- If The Onion Is Not Awarded A Pulitzer Prize Within The Next Year, I Will Murder 50 People | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
"Yes, readers, you have read the above headline correctly. [...] if The Onion is not awarded a Pulitzer Prize within the next calendar year, so help me God, I WILL SAVAGELY MURDER 50 INNOCENT SOULS, and the Pulitzer Board’s hands shall be soaked in blood instead of jammed down Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.’s underpants the way they usually are." (humour prize the_onion )
- Misleading money-saving claims help no one | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian
Ben Goldacre exposes some foolish maths in a government press release… "Claiming you can get councils cheaper mobile phone deals does not equate to 20% off a £50bn spend" (government efficiency local statistics )
- “The Drupal of dataviz”: Overview, AP’s News Challenge winner, wants to make sense of big document sets » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
"Over the next two years, Stray (a Lab contributor) and a team at the AP will work to build Overview, a visualization tool for documents. While Document Cloud, another News Challenge fundee, offers a way to store and search docs, Overview offers a way to organize them in a manner that emphasizes connections among their content. There’s dataviz; Overview suggests a subset of that field. Call it docuviz." (journalism data visualisation tools )
- Visualising Whitehall: the Guardian map of the senior civil service | News | guardian.co.uk
"This is the world of the senior civil service, courtesy of a new list published by the government naming every senior civil servant for each department." (data government visualisation )
- Government cancels SME contracts and hands IT services deals to Capita – 6/24/2011 – Computer Weekly
"Government departments have been cancelling freelance IT contractors supplied through SMEs and giving their interim staff business to Capita under orders from the Cabinet Office's Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG), in what some suppliers see as an apparent contradiction of government SME policy." (government procurement )
- Back to the future with government ID plans – 6/23/2011 – Computer Weekly
"Until last year, the Identity Cards Act sought to provide government with monopoly ownership of our identity. But now the Act has been repealed and proposals brought forward to let us choose our own identity provider in an open marketplace of trusted providers. In the future we could find ourselves authenticating to government services using our own choice of ID, such as a bank card or mobile phone – or perhaps even an ID issued by a "Big Society" mutual or social enterprise. This "new" approach is not in fact entirely new…" (identity government )
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