[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion que stion (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? C lick and Torrents)

2007-01-31 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
If you make furniture, the fact that furniture-duplication wands are invented does not give you the right to restrict people from duplicating chairs. No, but I should have the rights to restrict people from duplicating MY chairs. That makes no sense. No chair is unique. They all

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
/newme dia.shtml It occurs to me I may have turned to the dark side since starting to work at Sony ;-) martin http://www.currybet.net On 19/12/06, Josh at GoUK.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if the BBC started chucking out DRM free open format versions of shows on the web, then it would have

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
it doesn't mean that each of us, individually, has the *right* to unfettered access to whatever they (the BBC) produce. I think that's a difficult position for the BBC to sustain. Maybe it's ok in terms of material the BBC produces, but not in terms of material the BBC broadcasts. Once a

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
But not everyone has the resources to publish and distribute - unless you consider YouTube to be an acceptable delivery system. Neither does every consumer have the ability to watch video delivered over the internet. You forget that not everyone is a geek - a common problem on this list of late.

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Wales Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:25 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] democracyplayer Josh at GoUK.com wrote: At one time, the BBC was needed as a distributor of content, but do we

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
- you can get 8m people around the TV for a shared experience watching Strictly Come Dancing and Doctor Who, but there are few (if any) videos on YouTube with an aggregation of 8 million eyeballs on them The shared experience thing is a red herring. 20 years ago, some shows would have got 15 or

RE: [backstage] Witty slogan and design for Backstage T-shirts

2006-10-30 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
But the Microformats T-shirts are very exclusive schwag which everyone wants Erm, not me doh! Ideas to float the goat: 1. Backstage - Craic Stage (the internet should be about fun as well as other things) 2. Backstage - Craic Sage (having fun but wise) 3. Backstage - Crack

RE: [backstage] World Service Schedules

2006-09-26 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
Think Rich has a very valid point: a lot of the current work is based on repackaging news, weather, tv schedules, mapping ideas, or odd little widgets which are little more than no-need-to-have toys. All the myspace and blogging kind of web 2.0 sites are little more than the naff homepages that

RE: [backstage] Web API down?

2006-07-17 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
I can reach it -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kim Plowright Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 2:08 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Web API down? I'm seeing it internally - can anyone confirm it's dead