious.’&#34; <a href="http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/foi-the-council-which-likes-to-say-well-not-very-much-at-all/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Nottingham City Council [is] imposing its own cap on the number of FOI requests an individual can make before they are being ‘vexatious.’&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ProPublica: A Reader’s Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails</title>
		<link>http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/a-readers-guide-to-the-sarah-palin-emails</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Alaska’s decision to provide only paper copies has been puzzling. While nothing in the state’s public records law requires the state to provide records in electronic form, public agencies are “encouraged” to “make information available ... <a href="http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/a-readers-guide-to-the-sarah-palin-emails">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Alaska’s decision to provide only paper copies has been puzzling. While nothing in the state’s public records law requires the state to provide records in electronic form, public agencies are “encouraged” to “make information available in usable electronic formats to the greatest extent feasible.” Though government agencies have fumbled on redactions in the past, software certainly exists to safely redact electronic data. ... <br />
Various news agencies have joined the scramble to sift through the documents and restore them to an electronic format.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Sunlight Labs: The Palin Emails and Redaction Technology</title>
		<link>http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2011/palin-and-redaction/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sunlightlabs/blog+(Sunlight+Labs+blog)</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Today&#039;s release of the Palin emails is prompting frustration among reporters, environmentalists and people who know how to use computers over the fact that the documents are being delivered in the form of a huge, $700+ stack of paper. ...  t... <a href="http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2011/palin-and-redaction/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sunlightlabs/blog+(Sunlight+Labs+blog)">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Today&#039;s release of the Palin emails is prompting frustration among reporters, environmentalists and people who know how to use computers over the fact that the documents are being delivered in the form of a huge, $700+ stack of paper. ...  this decision is being attributed to the difficulty of performing redaction properly within an all-digital system. ... Redaction mistakes do happen -- the brilliant Tim Lee recently released some interesting work showing how to quantify just how often -- but doing it properly isn&#039;t rocket science.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New York Times: Alaska to Release Sarah Palin’s E-Mails</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/us/10palin.html?_r=2&#038;hp</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The news media have descended here en masse to sift through the trove, with many organizations sending teams of reporters and database specialists to comb the documents and post them online. ... some news organizations are setting up elaborate sy... <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/us/10palin.html?_r=2&#038;hp">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;The news media have descended here en masse to sift through the trove, with many organizations sending teams of reporters and database specialists to comb the documents and post them online. ... some news organizations are setting up elaborate systems for scanning them and inviting the public to help search them online. MSNBC.com, ProPublica and Mother Jones magazine are working with a research company to create an online database of the documents. ... The New York Times and other news organizations intend to assemble their own searchable online databases of the documents, and some, including The Times, were asking readers Thursday to help reporters sift through the voluminous correspondence in the coming days. &quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Washington Post: The Fix:  Sarah Palin’s e-mails: What to expect</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/sarah-palins-emails-what-to-expect/2011/06/08/AGp1MyLH_blog.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Each person or organization who requested copies will get five 55-pound boxes of documents at three cents a page, or $725.97. The price is down significantly from 2008, when Palin’s office told news organizations that the e-mails could cost as ... <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/sarah-palins-emails-what-to-expect/2011/06/08/AGp1MyLH_blog.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Each person or organization who requested copies will get five 55-pound boxes of documents at three cents a page, or $725.97. The price is down significantly from 2008, when Palin’s office told news organizations that the e-mails could cost as much as $15 million. &quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Telegraph: Councils spend £100m on taxpayer-funded credit cards</title>
		<link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/council-spending/8542909/Councils-spend-100m-on-taxpayer-funded-credit-cards.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 11:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;This newspaper has obtained details of credit card spending at 186 councils across Britain using Freedom of Information laws. Over the past three years, documents show these councils have spent more than £40 million using the taxpayer-funded car... <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/council-spending/8542909/Councils-spend-100m-on-taxpayer-funded-credit-cards.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;This newspaper has obtained details of credit card spending at 186 councils across Britain using Freedom of Information laws. Over the past three years, documents show these councils have spent more than £40 million using the taxpayer-funded cards, which suggests total council spending of about £100 million at all local authorities.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>WSJ.com: WSJ Jet Tracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 10:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The Wall Street Journal filed several Freedom of Information Act requests with the Federal Aviation Administration for the entire Enhanced Traffic Management System database, which contains flight records for aircraft that flew in the U.S. under ... <a href="http://projects.wsj.com/jettracker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;The Wall Street Journal filed several Freedom of Information Act requests with the Federal Aviation Administration for the entire Enhanced Traffic Management System database, which contains flight records for aircraft that flew in the U.S. under instrument flight rules. The Journal analyzed the flight data for non-commercial jet aircraft traffic for a four-year period, 2007 through 2010. ... The Journal has included in the flights database an estimated cost to operate each flight. The estimates are based on per-hour cost figures for each model of jet, provided by Conklin &amp; de Decker Aviation Information, an industry consulting firm used by some public companies to provide aircraft-cost estimates for regulatory filings.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>BBC News: Local spending survey blocked by government</title>
		<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13365417</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 11:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The BBC&#039;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... <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13365417">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;The BBC&#039;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 have asked for what&#039;s called Revenue Account information ... DCLG instructed councils not to provide this data, on the grounds that it is intended for future publication by the Office for National Statistics.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Kent Online: Council webcasts aren&#8217;t a ratings winner</title>
		<link>http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011-1/may/5/council_webcast_figures.aspx</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 14:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Audience figures for live webcasts of meetings at County Hall show many are being watched by fewer than 100 people. ... An analysis of data released to the KM Group under the Freedom of Information Act shows 5,766 people watched committee broadca... <a href="http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011-1/may/5/council_webcast_figures.aspx">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Audience figures for live webcasts of meetings at County Hall show many are being watched by fewer than 100 people. ... An analysis of data released to the KM Group under the Freedom of Information Act shows 5,766 people watched committee broadcasts as they happened between April 2010 to March this year. ... KCC spends about £20,000 a year streaming live meetings and making them available on its website to view later.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>BBC News: Should photos of Bin Laden&#8217;s corpse be released?</title>
		<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13283363</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 08:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The possibility of a legal challenge to the White House&#039;s decision was also raised when at least two senior lawyers said a request made under the Freedom of Information Act would have a strong case.&#34; <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13283363">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;The possibility of a legal challenge to the White House&#039;s decision was also raised when at least two senior lawyers said a request made under the Freedom of Information Act would have a strong case.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Press Gazette: Northumbria Police reveals one per cent of crimes</title>
		<link>http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&#038;storycode=47040&#038;c=1</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 12:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said: “The introduction of a series of crime mapping systems, with the latest national system launched in January 2011, negates any suggestion that we withhold crimes from the public. The numbers, categories and locations of crime are available for everyone to see.”]]></content:encoded>
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