Re: [backstage] A familiar face...

2011-05-18 Thread Simon Thompson
. Simon On 18/05/2011 16:46, Ant Miller wrote: Back in the day we used to have photocopies sheets with the areas listed and you'd jot in the forecast off the radio. I have just recalled that day was 20 years ago. Bugger. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Gareth Davis gareth.da...@bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Internet Standards role

2010-09-07 Thread Simon Thompson
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/ -- Simon Thompson GMAIL Account

Re: [backstage] Internet Standards role

2010-09-07 Thread Simon Thompson
weeks, so I know exactly what you mean by addiction... the interesting part is that the UK seems to have gone to part time contracts where, as Simon says, you can work an 80 hour week with no overtime. OK, you get days off in lieu, but in that kind of job I suspect that finding the free days

[backstage] Video on Demand Dissertation Survey

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Stirrat
. -- Simon Stirrat Broadcast Engineering Student at Ravensbourne College streetma...@gmail.com s.stir...@rave.ac.uk p.s. I hope this doesn't break any of the house rules. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01

Re: [backstage] Video on Demand Dissertation Survey

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Stirrat
sure. Cheers, Ian - 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/ -- Simon Stirrat streetma...@gmail.com

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer for Apple TV

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Cross
:) Cheers Jonathan - 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/ -- Simon Cross Product Manager, BBC iD

Re: [backstage] Is this BBC Homeplug product legal?

2009-12-15 Thread Simon Thompson
to demodulate the Ethernet traffic radiated from your house wiring from one of these systems - it's not very secure! Simon PS Single wire telephone extensions? Alan Pope wrote: 2009/12/14 Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv: As someone who has been responsible for installation of enough cat5

Re: [backstage] Is this BBC Homeplug product legal?

2009-12-15 Thread Simon Thompson
Wasn't encryption an option on Homeplug 1.0? I thought it came with either a default password or the option to switch it on. Stephen Jolly wrote: On 15 Dec 2009, at 10:33, Simon Thompson wrote: Also, it's very easy to demodulate the Ethernet traffic radiated from your house wiring from

Re: [backstage] Is this BBC Homeplug product legal?

2009-12-15 Thread Simon Thompson
Oops, same team did look into internal systems, but the noise problem is similar. I'll see if I can find their report. Mo McRoberts wrote: On 15-Dec-2009, at 10:33, Simon Thompson wrote: The RF noise generated by these technologies is quite bad, it's in a band where noise can propogate

[backstage] Re: Sky hits out at Project Canvas

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Thompson
-- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research and Development Engineer

Re: [backstage] free london's data event

2009-10-08 Thread Simon Thompson
and Brighton -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research and Development Engineer mailto:simon.thomp...@rd.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] The BBC is encrypting its HD signal by the back door

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Thompson
. -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET*

[backstage] Compatibility challenges for Broadcast Networks and White Space Devices

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Thompson
A Colleagues paper from the recent IBC conference has been made available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/09/compatability_challenges_for_b.html Interested to see what people think. -- *Simon Thompson

Re: [backstage] Re: Freeview HD vs existing HDMI upscaling freeview boxes (was RE: [backstage] License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?)

2009-09-18 Thread Simon Thompson
- independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 -- Simon Thompson GMAIL Account

Re: [backstage] Re: Freeview HD vs existing HDMI upscaling freeview boxes (was RE: [backstage] License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?)

2009-09-18 Thread Simon Thompson
is wrong (that's a suprise). The carrying capacity is 30Mbps, according to the specification. 2009/9/18 Simon Thompson st...@zepler.net 30 Mbps is a bit of a low estimate for T2. Wikipedia suggests at least 35. 2009/9/18 Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv Briefly, DVB-T2 uses MPEG4

Re: [backstage] License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?

2009-09-18 Thread Simon Thompson
still owns the multiplex. It is being used for Freeview HD carrying three (soon four) public service HD channels. 2009/9/17 Simon Thompson st...@zepler.net Ofcom is going to use Multiplex B (vacated by the BBC) to provide DVB-T2 HD services. First region on air is Granada later this year

Re: [backstage] License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?

2009-09-17 Thread Simon Thompson
, Cambridgeshire PE19 5DP -- Simon Thompson GMAIL Account

Re: [backstage] Get me off this list!

2009-09-11 Thread Simon Cross
/creativearchive/backstage/discuss.txt Which says: Error No email was sent due to an error. 500 Could not open template - No such file or directory /home/system/www/creativearchive/backstage/discuss.txt cgiemail 1.6 Help! -- Simon Cross Product Manager, BBC iD Online Media

Re: [backstage] The Final Digital Britain report

2009-06-18 Thread Simon Thompson
are needed, which incurs a greater cost. -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research and Development Engineer PRINCE2^TM Registered Practitioner *BBC Research and Development* mailto:simon.thomp...@rd.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] The Final Digital Britain report

2009-06-17 Thread Simon Thompson
ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk I got to say I'm also with ukfsn.org and not really had any major problems Thanks guys. I'll take a look. - Rob. -- Simon Thompson

Re: [backstage] video cameras + sailing dingies

2009-05-27 Thread Simon Thompson
? Simon -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research and Development Engineer *BBC Research and Development* mailto:simon.thomp...@rd.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] video cameras + sailing dingies

2009-05-26 Thread Simon Thompson
sure there'll be mounting systems in action. -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research and Development Engineer *BBC Research and Development* mailto:simon.thomp...@rd.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Shower Radios

2009-04-22 Thread Simon Thompson
may find that it has 10kHz steps for the MW band, rather than the European standard 9kHz. This will mean you can't tune a lot of the EU stations like Radio 5. Simon -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research and Development

Re: [backstage] So Long and Thanks For All The Fish?

