links for 2010-10-04

"Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude told the Conservative party conference in Birmingham that the Freedom of Information Act will be amended so that all data released through FoI must be in a reusable and machine readable format".

"I've had one or two of these seething, fearful, disturbingly ignorant people turning up here [in the comments section]. Nothing could persuade such individuals that I went unmolested on June's march against the English Defence League before strolling to a bus stop on Whitechapel Road and heading home to baste the potatoes for the Sunday roast. They appear utterly convinced that no white citizen dares walk the streets of today's East End. The Blackshirts may be gone but their dangerous delusions linger on."

"You may not consider yourself an Applied Psychologist, but if you've ever designed something while thinking about user behaviour, then you are, by definition, an Applied Psychologist. You're just not necessarily a very good one. Yet."

"Any media business that is still exclusively focussed on migration from print to digital needs to move the thinking on to mobile migration pretty quickly". Tomorrow Later this week I'll have a EuroIA-inspired blog post about moving to doing 'Mobile first Information Architecture'

Join in some research for Stephanie Booth, who is trying to work out what qualifies you to be a "blogger" in 2010

"The heartless comment [from a user about Mr. Smith's death] spurred the Times to make Mr. Smith the subject of a story to show, in the paper's words, 'that every life matters'."

Oh, copyright, IP and big corporations, what a complicated web we weave...

Interview with James Box and Cennydd Bowles

"If you're a grizzled 'graffle veteran or someone who reads manuals, some of these might be old hat. But maybe not - so check them out"