Student slave power...
For what it is worth, I have just spent the past academic year
(2004/2005) with five final year students (in multimedia) from London
Metropolitan University. They had to produce an interactive CD to
promote my business (I am a tai chi instructor).
We had a contract
At 00:50 +0100 3/10/05, Graeme Mulvaney wrote:
If you look on the site - it says to get entries in by Monday 3rd -
but they'll accept things up until midnight.
So I guess we've still got a day left ;)
Whoops! Missed it!
Back the API coal face,,
:-)
Gordo
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At 20:40 +0100 20/10/05, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
In fact I have it on excellent authority that the Met office use SVG
in their back office, but that their clients require other
formats Thy rely on paying customers and that is apparently why
they don't yet provide an SVG front-end.
At 21:44 +0100 27/10/05, Tom Loosemore wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolStreaminghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolStreaming
http://www3.pplive.com/english/ http://www3.pplive.com/english/
anyone played with these?
(no, this isn't a trick question...)
Nope! I used to mess multicast
At 12:57 +0100 26/10/05, Andrew Bowden wrote:
Are there old shows in your archive that have had their
copyrights expire? If so, there's no reason they can't be
placed up right now, other then potentially bandwidth. (To
which I'd say that you should offer them via torrent -- you
keep
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/
Why is there no text only link on this page? There is on most pages
on bbc.co.uk...
Feel free to use this!
http://www.recursion.co.uk/cgi-bin/betsie.cgi/www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/
No charge!
Gordo
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Betsie's days are no doubt numbered - modern coding techniques allow
much greater accessibility to be built into webpages, allowing
accessibility without having to resort to parsers like Betsie. You can
do a huge amount with a sensible HTML structure and CSS
layout/presenation techniques.
At 14:04 + 9/11/05, Andrew Bowden wrote:
Betsie is a bull in a sledgehammer/nut approach to accessibility from a
time when that was the only way to crack the nut. Now, someone has
invented the nutcracker.
Of course not everyone yet has a nutcracker so we still need the
sledgehammer, but
At 16:35 + 9/11/05, Ben Metcalfe wrote:
Just to say that a lot of BBC radio content (and soon TV) can be
downloaded via iTunes or direct from the BBC website. You can also
get all BBC radio streamed via the website
Let us assume we are taking about the national radio (e.g. Radio 4
At 23:24 + 15/11/05, Stephen Miller wrote:
Ppt = powerpoint (presentation).., a lovely MS product.
If you are on windows, you can get the viewer here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-
90b7-a94784af71a4displaylang=en if you dont have office.
This via Rocketboom.com
http://www.doxpara.com/
http://www.doxpara.com/planetsony2_europe.jpg
Welcome To Planet Sony
Submitted by Dan Kaminsky on Tue, 2005-11-15 09:28.
Sony.
Sony has a rootkit.
The rootkit phones home.
Phoning home requires a DNS query.
DNS queries are cached.
The backstage.bbc.co.uk team would like to invite you to the first
backstage.bbc.co.uk meet-up.
When: 6:30pm Monday 12th December 2005
Where: Yorkshire Grey Pub in Langham Street, London
Mmmm. nice.
The Yorkshire Grey
46 Langham Street
London W1W 7AX
At 14:03 + 9/2/06, Mario Menti wrote:
On 2/9/06, Kirk Northrop
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bot doesn't seem to work for me - always offline?
That's odd, they all seem to be online OK.. which network are you
trying, and which client? The bots should be set to
At 13:50 + 7/3/06, Dave Cross wrote:
Jonathan Stott wrote:
Dom Ramsey wrote:
I have the locations of Tube stations on my old mashup - http://
www.dynamite.co.uk/local/ - I keep meaning to add the actual
routes in, but I've not had the time.
I did this a while ago (I have a lot of
At 16:25 + 17/3/06, Ben Metcalfe wrote:
Hey all,
I've been given a brand new copy of O'Reilly's
newly-published book Flickr Hacks, which I would like to
give away to a member of the Backstage community mailing list. :)
Congratulations to Steve Drew, who has won the competition.
At 10:13 +0100 14/4/06, Jeremy Stone wrote:
Just wondering if there is a plan for promotion Jem? Seems a shame to keep
it hidden.
