Good to see ...
On 2 Jun 2011, at 18:32, david.ho...@nokia.com wrote:
I'm here!
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I live half way down the Med.
Spent twenty years recording in studios in London.
Been here since day 1. It has been a brilliant place.
Rich
On 2 Jun 2011, at 22:22, Adam McGreggor wrote:
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 05:50:55PM +0100, Giacomo Shimmings wrote:
Me too. It would be rather nice if
I've got a little story to tell, before this list disappears
In 1990 I had the pleasure of doing a recording session at Maid
Vale a full band with the Royal Philharmonic, about 110 people. We
set up the studio and found that the small monitors (speakers) on the
desk were out of
For those who may have missed this...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11380490
Good to see that some inside the bubble are aware that a different conversation
needs to take place.
Richard
On 1 Oct 2010, at 19:17, Paul Jakma wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Andrew Bowden wrote:
No it doesn't.
Yes.. but this list was around before GeoIP, and before the Rights
holders had a clue about the internet. Equally, the Trust now.
I saw exactly the same things happening with music.
Now, twenty years later, some of the music Rights holders have got the
plot. What I would like to know is
Is that a 56 hour week with overtime only after that point then?
RichE
On 7 Sep 2010, at 10:06, Ant Miller wrote:
it sort of makes sense, in that we still have some operational support
roles that are shift based, and some part time. having days and hours
terms for role grades ensures these
uncompetitive - now
that made me smile.
Regards
RichE
On 7 Sep 2010, at 10:35, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
On 7 Sep 2010, at 09:20, Richard P Edwards wrote:
Is that a 56 hour week with overtime only after that point then?
I doubt it - someone who excels at a job as cool as this one - is likely
Aha, thanks Simon ... confusion over. :-)
On 7 Sep 2010, at 11:39, Simon Thompson wrote:
9 is the pay grade, not the number of days - 9D means a grade 9 person on
days conditions.
It may be a continuing or fixed term contract.
On 7 September 2010 10:23, Richard P Edwards re...@mac.com
The internet doesn't make anything different. Not anymore.
It is exactly the same as the physical world but bigger and more connected.
The publishers should be educated at the same time as they would benefit from
being open and educating their customers.
Surely the apparent subterfuge goes to
I thought this was an interesting summary
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bbc_drm_and_demise_get_iplayer_what_hell_going
I read some quite thought provoking stories of what the Publishers are
up to . so once PACT and other old fashioned societies get
involved, then the
Equally
Rich
On 6 Apr 2010, at 22:29, Alex Cockell wrote:
I'm hoping they'll do the right thing and kill the bill.
Alex
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Hi,
I did.. just so that you know it wasn't just you.
I also get some mails in the wrong order... which can be confusing.
Regards
Rich
On 2 Mar 2010, at 19:20, Phil Lewis wrote:
Hi,
Did anyone else get around 10 duplicates of the last post:
From: Simon Stirrat streetma...@gmail.com
On 16 Feb 2010, at 22:34, Mo McRoberts wrote:
On 16-Feb-2010, at 16:59, Christopher Woods wrote:
Simile time: trying to control, or fighting against, cross-platform
consumption, usage on previously unconceived platforms and/or unexpected
adaption of the service to new forms of
It is also worth highlighting that the Societies involved in
protecting the rights of music producers have also lagged well behind
the technical innovations which have subsequently opened up new areas
of distribution... both legal and illegal. Their methods for trying to
defend the rights
For sure, peaked my interest.
Thanks Dave,
Richard
On 19 Aug 2009, at 23:19, Dave Crossland wrote:
Hi,
Thought this list might find this thoughtful post on the FSFE-UK list
to be of interest :-)
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From: MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop
Date: 2009/8/19
I would tend to agree with you Tom.
The fun side of this discussion is that most of the opinions are
factual, yet as with the press, many of them will not be true once
these changes have passed, especially those with a spoonful of fear
factor.
I can remember the uproar in the Docklands when
I am really looking forward to this Ian.
I have remixed real data... ie music and video, all my life. Having
some from the BBC will be absolutely wonderful.
Best wishes
RichE
P.S. Not really in the same world as the BBC - yet Digidesign have
over the last couple of years moved to the
I am truly pleased that Kingswood has had a reprieve hopefully
many more areas of the BBC will be looked at as the public believe
they are, as part of a great corporation, as opposed to being just
another part to wind down and sell.
With more clarity and better overall confidence within
Hi Ian,
My question...
When, after waiting thirty years, will I and others, be able to truly
own our digital files on computers and over the internet?
Where every file is stamped with digital ownership. A stamp that is
integrated to all files and attributes universal ownership to the
Thanks for sharing this Rob.
