RE: [backstage] Mail archives

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
I agree but there was no clear idea what we should do except maybe move the whole thing to Mailman? Because the list is public, I guess there is nothing stopping it being archived in multiple places if you know anywhere better? Secret[] Private[x] Public[] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage

Re: [backstage] Mail archives

2010-01-25 Thread Tim Dobson
Mo McRoberts wrote: Hi all, I know things are due to change on this list at *some* point (presumably post-move!), but this has been bugging me for a while :) I might be the only one, but I find mail-archive.com to be… suboptimal, it's quite often incredibly slow (sometimes to the point of

[backstage] New Backstage Blog

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
Just in case you missed it, Last week was the 5th unofficial Anniversary of Backstage.bbc.co.uk. I say unofficial because it was officially launched in May at OpenTech05 but quite a few people were given access to the news/sports feeds ahead of time. To go with the Anniversary, we have

Re: [backstage] Mail archives

2010-01-25 Thread Dan Brickley
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: I agree but there was no clear idea what we should do except maybe move the whole thing to Mailman? Because the list is public, I guess there is nothing stopping it being archived in multiple places if you know

[backstage] Come join us in Salford Quays - BBC Job

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
http://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?newms=jjid=31390aid=10281 We're looking for talented developers to join the North Lab ahead of the move to Salford. Hopefully I'll be working closer with some of you in the near future. Cheers, Secret[] Private[] Public[x] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage

RE: [backstage] Mail archives

2010-01-25 Thread Michael Smethurst
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: I agree but there was no clear idea what we should do except maybe move the whole thing to Mailman? Because the list is public, I guess there is nothing stopping it being archived in multiple places if you know

RE: [backstage] Mail archives

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
Well if its you Michael, certainly :) Arrest him now. Secret[x] Private[x] Public[x] ;) Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ -Original Message- From:

RE: [backstage] Mail archives

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
Semantically talking maybe yes :) Secret[] Private[] Public[x] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Mail archives

2010-01-25 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:43, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: I agree but there was no clear idea what we should do except maybe move the whole thing to Mailman? There was a consensus for Mailman, although I don't think anybody hates Majordomo enough to stamp feet over it!

RE: [backstage] Mail archives

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
I'll submit to gmane, which means I can start accessing the list via NNTP (hurrah) - I guess others should feel free to submit to other places if they think it's worthwhile? --- Sure as long as there's not too much cross posting. Backstage should stay on topic :) More low-level exposure for

RE: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
Hummm what's this I spy here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcbackstage/2010/01/freeview-hd-content-management.shtml Secret[] Private[] Public[x] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ

[backstage] Users just want video to work. You Mozilla people are such idealists?

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
Somewhat related to the discussion already going on? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jan/25/firefox-open-video-support Idealists or pioneers? Interesting block at the bottom, Web video has never really been open, unencumbered and free. We've had Real Networks RM format, Apple's

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Butterworth
Given it a go, going to Tweet it and things. 2010/1/25 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk Hummm what's this I spy here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcbackstage/2010/01/freeview-hd-content-management.shtml Secret[] Private[] Public[x] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD

RE: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
Good thinking :) So not use to tweeting my blog entries and MT doesn't have that support in the version we use on blogs.bbc.co.uk Secret[] Private[x] Public[] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester,

Re: [backstage] Users just want video to work. You Mozilla people are such idealists?

2010-01-25 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 16:57, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Web video has never really been open, unencumbered and free. We've had Real Networks RM format, Apple's QuickTime, Microsoft's Windows Media Video (now standardised as VC-1), the DivX and XviD codecs, and Adobe Flash

[backstage] BarCampBankLondon 3

2010-01-25 Thread Ian Forrester
And the 2nd one Some of you might be interested in BarCampBankLondon3 taking place at PayPal's Richmond office on January 30th. The aim of BarCampBank is to foster innovation and the creation of new business models in the world of finance. BarCampBankLondon has been

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Butterworth
I use Hootsuite to publish from my RSS feeds. It works even if you don't log in. http://hootsuite.com/ 2010/1/25 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk Good thinking :) So not use to tweeting my blog entries and MT doesn't have that support in the version we use on blogs.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Users just want video to work. You Mozilla people are such idealists?

2010-01-25 Thread Kieran Kunhya
Web video has never really been open, unencumbered and free. We've had Real Networks RM format, Apple's QuickTime, Microsoft's Windows Media Video (now standardised as VC-1), the DivX and XviD codecs, and Adobe Flash among others. There might never be one open standard, simply because

Re: [backstage] Users just want video to work. You Mozilla people are such idealists?

2010-01-25 Thread Barry Carlyon
In the meantime, though, Firefox is going to get left behind. Some sites will go to the trouble of transcoding to Theora, but mostly they'll just run with H.264 + Flash or QuickTime fallback (which works pretty well in my testing, if done carefully). Surely tho some clever person will

Re: [backstage] Users just want video to work. You Mozilla people are such idealists?

2010-01-25 Thread Mo McRoberts
On 25-Jan-2010, at 18:59, Barry Carlyon wrote: Surely tho some clever person will write a plugin for Firefox to enable the H.264 codec, assuming they can get a version that will plugin/addon nicely As far as I know, FF provides no plugin interface for video and audio codecs. It’s been