Just been thinking about this a bit more and it seems to me that each page
of the iPlayer should be presenting an RSS fee anyway. It seems the site
uses a parameter line this...
?filter=txdate:13-08filter=txslot:evening
...which should be the same parameters used for the RSS feed too?
On
If these Internet Service Providers don't want to provide Internet access
that makes them another Great British oxymoron, surely?
Which reminds me, why doesn't Virgin Media use their 100Mb/s connections
they use to connect to the set-top boxes and cable modems to provide a
100Mb/s service - they
Hi Andy - that's really informative - thanks very much :-)
m
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Cool Perhaps someone would like to post to the list why this protest is
happening, what it's aims are (if any) and what are
So - is there anyone there? (And if so, are they getting wet?)
Cheers,
Rich.
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Hi Andy - that's really informative - thanks very much :-)
m
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So - is there anyone there? (And if so, are they getting wet?)
What do we want?
Umberellas!
When do we want them?
Now!
(Actually right now in glorious W12, the rain seems to have ceased.)
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Yep we were there along with about another 20 people.
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Yep we were there along with about another 20 people.
Ian Forrester
And you were talking about 500, scaring the life out of Erik :)
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Yep we were there along with about another 20 people.
So were they making a point or trying to make a difference?
David
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Photos already up on flickr over here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattcashmore/sets/72157601436583881/
And here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/sets/72157601430492360/
m
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Ian Forrester wrote:
Yep we were there along with
A handful here at Manchester NBH, and yes, they're getting pretty
soaked.
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Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow,
An aside
My favourite BBC protest ever: Archers fans complaining about changing
the time of the show. Marched up Regent Street with placards, stopped
traffic, whilst chanting
What do we want? the Archers! When do we want it? Now! What do we say? Please!'
What do we want?
Umberellas!
When do
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:59:53 +0100, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Which reminds me, why doesn't Virgin Media use their 100Mb/s connections
they use to connect to the set-top boxes and cable modems to provide a
100Mb/s service - they could blow BSkyB out of the water as ADSL
An aside
My favourite BBC protest ever: Archers fans complaining about
changing the time of the show. Marched up Regent Street with
placards, stopped traffic, whilst chanting What do we want?
the Archers! When do we want it? Now! What do we say? Please!'
:)
Were they marching at the
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-app
roaches/
Now, I'd like to see the musicovery.com approach applied as an
alternative nav for the bbc radio player:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/index.shtml?button
From: Simon Cobb
Wow Simon that's a great resource of visualisations.
I read information aesthetics but this is great! Bookmarked for a future
backstage competition which has been planned for a while.
Ian Forrester
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On 14/08/07, Jonathan Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:59:53 +0100, Brian Butterworth
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Which reminds me, why doesn't Virgin Media use their 100Mb/s connections
they use to connect to the set-top boxes and cable modems to provide a
100Mb/s
The irony is that it probably doesn't matter now. They could now download it
using their Windows XP machine in DRMed Windows Media Format.
All thanks to our new overlord Bill, and his maniacal scheme to take over
the BBC from the inside.
J
On 14/8/07 14:21, Deirdre Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I use one of these photos on my site? Are the CC licenced?
On 14/08/07, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Photos already up on flickr over here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattcashmore/sets/72157601436583881/
And here
Some of these seem to be of dubious real use. Has anyone put any of them
though Jakob Nielsen-style user testing?
For example, I got taught to use mind-maps back at school in '86, but the
whole point of them is that you create them personally to help you to use a
visual system to help memorise
Mr Butterworth :-)
As you¹ll see from the flickr streams themselves.. All our photos are
released under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0
Knock yourself out within that licence.
m
On 14/8/07 14:50, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can I use one of these photos on my site?
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Can I use one of these photos on my site? Are the CC licenced?
If you look at any of the photos, you'll see the CC licence they are under
(by-nc-sa) on the right hand side of the page.
ATB,
Matthew
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They're not mine, but both are listed as CC Att-NonComm-ShareAlike on
the site.
shorttermmemoryloss.com
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Can I use one of these photos on my site? Are the CC licenced?
On 14/08/07, *Matthew Cashmore* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Photos
Every time with the Jakob. I've already expressed my (obviously
personal) opinion once so here is my Nielsen haiku:
Modern users ask
what time is Mr Nielsen?
1994.
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Thanks.
I thought I was being humorous - it would be deeply ironic if pictures of a
protest outside Auntie's TV HQ about DRM were copyrighted...
On 14/08/07, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mr Butterworth :-)
As you'll see from the flickr streams themselves.. All our photos are
I presume you have some substantive evidence that no testing is require
then?
On 14/08/07, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Every time with the Jakob. I've already expressed my (obviously personal)
opinion once so here is my Nielsen haiku:
Modern users ask
what time is Mr Nielsen?
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:55:02 +0100, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Just been thinking about this a bit more and it seems to me that each page
of the iPlayer should be presenting an RSS fee anyway. It seems the site
uses a parameter line this...
From the backstage blog
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/08/defective_by_de.html
³It was a very wet morning but that didn't stop around 20 people turning out
to let the BBC know exactly what they thought of its use of DRM in iPlayer.
We've pulled those comments together and made a
So I've been thinking about this one quite a lot.
The whole point of these visualisations is that they are visualisations.
aka the underlining data has been transformed into this but is usually still
available elsewhere.
Someone else a long time ago on backstage suggested that everytime we do
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Thanks.
I thought I was being humorous - it would be deeply ironic if pictures
of a protest outside Auntie's TV HQ about DRM were copyrighted...
They are copyrighted. They are also licensed.
Anti-DRM isn't anti-copyright. Most anti-DRM sentiment opposes the:
You
http://www.developmag.com/news/28301/Microsoft-opens-game-IP-for-non-commercial-projects
After announcing the 2.0 version of XNA Game Studio during Gamefest's keynote,
XNA general manager Chris Satchell also revealed that the company had made an
unprecedented move to allow consumers direct,
I think the point here is 'does the visualisation of the data adds
meaning, or is just pretty to look at?'.
Does your visualisation tell people more about the data set than the
raw numbers? Is it 'legible'? Does it expose trends and meaning that
would otherwise be hidden to all but the most
And from inside the BBC we have a reply from Ashley Highfield (head of future
media and technology).
We've added it to the blog post -
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/08/defective_by_de.html
Here's a snip-it from Ashley's reply to single platform lock in
We believe in
David,
Yeah, I know. Which is also ironic...
On 14/08/07, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Thanks.
I thought I was being humorous - it would be deeply ironic if pictures
of a protest outside Auntie's TV HQ about DRM were copyrighted...
They are
On 14/08/07, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ian Forrester wrote:
Yep we were there along with about another 20 people.
So were they making a point or trying to make a difference?
I believe the additional media coverage of the unconscionable
restrictions in the iPlayer will make a
I guess this brings us right back to Richard MacDuff's Anthem programme
which attempted much the same but with music in the first Dirk Gently book
(coming soon to Radio 4)...
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I think the point here is 'does the visualisation of the data adds
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