You're right. duly chastized.
Will fix this.
Jem, bbc.co.uk
Nice surname Jem.
:-)
El Gordo
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At 12:29 +0100 19/4/06, Kim Plowright wrote:
Hello,
I had a chat with my insiders at the BBC weather centre. They like the
idea of working to make the tide data available, and are going to look
at how they might do that. Obviously, they can't promise anything at the
moment...
Kind of all I can
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1761085,00.html
Highfield: refocusing BBC digital output around three concepts -
share, find and play
The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around
user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim
of
+ 'Bad Wolf' is not a subject category
Meanwhile, in other news, the gap between the first and
second editions of 'Grandstand' is apparently 28 years,
which must be some kind of a record (assuming it's not duff data).
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doctorwho?
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At 17:55 +0100 7/5/06, Jeremy Stone wrote:
Hi Aj
7D represents the salary range and terms and conditions for the job.
D represents Days. Some jobs are H for Hours.
BBC job grades are numerical and like Spinal Tap go up to 11 (except
confusingly the most senior BBC jobs which are classified
At 22:46 +0100 15/5/06, James Cridland wrote:
.ra are real player media files, that is - they contain the actual
streaming audio data.
.ram is a playlist text format, which can have one or multiple lines,
on each line is the URL to an audio or video stream
Linking to .ram is preferred
Off topic? Maybe, but
Are we CONSing yet?
[...]
Incidentally, this is one (the only?) benefit of the BBC using Real
Player - trying to drag this thread back on-topic. Real includes some
nifty bandwidth-sensing, and the same stream can serve anything from
8k to 800k. The BBC's are
At 10:16 +0100 29/5/06, Duncan Barclay wrote:
I think it has been down for a few days. You certainly aren't the
only one who can't get get to it.
Duncan
telnet backstage.bbc.co.uk 80
Trying 212.58.231.50...
GET index.html
telnet: connect to address 212.58.231.50: Operation timed out
The
At 13:43 +0100 29/5/06, Tom Loosemore wrote:
sod's law, innit...
sorry everyone...
-t
Not on 24/7 cover then?
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At 12:24 +0100 29/5/06, Dafyd Jones wrote:
It looks like open.bbc.co.uk is down as well (the homepage reboot
competition, etc)...
Typical that it should be a Bank Holiday weekend.
Dafyd
Both inside mh.bbc.co.uk (and not at Kingswood Warren!)
ping open.bbc.co.uk
PING
At 15:10 +0100 30/5/06, Ben Metcalfe wrote:
The backstage.bbc.co.uk site is up again -- hooray!
Sorry for the downtime, we're as pissed as you
are (pissed off, that is - not pissed oh never
mind).
It looks like an application (RoRails ahem)
was leaking memory so someone here has kindly
At 16:32 +0100 5/6/06, Nick Cernis | Studio Blend wrote:
Have you seen the Museum of Modern Betas?
http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/
A sad statistic: only 2.3% of those featured have actually made it out of
beta!
--
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FLICKR is now in gamma...
Any news on the high tides information (from BBC Weather)?
Gordo
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At 16:36 +0100 13/6/06, Ben Metcalfe wrote:
Hey folks, welcome to me on the other side!
So the BBC News Website just released Live Stats features across the
news website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5071754.stm).
But the visits (pageviews) will be affected but publishing the data
in a
Not a Backstage issue, perhaps, but the main BBC TV listening have
some serious problem today.
For example Today is set for Wednesday, not Thursday, on BBC 1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223DAY=today
Gordo
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At 15:16 +0100 14/6/06, Kim Plowright wrote:
Quick general recap - sorry, have only just managed to dip in to the
list again,
- yep - people here are aware of the accessibility requirements under
the DDA, and there's been some excellent internal training and awareness
run which covered learning
At 12:10 +0100 23/6/06, Simon Huggins wrote:
[Guardian cc'd as they have a Free Our Data column]
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:58:19AM +0100, Adam Leach wrote:
This is another point of data collected and gathered using tax/license
fee payers money, yet we can't access it without paying
Best thing to do is to help lobby TfL to provide a real feed!
