Some links for you:

• NESTA – Make It Local – Hey local authorities – get your bidding hat on and get that data opened up: "Make it Local aims to encourage collaboration between local authorities and digital media developers, to provide innovative, web-based services for their communities."
• Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database with the Google Visualisation API Query Language « OUseful.Info, the blog… – I'm now using the info from this post about fiddling around with google spreadsheet URLs as a way to make it easier to show running results for my running club's website. Therefore, I best bookmark this in case I forget how to do it…
• We still need libraries in the digital age | Ian Clark | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk – "Public libraries provide a key role in both facilitating access to information via the internet, as well as providing free internet access to bridge the digital divide, which does not only exist between industrialised and developing nations. Taking away this important role would disenfranchise people further, and mean they would have to refer to a commercial provider."