Simon Willison’s Weblog

Growing the ORG community. The Open Rights Group want a fiver a month from 750 new people to support their excellent work fighting for digital civil liberties in the UK political arena. Going by their past performance this is a very worthwhile investment.

# 7th July 2008, 6:42 pm / civilliberties, digitalrights, openrightsgroup, politics

A Look at the Presidential Candidates. The Big Picture (the Boston Globe’s fantastic photojournalism blog) presents a fascinating collection of historical photos of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.

# 4th July 2008, 9:09 pm / barack-obama, john-mccain, photography, photos, politics, thebigpicture

Google Reader ruins Christmas (via) New sharing feature automatically reveals shared items to Gmail contacts, causing political rows.

# 25th December 2007, 2:59 pm / google, google-reader, politics, privacy, sharing, socialnetworking

Death and Taxes (via) Beautiful massive zoomable/pannable infographic of the 2008 Federal Discretionary Budget.

# 19th April 2007, 2:37 am / ajax, infographic, javascript, politics

Discourse DB. A collaborative effort to collect the opinions of the world’s journalists and commentators about ongoing political events and issues, powered by Semantic MediaWiki so there’s metadata coming out of its ears.

# 12th April 2007, 4:38 pm / discoursedb, mediawiki, oxfordgeeknight2, politics, semanticmediawiki

’National interest’ halts arms corruption inquiry. “It has been necessary to balance the need to maintain the rule of law against the wider public interest.”

# 15th December 2006, 2:09 pm / law, politics, scandal, uk