An aside
My favourite BBC protest ever: Archers fans complaining about changing
the time of the show. Marched up Regent Street with placards, stopped
traffic, whilst chanting
What do we want? the Archers! When do we want it? Now! What do we say? Please!'
What do we want?
Umberellas!
When do
I think the point here is 'does the visualisation of the data adds
meaning, or is just pretty to look at?'.
Does your visualisation tell people more about the data set than the
raw numbers? Is it 'legible'? Does it expose trends and meaning that
would otherwise be hidden to all but the most
I understand that the BBC tracks external links in order to provide stats to
respond to the Graf report's requirement for the BBC to link externally more
often, and become part of the web.
That's done with something in the footer, which automagically rewrites
external links to have go tracking
this request is not limited to news feeds, so where are the BBC feeds
for images that they do have copyright for?
Which feeds in particular, with images?
You'll find that a lot of images used on the site are not BBC
copyright, and therefore the BBC doesn't have the rights to
redistribute them;
On 22/07/07, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the quality of images used as links is unlikely to present a rights
issue.
It doesn't matter how small a picture is, it's still copyright
in fact fair use probably covers this in any case.
No, no it doesnt.
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If we're talking sematic applications, it might actually be good for an
organisation like the BBC (and partner broadcasters to actually sit down
and work out some standard ontologies to make it easy for heavy duty
(RDF-heavy) applications talk nicely to each other. It may even have
some
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James Cridland wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/pip/jrjen/ - good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/archive/07/07/10/ - better.
That's not better; URLs are supposed to be unique. Okay, Breakfast isn't a
great example
/me cries
Please can you cry your suggestion please?
Not so much suggestion as frustration.
A lot of good people, including myself and Mr Sizemore (and a certain
Mr Tom Coates, who you may have heard of) have expended an awful lot
of energy over the last few years trying to get somewhere with
Frinstance:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=todayservice_id=4224filename=20070712/20070712_2130_4224_15733_30
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?programme=hyperdrive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/hyperdrive/
http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/HYPERDRIVE
Mac mini - not so much heat
LCD monitor / powerbrick for LCD monitor / powerbrick for macmini -
quite a lot of heat.
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I can't imagine that a Mac mini produces much heat... would something like
that or the Zonbu be a solution?
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Here in the US, that is not the case. It is much harder to find such DVD
players.
Because they contravene the DMCA act? IANAL, and certainly not across
american law, but I thought it expressly forbade the circumventing of
content locks?
Incidentally, I'm sure the only reason BBC content isn't
On 15/06/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It takes people outside the media-land as you put it because the
people inside are too ignorant of technology to understand it.
If media people had known even the very basics of how a PC works then
we would never have had DRM in the first place.
snip
I just thought I'd say - I'm currently at the iSummit in dubrovnik.
There's a lot of interesting conversation going on around these topics
- if anyone's interested, info is here http://www.icommons.org/
I'm guessing that session recordings etc will be available later. Will
post details if I
Also
Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
An analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/
Davy - was trying to show someone mood news - has it gone?
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I showed this to the BBC's Film Production arm a couple of months ago... :-)
list know of a project to produce a CC-licensed film called A Swarm Of
Angels. You can sign up either as a supporter (£5) or a full member (£25;
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I _suspect_ they just fob people off and ignore complaints they
dislike. Or maybe I was unlucky and the two people I communicated with
didn't do their job properly?
Audience comms and complaints are outsourced to Capita.
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Ooh, nice! Ta.
You might also be interested in http://infosthetics.com/
and this rather lovely one
http://megamu.com/lastfm/
I tried fidg't http://www.fidgt.com/visualize the first one linked in
your article, but couldn't get it to form any meaningful patterns. So
- lots of data, but didn't
Dear sweet evil Jesus on a pogo stick, don't start that up again!
LOLS
Ah, before my time and this is the first time I'd seen this
writeup (or any writeup as considered).
Refers the honourable gentlemen to archive URL below. Suggests he takes
a look. You know, just so he understands what
Hey
Just in case there's anyone here who is a creative type, but not
necessarily a web developer - there's a new thing kicking off on Film
Network based around making your own music-inspired short film / video.
