Re: Old thread, new News... Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

2008-09-11 Thread Brian Butterworth
Typical of our Yankee cousins, not only do they write their dates the wrong way round, but their history is so shallow they can't remember something they've read before. Poor dears. No sense of history, or indeed chronology. Note to americans: If you want to put the year on something, but don't

Re: Old thread, new News... Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

2008-09-11 Thread Sam Mbale
I have a slight feeling that there is a conspiracy somewhere here. This may be similar to Googlebombing, I suspect someone made a lot of money as a result. On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Typical of our Yankee cousins, not only do they write their

Re: Old thread, new News... Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Bowyer
2008/9/11 Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm currently trying to ensure that my current client builds suitable safeguards into a similar feature they're proposing to deliver. Well surely it can't take much; something like SELECT * FROM 'active_news_articles' where 'published_date' =

Re: Old thread, new News... Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

2008-09-11 Thread Sam Mbale
the hard part is getting the people who write the requirements to understand why they should care I would like to think they care, it may just be the case of being caught off guard. I have search marketing experience and I know that these vulnerabilities can be exploited if you can ignore

Re: [backstage] Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit

2008-09-11 Thread Tim Dobson
2008/9/10 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would love to be there but I'm in London on the 16th. Anyone else going to go? Well, I am. Obviously :P -- www.tdobson.net If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea,

Re: [backstage] Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit

2008-09-11 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 00:19:38 Ian Forrester wrote: Would love to be there but I'm in London on the 16th. Anyone else going to go? Sadly it's not practical for me to go either, though for other reasons :) Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To

Re: [backstage] Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit

2008-09-11 Thread Matt Barber
Michael wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2008 00:19:38 Ian Forrester wrote: Would love to be there but I'm in London on the 16th. Anyone else going to go? Sadly it's not practical for me to go either, though for other reasons :) Michael. I can't go - but will there be a

Re: Old thread, new News... Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

2008-09-11 Thread Sam Mbale
I just stumbled across this article that explains what may have actually happened, When Algorithms Attack: How Googlebot And Tribune (And Some Idiot) Killed United Airlines

Re: [backstage] Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit

2008-09-11 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/9/11 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't go - but will there be a pod/webcast? I think Tim is going to bring a video camera, so hopefully, yes - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: Old thread, new News... Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

2008-09-11 Thread Brian Butterworth
It's quite funny, in the sense of Caveat venditor: all the people who lost loads of money by selling the stock in the hope that they could sell before the buyer became aware of the business failing have lost loadsamoney. Big Greed=Big Loss. For those who didn't sell, the price will recover, of

Re: [backstage] Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit

2008-09-11 Thread Brian Butterworth
I'd quite like to come, but can't. I just love font internals*. Looking forward to the video, Dave. * = I wrote a PostScript to RiscOS font converter a couple of decades ago. 2008/9/11 Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/9/11 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't go - but will there be

Re: [backstage] Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit

2008-09-11 Thread Brian Butterworth
I'd quite like to come, but can't. I just love font internals*. Looking forward to the video, Dave. * = I wrote a PostScript to RiscOS font converter a couple of decades ago. 2008/9/11 Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/9/11 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't go - but will there be

Re: [backstage] Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit

2008-09-11 Thread Matt Barber
Dave Crossland wrote: 2008/9/11 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't go - but will there be a pod/webcast? I think Tim is going to bring a video camera, so hopefully, yes Thanks Dave for the info, and thanks Tim in advance for bringing the camera! :) Hope it goes well, and

Re: [backstage] Search yourself

2008-09-11 Thread Jim Tonge
Sorry to revisit a thread so old my Grandma read it, but this is a much better implementation of the [3D search visualisation] idea methinks: http://www.viewzi.com jim On 19 Aug 2008, at 15:08, Ian Forrester wrote: http://www.searchme.com What do you guys think? Ian Forrester This