Tim Berners-Lee offered his "Five-Star" plan for open data. He said public information should be awarded a star rating based on the following criteria: one star for making the information public; a second is awarded if the information is machine-readable; a third star if the data is offered in a non-proprietary format; a fourth is given if it is in Linked Data format; a fifth if it has actually been linked.

this talis db on govt funding and IP is brilliant. be great to see feedback on & status of projects

london's working week from data.gov.. neat

smart ideas around data.gov.uk

data and shit from nextjump

i'm loving the different geographies produced by tags and how our mental model of place changes.. the open data is prett cool too

patterns in tweets...

brilliant map exposing proximity of MP constituency - cost of travel

stats and more stats...

liking this idea a lot... a collation of ur activity from which you can do *so* much. stories, reports, actions (like producing feedback loops to calendars).

top five ideas announced...

About time... i wonder how long it will take for it to be passed through all the legislative procedures, though...

i love this stuff the "doing business" data looks especially interesting... but really, a facebook page for the world bank?

Slides from an IBM presentation in 1975. Retro-futurist-cool.

Building beautiful things out of boring data. Lovely stuff.

sorry, this is just so utterly fascinating. the next step is UPSing colossal things - KPIs [speed, engine performance, cargo weight] ETAs etc.

travel data r us. :)

the premise rests on 'better' information providing more opportunities for self-organisation and efficiency and hence less energy use. however, you still need to have strong positive feedback loops to feed the often altruistic behaviour required to do 'g

Nice clickable map