Jeff Jarvis flags up that Tom Loosemore and blogging MP Tom Watson have launched a £20,000 prize to mashup previously ‘invisible’ public data. Good ideas already.

Tell us what you’d build with public information and we could help fund your idea! The lastest ideas in the UK-based public mashup contest.

Paul Bradshaw says of Showusabetterway.com: “If you think FOI requests have transformed journalism in recent years, and the battle to retain those, think about this: if we don’t make the most of this opportunity, we’ll have no excuse when the governme

Barack Obama’s campaign is considering moving his nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention from the Pepsi Center to Mile High Stadium. Source: Denver Post

Roy Greenslade on Trini-Mirror cuts: “The main victim of this move will by the Daily Mirror itself, a flagship that is not only losing its flagpole but its main mast.”