On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Gareth Davis gareth.da...@bbc.co.ukwrote:
It still still being made, just not for the tellybox :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/top_of_the_pops.shtml
So, why doesn't it appear in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00704hg/upcoming
Surely it
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Martin Deutsch martin.deut...@gmail.comwrote:
Just spotted this in the newest Private Eye (dated 26th Dec)...
Being fair... use of the logo means official. No use of the logo means
unofficial. That's what the Backstage licence basically says.
Do a quick iTunes
I'll look at what the media selector is doing: we'll be adding Windows Media
files in there shortly (for wifi radios). It's not my team that does it, but
I need to work on making it easier to understand!
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:48 PM,
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You never know
Pure are making a new DAB and Internet Radio.
I have one of these (in a box just there, look). Next tonight, I'll be
opening it and blogging the results on http://james.cridland.net/blog/
And this interesting bit:
Crawford also said that there would be additional services coming
online by
If you like iGoogle gadgets, then there's the rather nice BBC Weather
unofficial gadget, which you can add by going to
http://bit.ly/bbcweather_ig (and I've summarily broken the old one, since
you can't simply forward it on).
There's also now a nice new BBC News unofficial iGoogle gadget, which
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Chris Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, I guess question number 1 is how supported is the publishing of now
playing data to last.fm? Is it something that the BBC will provide their
own supported feed for as part of the new music site (especially as you are
So, I did a BBC Weather iGoogle gadget last year. It was kind of nice, but
sadly people are actually, um, using it - with over 20,000 impressions a
day. Yikes. Think of the bandwidth and hassle that's causing my little
server.
So I've totally rewritten it, to sit on Google's own servers and work
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Christopher Woods wrote:
Tech question - what encoder(s) are you using? If it's software in
realtime or close-to-realtime, please (please please) say it's Lame
3.97. If the backend is using the Fraunhofer FhG
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Brian Butterworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I'm still wondering why you can't download the radio podcasts from the new
iPlayer...
Coming soon.
Some tech challenges, but also a UI challenge of how on earth do we signal
that yes, you CAN download The Now Show,
My team have produced another corker...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/beta is a lovely looking site, and contains lots
and lots of lovely APIs... more details at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/developers#RESTful
How splendid. Well done, chaps and chapesses.
j
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The new iPlayer looks great and seems to work exceptionally well
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta/
...and it's now at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer too. With one important addition:
RSS FEEDS. Yes. Mmm. They auto-detect too,
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/6/13 James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As the man in charge of the Coyopa project, which'll be fiddling with a
lot
of our streams,
You mean this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/03/coyopa_takes_shape.shtml
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes (a page for every programme, tv or radio)
The bit I was really interested in is a page for every programme already
shown. What a brilliant idea that is. Shame so many will have the
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/full_articletext_feeds_for_bbc.html
I've been asking for months. No, years.
Finally. Hurray!
Well done Jem, Aaron, and the others.
Enjoying this thread so far.
As the man in charge of the Coyopa project, which'll be fiddling with a lot
of our streams, could I pop in and make the following points (given you know
we're making changes later this year)...
1. We are not removing internet-radio-compatible streams. Panic not.
2.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/10/bbc.digitalmedia
BBC to build web page for every TV show, says Jana Bennett
A brilliant idea by the sounds of things.
Cough
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes (a page for every
@christopher:
Ooo ooo oo oo oo oo oo oo, *FLAC streaming*? Lossless WMA?
If you'd be happy trebling your licence fee, and explaining why everyone
else has to... (grin)... but I've plenty of experience adding odd formats to
radio stations which don't have many listeners, thanks.
@briantist:
Possibly worth mentioning that the reason why iPlayer (and
RadioPlayer) are not great on other platforms is that both product
infrastructures currently force us to produce static pages rather than
sensibly database-derived products.
iPlayer v2.0 is less than a month away; the backend
I have forwarded this good idea on.
I've also commented that associated RSS feeds should return a 404 for
sites we no longer maintain.
On 30 May 2008, at 08:22, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Just a quick idea. How about a page on bbc.co.uk noting sections
that have
And to feed back to you (it's your BBC)...
The issue here was a peculiar glitch in the signal received by the satellite
receiving units at Maidenhead. (At present, all our national network online
streams are re-encoded from satellite receivers by our technology partner
Siemens).
