RE: [backstage] This one's for Cridland... BBC A/V interface ideas

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew Bowden
On Friday 25 May 2007 14:54, Jeremy Stone wrote: not sure we can stretch that to 45 minutes I'm afraid. No dedication some people! You could make a 6 part 1/2 series extolling the virtues of biscuits if you really wanted to. You know you want to ;) If material comes up short, I could

Re: [backstage] This one's for Cridland... BBC A/V interface ideas

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 29/05/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 May 2007 14:54, Jeremy Stone wrote: not sure we can stretch that to 45 minutes I'm afraid. No dedication some people! You could make a 6 part 1/2 series extolling the virtues of biscuits if you really wanted to. You know you

[backstage] london xsl user group may meet

2007-05-29 Thread Otu Ekanem
Hey guys, Just a reminder for anyone who was wanted to come along this evening. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/190628/ -- Otu Ekanem http://rants.ekanem.de

RE: [backstage] london xsl user group may meet

2007-05-29 Thread Ian Forrester
I'll be there :) if that's enough of a pull... Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [ ] private; [ ] ask first; [ x ] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +44 (0)2080083965

[backstage] Google Developer Day, Thursday - pintage?

2007-05-29 Thread Richard Lockwood
Anyone up for drinking beer and talking bo***cks after this? :-) Cheers, Rich. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive:

RE: [backstage] This one's for Cridland... BBC A/V interface ideas

2007-05-29 Thread Christopher Woods
I could run a special half-time feature (~10mins duration) on the best multibuys to be had -Original Message- From: Peter Bowyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 May 2007 09:44 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] This one's for Cridland... BBC A/V interface

RE: [backstage] Google Developer Day, Thursday - pintage?

2007-05-29 Thread Ian Forrester
Actually I think Google have planned a drinking event after the google day. I'll find out and post up on upcoming.org Cheers Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [ x ] private; [ ] ask first; [ ] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP e:

[backstage] Joost backend revealed

2007-05-29 Thread Ian Forrester
Hi All, Joost have just published pretty much everything about the Joost client to there development area. There's even an introduction to creating Joost Widgets. http://dev.joost.com Enjoy! Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [ ] private; [ ] ask first; [ x ] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC

RE: [backstage] Joost backend revealed

2007-05-29 Thread David
Does anyone have a spare joost invite they can send my way? Would be most grateful. Cheers! David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester Sent: 29 May 2007 13:37 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Joost backend

[backstage] BBC Radio 7

2007-05-29 Thread Gary Kirk
Last night I noticed my digital radio (The Bug) displayed BBC Radio 7 instead of the usual BBC 7. The shortcut also displayed as BBC R7, like Radio 4 does. I investigated and found 6music had also changed - BBC Radio 6 music. Why is this? Obviously it's a radio broadcast - it's a digital

RE: [backstage] Google Developer Day, Thursday - pintage?

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel Morris
I'll be along to that, although might on an early-ish train back... Daniel Morris | Software Engineer BBC Entertainment : Manchester : New Media int. 01 44217 ext. 0161 244 4217 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [backstage] BBC Radio 7

2007-05-29 Thread Simon Cobb
I can't answer that, but I noticed that during the championship playoff final yesterday my digital radio (some Argos cheapo) displayed 5 live as: BBC Radio 5l I had to look twice at the lower case l on the end to work out what it was. S. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] Google Developer Day, Thursday - pintage?

2007-05-29 Thread Ben Hall
I would attend for a short while, Google have an hour after the keynote - is that going to be drinks reception? Ben Hall On 29/05/07, Daniel Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be along to that, although might on an early-ish train back... Daniel Morris | Software Engineer BBC Entertainment

RE: [backstage] Joost backend revealed

2007-05-29 Thread Barry Carlyon \(Webmaster LSRfm.com/LSweb.org.uk\)
Can someone send me an invite to joost as well please? --- Barry Carlyon Student Radio Association Regional Rep. North East/Yorkshire LUU Media Rep Webmaster LSRfm.com, Leeds Student, LUUBackstage, Action, BurnFM

RE: [backstage] Joost backend revealed

2007-05-29 Thread Ian Smith \(Irascian Ltd\)
I was going to ask the same thing myself, but rather than have this list deluged with requests can those who have invites instead volunteer the fact they have invites (and how many) to help maintain the signal-to-noise level of this newsgroup? Thanks, Ian Smith -Original Message- From:

