The PDA/Technology newsbucket: paywalls for local data, debating copyright with teens and more

A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team The door is bolted. Photo by Andrew Michaels on Flickr. Some rights reserved "Closed Data Now" SOCITM does a "Times" >> Paul Geraghty "If my memory serves me well the e-Gov Register (eGR) hosted by Brent has been showing every IT supplier sortable by product type, supplier, local government type and even on maps for about 6 or 7 years (some links below if you hurry up)." Now it's behind a paywall. Now even more open! Council Spending Data Scoreboard >> Armchair Auditor Adrian Short's investigation site is now even more open - the data are also available for download. Fighting with teenagers on copyright >> Jason Robert Brown.com "One of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim" (Philadelphia Inquirer) takes on a teenager who had been giving away his sheet music online. Is Apple All The Tech Press is Talking About? With Stats >> ReadWriteWeb Gabe Rivera of Techmeme gives his reasoning. The Best Visualization of the World Cup Matches >> Co Design "The chart shows each and every match from the first round. For each match, the green bars show completed passes, blue triangles show shots attempted, and the red dots show goals scored. That's it." Where are Helsinki's buses? >> Helsinki Transport Ha! See if you could do this, Transport for London: real-time map of where Helsinki's trams are. (Though we're told it's very inaccurate.) $11.7m judgment against Spamhaus slashed to $27,000 >> The Register Closing the circle back to October 2006 when the spam-buster Spamhaus was threatened with being taken offline . Nasty Twitter Spam on the loose >> Sunbelt blog It might be smart if Twitter and the link shorteners got together so that the links on accounts marked as spam by Twitter were automatically blocked. You can follow Guardian Technology's linkbucket on delicious