Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails
Adam wrote: Tinyurl is a great service and i can understand why it is used, but i feel that using this type of service in a wider audience is a bad idea. We're having this exact same argument at the moment here, and I would agree that ideally this service should be located under the main publisher's domain. The Guardian uses tinyurl extensively, as do many other publications. We have decided to build our own system instead, as at least this way we are able to track who's clicking the links and where they're coming from as well. Seán - 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] Lifehacker's Top Ten free video rippers encoders and converters
Simon Cobb wrote: there's a couple I hadn't heard of on here http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-video-rippers-encoders-and-converters-316478.php I know it's a collection of various tools (some mentioned) but I'm amazed that Godian Knot wasn't mentioned. Certainly for MPEG2-Xvid/Divx conversion it's the best and most flexible I've come across. Commercially I've also been using Sorrenson Squeeze as well. This has some lovely features such as batch conversions (drop multi-bitrate and multiformat output templates onto the file and set it going) as well as supporting a hot-directory (watch a directory for files appearing then automatically convert them and put them somewhere else). Seán - 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] Linux Port of iPlayer
Can't recall seeing this posted here, but then again it might have gotten lost in all the noise or I may have been too bone idle to actually remember what I've read. http://bbciplayerlinux.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page BBC iPlayer on Linux project Wiki This is a project to bring the BBC iPlayer to the GNU/Linux and *BSD/Mac OSX Operating Systems. The BBC has been heavily criticised for not providing iPlayer on Mac OSX or Linux. This is something that the iPlayer on Linux project hopes to fix. Although initially this project aims to put the iPlayer on Linux, porting (via wine) to BSD/Mac OSX is a very simple task. Seán - 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] Plain text or easy-to-parse news articles
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/6918490.stm I know this is totally off topic but I notice that the links to external stories are actually being redirected through moreover.com rather than link directly to the site in question (even if it does go through the internal Beeb redirect tracker) Is anyone aware of any reason why they do not link directly to the story on the relevant site instead? Cheers Seán - 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] Tivo StopWatch beginner questions...
James Ockenden wrote: Interesting news from Tivo, it has been measuring 20,000 users second-by-second viewing habits. The results show people actually like the direct response ads better... more interesting i thought was how StopWatch managed the 20,000 CRID/URI-style info streaming in every second for two months (that's a lot of data no?) and how it measured and identified each program, and, since this was primarliy for advertisers, how they identified each advert? by the station's output listing/time - surely unreliable? They could be fingerprinting the audio stream of ads/programmes to ascertain what is being watched. This is my understanding of how data is collected for Nielsen's BARB stats, that way you are able to not only report on what peopel are currently wacthing but also you can ascertain what people have watched on their DVDs/TiVo/DigiBox-recorders. Seán - 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] Microsoft TV - Live!
Christopher Woods wrote: Applied... Symbolic irony? The woman in the site's stock art is sitting in the grass and using (presumably) LiveStation... on an iBook. Hah. ... Or is this a hint towards Microsoft implementing some of that much-vaunted platform agnosticism we all talk about but never seem to see much of? I'm sorry, have we been hijacked by Slashdot? Seán - 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] www.FreeTheBBC.info
David Greaves wrote: Sean Dillon wrote: vijay chopra wrote: Besides, if there are meeja prima donnas and wannabe luvvies (on this list or otherwise) that believe that DRM is a long term, workable solution to this problem, then I couldn't care less if they get their egos bruised a little, and don't see why anyone else should care either. With the utmost respect there are a couple of techie prima donnas here as well who could do with being dragged into the real world of commercial media production and distribution. With even more respect than anyone has shown anywhere ever (phew) The 'real world' for commercial people is usually this quarter's profit. The 'real world' for techies doesn't even have money, never mind profit. In some companies perhaps, more frequently these boundaries are starting to blur. My own department has one foot clearly in both camps, we are responsible for product development, implementation and delivery as well as managing inventory and forecasting and ultimately ensuring we provide the tools products for the sales team to hit their targets. Our bonus structure is clearly linked to the performance of the sales department, therefore it is clearly in our best interest to ensure we help them hit their quarterly targets etc... I think what I'm trying to say is that times are-a-changing, this clear division between tech commercial is gradually being eroded. Seán - 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] Test tube
Dave Crossland wrote: On 14/06/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/testtube I've seen the remixer thing on another site - guess thats yet another Google acquisition. I seem to recall Yahoo getting to market before them with their purchase of Jumpcut Remix. http://www.jumpcut.com Seán - 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] www.FreeTheBBC.info
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of what the media produces isn’t creative: it is formulaic and componentised in much the same way as any factory that assembles work on a production line. Of course, media production needs to be financed, but it isn’t a scarce resource and it does warrant disproportionate returns. I can only talk for my time in production roles being anything BUT formulaic or 'componentised' I'd be intersted in knowing which orgaisations you've experienced that take such a view. I need to pick you up on one point, that is original (read 'creative') content IS a scarce resource and that's exactly the point. I don't see many people here or elsewhere creating and publsihing weather data or local news reports or giving over by over commentary of cricket matches or detailed analysis of Football matches. With a notably small exception it's media owners who provide commentary from the front line of so many wars or the insights of political machinations of Washington/London/Brussells et al. Who has the time, money or inclicnation to create TV listsings? I see lots of people making use of this rich source of data, making mash-ups and utilising this data but virtually nobody produces genuinely unique content of this ilk (RSS, XML Feeds etc... the sort of stuff we're discussing on this list) other than the larger media owners. If the media was truly creative, it wouldn’t struggle with how to make money from its work. It is a confusion on the part of the media folk to think that their work is somehow creative and unique. Please can you elaborate on this. It's such a sweeping indictment of the entire media landscape that I really am interstested in hearing you support this with something more than what I'm sorry to say comes across as anti-established-media bias. I know on the whole we're a sitting duck for those who know better but I can't see where you manage to actually support your argument. Seán - 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] DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY
Jason Cartwright wrote: Apparently TFL are trialling mobiles on the tube next year... http://www.tfl.gov.uk/modalpages/4577.aspx And aircon as well :-) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102sid=acUFU0IpxGDc Seán - 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 Web API - additional audio formats // additional speed descriptors
Chris Newell wrote: At 17:22 01/02/2007, Pete Cole wrote: what we would see is, for example: location typeaudio/x-pn-realaudio/type (MIME type) bitrate128/bitrate (kbps) networkunicast/network (unicast | multicast | dvb) url rtsp://bbc.co.uk rtsp://bbc.co.uk/ /url /location type and url would obviously be mandatory. Are there any views on whether bitrate and network should be optional or mandatory? If bitrate is include how would you define variable and constant bitrates? Or is there actually a need to define this? Seán - 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)
James Cridland wrote: On 1/30/07, *Davy Mitchell* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Not free, but certainly very, very cheap and hellishly reliable: Amazon S3. www.amazon.com/s3 http://www.amazon.com/s3 For you it's especially useful, since it comes BitTorrent enabled automatically: perfect for BitTorrent-enabled clients. I'd agree with James here, the S3 network is very interesting, very cheap $0.20 per GB bandwidth and $0.15 per GB of storage per month. It's massively scalable, extremely resilient and the built in BitTorrent seeding functionality is very good. I've been experimenting with this and frankly it puts other CDNs into the shade on both cost and ease of access. Seán - 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] democracyplayer
Brendan Quinn wrote: The questions were actually [1] Do you ever use the internet to... Download a podcast so you can listen to it or view it at a later time? Did you happen to do this yesterday, or not? Which doesn't seem too misleading to me... Putting in the listen to it or view it at a later time text makes it pretty clear, don't you think? Looking at the report it's interesting to see the % of people saying they had done so the previous day remained the same as the previous period. It would have been nice to know what this % was expressed as a % of those who had 'downloaded' the podcast rather than as a % of the sample set. I'd agree with Luke though in that the term podcast is far too associated with a single tech producer, Apple, but in the absence of Seán - 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] BBC to launch six-month trial of online archive next year...?
Today's Lovelacemedia is reporting The BBC is to launch a six-month trial of its online archive next year by making 1,000 hours of content available on-demand to 20,000 test participants. The Corporation’s director of future media and technology Ashley Highfield said of the move to eventually place over one million hours of content on the internet: “Our goal is to turn the BBC into an open cultural and creative resource for the nation.” I got this link but unfortunately there's a subscription fee involved, I'll see if I can find someone with one. http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcastnowarticle.aspx?intStoryID=166477 Is the same story as reported in October: http://www.spokenword.ac.uk/spokenwordmatters/2006/10/06/bbc-to-pilot-online-archive-2/ Soudns great, would anyone care to comment? Cheers - 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] EasyUtil Recommendations API
Tom Loosemore wrote: http://easyutil.com/ EasyUtil Recommendation web service provides a web API to make recommendations in the format of people who liked this item also liked those items. Isn't there some sort of patent issue with regards to this. Amazon filed a patent back in 2000. http://news.com.com/2100-1017-241267.html Although, hang on, looks like they may have infringed someone else's patent :-) http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5439238.html Ahhh US Patent Law, dontcha just love it. Seán :: wondering if I can patent a method of bipedal perambulation using momentum as a primary means of locomotion and traction by the steady movement of a body's centre of gravity. - 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] Auto-tivo...
Leon Brocard wrote: How do you record TV? Leon Currently I have an AverMedia DVB-T card in a Windows box. It's own software is easy to use, if not particualarly feature packed, although you can easily schedule recordings in the future, and also schedule repeat recordings as well. Output is an MPEG2 stream, which I usually convert out to Xvid or Divx for compression/storage purposes. Prior to this I had an analogue WinTV card which I had plugged into a spare digibox I had floating around. This worked well, but image/audio quality wasn't the best, aspect ratios were often incorrect. I've got Sky+ in the front room for She Who Must BE Obeyed's use, and about to build a small mediabox/shuttlepc for the front room to act as a DVD recorder for programs on Sky+ I want to keep (via SVHS/audio inputs) and also the music/MP3 repository. So am looking for suitable capture cards for this. Seán - 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 News launch RSS and Atom service
Amias Channer wrote: On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:50:51 +0100 Tony Hirst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of interest - how *do* google get away with republishing other providers news? With great wads of cash paid to licence them i suspect , google have a lot of funds at their disposal which can make certain options available to them that aren't to others. Google may have a lot of money but they aren't always the easiest to get money out of :-) I can confirm in the UK that they do not pay for such content, though if they started putting ads over the site things will change for certain. However, at the moment they are, as Matthew pointed out, pushing traffic through to each site in question which is welcomed on the whole from most of the people I know involved with such sites. As to what level of traffic it sends through to those sites, I couldn't really guess, but in our experience it's not a huge amount in relation to normal traffic. Depending on the site, blogs and mailing lists probably account for a similar if not higher level of referral. Agence France Presse famously kicked up a stink, and so Google removed them from their pages: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050321-4723.html Seán PS: Hi all, just joined the list. - 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/