For a while, we
Further to all the discussion in this thread about HD, it would occur to me
that what would be really cool is to see an 'Also in HD' overlay on an SD
channel when the programme is being simulcast in HD. Hitting that colour
(hey, use blue) and it'll pop over to the BBC HD channel. Neat.
I don't
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi guys,
does anyone else get a 502 error when trying to post to Justin
Web's
blog:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/2008/04/letting_it_al
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone else find it odd *ALL* the BBC rights holders are demanding
exactly the same thing? Sounds a lot like a Cartel to me. (I Am Not a
Lawyer)
They're not; we have a complicated rights situation which make things rather
more
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If you're interested in this stuff, then November should bring a really
interesting day from The Radio Academy, called 'Radio at the Edge'. I'll be
mentioning it ad nauseam later in the year, but thought I'd not turn
Don't confuse the DAB IP telly stuff from BT Movio with proper telly
over DAB. That standard is called T-DMB and it's excellent quality.
It's in use in various places, including South Korea. The cold, dead
hand of Microsoft goes nowhere near T-DMB.
DVB-H is fine, as long as you don't mind
Those pages are as designed, incidentally: nobody will link to them that way
(unlike a relocation).
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, www.bbcnews.co.uk
Chris
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fox
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You basically have to send the exact same headers that an iPhone does,
along with the BBC-UID. Fortunately someone emailed me a plain-text
log of successful requests sniffed from his iPhone.
I've used curl instead of wget
) is entirely free.
Now, I need to go and write a blog post.
--
James Cridland | Head of Future Media Technology, BBC Audio Music
Interactive
Room 718 | Henry Wood House | 3-6 Langham Place | London W1B 3DF
MSN/GTalk:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio | http://www.bbc.co.uk/music
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Carlos Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sorry, I don't work on iPlayer team so don't know if there is one or
not. Maybe someone else on the list could.
It's the desire of the iPlayer team to have an RSS feed on every page of the
new UI, which is due end April
I posted here in September, talking about a BBC Weather widget I'd written
using BBC Backstage data.
If you're interested how it's done, I've just dropped a blog about it. (I
believe dropping a blog is the new vernacular.)
http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/03/02/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-widget/
On Jan 8, 2008 3:16 PM, neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Questions include: Is this intuitive? Does the data shift as you might
expect? Are two sliders too complex? Is a slider appropriate here, or should
something else be used? Is the sorting algorithm right? What should we do
about duplicate
On 08/01/2008, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think 10% or 20% time is a great thing to allow not just developers,
but many areas of the BBC, and I wished it had happened whilst I was
there. Just a shame that if people get to know more widely about it
you can be sure that the
something to help my team who
work on podcasts.
--
James Cridland | Head of Future Media Technology, BBC Audio Music
Interactive
Room 718 | Henry Wood House | 3-6 Langham Place | London W1B 3DF
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio | http://www.bbc.co.uk/music |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalradio
On Jan 4, 2008 4:59 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 04/01/2008, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So if your building a iplayer for an exotic device platform, do get in
touch.
Quick questions:
Adobe Flash is prohibited on non-PC systems, is the BBC suggesting we
violate Adobe's
On Dec 30, 2007 2:37 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the full comment:
It's sad to see that Linus Torvalds, one of the leading figures in
the Free Software movement, doesn't really care for freedom. And it's
even sadder that he resorts to insults, saying that those who *do*
On Jan 2, 2008 12:07 AM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01/01/2008, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To me, this ... says that people
shoudn't push the freedom idea onto others in a frothing-at-the-mouth
way - not that people shouldn't care about freedom, nor that it's
And more importantly, why did you just send a suspicious file in
you email?
What are you doing sending .dat files anyway?
For the record, Google Mail (or Gmail, if you're in the US)
automatically threads every message in Backstage correctly; you can
also use its excellent
On Dec 6, 2007 2:23 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/12/2007, Deirdre Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hurray for freedom. I'm sure you'll appreciate that that kind of disdain
for
users is not something the BBC is likely to go along with.
Sadly the BBC has disdain for
On Dec 6, 2007 12:16 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/12/2007, Matthew Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The delay is just a
small-team-working-on-/programmes-and-trying-to-fit-it-all-in thing.
Any chance of explaining what the BBC actually have to do when someone
says let's open
Neat and possibly useful chart API from Google, released today:
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
If it's of any use, I've written a quick PHP encoding script for it, instead
of the JavaScript version they offer:
http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/12/06/google-charts-api-using-php/
I've
On Dec 7, 2007 12:15 AM, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Cridland wrote:
...