RE: [backstage] Joost backend revealed

2007-05-29 Thread Christopher Woods
I have a feeling I have quite a few spare invites - email me offlist and I'll fire you off an invite :) Just a note - you NEED XP or higher, Joost does an OS check and won't even let me get past the splash on my 2000 desktop. Works fine on the laptop though (and when stuff is correctly encoded in

RE: [backstage] Joost backend revealed

2007-05-29 Thread Ian Forrester
I'll have a word with my friends at Joost, see if we can get a bunch of invites. Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [ x ] private; [ ] ask first; [ ] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +44 (0)2080083965

RE: [backstage] BBC Radio 7

2007-05-29 Thread Christopher Woods
More complaints about shockingly poor audio quality received by Ofcom as the BBC diversifies even more in its digital radio offerings Nice bit of tautology if the new Beeb radio policy is to prefix Radio onto all their chans' metadata :/ -Original Message- From: Simon Cobb

RE: [backstage] BBC Radio 7

2007-05-29 Thread Toni Sant
I was just thinking about this yesterday! It occurred to me that 6 Music and BBC 7 probably have/had a larger non-radio (i.e. non-wireless) audience in their first few years so using the word radio in the station name could be misleading. Could it be that DAB listenership is now higher than

RE: [backstage] Joost - You can invite yourself!

2007-05-29 Thread Ian Smith \(Irascian Ltd\)
Just discovered the following which allows you to invite yourself! https://joost.com/presents/gigaom-newteevee/ Ian Smith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester Sent: 29 May 2007 16:07 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE:

RE: [backstage] BBC Radio 7

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew Bowden
I was just thinking about this yesterday! It occurred to me that 6 Music and BBC 7 probably have/had a larger non-radio (i.e. non-wireless) audience in their first few years so using the word radio in the station name could be misleading. Could it be that DAB listenership is now higher

Re: [backstage] BBC Radio 7

2007-05-29 Thread Frank Wales
Toni Sant wrote: Could it be that DAB listenership is now higher than Internet listenership? I believe it's simpler than that -- consistency of branding. I think they're just enforcing these apparent naming conventions: BBC Radio n - radio station (whatever 'radio' means these days) BBC n

[backstage] London CC-Salon - June 2007

2007-05-29 Thread Tim Cowlishaw
Once again, sorry for spamming this accross so may lists! Thanks, Tim Creative Commons, the Open Rights Group and Free Culture UK are pleased to announce the first London CC-Salon event, to be held in Shoreditch on Thursday 28th June 2007. The CC Salon is a monthly event focused on building a

RE: [backstage] BBC Radio 7

2007-05-29 Thread Christopher Woods
BBC local radio's obviously being left well alone for the time being then (as I tune into BBC WM, and observe the previous response along the same lines from Tim!) -Original Message- From: Frank Wales [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 May 2007 17:06 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk

[backstage] Blogging about iPlayer

2007-05-29 Thread Christopher Woods
I got my acceptance email earlier, tried to log in but noted the please wait at least an hour (which would probably explain why my details aren't authenticating me right now) but I was wondering - given that the email says all information about iPlayer is confidential what exactly can we blog

RE: [backstage] Blogging about iPlayer

2007-05-29 Thread Phil Winstanley
Christopher, Rule of thumb, if something is already available on the web somewhere it's deemed to be in the public domain from a legal perspective. That doesn't mean you ethically SHOULD talk about something or that you can't upset anyone, just that people would have a hard time

Re: [backstage] Blogging about iPlayer

2007-05-29 Thread Mr I Forrester
So I would take notice of what others are doing around you. I did actually link to this massive review of the iPlayer on my own blog. http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/05/bbc-iplayer-free-tv-radio-programme.html Cheers Ian Christopher Woods wrote: I got my acceptance email earlier,

RE: [backstage] Blogging about iPlayer

2007-05-29 Thread Christopher Woods
Indeed, I also noticed an old but fairly in-depth review of the original iMP trial platform on the informitv site - but you wonder sometimes whether these people have some kind of special dispensation or not to blog about these things over Mr. Joe Blogger just blogging for fun. Ta for that link,

Re: [backstage] Blogging about iPlayer

2007-05-29 Thread Richard Lockwood
To paraphrase Elvis Costello (or possibly Frank Zappa), surely blogging for fun is like dancing about architecture? ;-) Cheers, Rich. On 5/30/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - but you wonder sometimes whether these people have some kind of special dispensation or not to blog