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I'm would still be interested to hear Davy's reason for not having Flash
installed - just for anecdotal evidence - we do use flash for
interactive presentations and it's very useful and widely distributed,
but we're aware of all the problems and tradeoffs it brings with it. For
the Pregnancy
At 14:19 +0100 3/7/06, Kevin Hinde wrote:
I'm would still be interested to hear Davy's reason for not
having Flash
installed - just for anecdotal evidence - we do use flash for
interactive presentations and it's very useful and widely distributed,
but we're aware of all the problems and
At 15:33 +0100 3/7/06, Kim Plowright wrote:
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
At 16:18 +0100 4/7/06, Frank Wales wrote:
On 07/03/2006 03:33 PM, Kim Plowright wrote:
Actually, there's a fabulous article in this month's 'Creative Review'
about how flash 8 is like, totally f'shure going to be the coolest thing
to happen to marketing in like EVAR, which goes on for three
At 09:10 +0100 17/7/06, Daniel Morris wrote:
Hi,
Client Side
Technologies used appropriately
e.g.. Flash elements on pages, not flash pages
Flash content should be sub-addressable?
Also, tables for tabular data.
I'll try and come up with more suggestions later :-)
-dan
AJAX for
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/index.htmlhttp://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/
Down.
g5:~ gordo$ traceroute www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk
traceroute to www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk (132.185.224.30), 64 hops max, 40
byte packets
1 adsl (192.168.116.1) 10.314 ms 5.778 ms 5.572 ms
2
At 11:49 +0100 17/7/06, Richard Hyett wrote:
Listening to a podcast last week, Gillmor Daily, here the argument
being advanced was that web 2.0 was a fairly misleading term and one
to avoid. It was argued that the real change occured around 2001
with XML and more recently RSS.
The community
HTML
- At the root of everything, standards compliant, with presentation
separate from content.
HTML? You mean I to switch back from XHTML? Since when?!??!
:-)
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At 13:51 +0100 25/7/06, dotBen (aka Ben Metcalfe) wrote:
Hello all
I just thought you would like to know that backstage.bbc.co.uk won the
innovation award at last night's New Statesman New Media Awards
(http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/nma/nma2006/nma2006home.php).
I've written a blog post about
At 17:41 +0100 28/7/06, Ian Forrester wrote:
Can I also point out that Weather.com and Yahoo both provide RSS
feeds and a API for those dying to know what the weather will be ;)
http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/index.html
Like Ben said, please be patient. There are lots of data which we
At 11:57 +0100 3/8/06, Michael Pritchard wrote:
The feeds and APIs page seems to be broke again ( i think it was
broke ages ago) :
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/Datahttp://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/Data
Looks very blank to me as well
Gordo
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At 13:17 +0100 4/8/06, Mario Menti wrote:
On 8/4/06, Andrew McParland
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wrote:
Fixed.
Andrew
Since we're talking about that page, I think a link to
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/
would be in
At 07:27 +0100 7/8/06, Jem Stone wrote:
Dear all
As subscribers to the list will know we're looking for a new person to
lead and design the next bit of backstage.
Full details of the vacancy are here:
https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/jobportal/search/vacancy.aspx?id=8668
Yeah... tough act to follow!
At 16:02 +0100 9/8/06, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
Something similar to OS X web clips might help end users repurpose
BBC content.
of course the BBC version will be fully accessible, OS independent
and a web page ~:
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/dashboard.html
At 09:50 +0100 10/8/06, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
Isn't it reassuring to know that MI5 is reading our emails?
I think they take the easy route and read the archives...
Good luck to them. I can't find the archives!!!
:-)
Gordo
nitrate Semtex Lon Horiuchi BRLO UFO Kennedy clandestine
At 09:50 +0100 10/8/06, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
Isn't it reassuring to know that MI5 is reading our emails?
And consider this?
Sitehttp://www.baa.com
Last reboot 441 days ago
Running Solaris 9/10 with Apache
So, security patched and up to date?
I don't think so
Gordo
At 15:20 +0100 11/8/06, phil wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:29:02 +0100, Gordon Joly wrote:
Site http://www.baa.com
Last reboot441 days ago
Running Solaris 9/10 with Apache
So, security patched and up to date?