I am only just coming back down to Earth as everyone else begins the
Web 2 journey in to the clouds. :-)
Must say that I am intrigued by PicLens. the movement is a little
strange for my eyes, but it is great to see more moving beyond the
normal browser
Hi Jim,
I agree with what you say. It is a little like the Mac Front Row in
essence, but from my side, I like to see pieces of software that join
the web experience with the complete OS in a different way.
As a surfer, I don't get too excited anymore by the way that
Browsers present the
Hi James,
I am looking forward to all these changes, I hope it will be great.
One quick question, regarding the iPlayer Radio is it possible on
an update to make the volume control actually go down to zero? I can
then watch the Magic Roundabout on Youtube instead of listening to
the
Thinking out loud. there could be opportunity whereby BT, or
already BBC license holders, feed the iplayer (Virgin DVB-T) feed to
a 3G iPhone but maybe with an HDMI port added, if you want to
watch straight on a TV screen . If one can't, or doesn't like 3G
or Edge, you can
I'm sure that they will have it would be great to see a copy,
perhaps it was overlooked that BT is more than just a UK centric
business model. :-)
I must say that the peace here may be broken by the following phrase ...
She stressed that the BBC would not be making any money from the new
I agree with Mr Fry's position and furthermore, I think that it
is important, as is my own case, to understand that there are many
rights-holders who fear all of this. and the result is that they
cannot see a high quality/secure way to release their work for
financial reward.
Surely the next step is to stop GeoIP, so that anyone can try this -
even in Poland. :-)
I think that this may not be too far away, after all, this is the
most derisive form of censorship.
Happy days
Rich
On 9 Mar 2008, at 10:00, Tim Dobson wrote:
On 08/03/2008, Dave Crossland [EMAIL
Yep, I have to agree.
LOL
Rich
On 25 Feb 2008, at 17:13, Steve Jolly wrote:
Richard P Edwards wrote:
I would love to know who it was that decided to make the two
systems incompatible.. once again, if that hadn't have
happened HD-DVD could have still lost, but without the public's
Toshiba seem to have a bigger game plan.
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUST28617520080220
You have to love the timing. On the same day as they effectively lose
one battle, they amortise some of their losses with an extra $800
million investment. The better Sony do now, the
I think that if you compare Vinyl with anything round and shiny, CD's
DVD etc... you have a point Ian. But every generation I know, from 72
to 11 year olds, is now just putting it all on computers. Today my
mother came across your new BBC home page and was really excited
about the
Is there any intention within the BBC to put us out of our misery,
and status as potential law breakers, to provide a server full of
streamed content, complete TV programmes, that we can access legally
worldwide through the internet?
I suggest that if Mr Highfield's associate is breaking the
I agree.
Is the less than 60 click second hand part of the new era it
introduces?
I know that life in London is fast paced, but ...
*smile*
RichE
On 18 Dec 2007, at 11:44, Darren Stephens wrote:
Yeah, I forgot the clock. Nice little retro touch that brought back
some childhood memories
Hi All,
It is worth mentioning that a lot of third party apps, which are not
necessarily favoured by Apple, function well, and follow every new
release of the system. It would seem that this system is now full of
ideas that at one point were external apps.
As for your questions Ian,
Q1.
Me too. ;-)
RichE
On 29 Aug 2007, at 11:42, Toni Sant wrote:
I must say I'm quite curious now! ;-)
Many thanks for putting the update on your undoubtedly very long
to do list.
Cheers...
...t.s.
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Ian,
This looks brilliant.
RichE
On 27 Jul 2007, at 17:33, Ian Forrester wrote:
We are proud to introduce a new initiative with the BBC Digital
Media Initiative (DMI), which will affect the BBC for many years to
come. Something which I'm sure the Backstage Community will and
could sink
I'd be happy to contribute, and discuss, more about DRM in another
place, if you like.
RichE
On 19 Jun 2007, at 17:04, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
Ian Betteridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Assuming you mean me, replying to other's comments is hardly
hijacking.
I don't mean you (unless you
Hi Ian,
What happens next? .. well most that you listed below is already
happening somewhere.
In my opinion, this is what happens next..
Your whole office, and anybody interested in the positive future of
the BBC, goes to the DG, or whomever now, and demands a budget to put
as
For sure Ian,
We already have our own network broadcasting/server units at
home :--) Have had for three years or more.
In my case.
Mac G5 plus 30 inch screen as desktop, with a 23 inch as a TV or
second screen. add bittorrent, or DVD, or iTunes plus iChat..
with a terrabyte of
Exactly, ask any parent not to teach their kids to share it
is part of the total fabric of society.
