[backstage] MetaWeather API
Made this the other day. Does what it says on the tin (hopefully)... http://www.metaweather.com/Tools/API/ Feedback/comments/bugs welcome. Its still pretty limited in terms of data though. (This has nothing to do with the BBC, it's a personal project) J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 85151 M: 0797 65 00729 A: BC4 C5 29, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TP Personal site: www.jasoncartwright.com Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies ~ Groucho Marx - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Problem with traffic and travel RSS feeds
Turns out this was fixed by our travel producer last week and should be working as expected now. Sorry for any inconvenience. Phil -- Philip McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Development Producer, BBC English Regions New Media Gas Street, Level 10, BBC Birmingham, The Mailbox, Birmingham, B1 1RF -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip McAllister Sent: 14 June 2006 11:37 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Problem with traffic and travel RSS feeds Well spotted with this one Ashley. I've been off on paternity leave so have only just become aware of this issue. I'll be looking to apply a fix to it this week. Will mail the list when the issue is resolved. Regards, Phil -- Philip McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Development Producer, BBC English Regions New Media Gas Street, Level 10, BBC Birmingham, The Mailbox, Birmingham, B1 1RF Tel: 0176783 / 0121 567 6783 Non omnia possumus omnes (quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Metcalfe Sent: 31 May 2006 10:02 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Problem with traffic and travel RSS feeds I have been using the traffic and travel RSS feeds from backstage for some time for a Mac OSX Desktop Widget. Recently I have noticed that the link items for each incident now bring up 404 error messages when linked to directly e.g: http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/tpeg/en/local/rtm/norfolk_rss.xml contains link http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/travelnews/int/syndication/rss/-/travelnews/ local/norfolk.shtml#1001927 /link Hello all, Yes there is a snag in the feeds which is inserting a carriage return between the .shtml and the #id Eg: item title[Cleared] A47 West Bilney, both ways at Dodd's Lane/title descriptionA47 Norfolk - Road unblocked both ways at the Dodd's Lane junction in West Bilney./description linkhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/go/travelnews/int/syndication/rss/- /travelnew s/local/norfolk.shtml #1004660/link /item The #1004660 should be on the same line as the .shtml otherwise one gets the url http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/travelnews/int/syndication/rss/-/trave lnews/loca l/norfolk.shtml%0A%231004660 which is wrong and 404's) I've passed this onto the travel team who are investigating. I'll keep you posted, Cheers Ben :: backstage.bbc.co.uk - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Feeds - high tides?
Any news on the high tides information (from BBC Weather)? Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it!
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 positive feed back loop, surely? Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it!
It's a good point Gordon, however I'd argue that not many people (relatively) will be clicking those links *just* because they are popular. I'd argue that the links around the story (related to it, and/or in the same section as it) are much more likely to be clicked by the user - and even more so, the stories on indexes picked by editors as being important. This is not to say that this view on the data isn't interesting (pretty much any new view on the data is, IMHO) - I think just because its popular doesn't mean its a 'good' enough reason for your average user to click it (which remember - we're not). Perhaps someone from News will have the results of a usability study, or even hard clickthrough data (now it's live) to correct me :-) J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 85151 M: 0797 65 00729 A: BC4 C5 29, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TP Personal site: www.jasoncartwright.com Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies ~ Groucho Marx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 14 June 2006 15:14 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it! 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 positive feed back loop, surely? Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
