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For the past few months, there have been a variety of calls for feedback and suggestions on how the US Government can move towards becoming more open and transparent, especially in terms of their dealings with citizens and also for disseminating information about their recent financial stimulus package.

Our forthcoming book entitled "The Social Semantic Web", to be published by Springer in Autumn 2009, is now available to pre-order from both Springer and Amazon.

Here are my slides from last night's joint talk for the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Computer Society...

The winners of the SIOC (pronounced "shock") data competition being run by DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway have been announced. The competition ran from September to October 2008, and the brief was to produce an interesting creation based on a data set of discussion posts reflecting ten years of Irish online life from boards.ie, Ireland's largest community website.

I was interviewed last week by Colin Meek from Journalism.co.uk on the topic of "Web 3.0" and what it means for journalists... You can read the full article in two parts (1, 2). My original answers are part of an interview on their Insite blog.