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by Corinne Pritchard / Simply Understand

Mash the State is disorganised by Adrian Short (@adrianshort)

Challenge 1

Councils:
Give us an RSS news feed by Christmas 2009

157 out of 434 UK local councils (36%) have RSS feeds.

Let's make it 100% by Christmas 2009.

Why councils? Why RSS? Why news? Your questions answered, hopefully.