On pictures I agree of course that consumer technology is making the
equipment better and more accessible, but I would say this has been
happening for years and so maybe you underestimate the value of the
professional photographer or photo journalist. Most of us can't take photos
as well as a
Hi,
There's just two bits in John's last message I'd like to pick up:
If you want a (quality) picture of an event, someone has to be there
and some poor pictures from a phone camera are not a replacement.
I think this is a false dilemma. Guys in my office have phones with
8MP cameras. My
Hulu notwithstanding, I think iPlayer's easily the best experience for
professionally-produced content, and the ease and speed of use makes me
choose it over the illegal method mentioned above every time.
+1. Using the 4 watch online is just a horrible experience whereas
connecting my laptop
http://www.naptan.org.uk/
+1
It's the Naptan data you need.
Phil
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I came across this site the other day, I don't think anyone has mentioned it
before...
It's an interactive TV guide, all done without Flash. The search is AJAX
and searches after each keypress, and it looks good too.
http://www.zingzing.co.uk/
clever, but rather annoying to use for me at
I wonder how one can best persuade the relevant people at the BBC to lay
out, adopt and embrace a forward thinking strategy to allow end users to
access any and all of their services using only free software...
I suspect that, for the most part, it isn't the BBC that you need to convince.
…on any mobile device, set top box (STB), handheld, phone, web
pad, tablet or Tablet PC (other than Windows XP Tablet PCEdition and
its successors), game console, TV, DVD player, mediacenter (other
than Windows XP Media Center Edition and its
If you guy's were asking the questions, what questions would you ask them.
If Dopplr's offering isn't compelling enough to non-nerds, in
particular with the potential recession, who will buy you out?
Alternately, if you don't sell, how will you continue to afford coming
to all these conferences?
While slamming down the ones which don't. Putting a
mid rule through cloud computing is like putting a mid rule through mobile.
More like putting a mid rule through proprietary software.
Ian mixed two quotes - one from Stallman, the other from Larry
Ellison, the founder of Oracle (hype and
It can't be a compass directly, but many GPS receivers can show you your
direction of travel on a compass-like display.
I seem to remember my N95 has a pretty good compass in it.
GPS+accelerometer = standing-still compass.
Phil
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Jim Tonge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
surely the proof of android's pudding will be in the eating?
non-geeks i know who used WinMo were utterly flummoxed by it.
+1 to both those statements. I don't know any non-geeks who get on
well with WinMo (but several geeks
I've written a new mashup - http://www.trackplaying.com - it displays
information about the track currently playing on the radio.*
It might actually be nice to have a link to listen live for each of the radio stations
in case I visit when not already listening.
Cheers,
Phil
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I've left this list once before, because whilst it's full of interesting
people, I've absolutely no interest in watching them bang their heads
against each other in the same way over and over again. I still have no
interest in that. Whilst it is your right to speak it is also everyone
elses
I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to
appear on sites like CiF, but they have been removed.
Probably shortly after Jeffry Zeldman described them as the mullet of web 2.0 ;)
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We're making that code, some demo apps and some open source applications
available that will let you use mp3 tags to enhance audio with images,
chapters and descriptive text. We are also providing enhanced versions
of the Chris Moyles podcast for you to play around with.
This is completely
I can't find the article I read when I fixed it, but Nintendo mention
that channels 1 and 11 are good as they don't overlap with other
channel. There's a bunch of other stuff from them on this page as well:
Out of interest, is there a feature on the Wii to connect up an external
wifi aerial anywhere? I saw they had capability for the old gamecube
controllers, nice touch that.
No, there's no way to connect an external aerial.
The Wii also takes the Gamecube memory cartridges (it can't store
Billy Abbott wrote:
I also had a lot of success in getting my Wii to be reliable by playing
around with which wireless channel was being used. It sounded unlikely
to me but seems to have worked. There's a load of pages out on the web
about tweaking the settings to get them to work nicely.
However, a clear text feed of the data would keep the data pure, surely?
Seriously, where would the fun in that be?
Phil 'timestamp-tastic' Wilson
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put together matches video to
Hansard, rather than just the captions - that is, to the official record of what was said,
rather than what was actually said, which is an important distinction.
Phil
2008/6/4 Phil Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
However, a clear text
Jeremy Stone wrote:
the transcript and audio have just been uploaded.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/thefuture/transcript_fry.shtml
wot, no mp3? ;)
Phil
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Jeremy Stone wrote:
don't shoot the messenger!
I initially thought of signing off as Phil 'never satisfied' Wilson, but couldn't bear the
thought of causing so much nationwide tittering.
Oh, wait...
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Unsure, I am not sure they are breaking the law. The BBC is a public
body and their are tight restrictions on what it can and can't do.
Thus it is more likely it is committing an offence under the law.
wrt content producers we should be less concerned with the law and more concerned with the
Alan Ogilvie wrote:
Supported OPML feed now available for use.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/opml/bbc_podcast_opml.xml
This is great.
For what it's worth, the N95 podcast client only supports OPML URLs which end
in .opml
Yes, this is pretty rubbish (and took me quite a while to realise), but
Could you trick it with a 302/301 redirect or does it check the
*destination* URLs name?