I'm guessing, btw, that there's a fairly big crossover in creative
disciplines
/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 already full.
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Well - I ruled myself out of the running for this as frankly, I'm great
at drawing, cooking, sewing and making stuff (among other ladylike
pursuits), but rubbish at coding and electrickery.
Tom C left a comment suggesting I find a group of people to team up
with.
So if anyone wants a
I've let the head of New Media at BBC Worldwide Magazines know about
this, by the way.
Kim
However, as people probably realise the data isn't being
updated anymore.
Does anyone have a clue?
Just had a boilerplate response from them - seems unlikely my
email reached a human, let
You'd pay $30 and up for an album on CD? Are you mad?
I suppose you do get a convenient hard copy backup too...
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For
people who actually use a computer for what it is intended,
Wow. That's quite some statement.
I'd compose an elegant riposte if I didn't have to go off to IKEA post
haste, because I've just noticed on their website that the chair and
desk I want to set up my desktop PC is in, and I
If you read Martin Belam (hello Martin!) on the methods he used to derive these
figures, you'll note that he's extremely thorough in his data analysis.
http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php I think you should read
a little levity in to Jem's use of a grin after the Linux
Is it possible that these stats could be provided
automatically, say on a daily basis so it can be used to
track the use of browsers and platforms.
No.
Slightly longer answer - the stats system is problematic, and doesn't
provide easy ways to route this kind of thing externally. It's under
Hey, we just *did* publish it! :)
I'll try and remember to send an update out every month or so, when I'm
noodling through our stats system.
Thank you very much to everyone for sharing this data - it
really is very interesting. And I second the request for the
BBC to publish this data (just
Here's a chunk of stats. This is based on Page views. Anything below
about 100k page views is registering as Zero percent, FYI, although each
browser listed is showing *some* page impressions. 3 page views were in
IE1.5! How sweet.
I've stripped out the PI numbers, sorry, as I think that might
Just for fun: the february data reworked to show the different flavours
of IE at their appropriate % point. There's not much difference between
Safari (all versions) and IE5.5 share. Again, I can't break out the
different flavours of FF and Safari. Bear in mind this is % of PIs, not
of users, so
So... an aquaintance is organising a pervasive gaming event on the
south bank, and wants to run a mobile phone based game during the
event.
Cor, thanks for all the leads, that's extremely useful!
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Aha!
Back in the day (about 4 years ago) BBC Web producers were measured on
Page Impressions, rather than the now current Unique Users.
On older sites you'll find a lot of areas like galleries, articles, and
quizzes that split content in to lots of subpages, and encouraged
repeated clicking.
And doesn't work underground on the Tube?
Despite its name, about 55% of the network is above ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground
It would of course work in cities which allow mobile phone
use on their underground railways (e.g. Stockholm).
Coming in 2008
Yes - you could charactarise the US way of working as a way of
maximising ad revenue from a the diminishing halo of a brand, regardless
of whether creatively the project is still vigorous. Or, in plainer
language, flogging a dead horse.
Not to say there aren't long runs of UK stuff. My Family,
(Yep - the BBC doesn't even own the Daleks...)
The BBC owns *half* the daleks - specifically, the look and visual identity.
The estate of Terry Nation owns their behaviour.
So - if you want to use a picture of a dalek, you approach the BBC. If you want
said dalek to move around shouting
: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage]
RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC
Bias??? Click and Torrents)
On 13/02/07, Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Yep - the BBC doesn't even own the Daleks...)
The BBC owns *half* the daleks - specifically, the look
previous short stories to the BBC for a possibility of a
reading on a BBC radio station (probably BBC 7, though I'd personally
like BBC radio 4).
[Kim Plowright] So, here's a dumb question, that I'm going to ask anyway
because sometimes they get interesting answers.
Why on earth do you need the BBC
I believe that you would see some big players come forward to take
advantage of the service. At the same time it opens the power of the
BBC to lesser known artists, independent studios and even totally
independent artists (a bit like a book publisher who accepts
unsolicited manuscripts).
: Kim Plowright
Great idea. They could call it Young Filmmaker Of The Year. Get
Michael Rodd to judge the entries.
