Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Coates
I mean that's better in some ways certainly, but you'd probably also want to create some sort of canonical identifier that would represent the band so that if anyone was doing anything programmatically across the web they would be able to connect the two concepts. I mean, YOU might know whi

Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-16 Thread Tom Coates
Hey - as the person who developed the URL stuff for the programme information pages project (PIPs - hence pip in the URL), I can assure you that the one you're proposing is not generally better. The problem with the date formatted stuff is that it only works if you know for certain that the

Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-16 Thread Tom Coates
Yeah this is another classic problem. The way I think about this stuff is as follows: A specific URI should refer to a unique concept in the world and should be as human readable as possible but NO MORE. Meaning, that if making the URI more human readable fucks up the way it refers to the

Re: [backstage] Hack day in London

2007-04-20 Thread Tom Coates
Sure - I can't see any reason why people shouldn't be building things using Flash. In fact it could be really awesome. On 19 Apr 2007, at 16:02, cisnky wrote: Actionscript ? On 4/19/07, Ben Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sounds like a great event. Can any language/technology be used? RoR

Re: Hardware at Hack Day [was -Re: [backstage] Hack day in London]

2007-04-20 Thread Tom Coates
Ah! Cashmore to the rescue! On 20 Apr 2007, at 10:46, Matthew Cashmore wrote: Hey Chris – really good point actually and it’s not something we’ve considered at all – let me take this up and see what we can come up with – I must admit we did assume that people would bring their own kit

Re: [backstage] Hack day in London

2007-04-20 Thread Tom Coates
I think you'd probably have to find someone to work with to help you out with that one, as free laptops are rather outside the budget! On 19 Apr 2007, at 18:20, Chris Riley wrote: I'm interested in attending the hack day, but what is the deal with regards to hardware. What will we be hackin

Re: [backstage] Hack day in London

2007-04-19 Thread Tom Coates
profiles. I think Matt and Ian will be posting more here shortly about the day, and there's more information on my site and the Yahoo Developer Network site in the meantime. Tom Coates http://www.plasticbag.org/ On 19 Apr 2007, at 10:22, Richard Hyett wrote: On 19/04/07, Ian Fo

Re: [backstage] annotatable audio

2005-10-29 Thread Tom Coates
Aw... On 29 Oct 2005, at 11:53, Jem Stone wrote: This was Tom's last project for the BBC. I know he subscribes to this list. We'll really miss him. He was a frequent visitor, supporter and critic! (in a good way) of Backstage. Good luck with Yahoo!... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discus

Re: [backstage] backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition

2005-09-07 Thread Tom Coates
I know this conversation has now ended, but I'd just like to briefly suggest that subsequent projects be promoted around Computer Science departments in Universities around the country. Students often have more time, are looking for projects that they'd enjoy hacking around with and are loo