As a note, this will be the second time that a member of my team has
released code
Third actually :-) (that I know of :)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=122494package_id
On Dec 5, 2007 9:06 PM, Matthew Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all - a quick word from the infamous Perl on Rails team itself
Psst, Matt, nobody's reading these bits. They're too busy arguing about
licences.
Still, better that than nothing. Which reminds me - have we finished adding
that
$target;
return You don't need to understand $target to work at the BBC\n;
}
print job_requirement(perl);
... so hasten yourself to www.bbc.co.uk/jobs now.
--
James Cridland | Head of Future Media Technology, BBC Audio Music
Interactive
Room 718 | Henry Wood House | 3-6 Langham Place
On Nov 23, 2007 12:20 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[quoting me in April]
It's possible for all our podcasts to be produced in Ogg Vorbis
automatically, too. Indeed, all our on-demand audio is already encoded
into
Ogg Vorbis, for when it becomes a popular codec (and we're
On Nov 8, 2007 10:42 AM, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course this is a blog so not exactly a reference source:
http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2007/11/mlb-game-downloads-still-inaccessible.html
So this DRM system seems to have lasted 2003-2006. Then a year later you
lose
any
On 10/16/07, Barry Carlyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had heard that one of the student radio stations was building a flash
player for their radio stream for the wii…..
Cough
http://www.playthree.net/2007/04/virgin-radio-available-on-ps3-and-wii.html
Yes, April.
//j
Those of you who might be keeping an eye on the next big thing, and who
are in London, might want to know that the Apple Store in Regent Street has
a slew of iPod Touch units available to play with. There are developer kits
available on the web, but if you want to give your new app a quick test on
Thanks for this bug report. It's very interesting, and my team are looking
at it as we speak.
We are aware of some issues with the BBC Radio streams on Windows Media
Player. Yours has possibly been the most useful bug report we've seen so
far!
//j
On 9/17/07, Mark Hingston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is in use within the BBC, I believe; though the hack day stuff used a
different virtualisation thing.
I use S3 personally and at mediauk.com, incidentally.
--
http://james.cridland.net | http://www.mediauk.com
Media UK is a Not At All Bad Ltd production. Company info:
On 9/6/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 19:48 +0100 6/9/07, vijay chopra wrote:
I saw that as well. though I signed the petition, I'm not really
bothered any more. I just use my windows partition and just strip
all my iPlayer downloads of their DRM with the help of the guys over
Reported; thank you.
Any more these web pages aren't updated type emails, please feel free to
forward these to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where I will prod the people
responsible.
I have a collection of quite large res logos, on white, which I've used for
www.mediauk.com ; shout if you need them.
On
Bad Ltd production. Company info:
http://www.notatallbad.ltd.uk/
On 9/2/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James,
Very nice - simple to use too. Any chance you could make it provide the
old weather symbols (as stilled used on bbc.co.uk homepage) as an
option?
On 01/09/07, James
it would be fine you use the BBC URLs rather than
copy them and rehost them.
On 02/09/07, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, have replied offlist to this.
Any chance you could make it provide the old weather symbols (as
stilled used on bbc.co.uk homepage) as an option
http://bbc-hackday.dyndns.org:2825/
- the whole thing's stitched together with MusicBrainz artist ids
Theoretically, it should be possible to stitch www.bbc.co.uk/music/ into
this, too. That uses Musicbrainz data, but I've no idea where the odd IDs
come from. The Coral, for example, is
On 7/29/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(boring DRM invective deleted)
Also why does the BBC trust's report not mention the fact that not
only is iPlayer Windows only, it is IE only? Did the BBC not tell them
they where doing this? Why can't it work with Firefox? iplayer:// can
be made to
On 7/29/07, Adam Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any chance of a separate developer list for discussion of APIs,
services, Geek events, etc.
The BBC with the encouragement from Ian Matthew are providing some
great sources of information for doing mashups and organising some great
On 7/17/07, Jonathan Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a shame it's internal only. I'd love it to be on Backstage.
I second your thoughts...
//j
On 7/23/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you want BBC images to use on other websites (from Wikipedia onwards)
just visit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediabank/
Register, download and use to your hearts desires.
Gosh. A search for all images related to BBC Radio (ten national
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
On 7/13/07, Jakob Fix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/13/07, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's some confusion over CRIDs IMO - even in RFC 4078 they get
referred to as URLs. I think it's best to think of them as URIs,
designed to be unique and location-independent. TV-Anytime
On 6/11/07, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I think I like the idea of
the BBC offering an OpenID login option, rather than the BBC turning into
yet another OpenID provider.
