Defamation
Birmingham Post Birmingham law firm to pursue online defamation
Digital Britain
Dissecting ‘The Economic Case for Digital Inclusion’ Ian Cuddy
An extended look at Lord Mandelson’s IP announcement at C&binet Paid Content
Freedom of Information
All FOI requests to this site now categorised Whatdotheyknow
Google docs
Now Exportable in Office and Open Office formats RWW
Lobbying
Civil servants fight off transparency, lobbying industry score big victory Times
Mapping, mobile
Google Maps Navigation: The First Killer App for Android 2.0 RWW
Mapping, Open Source
Mappa Mercia: a project to digitally remap the West Midlands in a free and open format.
Mobile learning
Androids for Africa at the Handheld Learning Conference video
Media
TV Viewing Among children in the US at an Eight-Year High. Age 2-5 32+hours a week Neilsonwire
Newspapers
Record plunge: only 13% of Americans buy a daily newspaper Newsosaur
A graphic history of newspaper circulation over two decades The Awl
Postcodes
Interview with Harry Metcalfe of ernestmarples.com Video
Early Day Motion 2000 sponsored by Tom Watson Parliament
Research
Young people’s use of social networks: dana boyd The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online
danah boyd publications
Open data
Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms reports progress on Making Public Data Public
Open data on cities: an international round up. Lichfield, yes. Birmingham, London, not yet. Open Knowledge Foundation
Open government
Local Spending Reports would show how all public money is spent. Localworks
John Denham speech: Openness of data is important for local government RSA speech
Rewiring LocalDirectGov OpenlyLocal
Surveillance UK
New York Times: Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British Public. Poole council #RIPA