I don't think so
Nah, your assumption is incorrect. Netcraft
At 20:11 +0100 11/8/06, Adam Leach wrote:
On Realplayer running on Windows XP the forecast starts after 2
minutes of blank screen.
Then it starts talking about snow over the weekend. Something
strange is going on here
Adam
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
armageddon or just dark days for
They could patched and up-to-date or they could be full of holes, and
without more digging who knows, I'm not investigating,, as I live in
East London and I wouldn't want to give the boys wearing the doc
martins an excuse to break my door down ;)
-- phil.
They were here this morning. I gave
At 20:26 +0100 12/8/06, Davy Mitchell wrote:
On 8/11/06, Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/memo_4_new.html
Thanks Kim.
One quick hack later
http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/memories.html
:-)
Cheers,
Davy Mitchell
Visit the main MoodNews site:
http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/
which shows the colour key :)
Mood news? Depends on your perception?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5063352.stm
YMMV,
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At 10:24 +0100 13/8/06, Barry Hunter wrote:
- Original Message - From: Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:02 PM
At 20:26 +0100 12/8/06, Davy Mitchell wrote:
On 8/11/06, Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006
At 06:59 +0100 15/8/06, James Cox wrote:
On 7 Aug 2006, at 07:27, Jem Stone wrote:
Dear all
As subscribers to the list will know we're looking for a new person to
lead and design the next bit of backstage.
Full details of the vacancy are here:
At 17:22 +0100 5/9/06, Ian Forrester wrote:
Hi All,
In my usual style of transparency, I thought I'd ask the list for some help.
I have been asked for applications or mashups with aspects of
storytelling. The storytelling can be quite loose but needs to use
BBC content in a way which is
Feeds APIs
Postcoder Ap I
Postcoder API
To follow soon
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/PostcoderApI?v=18kb
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Ap I? What is that?
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At 10:23 +0100 19/9/06, Barry Hunter wrote:
Feeds APIs
Postcoder Ap I
Postcoder API
To follow soon
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/PostcoderApI?v=18kbhttp://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/PostcoderApI?v=18kb
*
Ap I? What is that?
Kinda dreary, but I would think its just an over eager
At 07:33 +0100 25/9/06, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
hedging the weather
barcamplondon featured weather averaging for four major suppliers.
I queried the sense of this given the BBC's approach...
for instance today in London the (day) forecast is light rain shower
that's half the rays of sun,
At 14:26 +0100 25/9/06, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
kass,
Please could you let us know what independent quality assessments
the BBC makes to ensure that we the public are receiving good value
for money in respect of this service?
And meeting all legal requirements?
Gordo
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At 13:05 +0100 25/9/06, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
Gordo,
I was specifically commenting that averaging such a small data set
with such a broad range had very little meaning.
And I concur!
Gordo
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At 16:33 +0100 5/10/06, Daniel Morris wrote:
Found via Slashdot,
http://www.google.com/codesearch/advanced_code_search
It certainly looks useful, specially the licence selector but
I'm not happy that XSL didn't make the list of languages.
Looks similar to http://koders.com
Here is
At 18:37 +0100 5/10/06, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Perhaps there should be a 'tech' and 'no-tech' version of the site.
You mean like us and them?
Gordo
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XSL is different from the other XML variants in that XSL is a
programming language whereas the other XML/SGML applications are only
document formats. If you want to get technical, XSL is Turing
complete; the others aren't.
I see.
At 10:25 +0100 9/10/06, Matthew Cashmore wrote:
Hi Hannah,
Thanks for your email - I'm afraid we don't deal with that
information here... we run a technical development programme called
backstage
http://backstage.bbc.co.ukhttp://backstage.bbc.co.uk
However, you can use this page
At 15:55 +0100 10/10/06, Mr I Forrester wrote:
Gordon Joly wrote:
At 18:37 +0100 5/10/06, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Perhaps there should be a 'tech' and 'no-tech' version of the site.
You mean like us and them?
Gordo
That's certainly something we are trying to get away from - us
At 17:35 +0100 18/10/06, Chris Bowley wrote:
Hmmm... I didn't have any part in developing that widget, and it was
written quite a while ago so the streams may have changed in that
time. I know the man who did work on it though...
