Interesting quote by Charles Arthur from The Guardian on the trend of governments opening up their data silos:
We didn’t build libraries for a literate citizenry. We built libraries to help citizens become literate. Today we build open data portals not because we have public policy literate citizens, we build them so that citizens may become literate in public policy.
— Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of Open Data | eaves.ca. Link found through Michael Migurski‘s Delicious-feed that is constantly flowing with interesting links: http://delicious.com/migurski (Michael is the technology head at Stamen, so they should be).