Re: [backstage] BBC Archiver
I can't stand the new News page design - maybe it will grow on me? It's all cluttered with a weird empty column in the middle of the page for stories. Sorry, Davy
Re: [backstage] BBC Archiver
Glad someone likes it :-) People have being saying to me it looks unfinished, is cluttered, slow to navigate, 'pants', colours don't contrast well, 'pretty bad'. Just passing on feedback - don't shoot me... I'll give it time... Maybe I am holding it wrong... Cheers, Davy Mitchell
Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray
On Feb 19, 2008 1:18 PM, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does everyone think? I thought they would keep this going for longer. You know, I always read Blu Ray as Blur-ry... ;-) !! Not having big screen, DVD is more than good enough for me. How long will regular DVD last? Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] co-branded Miro players
This is great news - thanks for sharing it Ian :-) On Feb 4, 2008 3:42 PM, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to be clear, we are talking and they are coming into the BBC to show off Miro in March. And this is bloggable :) 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 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester Sent: 04 February 2008 15:30 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] co-branded Miro players I think it would be fair to say we are talking to Miro ;) 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 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean DALY Sent: 01 February 2008 09:21 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] co-branded Miro players Now here's an idea: branded, platform-neutral clients... http://www.getmiro.com/blog/?p=363 - 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/ -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com
Re: [backstage] flash streaming version of iplayer is live
Just tried watching Hood in full screen flash - far too jerky. No download option this week either, a very very clunky interface, no subscription feature, DRM times out wrongly (too early)... Is this supposed to launch on Christmas day? Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://daftspaniel.blogspot.com Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] Wii News Channel
Anyone tried the DS Browser? Was considering it but the fact it loses cookies when powered off makes me wary :-) Davy On 10/16/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Random, but reminds me of... http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/bbcs-north-american-billboards-engage-their-viewers34357.html J On 16/10/2007, Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talking of developing for the Wii, I was playing with the everyone votes channel and I was thinking this would be cool for bbc news votes. Some of votes are already quite political in nature and with a worldwide base of 5million Wii's online? This could be pretty cool as an experiment. Shall I see if I can squeeze Opera into giving us credits for the Wii browser, for development purposes too? Cheers Ian Barry Carlyon wrote: I had heard that one of the student radio stations was building a flash player for their radio stream for the wii….. I don't think nintendo had opened it up (yet) otherwise a lot more would have been heard about it I believe that the wii channels run off parsing of rss feeds, since it would be small enough to be parsed effectively for use… -- Barry Carlyon Webmaster LSRfm.com/LSweb.org.uk/leedsaction.co.uk/luubackstage.com mobile: 07729048443 skype: barrycarlyon * From: * owner- backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner- backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk ] *On Behalf Of *Matthew Cashmore *Sent:* 16 October 2007 10:58 *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk *Subject:* [backstage] Wii News Channel So, um, was messing with my new Wii last night and was having a play with the News Channel – but it's a bit naff – I was wondering if anyone knew anything about how to build channels for the Wii – or even if Nintendo have opened it up at all? m - 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/ -- Jason Cartwright Web Specialist, EMEA Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44(0)2070313161 -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] Russia forces World Service off FM radio
Hope Podcasts of the content have been started to circumvent this :-) -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] feeds with icons or pictures?
I think this is a rights issue so the news RSS is text only. I would like to see the User contributed photos on RSS. Thought about screen scraping but backstage does but encourage that. Davy On 7/22/07, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary, thanks for that...I'm looking for more than just an identity logo, icons or images that change. after all that's what RSS is about... hence my mention of the weather. cheers ~: Jonathan Chetwynd On 21 Jul 2007, at 17:06, Gary Kirk wrote: BBC News has an icon built in to feeds, see my example at http://xinki.org.uk/site On 21/07/07, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: feeds with icons or pictures? anyone care to share their favourites? are there any bbc feeds with icons or images, beyond the weather? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - 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/ -- Gary Kirk - 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/ -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] Web Service For Terror Alert Level?
Is there an official Web Service for the Terror Alert Level? Be nice if the BBC supplied it :-) Thanks, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] Web Service For Terror Alert Level?
Thanks Jason (and everyone who replied) looks like a good one. Yep it may be questionable/politically set but all the more reason to monitor it :-) Davy On 7/4/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The relevant Home Office page is valid XHTML, so it shouldn't be that difficult to parse it out from there... http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/current-threat-level/ J On 4/7/07 08:47, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an official Web Service for the Terror Alert Level? Be nice if the BBC supplied it :-) Thanks, Davy - 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/ -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] DRM does not work... what next?
