Re: [backstage] Finally, that bloody BBC Weather feed - here it is...

for a geocoding API, the UK contract doesn't. (I haven't tried JP geocoding, and haven't heard any reports either way.) -=- James Mastros - 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] Last played songs?

is that the audience doesn't know what tracks are being played in real-time, the 7 song shuffle.) -=- James Mastros - 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

Re: [backstage] Last played songs?

multi-namespacing. Release early, release often. -=- James Mastros - 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

Re: [backstage] Last played songs?

that'd require some extra work for producers (or engineers, depending on how the show works). The last 20% takes 80% of the time, but a large amount of your audience only cares about the first 80% anyway. IOW, when you can't figure out what's being played, just put in a placeholder. -=- James

Re: [backstage] MetaWeather.com Update

interesting. Can you also make your own predictions, and see how good they are? -=- James Mastros - 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

Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

be considered/addressed in due time. Oh, Copyright Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting... is a bit redundant. Also, it doesn't give a year, which is required for a valid copyright notice. Just a minor nit. -=- James Mastros - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group

Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

rather nifty, but I wish it wouldn't message me with the same article more then once -- that is, ignore stories that it's already messaged me. (After the first hour anybody is there, that falls into sync again, or just give people a short first one.) -=- James Mastros - Sent via

Re: [backstage] Timezone bug?

into the synopsis in code, not by people. I've looked into it, and while it is fairly regular when it is there, it's hard to tell an episode title from a short first paragraph. -=- James Mastros - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http

[backstage] Timezone bug?

it be possible to get the name of the episode in a seperate element from the free-text descriptions? Thank you, -=- James Mastros - 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

Re: [backstage] Backstage - Stagnant

, for anybody (except possibly people who don't know how to watch movies on their computer), but it gets around any rights issues, except with contracts so old as to have no clause dealing with selling copies of the material rather then broadcasting it. -=- James Mastros - Sent via

Re: [backstage] combining prototypes?

-all-dancing TV site for users in the UK. (Indeed, I rather wish I'd known more about the MighTyV effort earlier; I might have been able to earn myself a slice of that rackmount server.) -=- James Mastros - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

RE: [backstage] combining prototypes?

site. -=- James Mastros - 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] Presenting the TVMap!

. -=- James Mastros PS -- In a couple days, after winners are announced, we should probably all have an on-list discussion about what we'd like to happen with the format -- additional information that would be useful, and where to put it. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group

Re: [backstage] Presenting the TVMap!

!) -=- James Mastros - 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] BUG: dodgy data..

and 1 channels I suspect... Pesky breaks, always going missing at the worst time... Thanks, -=- James Mastros - 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

RE: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

. (Of course, having it on the web would be more useful -- that way it can be searched before the programme first airs.) -=- James Mastros - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html