They might have only be small fees of £1 a time, but Companies House has stopped charging for information. In a small, but significant, victory for open data enthusiasts the service has decided to waiver the fee for information relating to companies. It’ll be free from the middle of next year. For those ego really wanted …
My first book: ‘Freedom of Information: A practical guide for UK journalists’ has been completed and is due to be published during 2015. It can be purchased here. The book is to be a guide for journalists, and students, on how to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain stories, conduct investigations and uncovered …
I contributed and edited the Education section of the Help Me Investigate community investigation website which is ran by online journalist, author and lecturer Paul Bradshaw. During this time I produced infographics and used data from official publications for graphs and interactive maps. These articles covered a range of education issues from the numbers of …
(Disclaimer: This post was originally published on my old website matt-burgess.co.uk and originates from around 2012.) With Julian Assange being safely kept inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London and the ongoing furore about his extradition from the United Kingdom it’s difficult to see a solution that isn’t going to be damaging for the British government. …
I created, built, and run the website FOI Directory. It is based around the Freedom of Information Act in the UK – which allows members of the public the right to access information from authorities. FOI Directory can be found here. Twitter account for the website is here. The website is a combination of more than …
I currently work for Progressive Digital Media as a deputy editor on a range of their business-to-business digital magazines and have been involved in launching a new consumer magazine. Factor: I have been involved with the launch of Factor Magazine – a science, innovation and technology website and digital magazine. The website covers a broad …
This post was originally posted on my old website matt-burgess.co.uk and was written during late 2012. There’s no doubt that when you use one online service for a score of different things, from email to files, that they are going to have a lot of information about you. When I looked at the information Google …
This post was originally published on my old website matt-burgess.co.uk and originally was written in early 2012. When the University of Sheffield gym swimming pool closed for repairs at the end of 2010, the news didn’t really concern me. Over a year and a half later I’ve written, read and overseen thousands of words on …