The Cardiffian, Cardiff School of Journalism’s hyperlocal website, published a story earlier about Freedom of Information requests to Cardiff Council – nearly 4,000 in the past three years (most of those aren’t mine, honest). There was whinging about the value … Continue reading →

Open Wales has been lagging a bit recently, but I’m feeling invigorated so it’s time to get it back on track. Sadly I’m yet to come across a how-to for persuading governments to release data (obviously, if you find one … Continue reading →

I make a lot of FOI requests (I counted about 80 in a year), and yes, some of them are just fishing expeditions to get stories (look, it has to be better than press releases, and I get stories out … Continue reading →

Firstly, I’ve been a bit quiet recently due to a very messy house move (see Twitter for much whinging) and a few weeks without home internet (see Twitter for yet more whinging). But seeing as quite a bit has happened … Continue reading →

The campaign for more open data in Wales starts…well here and now unless someone else is already on it…anybody? Anyway, I was reading a blog post about how a campaign was launched to make Montreal an open data city, which … Continue reading →

So on Thursday, the UK Government announced plans to release more data on schools, hospitals, crime and transport (then the closure of the News of the World was announced, which was a smidge more important). Back to the data release … Continue reading →