RE: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Smethurst
on behalf of Brian Butterworth Sent: Thu 1/8/2009 6:46 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed I don't have to imagine, Windows Media Center can do this. It can record on any keyword you like. Nothing can record NewsWatch though :-( 2009/1/8

RE: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Smethurst
Matt Barber wrote: Still, better than one big T4 program? If they *have* to keep their T4 brand visible, then I think it's better chopped up than one big show. What would work quite well is if the unique episode number with series name was carried in a separate field. So you'd have displayed

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-08 Thread Frankie Roberto
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Michael Smethurst wrote: you're not wrong. we do do a fair bit of user testing around this stuff and attempt to match what we model to audience mental models. it's not always easy tho. we also need to consider how programmes are grouped outside of web pages - eg

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-08 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 8/1/09 12:09, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Michael Smethurst wrote: you're not wrong. we do do a fair bit of user testing around this stuff and attempt to match what we model to audience mental models. it's not always easy tho. we

RE: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-08 Thread Aaron Scullion
: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed On 8/1/09 12:09, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Michael Smethurst wrote: you're not wrong. we do do a fair bit of user testing around this stuff

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-08 Thread Michael
On Thursday 08 January 2009 13:52:01 Paul Webster wrote: isn’t it more about modelling writers, storylines and fictional characters. Imagine a pvr that you could set to only record programmes featuring the character Sarah Jane Smith (whether dr who or SJA)? Probably quite a way off tho I

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-08 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
Matt Barber wrote: I used to like the way T4 would put T4: [show] at the start. That way, you could figure out what you wanted to watch. It would be good if Big Breakfast and such did that. No, that's a truely utterly horrible thing to do. When searching by showname in my PVR, if I want to

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-08 Thread Matt Barber
Matt Barber wrote: I used to like the way T4 would put T4: [show] at the start. That way, you could figure out what you wanted to watch. It would be good if Big Breakfast and such did that. Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: No, that's a truely utterly horrible thing to do. When searching by

RE: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-07 Thread Michael Smethurst
It's kind of admirable that you're attempting to model the structure of TV shows, but as is hinted at in Michael's comment below, we could easily end up with a big gulf between the BBC's understanding vs the public's understanding. you're not wrong. we do do a fair bit of user testing around

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-05 Thread Michael
On Monday 05 January 2009 11:26:25 Jamie Tetlow wrote: Getting down to the nitty-gritty of our internal data structure we'd probably say that the International World Service 'Top of the Pops' and the BBC One 'Top of the Pops' Which of course the audience simply do not, and should not have to,

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-05 Thread Jamie Tetlow
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Gareth Davis gareth.da...@bbc.co.uk wrote: It still still being made, just not for the tellybox :) http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/top_of_the_pops.shtml

RE: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-05 Thread Gareth Davis
From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of James Cridland Sent: 31 December 2008 22:15 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-05 Thread Jamie Tetlow
well exactly, if you don't want to care about it, but equally you may only be interested in the World Service TOTP and so making sure we get the modelling and structure right (and then expose it nicely - which I guess is the main point here ;-) means you'll be able to slice and dice our

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2009-01-01 Thread Gordon Joly
Idea Store http://www.ideastore.co.uk/ Trade marked? Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.j...@pobox.com/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-31 Thread James Cridland
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

RE: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-24 Thread Gareth Davis
Sent: 22 December 2008 23:40 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed Another wish,if you may allow me. Bring back Top of the Pops. Happy holidays Sam Mbale Mpelembe Network

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-23 Thread Martin Deutsch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00704hg/upcoming ? :) On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Sam Mbale smb...@mpelembe.net wrote: Another wish,if you may allow me. Bring back Top of the Pops. Happy holidays Sam Mbale Mpelembe Network http://www.mpelembe.net Follow me on

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-23 Thread Brian Butterworth
Is that a new logo? 2008/12/23 Martin Deutsch martin.deut...@gmail.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00704hg/upcoming ? :) On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Sam Mbale smb...@mpelembe.net wrote: Another wish,if you may allow me. Bring back Top of the Pops. Happy holidays Sam Mbale

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-22 Thread Sam Mbale
Ian All I want for xmas is a BBC logo. Sam Mbale Mpelembe Network http://www.mpelembe.net Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Mr I Forrester mail...@cubicgarden.comwrote: Ok so a little while back we kind of launched or announced that we were building

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-22 Thread Sam Mbale
Another wish,if you may allow me. Bring back Top of the Pops. Happy holidays Sam Mbale Mpelembe Network http://www.mpelembe.net Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Sam Mbale smb...@mpelembe.net wrote: Ian All I want for xmas is a BBC logo. Sam Mbale

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-22 Thread Alan Pope
2008/12/22 Mr I Forrester mail...@cubicgarden.com: Ok so a little while back we kind of launched or announced that we were building out some of the core parts of the backstage site into ideas.welcomebackstage.com (please note the url will change one day soon). You might want to remove the

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
Sure will do, but you all know its Durpal and Idea torrent software running on a beta server. I'm more concerned with what this software could enable rather that how it looks at this moment. Do keep reporting any bugs however. On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 23:51 +, Alan Pope wrote: 2008/12/22 Mr I