People are basically honest, and agree with the idea that artists should get paid. LOL. Ha ha ha Ha ha ha Ha ha ha. I think there's actually a more pertinent question, which is this: Why are people currently paying for things that they could get for free? Even more pertinently, why are people stealing, suffering DRM, being electronic freedom fighters with Oggs etc when there is a wealth of freely available content already available. I don't spend a lot of time hunting for podcasts but I have gigs of great audio and video to consume. Yeah a few BBC but mostly not. I worry that the big media groups will finally get online but will just be clunky, expensive and irrelevent. I don't need more content so any big program libraries are just not appealing. Here's to cool ideas like Backstage !! As an aside, I wonder why the BBC can't be producing more original podcast content. For example, Grammar Girl - great show, dynamic and educational. Hardly has a Holywood budget. Why are the BBC shows so sanitized and sterile e.g. Digital Planet??!? They are hardly stretching the medium either and sound like recycled radio. To answer my own question, I think people mostly pirate stuff partly to feel like 'winning' or beating the system. Good old greed which you won't ever get rid of with any technology :-) Yours cynically, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] Davy M - Mood News?
Yep I'm a .co.uk these days :-) http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/moodnews/ How does he decide what the mood is - good/ bad etc? What are the criteria? It's all done by keywords/phrases and a scoring system. The database is about 400 entries. I've not mucked about with the main engine for a while (code is actually only a few lines!) but maintaining the db takes the time. Playing with the presentation is far more fun hence all the variations. There is one new thing coming up which groups the stories rating by topics - the first being beliefs/religions/morals http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/moodnews/mn-topic-faith-morals.html Might work with a bit less yellow :-) Cheers, Davy Mitchell -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] The real backstage story?
Good idea for a topic. On 4/22/07, Jonathan Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious to hear what the Backstagers have to say on this matter. It's only from discussions on mailing lists like this that I find out about what technologies are good for anything. To start the ball rolling, I used python for Mood News as it had so many libraries to do everything I wanted (GFX, Speech, RSS, FTP etc) and also because of a neat file base DB system called Kirbybase. It is nice and interactive so handy when you don't know quite where you are going with an idea. Also mixing functional and OO programming is seamless. (I'm surrounded by stick-in-the-muds at work - still using VB6. I had to explain what 'active record' was to the DB guy last month. Phfeh.) VB6 is my day job too - Python in my spare time soothes my brain a bit :-) Ooops - have I started another framework war? Sharp exit, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] new prototype, geoRss feeds for travel data
You're waiting too eh? :-) Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - 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] Tube on Twitter
Mornington Crescent. -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel - 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] Radio 1 on Twitter
More Twitter nonsense :-) Been making it talk... http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_02_17.html#e143 Davy http://twitter.com/daftspaniel -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Mood News has moved
Latedecember has become a .co.uk so the new address is http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/moodnews/ Cheers, Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Hosting (Slightly OT)
Thanks everyone for all the suggestions on and off list. Cheers, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog Will Be Reborn At - http://www.latedecember.co.uk - soon - 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] Hosting (Slightly OT)
Hi All, Thought this might be the ideal crowd... I am looking for a free (or cheap) hosting for MP3 files for my various auto-generated podcasts such as Mood News and comp.lang.python. Any suggestions? Cheers, Davy Mitchell - 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] Joost anyone?
On 1/29/07, Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that Libby, much appreciated. Off to play with my new toys now ;-) Media wise, Scouta.com is interesting too. Beta is private invites but blog has some details. Cheers Davy Mitchell - 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] Video Encoder
Hi Folks, Sorry if this is OT. Working on a new prototype and this request might give a little away :-) !! Anyway I am looking for a windows video encoder (command line?) that can take static images and spit out something video webby and also be as lossless as possible. I've tried Google and not found anything practical. Free or very close to it preferably. Thanks, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.com/sites/personal/davy/ Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] The Time When - new feeds!
Good to see Mathew and Ian taking up their posts :-) On 9/2/06, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/memories.html I submitted this prototype to the website. Is it just stuck in the Q or lost in the recent crash? Cheers Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] The Time When - new feeds!