I don't think so. IIRC it will handle redirects for the actual feed URLs but
not the OPML URL.
I'll check later.
Of course, I'm still happy with my own version
Here's a quick exclusive for the Backstage list.
If you own a Nokia N95, or a Playstation PSP, you might wish to visit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts on your device.
Very nice!
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OK, here's my guess:
I'm reasonably sure this has in fact now been hacked, but with the BBC most likely facing
a cat and mouse game with hackers intent on circumventing copy protection. is it worth
our exposing how it's done?
Phil
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--- We've released a fix to prevent unrestricted downloading of streamed TV
programmes
on BBC iPlayer. Like other broadcasters, the security of rights-protected
content
online is an issue we take very seriously. It's an ongoing, constant process
and one
which we will continue to monitor. ---
If you have the time and the evidence I suggest you contact the EU
Commission about it[1].
Has anyone complained direct to the content providers?
i.e. have you found a BBC programme you'd like to watch which includes the property of a
third-party and written to that third party petitioning
Here's The Register on the subject, with an offensive title.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/12/iplayer_linux_stream_download_hack/
In a statement, a BBC spokeswoman said: This is not unusual or surprising. We are
working with our partners to ensure that our content is delivered to users
With ideas like this being touted by the BBC for people to get content on
different devices SANS usage or time restrictions, it seems bizarre that
another part of the BBC produces iPlayer which is time limited and device
controlled.
I'm told that there is now an iPhone version of the iPlayer
I went to
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2007/06/mojiticom_onlin.html#postcomment
and was going to add a comment saying that Mojito is no longer online (boo!) but
despite the form being there, after you've hit Post it says you are not allowed to post
comments.
Can you
Anyone got any more details about the streaming being used? Or is
there some already out there that I've missed?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_iplayer_on_iphone_behind_t.html
Has some more info.
Cheers.
Have now switched user-agents and am browsing away ;)
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aaand we're away
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pip/2317139476/
Not sure how the tokenisation etc. works just yet, and not all programs are made available
as mp4.
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Mr I Forrester wrote:
I like the idea of this, hard sell but who knows maybe a prototype could
bring this to life.
It might be nice to see something like the BBC Annotatable Audio project that the BBC
Radio Music Interactive RD team worked on back in 2005, but on the iPlayer stream.
e.g. a
I knocked up a little unsophisticated something:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/bbc-iplayer-quick/ :-)
This is ace, thanks Matthew.
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- A 31 day schedule in XML
- TV schedules as a API with past and future ability
- Direct links to iplayer programmes
- XML/RSS/ATOM/JSON of upcoming iplayer programmes
- XML/RSS/ATOM/JSON of programmes about to drop off iplayer
- Links between programmes and their programme catalogue entry
- The
Will data portability get Web 2.0 companies to allow you to {im,ex}port
some minor aspects of data, like your social graph, from one silo to
the next, in W3C standards like RDF or other, less rigorous but currently
more popular ones?
Does it matter providing the format is transparent and
Clearly one or two minor issues to resolve but...
lol! :)
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Will data portability get Web 2.0 companies to allow you to export
some minor aspects of data, like your social graph, from one silo to
the next? Or will it get hermetic Web 2.0 companies to support the
semantic web properly?
So that you can export your social graph from one silo to another,
Data Portability is promoting RDF.
Amongst other formats, and for particular purposes, yes.
What about all the data that isn't in the social graph?
I was only quoting you. Perhaps we should amend your original statement.
Better to concentrate on the principles, because once a business
It is still an early version but any feed back on the feed would be
great (or if you build anything interesting).
The feed looks good.
Literally five minutes of XSLT gives me this:
http://philwilson.org/code/bbc-podcasts.xslt
$ xsltproc bbc-podcasts.xslt
(for some reason Andy's reply didn't make it to my mail client, but I've read it online
here: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg07375.html - I'd really
appreciate it if the Backstage page about the mailing list would link to the HTML archive!)
Apache has the power to
Still doesn't explain how midnight is handled or what the timezone is!
At this point, I'm going to bow out of the conversation. Feel free to curse me for being
stupid, misleading, insulting or whatever.
It seems to me that you have some reasonably fundamental misunderstandings about all the
I
can't find formal standards for RTMP and FLV, did I miss them
somewhere? Tried RFC/IETF and ISO, neither have anything.
We have covered this before (multiple times I think).
RTMP is a proprietary protocol. It was reverse-engineered in late 2006 (I think). Adobe
have not released a
There have been quite a few times when I have some music played and would love
to be
able to buy it. Its not too bad when its pop or rock because I can always
google the
Lyrics but when its a classical piece that can be a struggle.
Personally I'm waiting for the time when we can pause a
If I explain that all the stories on the BBC news website are barely
more than static HTML, would that explain why adding watermarks to them
all would be difficult? If the site was backed by some kind of
new-fangled CMS then it would be an extremely sensible suggestion. :-)
wanted: volunteer
of embedded systems don't run Windows at all, where is the
protocol and file format specifications to get non-Windows systems to
receive and play files?
iPlayer delivers a standard FLV over a standard RTMP stream. These are not open
protocols but they are quite well understood.
Cheers,
Phil
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