Jim,
I somewhat agree. I am not a programmer but I watch the mails here
for a clue as to where people want things to go. The BBC have
incredible resources yet there seems to be more innovation of the
Apple Discussions board. As an example, this week Sky News re-
launched, even as a normal event there should be a complete re-design
of the BBC news site by now.
There was one defining point for me.... during the competition,
before the summer, there was a lot of discussion about copyright. I
am sure that there are loads of ideas on both sides, but until the
BBC themselves get organised, most of the content is locked under the
control of the owner. In my opinion that never leads to innovation....
I can watch complete TV channels, "live" from the US and only old
programmes..... I can listen to any radio on the planet, but I can't
make a podcast using any copyrighted music...... well for a start the
BBC owns most of the Mechanical rights to the music historically
played on Top of the Pops. At least in the 70's and 80's all artists
re-recorded their work just for that show.
As Duncan says, it is a two way street here. My thing is music, but I
see Backstage as a programmers BBC3...... I think it should be
serious, and therefore needs it's own copyright contract and possibly
some kind of fee structure for both sides. I don't mean that people
have to pay, but there needs to be some incentive. If there is a
future for the BBC's own content then they need to tell us more about
what we can have access to.... not just wait till guys this side ask.
Plus if the programmers are going to put in the hours there needs to
be a light at the end of the tunnel. After all if I wrote a TV show I
would know that I could get the BBC to get involved with all the
technical aspects of filming..... they would still pay me as well,
plus give me a contract for any future uses.
I just want to watch all the BBC channels live on the web..... now
that would be excellent.
Rich
On 25 Oct 2005, at 18:02, James wrote:
Hi,
Please don't read this in the wrong way but is the backstage
project becoming stagnant?
A few months ago there was a lot of hype and it sounded promising
but for me personally I havent seen much in the way of new "things"
for the developing community to use. Yes, the feeds are great but
to some extent they were already out there and if we're honest it
was only a matter of time before people began to use them without
the BBC's consent.
We are yet to see anything of the API's which have been "to follow
soon" for months now and there has been little implementation or
word of it from any of the numerous prototypes that have been put
out. As a group I've also noticed that messages are sparse and
recently more about petty points than anything interesting to
developing.
I think the concept of the backstage is great but I for one would
like to see a more active, engaging approach from the BBC and I
think there is only so many places one can take an RSS XML feed...
How about some ideas from the BBC about things they would like to
see? How about real life ideas which they potentially want to
implement?
Any thoughts on this?
Jim.
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