Matt McAlister

every citizen will from next year have access to all information on the performance of our public services showing how, and in great detail, hospitals schools and all our public services perform in your own neighbourhood - data put online during 2010 completing the process by 2011, but data there to encourage feedback and dialogue between professional and citizen. - Matt McAlister

government’s public data principles - Matt McAlister

as data itself has become the central asset of our organizations, what we seem to be learning is that we still focus far too much on the creation and capture of it, and too little on actively leveraging it and driving consumption. - Matt McAlister

APIs are an important new business channel in the same vein as storefronts, the telephone, and even Web sites were in years past. While it's almost exclusively a B2B story, APIs require the same investment as older traditional business channels. This includes marketing, relationship management, partner support, and legal permission to create derivative works, to name just a few. - Matt McAlister

it is humbling to remember that, in the UK, our greatest worries about the future diversity of media revolve around the funding models that support it. By contrast, in Zimbabwe, Gerry Jackson's independent radio station was literally closed at gunpoint by the government. A free press should not be a luxury. - Matt McAlister

For the longest time, we have focused on sites of information as a destination, of accessing information as a process, of producing information as a task. What happens when all of this changes? - Matt McAlister

examine the market data, study the demographics, lifestyles, challenges and habits of potential readers and then bring together editorial, advertising, technology and marketing to create digital products that serve users and advertisers and do so profitably. - Matt McAlister

An audience will watch you fall on a sword. A community will fall on a sword for you. - Matt McAlister

With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure out what graph or chart suits your data best. This is a guide to make your decision easier for one particular type of data: proportions. - Matt McAlister