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No10’s new recruit is a geek

Various reports on the political blogs about Gordon Brown's latest recruit to the No10 staff: David Muir, who will work on political strategy. It's interesting for readers of this blog because, until earlier this afternoon, he was a fairly prolific blogger - until, that is, he flicked the password-protection switch on Typepad. The Times's Red Box [...] read on »

Cameron calls for data standards

Of all the topics I might have expected David Cameron to speak in favour of, standardised data formats was not top of the list. So I'm grateful to Nick Booth for pointing to Cameron's speech last Friday to the Conservative Councillors' Association. At the moment, local government bodies must provide the public with information about the [...] read on »