There’s no (public) evidence,
beyond the existence of Kangaroo, that other broadcasters are actually all
that interested in a one-stop aggregation portal (I’d be tempted to say
“more fool them”—right now, they need all the help they can get).
coughs http://testtubetelly.channel4.com /coughs
http://blogs.channel4.com/platform4/2009/07/13/4od-facebook-test-tube-telly/
- Few 1000 C4 programmes on demand with Facebook-powered social nav.
Also includes broadcaster's stuff from their YouTube channels.
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2009/5/23 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net:
Hey there,
This isn't a common question I'd guess but here's a good a place to ask as
any! :)
So basically I've just acquired a small waterproof HD video camera and I'm
looking for the best way to mount it onto my Laser EPS[1] sailing dinghy.
Am a
If you want better access to Government data, then get commenting on
the Power of Information TaskForce report here
http://talk.dius.gov.uk/poit/
The stuff about freeing up Ordinance Survey geospatial data is here:
http://talk.dius.gov.uk/poit/2009/01/trading-funds/
On this one, your comments
does it need explaining?
;o)
http://www.4ip.org.uk - i don't start until end of Sept...
2008/8/21 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/21/channel4.ofcom
Wow backstage are slow to pick this one up...
I wonder if Mr Loosemore will be explaining his move
Sadly, the BBC's intentions to release it in-house geo-location API was long
ago stymied by various licencing nightmares (It's been 'coming soon'
since May 2005 http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/PostcoderApI?v=msy )
However, good news for those who fancy playing with postcodes, addresses and
The Cabinet Office's Power of Information Task Force just launched a
competition for mash up ideas using public data. See
www.ShowUsABetterway.com
Some new government APIsand data dumps too:
http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/data.html
Neighbourhood Statistics API from the ONS, Health care
... read the licence constraints first still, it's a start!
2008/7/2 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This looks quite interesting...
http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/
2008/7/2 Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The Cabinet Office's Power of Information Task Force
lovely... really solid start IMHO...
so when do we get machine readable versions of /topics ?
They were promised soon for /programmes when that launched back in Oct 2007?
;o)
2008/6/5 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
James,
This does, indeed, look very promising. I'm hoping that we can
When at the BBC a couple of years ago i asked who owned copyright on
BBC subtitles with a view to getting a feed onto backstage (remember
the indies... and that subtitle creation is outsourced at least some
of the time to Red Bee)
answer came there none...
i suspect because no-one had asked the
unhelpfully, the BBC's not yet put up the transcript of the speech, so
it's hard to judge given the vagries of reporting...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/thefuture/
2008/5/8 Andrew Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can I just pedal backwards very quickly as I realise that in reading the
article, Mr. Fry
Good example of how the world looks *very* different if you're a
rights holder currently making money from your secondary rights...
even a rights holder as clued up as Fry
2008/5/8 Andrew Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It's rather interesting that one of the very few TV personalities who really
2008/4/30 Nick Reynolds-FMT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The BBC Trust regularly looks at BBC services to see if they make
sense in a rolling programme of reviews of service licences, which
include public consultations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/framework/bbc_service_licences/service_rev
New BBC services now have to go through a market impact assessment to
ensure they are not anti competitive:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/framework/public_value_test/#part-5
but existing BBC services (ie everything other than iPlayer and BBC
HD) have not been and will not be subject to such
2008/4/29 Paul Tweedy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 29 April 2008 09:13
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] b00b3zjr
In some circumstances, yes
Rather more digestable highlights here, also in fashionable interweb form:
http://ofcompsbreview.typepad.com/summary
- Brian seems - like all conspiracy theorists - to like making stuff
up that fits his cosy world view!
On 11/04/2008, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ofcom seems -
am on wii now and can confirm that iplayer works. ish.
I gave it a try earlier and I think it works rather well :-)
Zoom in once with the + button and press 1 to get rid of the menu bar
means that it fits my TV screen perfectly!
aha... that's the info I was lacking... thank you...
-t
On 09/04/2008, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh that's it. I need a wii now!
The javascript fun you can have with wiis is awesome. I had a little hack
around with them before (oddly within iplayerlist). Its all on the opera
website.
Think I might have to pursue this a little further.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/26/digitalmedia.radio?gusrc=rssfeed=media
GNM hires Yahoo developer
Guardian News Media is set to expand its technology department with
the appointment of Matt McAlister, currently the director of Yahoo's
developer network in San Francisco.
