links for 2010-03-02

"Today we're adding another API to the Open Platform. This one contains information on UK Politics. Our editorial staff have long since used and contributed to a resource known as Aristotle. This forms the basis of the Politics API which you can now build applications with, just as we will in advance of this year's General Election."

Currently contains the sign-off: "Paul Murphy is still the Editor of of the BBC Internet blog (as far as he knows)."

Principled campaigning journalism from London's free Evening Standard. A sentence I never thought I'd write.

After taking quite a slating, Ariane Sherine pops her head over the parapet with some behind the scenes chatter about Gnews140

"Even worse, this hasn’t just happened – The Sun and the Telegraph reported this one week ago: these stories are still sitting there unchanged, for all to see, with no hint to their complete untruth".

"£22m for this, £25m for that: the BBC's budget is all a bit too big to comprehend - especially now it's looking at cuts. See how the figures add up". BBC numbers rendered as coloured squares.

"There is nothing quite like seeing an over-spilling box of receipts to help you understand how many MPs there are, how many claimed well over a hundred thousand pounds on top of their salaries and how many claimed for Sky-Sports. The receipt itself contains the notable information about the MP, some sample claims listed as if it were a fake bill and the sum total their have claimed over the period (2007-9 IIRC) At the bottom of each receipt is a url link (and equivalent QR code) taking you to the Guardian site where they hold the PDFs of all the receipts so if you have the time, you can verify it yourself."