As some of you may have heard, the free press website WikiLeaks has suspended all operations during a fund raising drive (if you want to donate to WikiLeaks, which I recommend if you are familiar with their work, go to http://wikileaks.org). For people wanting access to repressed data then the loss of such a site, even temporarily, is quite a blow.
However, with the fall of one star comes the birth of another and the website http://data.gov.uk has recently been put on public beta (for UK residents) and promises to publish all government published, non-personal, data. Read more