_
Chris Bowley
Software Engineer (RD)
At 17:20 +0100 10/11/06, Martin Belam wrote:
Now a useful feature would be the ability to drag someone's
incorrectly placed photo across the map to the right spot.
Well, maybe who's data is it anyway?
http://www.flickr.com/groups/gwl-geotagged/
has no maps, as yet, but does have a
While I'm on, you may also like to play with our multicast streams,
which are also pretty new: details at
http://www.virginradio.co.uk/about_us/technology_services/multicast/index.htmlhttp://www.virginradio.co.uk/about_us/technology_services/multicast/index.html
Very cool.
Gordo
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At 23:32 + 21/11/06, Mr I Forrester wrote:
Gordon Joly wrote:
At 15:13 + 16/11/06, Ian Forrester wrote:
So this is what I've done so far...
Let me know what you think,
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/images/ideas/backstage%20cloud%20tshirt%20v2.jpg
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news
At 15:54 + 21/11/06, Kim Plowright wrote:
Interesting fact about Postcoder:
It has the concept of 'imaginary places' in the data model, so that,
frinstance, Ambridge or Albert Square can have a postcode.
(one day, I'll show you the data model for fictional vs real life
people, which
At 04:02 + 30/11/06, Frank Wales wrote:
On 11/29/2006 04:22 PM, Matthew Cashmore wrote:
Only the BBC would be having a conversation about it's Chairman having
to code Perl to get the job... Over at ITV they're talking Ruby,
Ruby? At ITV? What?
[checks immediate surroundings for
How about this for a t-shirt?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/rhn/media/iot_cloud_rhn.gif
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At 18:51 + 30/11/06, Andy Roberts wrote:
On 30/11/06, Deirdre Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:) I wasn't thinking of the non-technies, but rather sticking
the badge in the footer. A tiny little badge, You'd hardly
notice it. Just feel that the BBC should be representing
standards on
At 13:56 + 10/12/06, Tom Loosemore wrote:
Does anyone know if the BBC releases statistics such as browser
version/type, screen resolution and so on?
Allan
Hi Alan
From home I can only get headline browser numbers - will do more
digging next week to try and get at the rest. The percentages
At 19:28 + 8/12/06, Ian Forrester wrote:
This is taken from an internal discuss list, I
thought you guys might have something to say
about this I promise no more spammy messages
today
...and what happened to our open source codec?
At 17:14 + 19/12/06, Frank my old mucker wrote:
The Joly G-man wrote:
The BBC are responsible in the main (AFAIK) for enforcing
incorrect terminology as follows:
1) forward slash - a term used by Naomi Troski on the Big Byte, circa 1994.
Since Ms Troski speaks fluent 'Strine, we assume
At 19:32 + 22/12/06, Mr I Forrester wrote:
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/12/merry_christmas.html
I'll certainly be on Twitter and blogging as usual over the xmas period.
In the new year we have lots of good stuff for all you backstagers
across the UK.
See you all in
At 09:55 + 26/12/06, Luke Dicken wrote:
Well, when I heard I grumbled a bit to myself assuming it was going to
be an extension of what Richard said last week - that it would just be a
listen now link without any RSS stuff going on - it was nice to see at
least they've grasped the underlying
At 19:45 + 21/12/06, Richard P Edwards wrote:
DRM. well look at a system that is already successfully used.
A CD has a unique code at the front ... ISRC if you want to
even have a chance of being paid a royalty then this code has to be
preserved.
In my mind, it must be possible to
At 14:38 + 1/1/07, Kirk Northrop wrote:
Gordon Joly wrote:
Thanks! 2007 is great so far!
Not quite as great for the people at BBC Online though, where I have
already seen a review of 2005 (reviewing 2006) and The Today
Programme's 20006 poll to repeal an Act of Parliament
Jimbo Wales (Wikimedia Foundation) is in town, and hence wikpedians
are meeting at 6:30 pm on Tuesday 9th January 2007 at The Montagu
Pyke in Charing Cross Road.
Rest assured that I had nothing to do with the choice of pub!!
The Montagu Pyke, 105-107 Charing Cross Rd, London, WC2H 0DT
Tel:
Just started with twitter.com
It is being flooded by BBC News instant messages, for example:
BBC News Former Ethiopian ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam is sentenced
to life in prison on genocide charges. http://tinyurl.com/ybqlts
Why is the BBC using a (commercial) third party to make a
At 10:05 + 11/1/07, Tom Loosemore wrote:
On 11/01/07, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/11/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is the BBC using a (commercial) third party to make a short URL?