Or maybe Film Network? That's got a nice ring to it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/
And you could do something similar for music, and call it... I dunno,
well, the bands would
bunch. I used to use their library
back in the day.)
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Sent: 31 January 2007 08:04
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Subject: Re: [backstage] Movies Data
Hi Kim,
On 30/01/07, Kim Plowright [EMAIL
Read the press release, penguinista! :)
This requires the BBC to develop an alternative DRM framework to enable
users of other technology, for example, Apple and Linux, to access the
on-demand...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press-releases/31-01-2007.html
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BTW - stumbled across this last night
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/ftvdb/
Might be useful, or at least somewhere to poke to open up their data,
too? (Did the Movies Data list get set up?)
Thanks for the LibraryThing tipoff from last week, too.
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I've been lurking on the Musicbrainz dev list for years; iirc, there is
some hidden category to make duets/collaborations like that resolve to
two artists.
It may well be worth finding their list archives to check we're not
about to rediscuss all of the conversations!
(Is Rob Mayhem and Chaos on
Now - an aside - Musicbrainz was set up because of Gracenote. If I
understand correctly, the dataset that Gracenote CDDB is based on was
orginally an 'open' database with information contributed by the public.
It was sold, and changed its licensing structures away from the original
open source
You are a very very nice man.
x
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Subject: Re: [backstage] Movies Data
Yeah - I know that you can't do anything fun unless we can give
Maybe we should try and get more BBC managers here.
How do you know there not watching this already? Seriously!
Define Managers?
Because, well, if Tom L (in charge of plan for future of bbc.co.uk), Jem
(in charge of strategy group for user generated content), Matt L (in
charge of
Haven't played it myself but Yahoo and O Reilly have had this out for
a couple of years now.
The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech
products, concepts, and trends
Always struck me as a very clever way for Yahoo! to get ahead of the
curve market information on where to
FFMpeg?
(I may have misunderstood what you're after tho)
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and
video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library.
FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most
operating
FEES AND SERVICES . Subject to Section 15 herein, the Service is
provided without charge to You for up to 5 million pageviews per month
per account,
http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html
I'll tell you this: our volume is a wee bit more than 5m PI/month. :)
We do have a big internal stats
I'll be there - anyone else?
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Sent: 01 December 2006 11:10
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Second Life Event - London 13th Dec
Oh - and I've got the Nabaztag WiFi bunny wired up so that it tells me
in RL whenever someone enters the office in SL (where there's a virtual
bunny)
Oh my god, that's fantastic! Demo! Demo on youtube immediately!
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Heh, Second Life
Speaking of which: the list might be interested in this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/programme.shtml?day=tuesdayservice
_id=4223FILENAME=20061205/20061205_2235_4223_3276_50 (Mn, how
broken are our listing pages? Quick, someone remind me of one of the
mashups?)
I see your 'written by a Torrent site' and raise you a 'written by a
broadcaster'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6168950.stm
Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile
device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a
result.
Sigh.
Hmn,
You're all very quiet.
Hung over?
Kim
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Oh, dear, that makes me sound like a tit, that blogpost :-)
I think there's some *really* interesting stuff going on in SL at the
moment (Mario, Kosso, hello!) - but there's a lot of hype around the
platform, too; a lot of big companies are going a bit mental about it. I
heard someone say the
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On 10/31/06, James
Id be interested to know the technical
set-up behind Virgin and the BBCs last.fm pages though (i.e. how the track data
gets from the playout system to the last.fm page) Id gather its not as
simple ashooking up the
last.fm player to whatever you use for your playout I use the
dly.
Regards
On 25 Oct 2006, at 11:50, Kim Plowright wrote:
Any
subsequent republication of the libel is also actionable,
though...
IANAL!
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Any subsequent republication of the libel is also
actionable, though...
IANAL!
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WinstanleySent: 25 October 2006 09:03To:
backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] Newssniffer - BBC
News site
Mario
Have you seen this? Might be up your
street...
http://www.3pointd.com/20061023/sustaining-the-metaverse-a-3pointd-think-tank/
(just saw your technorati pillars,
nice!)
