Simon Willison’s Weblog

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, politics, photography, thebigpicture, photos

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-reader, sharing, politics, socialnetworking, google, privacy

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

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

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, semanticmediawiki, mediawiki, politics, oxfordgeeknight2

’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 / uk, politics, scandal