Just in case you didn't spot it in the entry on Thursday, Guardian Technology has begun a new campaign aiming to get UK publicly-owned bodies (such as the Post Office, Ordnance Survey, Office for National Statistics and many more) which collect data on our behalf to make it available to taxpayers and companies for free (as in, the cost of distribution, rather as with Linux, where you'll typically only pay for the blank CD on which it's burnt).
The original article was Give us back our crown jewels; the followup What price information?
The whole campaign now has its own dedicated site at freeourdata.org.uk which I'm trying to keep up to date, and provide useful links and articles. Any comments (apart from "did you put this together with a knife and fork?" Well, pretty much yes, actually) and suggestions are welcome - it's got a blog too. Offers of help welcome too.