You say yet another OpenID provider - yet the only 'real world' one I'm
aware of right now is AOL... I think there's
I really want to understand how OpenID works from a login point of view.
If anyone can easily point me to some PHP code that allows a user to log in
via an OpenID, I'd dearly like to have a play with it for mediauk.com - I've
failed, so far, to find anything that my little brain understands
I got one of our crack developers on the case, and the result is
http://apps.facebook.com/virginradio/ in case anyone wants to take a look.
We're quite pleased with it, but it's certainly a work in progress. Works
best if you're already registered at virginradio.co.uk but still works fine
if not.
On 6/1/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I also wanted to get people views on Google Gears - Google Gears is an
open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications
that can run offline.
http://code.google.com/apis/gears
I've played with it for Google
If anyone wants any Joost invites, please mail me privately -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - and I'll get an invitin' when I'm next near wifi.
Which will be tomorrow, probably in Oslo airport.
Any Joost user gets unlimited invites, so no special favours with the Joost
lot need be procured.
--
On 5/25/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He's at the BBC now... *No mercy!* (As my housemate vehemently argues, he
works for us license-payers now ;)
Sorry to disappoint you and your housemate, but as an employee of Virgin
Radio Ltd, as I still am, I am still beholden to the
On 5/22/07, Chris Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(golly, mr cridland, looks like you've got the expectations of a whole
darn mailing list on your shoulders?!?
frankly, tho, first things first: i've got a whole stack of holiday leave
forms waiting for you to sign when you're able?
Oh...
On 5/21/07, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting idea - look forward to seeing your gadget :-) I did try to
write a prototype which flattened out the front page of news.bbc.co.uk
into a big Google News style page. Perhaps I could dig that out and
modify the output.
If you have
Since I'm at home tending a cold, I thought I'd do some reconfiguring of my
iGoogle page (that's what they insist on calling the Google personalised
homepage these days - Steve Jobs has a lot to answer for).
I thought I might look at the current BBC News gadgets, and write a nicer
one (which
:
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml
This is ordered editorially. Is the widget messing with it? Am I missing
something?
J
--
*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *James Cridland
*Sent:* 21 May 2007 12
On 5/9/07, Sam Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since the bbc don't provide an ical feed of the proms
Odd. They do, though, provide some quite nifty SMS reminders (at least, they
did last year).
Your iCal feeds don't import correctly into Google Calendar - though I
notice that someone has
On 1/8/07, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the Twitterati amongst us: just add/follow bbcnews to get BBC
news updates in Twitter
More info here: http://menti.net/?p=85
Experimental as usual... feedback welcome!
If I might steal this idea...
FOLLOW MEDIAUKRADIO
FOLLOW MEDIAUKTV
On 5/3/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oo blimey - looks like we have a man inside now! How useful...
Not inside yet!
http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/05/03/to-the-bbc/
But thanks, all. I'm a big fan of Backstage. I only hope that Virgin Radio
can launch its own (which I
On 4/22/07, Lamptey, Derryck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RoR, spring, hibernate Dotnet, java, php, etc, etc.
What is the real backstage story? I'd find it very informative for someone
to give us non-BBC-backstagers (without violating what's left of the
official secrets act) some sort of
On 4/10/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I understand it, it was more a case of the BBC (and ITV)
trialing
broadcasting via the multicast infrastructure
Cough - Virgin Radio has been running multicast trials with the BBC for a
long while too.
On 4/8/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenBSD 1 visit
Does that mean the user never came back!!?!??!?!
It means that user never came back that month, yes.
Possibly they visited on March 31st, and have been visiting every day since!
;)
--
http://james.cridland.net/
I'm coming late to this discussion, as always, but if you're interested,
here's the information from virginradio.co.uk (sitewide).
Visits by operating system in March 2007 (compared with November 2005)
Windows: 96.39% (was 97.45%)
Macintosh: 2.87% (was 1.75%)
Linux: 0.48% (was 0.55%)
Unknown:
I'll not reply to all of that, but one thing is worthwhile saying...
On 3/19/07, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The iPlayer will have crap on it, in part because of this: the content
providers do not want their content to be visible where you shouldn't
get it; so you should only
On 3/23/07, Allan Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone knows any of the site statistics for the BBC
web-sites. In particular what the browser market share is, as I am
wondering how much longer to support IE5 and 5.5 for certain sites -
depending on their application and
While I know we've done this to death, and that life may be moving on from a
DRM discussion on here, could I just clarify the comments attributed to me?
