Re: [backstage] Streaming video on variable bandwidth connection?

2011-02-06 Thread Sam Smith
something like skype which copes with that well, and then have something at the other end that pushes it out to other places? have run a number of video events across 3G links, and it works relatively well. Although if you're completely offline, it's not going to work that well (backup phone

[backstage] OpenTech - 11th Sept - London.

2010-08-13 Thread Sam Smith
The below is probably of interest to this list - a number of people from here will be speaking. cheers Sam __START__ * Ticket reservations now open - Please Redistribute Freely * OpenTech 2010 sponsored by data.gov.uk Saturday 11th Septmber

Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

2008-01-08 Thread Sam Smith
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Steve Jolly wrote: David Greaves wrote: I think someone missed the point here... Or am I wrong? If I explain that all the stories on the BBC news website are barely more than static HTML, would that explain why adding watermarks to them all would be difficult? If the

[backstage] The Proms

2007-05-09 Thread Sam Smith
Since the bbc don't provide an ical feed of the proms, and the only way I remember anything is if it's in my diary, I've put together a little script which creates an ical feed of all the proms, and dumps out some XML while I was at it which others may have fun playing with:

Re: [backstage] Manchester leg of university tour

2007-02-28 Thread Sam Smith
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Daniel Morris wrote: If there's any north-western people on the list, there's going to be an evening version of the uni talk. If you're interested, sign up on the event-wax page; http://geek-up.eventwax.com/admin/bbc-backstage-talk Is the signup for this supposed to be a

Re: [backstage] How can we best serve you media XML?

2006-01-21 Thread Sam Smith
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Nic Ferrier wrote: Are you a big fan of the Yahoo! sponsored Media RSS? Or maybe you would just prefer simple enclosure tags? Are there any other options we have missed? At the moment, I'm personally persuaded by MediaRSS. In most instances, for each of our videos we need

Re: [backstage] Football Text Commentaries

2005-07-24 Thread Sam Smith
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Steve Fitzpatrick wrote: Are there any plans afoot to publish the excellent football text commentaries as an RSS feed (or similar)? For example, each of the timed sections here... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/live_text/default.stm ...would be