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MentiSent: 06 October 2006
Yes - It's surprisingly patchy, the different coverages isn't it? I just
tried to place some photos I took in West Africa... Has anyone ever
tried plotting the various map services on top of each other, to augment
the lowfi sectors of each? Mind you, I'm sure it would be completely
against the
Done!
kim
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:17:54PM +0100, Mario Menti
light of day I
realise it was a little irresponsible for me to encourage you to put the
data on your site.
Please be patient whilst the BBC continues to work out an 'official'
weather offering with the Met Office.
Cheers
Ben
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Yeah
Title: Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the backstage terms, please do NOT use them.
Hello Everyone,
Jem is not around today, so I've been asked to put my official BBC hat on [1] and let you all know the situation with the weather feeds referenced below.
Here's the short version
terms, please do NOT use them.
Ah - ignore my lat mail then. J
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Sent: 27 July 2006 20:18
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the
backstage terms, please do
OK - so, the summary API/Ajax thoughts...
APIs
- are good. We love APIs.
- They give as much benefit within an organisation - (linking up
internal systems) as they do when publically exposed (mashups)
- There are different flavours of API, and the right API should be used
for the job; always use
OK, by the magic of telnet and white text on a black
screen, I've found out that the people that need to know about this do, and are
looking in to it. Can't give you anything approaching a time it might work
again, sorry.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
/06, Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
As threatened, here it is.I'm part of a project internally that is
looking at what the BBC does on the web, and how that should change over
the next 3 years. As part of this, Tom Loosemore, grand paterfamilias of
this list, has asked me to come up
Agreed - a lovely thing.
So... hmn. What about plotting news publication times
against a similar timeline? Or...um, crikey, OK - Celebdaq prices graphed
over time against mentions in news stories on bbc.co.uk? Or... blog/search
activity around a programme name (publication times?) against
I'll give the relevant people a poke for you.
And please accept my general appologies on behalf of Auntie.
K
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Sent: 02 July 2006 14:52
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Cc: Kim Plowright
Subject: Reboot winners: 30 June
5) Flash is one of the most abused web technologies in the world ever.
Disabling it by either not having it installed or using a flash-blocker
type app/extension can save a lot of
eye-bleeding pain from those crazy kooky marketing guys.
/me laughs so hard she blows coffee out of her nose.
No, but I can try and find out for you.
Sorry for the slow reply; backstage is kind of rudderless
at the moment, and Ben was the man with the answers. I'll do my best to keep an
eye on the list between my other two jobs... it shouldn't be too long before
BenMk2 takes over the project.
Kim
OK - IANAL, and I'm not involved with news, or the homearchive, so this
is me with the only-semi-bbc hat on.
I can't see any reference to images in news's Terms of Use etc...'Fair
Use' is unlikely to apply to images reused elsewhere; even if an image
is 'small' it is still the image; it isn't an
to know, right? ;-)
On 30/01/06, Kim
Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Vijay
- I'm not aware of any plans to open-source it, but I'm
askingaround.
could post it somewhere
the daq players will be more likely to see it? I couldn't
find it on the site.
Helen
Kim Plowright wrote:
Hello chaps,
You all seem a bit... underwhelmed by the celebdaq game data
being made
available. Is there any extra info I can get you that would
Hello chaps,
You all seem a bit... underwhelmed by the celebdaq game data being made
available. Is there any extra info I can get you that would make it more
useful / easier to work with?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/syndication/1/docs/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/
K
Kim Plowright
New
)
are a bit difficult to get to, categorise, download in bulk etc.
If there's anyone out there interested in video search / social tagging
/ yadda yadda it might make an interesting start to a project?
Kim
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iDE
MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Media Village
). The engine runs on PHP+MySQL.
Dima Kuchin
http://k78.info
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Subject: [backstage] Random idea for someone - Creative Archive Clips
Title: Message
I
might be misunderstanding you, but what about upcoming.org? Here's their
API
http://upcoming.org/services/api/
Don't
think this properly synchs with anything yet, but does have event feeds as rss.
Their recent aquisition (yahoo, i think?) suggests that someone at one of
GENIUS idea.
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Sent: 28 November 2005 18:08
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] Where should I suggest that the BBC could their
feeds?