On 8/12/06, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/memories.html Sorry for taking so long to reply to this thread. Thanks to Gordon, Jonathan and Barry for the feedback. The Mood Memories page now has the colour key present. The main Mood News page has been updated too. It should be faster to load and now uses no javascript. There are a few graphs and it is now possible to see the stories that were rated 'don't know'. More importantly the vocabulary database is much expand (over 350 words). http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ Have a good weekend, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Flickr releases Geotagging for photos
Looking forward to news.bbc.co.uk having tagging :-) Especially since sub-categories were dropped recently. Cheers, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] The Time When - new feeds!
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 http://www.latedecember.com/sites/personal/davy/ - 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] Funny Story
I see now - its a flash plugin which I don't have installed :-) Still begs the question why a 2004 story is still in the RSS feed? Cheers, Davy On 6/30/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Davy Mitchell wrote: Looks a bit broken? What's wrong with it? -- From the North, this is Kirk www.noisetosignal.org - 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/ -- Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Funny Story
I keep noticing this story in the RSS used by Mood News - been there for months... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4121411.stm Looks a bit broken? :-) Davy -- Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] New Web Feeds for press, jobs, homepage, blogs
Sorry for the slow response :-) We're also interested in compiling a top 10 list of web feeds the BBC *should* make available have so nominations for that are gratefully received. How about a RSS feed for the photos emailed in to the BBC site? I.E. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3631797.stm BTW it is really annoying not being able to link directly to a photo on that page :-) Cheers, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Podcast for Mood News - Good News
Hi Folks, 'Good' podcast now available at: http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/goodpodcast.xml Thanks Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Mood News - Good News
Hey Folks, Quiet around here isn't it ? :-) I am planning a re-org of the Mood News site and as a little starter put together a page of 'good' news. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/good.html There's no link from the main page (yet). Also the Google module is now in the directory: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=mood+news Take care, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Mood News on Values Shacker
Hi Folks, Sorry if this is a bit OT but the list is quiet! This podcast discusses Mood News in the terms of Fear : http://valueshacker.thepodcastnetwork.com/ In this first ValuesHacker Show, we talk about Fear, particularly fear induced by the media, and how to take control it and deal with it. Thanks, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Google homepage module
Another me too post :-) Mood News for your Google homepage. In true Google fashion, it is very simple! http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/moodnewsghm.xml Beware the cache... Cheers, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Go Digital
Apologies if I should be address this to R4's feedback :-) 'Go Digital' is a good radio program and surely in this day of high internet connectivity it is mainstream enough to be on say R4 or similar. It appears odd there is no computing/internet based program. Or have I missed something? :-) Thanks, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Mood News Update and an Idea
On 11/15/05, Ben Metcalfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you be able to flesh out a little more about your aspirations for a Google News type proposition for it? That sounds really interesting too, but I'd love to hear your take on it The Google News idea is more of a general layout idea rather than a Mood News expansion. The current BBC site is very hierarchical with 4 columns in contrast to the flat/wide/scrolling Google News page with 2(3 at top) columns. A layout of the BBC content like this would be interesting. Obviously a page like this needs a layout algorithm so the Mood News scoring might help for example a Good, Bad and Neutral story from each category. However a simple date sort might be better :-) Thanks to everyone else for the ideas regarding sport, personalising and kittens. Very interesting. Currently Mood News has no domain knowledge. It would be a very interesting experiment to make it, say, support a football team or political party and spin the news according to the bias. Oh well off to squish some bugs! Cheers, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Mood News Update and an Idea
Hi Folks, Just added some personalisation features to Mood News. You can specify some keywords to track stories on which are presented in Good to Bad order. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ Cookies and Javascript required. Also there have been numerous backend tweaks and most of the javascript has been optimised. Anyway while putting it together I wondered if anyone fancied taking on this little idea... How about a Google News style page for BBC content. It would be handy to have single customisable page to view all to stories arranged by topics. I'd read it - promise :-) Thanks, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] From Prototype to what?