McAlister
On 26/03/2008, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's great news.
How about a BBC trial? Click would be a good choice?
Don't hold your breath. BBC is all non-DRM download trialed out.
It's 18 months after the Creative Archive (download, watch, some
re-use rights granted) trial
http://blog.aqute.com/aquteresearch/2008/03/twitter-second.html
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Peter Bazelgette (ex-boss of Endymol) came out against DRM in a speech
to the Convergence Think Tank last week - he wants to allow and
encourages peopel to share TV, but be able to track who watches things
so revenue can be shared appropriately blah blah
In short, I think the light is beginning
The next step should be the BBC asking the BBC Trust to do a public
value test on their proposals.
public value test = device for kicking things into the longest grass.
Public Value Test = new hurdle the BBC has to pass before any new
service launches, as set out in new Charter.
I tell you, there's a big pot of money awaiting someone who develops a
trusted-enough tracker for usage of online video (a big recruited
online panel running background tracking software might even do...)
after all, it can hardly be *less* reliable than BARB, let alone RAJAR...
On 26/03/2008,
] On Behalf Of Tom Loosemore
Sent: 26 March 2008 16:55
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Embracing the torrent of online video
The next step should be the BBC asking the BBC Trust to do a public
value test on their proposals.
public value test = device
We only have the BBC's word that the content providers have forced
them to develop iPlayer this way.
There is a built-in detection mechanism. We can ask the content producers.
Or just read the evidence they gave to MP's as part of the All Party
Internet Group's inquiry into DRM
PACT*
Ofcom: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/
please don't ...my inbox is full enough alread
(Ofcom does not regulate the BBC - that's the job of the BBC Trust)
Your MP: (via) http://www.writetothem.com/
Your MEP: (via) http://www.writetothem.com/
now there's an accessible, standards-based
On 13/03/2008, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wrong - the door is open with a welcome sign because all the progs are
broadcast first of all on TV without DRM. Adding DRM later on is just a
meaningless waste of money. If people want to get content online, they can
and they will.
This
I'll post my letter to the MP who brought it up tomorrow :-)
MP's don't generally respond to letters from non-constituents.
You're better off writing to your own MP, raising whatever issue you
care about, and pointing out which other MP(s) is/are clued up on the
issue so your own MP can go ask
I'll post my letter to the MP who brought it up tomorrow :-)
MP's don't generally respond to letters from non-constituents.
As long as he reads it, that's okay.
he won't read it - you'll get a polite form letter back from his
secretary (which may or may not be his
someone shouldda thought of that one...
On 24/12/2007, Martin Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, sorry, I could have been clearer - While I can see Strictly (and
the rest) listed on bbc.co.uk/iplayer, none of the video clips are
available to play here. They're apparently being served from a
On 12/12/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/12/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
asta la vista DRM debate
I wouldn't be so sure about that; isn't there DRM in Flash video streaming
too?
sorry - you're right - flash streaming using flash media server can
asta la vista DRM debate
I wouldn't be so sure about that; isn't there DRM in Flash video
streaming too?
sorry - you're right - flash streaming using flash media server can be DRM'd
Is the Flash iPlayer using flash media server with the DRM turned on?
I dunno - given Flash
On 03/12/2007, 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
BBC shared
Thanks for the feedback !
Muddy boots is cool...
TheyWorkForYou.com adds links to Hansard by matching Proper Names with
Wikipedia entries.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2007-11-21a.1190.1
The number false positives is acceptable and the wikipedia links are
miles better than the
On 26/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- The BBC has at least one *excellent* term extractor in house which
adds extra metadata like 'this term is a person/place/topic'... would
be a lovely API to offer, hint hint...
API
On 26/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given you can't have both (the source code isn't owned by the BBC) I'd
be happy with open data.
Open data would be fantastic, free software + open data would be better.
See my sig
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/26/bbc.television3
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People were not free (as in freedom) to choose whether or not they
wanted to pay for Cathy Come Home to be made in the first place. It
they had been granted the freedom not to pay the licence fee, it would
never have been made.
This could be said about the decisions of any public body.
I disagree entirely with your hypothetical link between cost of
creative production and the freedoms that should be awarded to
society. Copyright and trademark law were specifically designed to
give away a little bit of societal freedom in exchange for stimulated
creativity.
