Simon Willison’s Weblog

Magic/Replace. More inspirational magic from the team at Dabble DB. Be sure to watch the (short) demo video. 1st December 2008, 12:23 am

Code your own election mashup with Google’s JSON data. The data that powered Google’s US election results map is available to download as a bunch of JSON files. 6th November 2008, 8:24 pm

CKAN—Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network. Aims to be the “Debian of data”, with apt-get style tools for installing datasets. Presented at Open Tech 2008 by Rufus Pollock. 5th July 2008, 3:24 pm

The Data Bill of Rights (via) John Battelle’s inherently sensible “draft of what rights we, as consumers, might demand from companies making hay off the data we create as we trip across the web”. 27th May 2007, 7:28 pm