Re: Speed of bbc.co.uk? (was RE: [backstage] Future of BBC's iPlayer in doubt - Sunday Herald - Kangaroo ...)

2007-12-04 Thread Brian Butterworth
Brendan, Perhaps it's the RSS feeds for the podcasts? They are the only bit of bbc.co.uk that are slow in my experience. On 03/12/2007, Brendan Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's interesting, does anyone else find bbc.co.uk to be any slower than other sites? I can't imagine why anyone in

[backstage] Classical music joins the DRM-free trend

2007-12-04 Thread Brian Butterworth
http://www.betanews.com/article/Classical_music_joins_the_DRMfree_trend/1196714195 *Adding to the canon of DRM-free music, a Universal Music Group subsidiary has made a large portion of its catalog of classical performances available online free from digital rights protection.* Today, a label

Re: [backstage] Re: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 world

2007-12-04 Thread Dave Crossland
On 4 Dec 2007, at 01:40, Mr I Forrester wrote: Quick note to say it was not promised, we talked about it but never promised. We licenced it under a creative commons non-commercial attribution licence At the http://www.aspirationtech.org/events/opentranslation conference it became clear that

RE: [backstage] Re: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 world

2007-12-04 Thread Ian Forrester
Thanks Dave I will next time. 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

RE: [backstage] Classical music joins the DRM-free trend

2007-12-04 Thread Christopher Woods
They want ?44 for 320kbps MP3s of a 1975 recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier... Pisstake? I think so. Most of their other stuff is a little more sensibly-priced, but it's still too expensive - and not good enough quality. Classical music buffs will stay away, preferring to get the CDs unless

Re: [backstage] Re: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 world

2007-12-04 Thread Sean DALY
This was a fascinating discussion for me -- thank you -- I listened to it twice. I regret however that no transcript is available. I know how much work that is -- I once interviewed someone in French for over 30 minutes, then transcribed it, then translated it -- and group interviews are even

Re: [backstage] Classical music joins the DRM-free trend

2007-12-04 Thread nick richards
Also note that eMusic subscribers in the UK and elsewhere have beenable to get DRM free 192kbps MP3s of classical (and other) music for awhile now although obviously the label's haven't tended to be quite asprestigious. Nick On 12/4/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They want €44

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-04 Thread James Cridland
On Dec 3, 2007 12:48 PM, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/12/2007, Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need the BBC to release it. Yeah, a lot of the comments on that blog post said similar things - that notwithstanding it would be very helpful for the community if the

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-04 Thread Noah Slater
On 04/12/2007, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delighted to let you know that after discussion with my team, we *will* be making Perl on Rails (we'll call it something different) open-source. It'll be licenced as openly as possible. You asked for it, so we'll give you it. Wow. Thread

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-04 Thread vijay chopra
On 04/12/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I suggest that you licence the code under the GNU Affero GPL v3 please. I expect the BBC will use an in house licence to fit it's needs as set out in the charter. As an aside I still don't understand the need for GPLv3, as far as I can

Re: [backstage] Classical music joins the DRM-free trend

2007-12-04 Thread Richard Smedley
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 17:18 +, nick richards wrote: Also note that eMusic subscribers in the UK and elsewhere have been able to get DRM free 192kbps MP3s of classical (and other) music for a while now although obviously the label's haven't tended to be quite as prestigious. Linn

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-04 Thread Noah Slater
On 04/12/2007, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I expect the BBC will use an in house licence to fit it's needs as set out in the charter. This makes sense, though is a little disapointing if true. As an aside I still don't understand the need for GPLv3, as far as I can it just adds