I agree with all
* How about outright payment for perpetual rights? Way too expensive,
especially worldwide.
i'm not so sure. Ofcom's (my current employer) view is that the
ability to copy and share in perpetuity is an adherent *advantage* if
your aim is to deliver public service media (BBC etc.) It may cost
On 19/11/2007, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Imran - I know a few people have replied off list with suggestions - but I
wanted to reply to you here because I believe the information may be useful
to others.
The backstage site / project aims to help developers get access to
I suspect it's called an enormous pre-moderation queue
On 06/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a good reason that my posting on the
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/open_standards.html
page has not appeared.
On 06/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL
Forget management, I fear you'll find that the BBC Trust's permission
to offer 7 days catchup TV was predicated on using DRM.
Various parts of its non-DRM on demand radio proposals (book readings,
classical music) failed the Public Value Test due to the BBC Trust's
fears over the negative market
Using TinyUrl is a symptom of poorly designed urls...
On 05/11/2007, Sean Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adam wrote:
Tinyurl is a great service and i can understand why it is used, but i
feel that using this type of service in a wider audience is a bad idea.
We're having this exact same
On 05/11/2007, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Martin Deutsch wrote:
But if you're talking well-designed URLs for journey planning, see:
http://www.traintimes.org.uk/cardiff/birmingham/8:00
Thank you for that site pointer. An excellent example, and a great
My question to Kevin Hinde would be, how many users are we unsure of their
Operating system? Where are they classed?
For example, I have a small blog and I have some visitor statistics (using
bbclone) on that.
The 3rd most popular operating system is ? ie unrecognised.
for an example see
On 31/10/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 31/10/2007, Deirdre Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
File sharing between friends is essential for friendship
???
I'll try again:
Example: Your friend sends you an instant message, Have you seen
[random-artistic-work]? and you
FWIW I think it's a more powerful argument to state that the value of
a recording per-se is now tending towards zero, digital tech having
removed scarcity from much of the value chain.
The business models which recognise this will thrive in the long term.
Redressing things in the
My point? it's not always as easy to take an off air broadcast and put
it online.
I see you've never tried Myth TV, my box is in the process of being built,
the only thing stopping me is cash for my ridiculesly over-specced box; not
difficulty. Plucking signals straight out of the air and
* One question I have is: why Kontiki? Given that the files being distributed
are DRM-wrapped anyway, why not use something more mainstream such as
Bittorrent?
Cos at the design stage the very word 'Bittorrent' was capable of
sending rights holders running for the hills, regardless of
On 11/10/2007, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, this is true. And a charity can have wholly owned subsidiary
that makes profits, in much the same way.
BBC - not for profit corporation.
BBC Worldwide - a global company that makes a profit.
Gordo
At 14:09 +0100 9/10/07,
I don't mean to sound snide, but I'd struggle to point to a single
online project where I could say there, the BBC are leading the way..
At the risk of showing my ignorance; perhaps a web section of the BBC
should be split off with a different mandate.
tum tee tum
On to my questions:
Has anyone yet been able to create an API around the BBC Programme
Catalogue? It seems this would be the best data source to use so far.
the BBC Programme Catalogue is already one big restful API... which
may be enough for your needs, depending...
replace 'infax' in with
On 09/07/07, Oliver Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:30 +0100, Brendan Quinn wrote:
I was considering entering a hack for Hack Day around that very thing.
But then they went and made me one of the judges ;-)
Wanna help? A simple set of scripts that scrape the archive
Quick question: if someone was to produce a Linux (or other OS)
iPlayer style client and server application that provided DRM
protection* based on time limiting and there was some level of country
limiting** would the BBC use it? (I would actually be genuinely
interested in an answer to this
On 22/06/07, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 22 June 2007 15:21, Peter Bowyer wrote:
Possibly everyone has decided to heed the suggestion that this topic
is best dealt with elsewhere, leaving this list for its intended use.
Without reading the text of the complaint, OFCOM is
Apparently today's rights-holder production companies believe that
DRMcan stop the mass market from sharing works. Probably not;
simplymaking the works All Rights Reserved does enough damage to
thepotential for the mass market, by criminalizing businesses that
findways to monetise the
Been there once before a couple of years ago...
iirc , every TV chef owns his/her rights to the recipes that appear in
aggregate in the recipe db on bbc.co.uk/food
So it's fearsomely complex (therefore expensive) to even begin
clearing, presuming BBC could ever get the necessary rights from
On 04/06/07, Adam Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Loosemore wrote:
Been there once before a couple of years ago...
iirc , every TV chef owns his/her rights to the recipes that appear in
aggregate in the recipe db on bbc.co.uk/food
So it's fearsomely complex (therefore expensive) to even
On 17/05/07, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's true the flashearth site is fast and keyboard accessible, but
again with a mouse it's nearly useless.
similarly for flickr
no doubt there are sites that suit each, but I've yet to see one
that's easy to use and universally accessible,
On 18/04/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 16:39 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors.
Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your interest form
is up (16:30). So if your
it'll be delivered via the internet... using that funny HTML stuff
(streamed in Real/WM I expect, cos that'll make it easier to set up - it is
a trial after all...).
The actual site itself is very nice, IMHO (not that I had anything to do
with it!)
On 18/04/07, James Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shame. I love the idea of digging into blackadder and jeeves and
wooster and all the other comedy greats -- but getting them in a
format that is at least somewhat representative of their quality.
Sucks that I'd have to stream it certainly encoding into divx
or mpg would show some
3G technical trial. 12 months long.
it's public service, as Brian says. Nowt to do with BBC Worldwide.
we don't have regulatory permission to broadcast BBC TV 24/7 live on
the open net until iPlayer public value test has been approved by the
BBC Trust (assuming they do indeed approve this).
On 29/03/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3G technical trial. 12 months long.
it's public service, as Brian says. Nowt to do with BBC Worldwide.
we don't have regulatory permission to broadcast BBC TV 24/7
live on the open net until iPlayer public value test has been
There are some very very interesting opportunities with Parliamentary
video coverage.
The rights situation is being explored (no need for a petition, TBH -
I think all parties are pretty willing to experiment in this area), as
are the metadata/API opportunities.
Having an existing API to a
Indeed, this seems particularly pointless when I can simply point my desk
antenna at the Crystal Palace transmitter and record the 20Mbaud H.264 1080p
stream being broadcast in clear.
This is the kind of thing I think the BBC should be telling rights holders :-)
On 14/02/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Tom!
On 14/02/07, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed, this seems particularly pointless when I can simply point my desk
antenna at the Crystal Palace transmitter and record the 20Mbaud H.264
1080p
stream being
Tom, what kind of ninja lawyers does the Estate of Roy Plumley employ? :-)
The same kind that Endemol and every other Independent media company
uses to protect formats such as Big Brother?
Good summary here:
http://www.harbottle.com/hnl/pages/article_view_hnl/2078.php
And it's the format
jimmy came and worked with us for two or three weeks back in 2004.
nothing came of it, much to my shame.
we had a good long look at ways of working together, but sadly we
don't own our own bandwidth following the sale of BBC Technology to
Siemans a couple of years ago.
i think wikipedia will
On 12/02/07, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Loosemore wrote:
There's lot of stuff for which the BBC owns *broadcast* rights,
because that was the reality of all that was possible at the time.
How about news stuff? Let's say a newsflash based on a press release
from 10 Downing
On 10/02/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:42 + 8/2/07, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 06/02/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We also know that the BBC has content that they own
100% of the copyright.
This is, apparently, not the case at all for the majority of
of in an archive?
Yes or no would be a start. :-)
Regards
Richard
On 11 Feb 2007, at 11:43, Tom Loosemore wrote:
On 10/02/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:42 + 8/2/07, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 06/02/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We also know that the BBC has content
No it's not cool. However if you don't have rights holders who are happy,
you would get nowt.
What's better - a moral highground with nothing, or no moral highground
but with everything?I'd presume people here would say the former, whilst
I suspect the majority of the general public would
if the BBC did try to use it's muscle, it could just get accused
of bully-boy tactics by the industry who could then complain to
the government etc - such things have happened in the past)
I thought the BBC was answerable to the Board of Trustees, not the
Government. Or is it a Government
excess traffic = a very nice problem to have, obviously!
On 08/02/07, Mark Hewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry about that - excess traffic due to people finding out about the
weather caused it to run slow for a few hours
Service should be back to normal now
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On 28/01/07, Libby Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Robert Kerry wrote:
Email me if you'd like an invite - not sure how many I can give out though.
:o)
(belatedly) I work for Joost and have a few invites spare.
Libby
many thanks libby... much appreciated...
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On 11/01/07, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/11/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is the BBC using a (commercial) third party to make a short URL?
And then giving them (tinyurl.com) free advertising?