Sometimes I think the business world has completely lost it. There
are many neutral ways to influence, and believing in the choice of
the customer is surely a mainstay of any
Hi James, with the cold,
You are not alone I tried a couple of years ago to use the BBC
RSS, and just found it had little order. That does not just apply to
the BBC, I don't use RSS for anything apart from Wired.
At about the same time Mario produced a bot in iChat that could help
to
Somehow I love the idea of Redmond including anti functionality in to
Vista. links in pretty well to their version of anti-trust. I
get the feeling that there will be more to come from the Devastate
(my) Reality Medium.
Although I won't be in London for the hack day, I am looking
No way Kim, I'm NOT normal. ;-)
On 19 Apr 2007, at 13:28, Kim Plowright wrote:
/me guesses, somehow, that the denizens of this list are somewhat
demographically homogeneous.
I got kicked off after about 60% when I said I was male. hhm.
Oh well, perhaps 35-44 age bracket is
Hey Tom,
By making it UK centric, isn't the BBC missing the public values of
an awful lot of us that no longer inhabit that island all year?
Or are there pages written in Polish etc, just to please the total UK
population. I wish the Trust would accept BBC internet presence
for what it
And the same here .
I got kicked off after about 60% when I said I was male. hhm.
Oh well, perhaps 35-44 age bracket is already full.
On 18 Apr 2007, at 19:40, Toni Sant wrote:
Here's what I got:
Many thanks for your time - unfortunately you did not meet the
recruitment criteria
... and there will be a welsh version of iPlayer In fact one
of the coolest hidden gems of the BBC is bbc.co.uk/vocab , which
could very easily be adapted for polish just by adding
dictionary... This is one of the apps I'd personally like to Open
Source... or offer as an API...
On 18/04/07, Richard P
Sounds great to me Ian. I will be looking forward to this.
Is there any way to include a chat session running live for comment?
You may have seen on Wired that DRM has made it in to being used to
add legacy to certain products. as if we all need more than Moore
to determine when
Hi all,
I am surprised that this thread has pointed so strongly toward the
price hike and quality as being risky.
Please let me be concise with some of the facts
Steve Jobs noted that about 3% of music on all iPods is copied from
CD.. CD that is already non-DRM and sold by the major
:-)
As here...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6516189.stm
For sure the vote will be said to not reflect public opinion, but 86%
saying there should be less DRM is quite a statistical majority.
I'm over the moon that higher quality is one of the future
intentions, I am tired of
Great :-)
RichE
On 2 Mar 2007, at 11:58, Andrew Bowden wrote:
Might interest some people here.
http://www.youtube.com/BBC
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bbcworldwide
Which a third to come in the form of a BBC World channel (which
won't be
avalable in the UK apparently)
More details
on which show you heard
it on. That led to quite a lot of confusion :-)
Have fun
RichE
On 28 Feb 2007, at 15:50, James Cridland wrote:
On 2/28/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the first that I have seen of this player. Works pretty
well in Safari but the overall sound
I have managed to listen to the first minutes and then the stream
stops. can anyone share the mp3 with me? :-)
RichE
On 13 Feb 2007, at 11:53, Martin Belam wrote:
Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but will do. Does that mean
we don't have to carry on the debate here anymore ;-)
Oooops sorry all, just realised that the ogg file just had a POSIX
error, connection reset by peer. now I am back up and running
thankfully VLC plays Ogg, as I have just found for the first time.:-)
RichE
On 13 Feb 2007, at 12:30, J.P.Knight wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Tom
moral rights, but let's no go there for now...
On 11/02/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Tom,
Can I ask again then, is there anything that the BBC owns 100%
copyright of in an archive?
Yes or no would be a start. :-)
Regards
Richard
On 11 Feb 2007, at 11:43, Tom Loosemore wrote
holders.
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Hi Dave,
Yes, it was a mistake on my part that I hit reply and the previous
you didn't reply to the Backstage mailing list, perhaps
in error?)
On 02/02/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I totally agree that DRM is not a complete answer, but neither is
giving it all away for nothing.
Copyright was originally an industrial regulation on printers, and I
see
Of Richard P Edwards
Sent: 26 January 2007 01:27
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC
James,
The 128 character description could well be the ISRC code from the
original label.
If it is, then it contains a lot of those same details
James,
The 128 character description could well be the ISRC code from the
original label.
If it is, then it contains a lot of those same details, and is unique
across all manufactured CD's.
I would also be surprised if you haven't come across these guys
Hi Jason,
Does anyone know what the requirements of the rights holders are
within this particular area?
I would love to see a list, then another legal solution may become
available.