And then giving them (tinyurl.com) free advertising?
That's my fault
At 09:45 + 11/1/07, Mario Menti wrote:
On 1/11/07, Gordon Joly
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is the BBC using a (commercial) third party to make a short URL?
And then giving them (http://tinyurl.comtinyurl.com) free advertising?
That's my fault... but twitter
At 10:59 + 11/1/07, Jeremy Stone wrote:
Gordo
Jimbo was there. I didn't speak to him
Whilst he was in the UK he did speak to Simon Mayo on Five Live.
It's a long interview. 25 mins...
Mayo discusses how his children edited his entry. There's a
transcript/write up here
At 18:52 + 12/1/07, Brian Butterworth wrote:
OMG, it's amazing that people from Yahoo don't know what the two point oh is
all about!
My definition of Web 2.0: now you can use browser-based programs to do
things that Visual Basic 3 could do...
Brian Butterworth
www.ukfree.tv
There is
After thoughts.
Web 0.0 - info.cern.ch (via the command line)
Web 1.0 - HTML + Netscape
Web 2.0 - httpd + mysql + php (e.g. Mediawiki and phpGedView)
Web 3.0 - can we stop counting now??
Zero, one, two, many. That's all we need!!!
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Date: 2006-06-26 09:03
At 18:10 + 13/1/07, Richard Lockwood wrote:
Every time I heard two point oh used by a journalist I want to explain to
them in great depth that anything that is point oh is just this side of
being a beta and probably won't work if you roll it out.
Must be a Wakefield thing. Every time I
At 16:28 + 13/1/07, Brian Butterworth wrote:
After thoughts.
Web 0.0 - info.cern.ch (via the command line)
Technically speaking the word Internet is used prior to the invention of
http. By command line I presume you mean telnet as that is the network
service, the command line
At 10:16 + 13/1/07, Gordon Joly wrote:
After thoughts.
Web 0.0 - info.cern.ch (via the command line)
Web 1.0 - HTML + Netscape
Web 2.0 - httpd + mysql + php (e.g. Mediawiki and phpGedView)
Afterthought 2.0
Mediawiki and related projects that use Mediawiki are committed
At 11:51 + 15/1/07, Jason Cartwright wrote:
It did previously, but not anymore (to my knowledge).
http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/
J
Thanks. I knew that, but wanted somebody else to remind me...
:-)
Gordo
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At 19:36 + 15/1/07, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Ian,
I need the notifications for my other work and Outlook does not allow you to
do them message by message.
You can stop having to press 'Yes' or 'No' in Outlook by performing these
steps:
Tools/Options.../Email Options/Tracking Options
Then
At 18:37 + 15/1/07, Brian Butterworth wrote:
So now I know...
http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/old.shtml
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=enq=site%3Asupport.bbc.co.ukmeta=
And my favourite.
http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/why.html
:-)
Gordo
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However one of the problems with open sourcing is that a lot of the
BBC's applications are built very specifically for the architecture and
infrastructure used by the BBC, which is not your average LAMP setup :)
I think the problem is that getting applications into a state where they
can be
At 10:16 + 19/1/07, Jason Cartwright wrote:
I'd imagine threaded conversations (which I think is what you are
suggesting) are difficult from a usability perspective, as well as
technically.
Remember this system is probably the first time many users have used a
messageboard [...]
Really?
At 20:49 + 18/1/07, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
I had my say about paying you blokes more money to give my granny a
set top box and let gordo sell off the Mhz spectrum.
Moi?
Gordo
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At 13:30 + 21/1/07, Peter Bowyer wrote:
On 21/01/07, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Bowyer wrote:
Good luck with Odeon - having had the world's worst Flash-only
interface for several years, and had a well-publicised PR nightmare
when they leant on one of this list's
At 12:36 + 23/1/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
If you check back in a few days, there will be more spaces for BarCampLondon2
We're doing waves of spaces instead of giving them all out at once.
Hopefully we will catch more people that way.
Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || cubicgarden.com
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