"Who Runs This Place?" - good analysis of the powerful in the 21st century.
Balance of the most powerful shifts, and people move between power groups (lawyers, bankers, governments). We can use data to report on and hold powerful people accountable, as the expenses showed.
What data is out there about these people, and how can we link it all up?
Bankers
freerisk - share information and algorithms for credit risk. Crowdsource credit risk.
Corporations
usaspending.gov - government initiative to show how much is being spent with corporations. Could we don in the UK? Special Purpose Vehicles and PFI could be a rich journalistic area, as could charities. Every project over £100k has to be advertised, so you could start reverse-engineering that. It's not centrally stored right now, though, so you'd have to make FOI requests to each department.
Companies Open House - an effort to make Companies House data searchable at all times and permalinkable.
Lawyers
Who's Lobbying? @whoslobbying on Twitter.
What Infrastructure Is There?