On 3/5/07, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was particularly concerned to see that someone (I believe it was
James) was allowed to
Many thanks to everyone for their help. As David Riddle spots, this came out
of beta yesterday at around 11.30am, and is now the live player for all
users.
On 3/1/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are there any thoughts of making the new player in to a widget James?
Widget
If you're a fan of the Radio 1 SMS text thing, then you'll be a fan of
this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/407672266/
...as someone's already commented, it's an electro-cardiograph for the
station.
(The way we're all feeling today, we could all do with an electro-cardigan
for the
On 3/2/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Might interest some people here.
*http://www.youtube.com/BBC* http://www.youtube.com/BBC
*http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bbcworldwide*http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bbcworldwide
Particularly interesting is the announcement that Top
If you're a Virgin Radio VIP, go to
*http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/*http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/and
click the link marked participate in our beta (it's just under the
Listen live now link if you're logged in).
All feedback is very welcome: please use the link you'll find within the
On http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ there's a blog, and the main item of the blog
is currently 'More Twitter Hacks and BBC Goodness'.
Click the headline, to be rewarded by a 404 error.
(Or, worse, click the 'see original' link in the RSS feed to be rewarded by
a 404 error).
And now I can't blog
On 2/26/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Probably even worse. Your hurting the website even more -
lowering the CTR [1] by registering an impression, yet user
has no opportunity to click.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_Through_Rate
Depends if you ever click ads...
On 2/27/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Take a site like slashdot, I visit, I like the content, so I decide to
white-list. However I find the ads over intrusive so I put it back on the
black list
Ah. Other people might get irritated with the ads and therefore not go back
to
On 2/27/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The fact you deliberately linked to a torrent site - thus removing the
chance of the oscar winners to earn money from their films
Well done, Dave. Don't you owe me a drink? ;)
--
http://james.cridland.net/
On 2/26/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Out of interest, how do you stand on hiding ads... (That being an
option of Adblock)
Probably even worse. Your hurting the website even more - lowering the
CTR [1] by registering an impression, yet user has no opportunity to
click.
For
On 2/23/07, Sebastian Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Michael said] you're not a for-profit entity and you're
screwing it up for everyone else.
He then referenced the recently-announced CBBCWorld: you just launched
some stupid kids social network, well you didn't actually launch
anything, you
On 2/20/07, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another hack/prototype: Partly inspired by Martin's
(http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2007/02/tv_twitter.html)
and Mario's
(http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2007/01/bbc_news_just_s.
html) experiments we've put Radio
On 2/22/07, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You shouldn't take any notice of people who think you're ideas are
desperately sad.
I'd never take any notice of anyone then, and where would be the fun in
that?
Or mention good ideas at a BBC backstage bash! Though, honestly, I wasn't
Dave,
The fact you deliberately linked to the print version of Vanity Fair - thus
removing the chance of the publishers to earn money from your visit from
advertising, and/or effectively market the other content on their website,
is very telling.
I am deeply sorry that you don't want people to
This might be interesting and/or relevant to this discussion...
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Harris [*mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 February 2007 19:11
To: IWA-Europe/UK-Webcasting
Cc: Philip Haggar; James Cridland; Alex Wolfe
Subject: Re: [iwa-europe
On 2/15/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the point, then? Well, the point of the BBC is that, by
informing, educating and entertaining everyone in the UK, the
population of the UK gains both individually and collectively to an
extent greater than the BBC's negative market
On 2/14/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 14/02/07, David McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed, this seems particularly pointless when I can simply point my
desk
antenna at the Crystal Palace transmitter and record the 20Mbaud H.2641080p
stream being broadcast in clear.
This
On 2/13/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also note that its been published in the free software, open
standard, cross platform ogg vorbis format as well as MP3, and hope
this demonstrates that such formats do indeed exist - As I said in the
show, I think that everything the BBC is
On 2/13/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is all my personal opinion.
Yes we (me, and it seems most of the list) know DRM is evil. However - in
this case DRM is enabling people to view the content and making it MORE
accessible. Perhaps the industry will change and we'll see
On 2/9/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where did you get the idea that DRM is a benefit to the computer's owner?
If content-owners* require DRM to be able to release content for use on your
computer (currently the case in the BBC iPlayer, and/or Channel 4's
on-demand plater,
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