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FOI generates 1,000 reports in second year, says new report

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In the second year of Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation, more than 1,000 stories based on disclosures made under the FOI act were reported in the regional and national newspapers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2006-7.

The figures, released in a report from the Campaign for Freedom of Information, are broken down into subject categories ranging from drugs and the economy, to ghosts and psychic powers.

Among the most popular topics (in no particular order) are:

  • Policing with 128 stories from FOI requests – which doesn’t include a separate category on ‘policing costs’
  • Health (110)
  • Education (65)
  • Transport (36)
  • Prisons (35)

There’s even one FOI story on FOI from the Belfast Telegraph about the University of Ulster proposing to introduce fees for releasing information under FOI.

Shiny in top 100 UK blogs

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Shiny Media’s shinyshiny.tv – a blog about gadgets aimed at women – has been ranked as the UK’s 12th most popular blog.

Compiled by beta internet marketing service Blogstorm, plenty of political blogs break into the top 100 with Iain Dale at 32 and Northern Ireland’s Slugger O’Toole,whose creator Mike Fealty now runs Telegraph.co.uk’s Brassneck blog, at 59.

According to Blogstorm the rankings are created by listing over 1400 UK blogs and calculating their populatiry using metrics of Alexa Ranking and Technorati Ranking for each site.

For a full rundown of the top 100 UK blogs click here.