Re: [backstage] feeds with icons or pictures?

2007-07-24 Thread Gordon Joly
At 15:32 +0100 23/7/07, Brian Butterworth wrote: If you want BBC images to use on other websites (from Wikipedia onwards) just visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediabank/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediabank/ Register, download and use to your hearts desires. Wikimedia Commons requires certain type of

Re: [backstage] feeds with icons or pictures?

2007-07-24 Thread Gordon Joly
At 15:32 +0100 23/7/07, Brian Butterworth wrote: If you want BBC images to use on other websites (from Wikipedia onwards) just visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediabank/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediabank/ Register, download and use to your hearts desires. Odd. That's not my reading of what this is

Re: [backstage] feeds with icons or pictures?

2007-07-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
Thus the whole point of the BBC Mediabank - images to use for any purpose! On 24/07/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:32 +0100 23/7/07, Brian Butterworth wrote: If you want BBC images to use on other websites (from Wikipedia onwards) just visit

Re: [backstage] feeds with icons or pictures?

2007-07-24 Thread Frank Wales
On 07/24/2007 12:09 PM, Brian Butterworth wrote: Thus the whole point of the BBC Mediabank - images to use for any purpose! Hardly. Material retrieved from the Media Bank must only be used within the specified embargo dates, by authorized users, may not appear in association with salacious,

Re: [backstage] feeds with icons or pictures?

2007-07-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
ffs All you have to do to be an authorized user is register. If you can explain how using a BBC picture to accompany a BBC data feed is going to bring the BBC's reputation for impartiality into question would take a special effort of malace. On 24/07/07, Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[backstage] Google maps/BBC floods mashup

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Bowyer
Just saw this on BBC Berkshire http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2007/07/23/flood_map_feature.shtml -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

RE: [backstage] Geek Dinner - London Tomorrow

2007-07-24 Thread Julia Goga
le web3 s invited me to a geekdinner too,in the states though From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester Sent: 23 July 2007 18:44 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Geek Dinner - London Tomorrow I thought

[backstage] Over 10,000 sign BBC iplayer petition

2007-07-24 Thread Ian Forrester
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnetuk/news/20/~3/136763927/0,100121,39288177,00.htm E-petition on the 10 Downing Street website urges the prime minister to instruct the BBC to provide the iPlayer for operating systems other than Windows -- Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [ x ]

Re: [backstage] Over 10,000 sign BBC iplayer petition

2007-07-24 Thread Richard Lockwood
Gosh. And let's say there are, as a round figure, ten million computers in homes across the country. So that's, let's see, 0.1% of computer users (assuming just one person uses each computer) who are bothered. Hardly a groundswell of public opinion, is it? More people than that vote for the

Re: [backstage] Over 10,000 sign BBC iplayer petition

2007-07-24 Thread vijay chopra
On 24/07/07, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More seriously, if there's no announcement about (at the least) a release date for a version for Mac by the end of the year, they may have a point, but at the moment I still say the BBC are doing absolutely the right thing, given the

Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-24 Thread Graeme West
Hi all, Sorry to re-open an old thread - just wondering what the position is on scraping the catalogue.bbc.co.uk test site? I say this because I'm trying a little experiment - ingesting the whole catalogue into our Fedora repository ( http://www.fedora.info ) to be cross-referenced with

RE: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-24 Thread Robin Doran
Hi Graeme, The robots.txt file has been accidentally dropped from the new release and we will be re-introducing it, this is due to initial concerns complaints raised about personal data population in external search engines when the service was launched. On the subject of scraping the

Re: [backstage] Over 10,000 sign BBC iplayer petition

2007-07-24 Thread Richard Lockwood
OK. You've picked and chosen what you see as relevent. Let's read the rest. At the time, the only two solutions deployed at scale on the internet were Microsoft's DRM, and Apple's Fairplay DRM. Fairplay did not include the ability to expire content, and therefore could not meet the minimum