This looks like an excellent start. The Coalition Government has just published the COINS database, which is the detailed database of Government spending:
The release of COINS data is just the first step in the Government’s commitment to data transparency on Government spending.
You can get the database from the data.gov website here. There are explanations to help you get to grips with it here.
Tim Almond notes (via chat) that it is a 68mb zipped file which extracts to 4GB, i.e., huge. It will require significant database tools to get to grips with this, but I’m predicting that easier ways of querying may be created by someone in 48 hours.
This post is cross-published from my new journalism/new media-blog. Previous posts in this series: Part 1: The revolution that never happened Part 2: The assets Part 3: Hypertext In the fourth part of this series I will take a closer look at the research on interactivity in online journalism and to what degree this asset of new technology has been
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The Wikio rankings are a measure of how much blogs are being “talked about” on other independent sites, and are produced by Wikio for a number of categories of blogs in Europe and North America, including politics, techology, culture and even Wine and Beer.
The Wikio ranking is measured by incoming editorial links (i.e., not blogrolls) from blogs registered with Wikio which appear in RSS feeds. To be clear (again), this is no measure of traffic. Links are weighted by time, prominence of the linking blog, and prominence of the link in the linking article.
There is also a toolkit, Wikio Labs, which allows you to dig down into the detail to the level of individual links.
This month I have advanced notice of the “Overall” rankings, which are below
Earlier this week I posted briefly on what I consider to be the most significant move for journalism by the UK government since the Freedom of Information Act. But I wanted to look more systematically at what is likely to be a huge change in the information landscape that journalists deal with… So. In the spirit of data journalism, here
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Here’s a wonderful reimagining of the News Diamond from the first part of my Model for a 21st Century Newsroom. Gaurav Mishra’s diagram (shown above) takes my rhombus (shown below) and plots it against two axes. It’s rather lovely. Helpfully, however, Mishra takes the concept forward a little. As he explains: “my “news lifecycle” is different from Paul Bradshaw’s “news diamond”
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Yesterday saw the publication of an incredible letter by David Cameron to government departments, including local government. It sets out a whole range of areas where data is to be released – some of it scheduled for January 2011, but some of it straight away. You can find my thoughts about the release in this article by Laura Oliver, along
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Yesterday’s MediaGuardian led with a lengthy and thoughtful piece on the importance of Facebook. I’m in it, talking about why Murdoch hasn’t attacked the site in the same way as Google, but also why I think identity will be the next big battleground for publishers. This is something I explored in an audioboo a few months back, so I thought I
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has run a conference “Journalism, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship” for independent and mainstream journalists interested in “making a living from journalism in the era of free information”.
In this interview, Paul explains to Matt Wardman what the aims and achievements of JEEcamp have been, and reflects on how his own blogging activities over 6 years has opened up opportunities for him personally.
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