I had a idea about BBC News's channel
BBC Worldwide Limited is company, wholly owned by the BBC, that sells
BBC merchandise (e.g. video and audio recordings of BBC programmes,
books, magazines, toys and games).
They're primarily there to hold the rights to BBC productions for
commercial exploitation - ie, for rebroadcast
Just stumbled across this compo - write firefox extension, win tricked
up Alienware PC.
http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfirefox/
Thought some of the folk here might want to give it a bash.
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iDE
MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Media Village
Be slightly tempted to then plumb that into a screensaver that shows you
pictures of your team's classic moments when they've won, and comforting
pictures of kittens when they're doing less well.
You know, to cheer you up, like...
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think it's getting a bit long in the tooth
and there are load issues, but I could be wrong.
K
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Subject: RE: [backstage] iMP
You're *such* a terror. :-)
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Sent: 04 November 2005 16:19
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] iMP
Kim,
I'd just like to correct your suggestion that we only
execute
I don't know about exactly how they've taken accessibility into account
on iMP - maybe take the question to the message board posted here
earlier? I'll ask Priya on your behalf if I see her around, though. I
can't imagine for a second it's been ignored, but I suppose there's a
possibility that
It's also complicated by the fact that there aren't just rights in the
TV programme, there are all kind of underlying rights (ie, copyright on
things that appear in programme) that might need to be cleared as well.
Literary - a script, for drama; poetry, quotations, song lyrics, book
readings etc
That sounds great! The prototype screen shots on Ben's website look
good
as well (although I have to question whether John Peel may have
appeared
in slightly more than 2 Home Truths programmes between 1993 and 2005,
what with him presenting it most of the time and all! :-) ).
Yep - I noticed
Title: Message
From
an internal perspective
Yes!
seperate out Series, Episode numbers and Ep Titles into clear fields. It's
really useful if you were to use TV anytime data to populate programme support
sites like, say, bbc.co.uk/buffy or /theoffice - and becomes really important
for
t is being prepeated lateron another
channel.
Graeme
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Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From an internal
perspective
Yes! seperate out Series,
Episode numbers and Ep Titles into clear fields. It's really useful if you
were to use TV an
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Sent: 27 October 2005 15:24
Who says the BBC has to host it? Isn't this a community? I bet it'd
happen a lot faster if some philanthropist just put it up on a server
and pointed everyone on the list to it.
Ah yes. I
Title: Message
I
think a key thing is feedback - and this needs to happen quickly to keep the
flow of conversation / development going.
Hmn,
yeah, sorry. I think Ben's holiday came at a slightlyunfortunate time,
bless his cybergoth socks. Come home, Ben!
We
(bbc and nonbbc folk) aren't
that you get the text feeds via the Met. Office and your muching
these to produce the XML? The Met. Office are so behind the times
:( So much information and no innovative use of technology on thier
website. Kim Plowright wrote:
According to my mole in weather, the feeds
According to my mole in weather, the feeds are ready, but awaiting Ben's
return to be launched. This is assuming there aren't any HPIs (horrible
policy issues) that neither of us know about...
This is, of course, the unofficial answer!
K
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Ooh, ace, thanks everyone.
Really useful.
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Subject: Re: [backstage] CSS changes based on weather conditions
Kim,
On 20/10/05, Kim
grapes and a pheasant feather.
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iDE
MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12
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Ben - but he's on peregrinations around China at the mo.
It should be reasonably trivial, as iirc the jobs site is run from
(gasp!) a CMS; there might be policy issues tho. There ususally are...
:-)
Could try badgering Jem. Jem?
k
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Help me find stuff
Then make sure that it *stays found*
Just a thought for an approach!
K
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iDE
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'Lo all.
Thought you might be interested in this - the Last.fm chaps have
released an API to their data. Might work nicely in some kind of music
news mashup?
K
Kim Plowright
Project Manager, BBC iDE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy http
to sit on top of Google
Maps that would let the old'uns peg their memories on to the location
they took place? Should be doable, and is an interesting usability
challenge too...
Kim Plowright
Project Manager, BBC iDE
MC1 D2 77, Media Centre, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12
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