Hi Folks, I am looking to move my prototype out of concept stage to a live running system. Perhaps the backstage site could have a listing of prototypes that have 'grown up'? Prototypes seems to suggest a service is temporary or incomplete and will probably put off normal (non-geeky) people. Or am I way off here? :-) Thanks, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - 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] Mood News Podcast
Hi Folks, Just a little note to say Mood News received a much needed update and has an experimental Podcast thanks to pyTTS. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ Link from top of top of the page or more directly http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/podcast.xml Minor updates to the scoring system. Current tough word is 'aid' - filter on that and you will see some incorrect ratings :-) Thanks, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - 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] Mood News 4
Hi Everyone, Another big-ish update to Mood News - better ratings including don't know(grey), live story filter, 4 views inc 2 graphs. More first 'page' display options soon. Tested on IE6, FF1.06 and Opera8 on Windows. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/index.html Interestingly IE6 is much slower to respond with the filter. FF is fine and Opera is really quick. Hopefully IE7 might improve javascript/DOM performance though the beta looks pretty poor. Thanks, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - 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] Geotagging BBC news stories
On 7/23/05, Matthew Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the blog entry: http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2005/07/feed_annotation.html Feed Annotation Streams Looks good - but I might have to hack the Python RSS library I am using to get the GUID tag out of it :-) I'll have a go at updating the XML with more data such as supplying the colour data used on the web page instead of the raw score. If 2 or 3 of these feeds are combined. well the mind boggles! Off bug squishing... See you, Davy -- Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories
On 7/21/05, Tony Hirst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk on 21 July 2005 at 21:52 + wrote: it seems you have the same motivation as I had when I mailed this list about RSS Annotation Streams! The whole idea sounds great. I have plans to expose some of the Mood News data but never thought of anything quite so detailed. How about an XML with the URL as GUID plus the data (rating, colour etc) ? Would it need a basic schema structure? Could lead to some very interesting client applications! Thanks, Davy -- Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
[backstage] 3D?
Hey People, Has anyone seen any good 3D scenes done in CSS/DHTML? I'm thinking up a news visualisation (with a very abstract/arty direction) trying to use client side technologies but no plugins and minimum image files (if any). I am very sleepy. Sorry if this doesn't make sense. Thanks Bye. Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
Re: [backstage] RSS App test
I got the JAR to work okay but had the same problem already reported with the EXE. Also clicking the link failed to launch a browser. That aside, it looks pretty neat and did a good job displaying the headlines. Perhaps the browser command could be specified in the XML? Also how about losing the window frame? Theres some good tips at: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/12/08/swing.html Good stuff - I could do with a ticker app :-) Cheers, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
Re: [backstage] Mood News 3
Wow - thanks for all the emails. Uh, that's great, but I found this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/ hi/health/4681707.stm in Bad news, when it should be good. Yeah - the scoring system needs to cover more topics and better. It is very crude however the next version should be much better and faster to extend. I wonder if now would be a good time to give some broad definition of what constitutes good and bad news. What a philosophical question! Mood News just tries to pick up and amplify the tone already in the story. There is no 'correct' categorisation even if a human did it. good news for Mr Wright-Phillips, and for Chelsea, but not good news for Manchester City. This is the tricky business of introducing domain knowledge. I'd only want to do that for a very specialised site e.g. a supporter site (political, sport) and even then it would be very hard. Wow - that's a slightly terrifying concept: the ability to filter news according to your personal preferences so you only get 'good' news delivered to you... Very 1984. *Shudder* I have a neat idea planned for filtering but I've stayed away *just* because of the spooky factor. Parental control might be a valid application of this. Filtering does seem to go against some of the idea of Mood News which is to broaden the range of stories read. Have you thought about running a similar 'mood detector' through video transcripts, or ficiton? It could be a useful addition to a reccomendation engine? Interesting idea - an objective measure of how up/down beat a novel or film is. Studios would love that esp. when going for a feelgood factor. Did you hear about the app that performs analysis of songs to see if they are going to be chart hits? I am sure it was on Slashdot.. it is all relative to perspective... Good (or bad or Evil or whatever) Indeed, Mood News offers one perspective of the news that is hopefully useful and interesting. Now back to my neutral Python... :-) Thanks again, Davy Mitchell - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
Re: [backstage] Mood News 2
Thanks for all the feedback and for the positive vibes. I don't mind sharing what's behind Mood News as it is fairly simple and unoriginal process. The system works much like a search engine, assigning points to various keywords. On the first run of the script I threw in some keywords and was surprised how well this worked so I stuck with it. There's some more complex stuff in there now such as checking a keyword is present when another is not. This is all in a messy flat Python script adapted from my RSS-to-MP3 application. So it does need a bit of refactoring and the publishing process made automatic. I also want to separate out the Scoring System from the presentation so different strategies can be tried and compared side by side. From a development and reader point of view it would be nice to have an audit trail of why a story received a particular rating. Yes colours seem almost essential in an application like this. I'd like the Good/Bad/Neutral categories only used for summaries and have the stories marked by an appropriate shade. Well better get to work on all of this - thanks again everyone. Cheers, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
