We’ve been busy ramping up the free service to keep pace with demand, and today we’ve increased the daily transaction allowance for OpenCalais to 50,000 transactions per day – a 25% increase over our previous daily limit.

Of course, OpenCalais continues to be offered at no charge for commercial or non-commercial use.

What about licensing of content, given that the Guardian already relies heavily in some areas (Comment is Free) on people writing for nothing, and the recent hammering of freelance photographers?

Writing free for a local independent site which is not very commercial is very different than for a media organisation which pays salaries of £100s of k.

Journalists/media organizations can learn something from business intelligence (failures and success) plus from how start-ups have solved tasks that come from having to cope with “big data”. And “big data” it will be soon, in many areas of application.

A third thing: Journalists should think about producing their content into formats that information workers can actually work with, such as presentations, PDFs, graphics. Everyday hundreds of thousands of information workers are reformatting what they have found on the web, spending more time fighting with office software than understanding/analyzing what the data says.