In my latest podcast I talk with Kevin Merritt, CEO of Seattle-based Socrata.

We discuss the company’s approach to ‘social data discovery,’ and consider ways in which these techniques might be applied to the wealth of data emerging from Government in the United States and elsewhere.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• BigTable
• Aneesh Chopra
• data.gov
• Frazier Technology Ventures
• Freebase
• Vivek Kundra
• Kevin Merritt’s blog post, ‘Data.gov Needs to be a Community Effort‘
• Morgenthaler Ventures
• Tim O’Reilly, and his recent post on ‘Government as Platform‘
• SimpleDB
• Socrata
• Sunlight Labs, and my podcast with David James

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 16 September, 2009.

For other Talis podcasts in this Nodalities series, see here