That's my fault... but twitter limits messages to 160 characters overall
On 10/01/07, Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Some BBC programs provide their scripts online, but I was wondering if
it would be possible to provide ALL the subtitles used by the BBC (and
other broadcasters) over the course of the day as RSS feeds?
I asked some
On 11/01/07, Matthew Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Does the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988 cover the subtitles
associated with a TV channel? Would implementing a search feed, rather
than a complete feed be OK with the Act?
I would guess (IANAL)
Maybe we should try and get more BBC managers here.
How do you know there not watching this already? Seriously!
Watching, maybe. But are they participating? Not so far as I've seen.
i thoroughly resemble that remark
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Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe we should try and get more BBC managers here.
How do you know there not watching this already? Seriously!
Watching, maybe. But are they participating? Not so far as I've seen.
i
Apologies for the interruption in service (a mere, ooh, 5 months)
But the Programme Catalogue prototype is back:
http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue
Details of 966,244 BBC programme dating back to 1938, catogorised into
503,193 subject categories, and mapped onto 1,214,797 contributors.
Here's me:
Hello all
I'm doing a review of the year's best links, for use inside Auntie.
Any suggestions?
For 'best' read: Funny/useful/fabulous/bonkers/innovative
Dropsend.com is my link of the year, which is a sad reflection on my
life.
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On 11/12/06, Allan Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
Thanks for the multitude of replies about web-site statistics. The
sources people pointed out are very interesting, particularly the
table of what browsers the bbc test on and support.
copypaste from a man who'd know...
We are
On 08/12/06, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that Martin Belam has done a little work
on this ( http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php )
but these results are now a year out of date.
Yes, my new report about visitors to Sony's CONNECT store doesn't make
such
I would love to see the BBC reverse its thinking and engage us, as
the public, in allowing much more access, even if they have to
pressure government to change the law.
There is nothing to fear :-)
oh we know that - honestly, we really do. we're in the business of
maximising the value our
Hi James
As a first port of call, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - she'll point
you in the right direction.
Bests
-Tom
On 28/11/06, James Brook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone knows a contact at the BBC that I could make
enquires about commercial use of the RSS
Hi Lee
I'm probably one of the top brass to which you refer, and I can assure
you there's no selling of soul planned...
;o)
Like I say, the tech side is the easy bit, and is getting easier by the month.
Aside from the lng process of gaining formal regulatory
permission, there are two
On 28/11/06, Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see your 'written by a Torrent site' and raise you a 'written by a
broadcaster'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6168950.stm
Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile
device at least once a week said they
On 28/11/06, Richard Hyett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I trust more the evidence of my own eyes, not some survey that I haven't
read.
The evidence of my own eyes is that the HiFi in family homes is gathering
dust, or has become the ocassional play thing of the senior member, the kids
use the
best I can do ,...
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?GridConvert?name=529811,189466type=OSGrid
On 16/11/06, Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a couple of hundred full UK postcodes that I want to convert to
lat/long values. And I thought to myself 1/ Postcoder would be the
Nic, you have my utmost sympathy...
On 13/11/06, Nic James Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am in a bad mood because all the tech I've tried over the last few
days has broken. Even my aga is broken and that is very low tech.
[sometimes I think there must be days when a low level magnetic
http://www.flickr.com/map/london/
Nice...
Though I don't understand the logic behind the 'pages' approach
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personally, I think it's a fabulous experiment in data.
from a news angle? vast amounts of news consumption is people who
don't click a link or read a single story - they go to the homepage to
check if anything 'important' has happened (usually not). That's
editorship, which is different from
all ready to go, just waiting for signoff from les grandes fromages
Any news on this?
Oli
On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 21:38 +0100, Tom Loosemore wrote:
soon... i'll ask tomorrow
On 01/10/06, Oliver Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I was looking at doing something with the Programme
cool - got a screengrab handy?
On 03/10/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In case there's any Second Lifers on this list, I thought I'd mention a
little experiment I did last night - created a very simple BBC news ticker
that cycles through the latest/newest 10 news items and displays
cool - got a screengrab handy?
Hi Tom - there's one linked from the post I mentioned, but here's a direct
link: http://menti.net/bbcnewsticker.jpg
Doh. I'll get my coat...
ta!
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On 03/10/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/3/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nice stuff Mario, I will check it out next time I'm in second life.
Can you add some detail how you did it? I've only looked at the scripting
language in second life briefly.
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