James Cridland wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/pip/jrjen/ - good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/archive/07/07/10/ - better.
That's not better; URLs are supposed to be unique. Okay, Breakfast isn't a
great example for my case, but even with that, if it's ever repeated,
At 12:17 +0100 16/7/07, Andrew Bowden wrote:
Another example (from the same area):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/x9qv/ - good
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/elton_john/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/elton_john/ - better
Okay, I can't follow that one - I guess if you had two
Yeah this is another classic problem.
The way I think about this stuff is as follows:
A specific URI should refer to a unique concept in the world and
should be as human readable as possible but NO MORE.
Meaning, that if making the URI more human readable fucks up the way
it refers to the
Another example (from the same area):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/x9qv/ - good
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/elton_john/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/elton_john/ - better
Okay, I can't follow that one - I guess if you had two
artists of the same name? But then I'd go
Last fm used to use musicbrainz to disambiguate artists
Then they stopped paying the data licence and turned off musicbrainz
Which means they just match on strings
According to brainz there are 3 oasis' in existence (last fm has one)
And something like 13 auroras (again last fm has one).
On 16/07/07, Matthew Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Cridland wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/pip/jrjen/ - good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/archive/07/07/10/ - better.
That's not better; URLs are supposed to be unique. Okay, Breakfast isn't a
great example
Interesting news from Tivo, it has been measuring 20,000 users
second-by-second viewing habits. The results show people actually like
the direct response ads better...
more interesting i thought was how StopWatch managed the 20,000
CRID/URI-style info streaming in every second for two months
On 7/16/07, Tom Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey - as the person who developed the URL stuff for the programme
information pages project (PIPs - hence pip in the URL), I can assure
you that the one you're proposing is not generally better.
That's me told! Though thank you... ;)
In terms
On 7/16/07, James Ockenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
more interesting i thought was how StopWatch managed the 20,000
CRID/URI-style info streaming in every second for two months (that's a
lot of data no?) and how it measured and identified each program, and,
since this was primarliy for
Following from the debate about links for programmes... how about this?
http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/entry/bbc_web_api_beta - found via George.
Ian Forrester
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