RichE
On 24 Jan 2007, at 08:43, Jason Cartwright wrote:
All my personal point of view, as usual
Hi Vijay,
Believe it.. I can hear the clunky wheels starting up.
From the halls of the British Corporation.. yes we need DRM to
satisfy the owners of the work that is to be re-produced, without it
we could never get a licence, or the content etc.etc.etc..
DRM doesn't
What is great is that.
One 3.5m satellite dish with a four way LNB, connected to four Sky
boxes with four Sling Media Sling boxes attached to four Macs,
because that is what I like, each with a couple of realtime
Automator actions, stream the whole lot to Democracy from behind
, but what about rights management? I know
its going to happen anyway but
On 21/12/06, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is great is that.
One 3.5m satellite dish with a four way LNB, connected to four Sky
boxes with four Sling Media Sling boxes attached to four Macs,
because
In the stranger world that I inhabit, these are some of my favs,
although they change daily.
Great use of the web... http://www.wefeelfine.org/
wefeelfine_mac.html
Interesting concept, and check out the money raised http://
www.mondonation.com/
The best user conference on the web,
Davy,
If I lack the connection with command line this is how I do
what you describe.
Apple iPhoto import photos in to a library.. set up the slideshow...
Then use Snapz Pro X to capture the screen as a movie, or mpeg.
The H.264 codec is available which seems the most up to date in
:-) and there I was enjoying the discussion. :-)
On 8 Dec 2006, at 16:22, feedback wrote:
please take us off your email list
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From: Barry Hunter
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Website recognition?
I agree,
FYI, there is some pretty extensive data here
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html#Econ
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html
The above is cool, for anyone in to lists
From looking at their web-site, perhaps Backstage could show them
the way to a better designer.
On the front page it mentions W3C over 40 times.. I fell of my
seat before I got to the About page, but I was smiling broadly as I
got up off the floor.
Freakonomics can definitely be a
Ian,
As a geriatric, I am pleased to be 3rd Generation, with a hint of 4th !!
I'm looking forward to real virtual reality as well, been waiting
since 1987 although Second Life isn't up my street. but an
interactive band on youtube is.. so my vision is very different
from the
So the facts support the premise that the BBC can embrace this
audience, or let someone else... Google/MSN earn the profit and pay
the BBC for the right.
Is it wrong for the public to be afforded the same right, as in this
case, we are contributors to the original cost of production?
Tom,
Wow, I will be watching the next World Cup live on the BBC then. ;-)
If this does what I think it will, then the resulting discussion
will, again, have consequences for everyone. Personally, I like the
idea of sharing and from this side of the Channel, the UK is a state
that censors.
I
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I believe that the music market place has already answered your
question Ian
I'll have one of the V5's Ian :-)
If I had a choice, I would take out secondlife (needless
advertising perhaps) and add
moped... just as a smiley.
All the best
Richard
On 16 Nov 2006, at 15:13, Ian Forrester wrote:
So this is what I've done so far...
Let me know what you think,
Mario rocks.I can't see a place for that scooter on the road, let alone on a t-shirt. sorry Ian. :-)RichE.On 1 Nov 2006, at 11:39, Matthew Cashmore wrote: Very very very cool... and not just because my name is on there! :-) Ian's use of the word awesome however is a little suspect...
Please excuse my interruption, but I would in all cases expect the original author to be accountable.For the complete framework of the public's and BBC's legal responsibility, it is worth reading the BBC's disclaimer and House Rules."You also agree to indemnify the BBC against all legal fees,
Personally, I can't wait until the web breaks free of web-browsers,
but I don't think that widgets alone are the answer. although the
application does take note of the fact that all of us enjoy toasters
that make toast, and irons that iron, if you get my meaning. I have
been trying to
I have been hereabouts for years and today was my third time at the
web-site, perhaps not common, but what is
It is interesting that the blog has no comments on it... yet here
in the mails a variety of brilliant subjects have been discussed.
I am therefore intrigued by the
I am sure that BDS do pay the BBC.
The difference here is that the BBC, as Backstage, made the content
available for use...
and as such, has a clear responsibility to BDS, and any other
commercial user, as well as
the members of Backstage, to make sure that everyone works within the
BBC's
Hi Guys,
I am always interested in the copyright issues that arrive in this
discussion from time to time.
Regarding the BBC, has anyone thought to ask their lawyers to simply
put a clause in to their
own license contract agreement?
At least then one would be able to make informed decisions
Hi,I would like to add to this.If you look on the Pete Tong Radio 1 web-site, for example, you will see that a playlist is published as much as possible.Two points come to mind...1. If the shows are specialist then it is very important that the audience has this information.2. In which ever case,
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