2008-11-28 Thread Simon Thompson
the slug. -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET MIEEE* Research Engineer (Electronics) PRINCE2^TM Registered Practitioner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] erik huggers on open standards

2008-08-13 Thread Simon Thompson
-- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research Engineer (Electronics) *BBC Future Media and Technology* Kingswood Warren mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] Soundcloud

2008-08-11 Thread Simon Thompson
this didn't come across in the article. From phase 3 launch, you'll be able to set a recording for a programme when you see a trailer for it on air. -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research Engineer (Electronics) PRINCE2^TM

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - why the missing TV channel?

2008-07-11 Thread Simon Thompson
. -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET * Research Engineer (Electronics) PRINCE2^TM Registered Practitioner *BBC Future Media and Technology* A14, Kingswood Warren, Woodland Way, Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 6NP *T:* 01737 839818 *E:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[backstage] Open-Source DTV

2008-07-11 Thread Simon Thompson
have licensing issues with one part - but have ideas for getting round it - but were wondering: 1. Would anyone be interested? 2. What use cases can you forsee? 3. What changes would you make? -- *Simon Thompson

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - why the missing TV channel?

2008-07-11 Thread Simon Thompson
Simon Thompson wrote: 25fps, 1280x720, 16:9 (0.87 megapixels) is what is going to be in Freeview HD, the DVB-T2 service. It's an option being considered. oops - I misread that - 720p50 is an option in the Ofcom licence conditions - not 720p25

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-04 Thread simon
Ben's suggestion to allow the people to choose their RIA flavour whether it be AIR, gears or whatever is very sensible. Surely the main thing is that a good idea gets built. On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you ever considered your

Re: [backstage] BBC begins DVB-T2 test transmissions in preparation for HD on Freeview

2008-07-01 Thread Simon Thompson
. Additionally, there are two input formats (i.e. you don't have to use Transport Stream) I believe the broadcast uses a single set of parameters with H264 video in MPEG2-TS - but will check for you. Also, I doubt any dongles will work. Simon

Re: [backstage] BBC begins DVB-T2 test transmissions in preparation for HD on Freeview

2008-06-27 Thread Simon Thompson
from Freeview (DVB-T), as does the physical layer and the signalling - so no, I doubt anyone has hacked it yet* and no, it isn't ATSC. Simon * although please feel free - the spec will be available on the ETSI website, free of charge, soon

[backstage] More for Mashed

2008-06-18 Thread Simon Thompson
with. We've got some USB DVB-T sticks, some software links and a talk on how to hack DVB-T and MHEG interactive stuff. -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research Engineer (Electronics) PRINCE2^TM Registered Practitioner *BBC Future

Re: [backstage] Imitation the sincerest form, etc., or how copy and paste is getting out of hand

2008-05-16 Thread simon
For me, the most significant failure of this is the lack of a twist on the original they cloned. If there was anywhere they had improved on the original, or otherwise made it their own, they would've gotten away with it. Now they just look like they lack individuality, imagination and

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-15 Thread Simon Cross
by the level of the FARSA network this morning :) -- Simon Cross Principal Client-Side (web) Developer for bbc.co.uk BBC Future Media and Technology - Internet Group Broadcast Centre BC4 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07967 444 304

Re: [backstage] Open Flash

2008-05-12 Thread simon
Thanks for Aral interview Ian. Very interesting and much appreciated over here! On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally I got a chance to put up a video of me interviewing Aral Balkan about Open Flash. Enjoy, http://blip.tv/file/897470/ - part 1

[backstage] Open Flash

2008-05-01 Thread simon
Adobe is removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications says Aral Balkan: http://aralbalkan.com/1332 Interesting, I thought.

Re: [backstage] Business Reasons To Support Gnash

2008-03-06 Thread simon
advertising on the web is done in Flash (where rather a lot of money is spent, apparently) J On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:23 PM, simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once you remove games, I believe there are only 3 things Flash player has that cannot be recreated with html + css + javascript

Re: [backstage] Business Reasons To Support Gnash

2008-03-05 Thread simon
Once you remove games, I believe there are only 3 things Flash player has that cannot be recreated with html + css + javascript: 1. binary socket (Audio, Video) 2. XML socket 3. no page refresh file upload with user feedback events (% loaded etc) I'm hoping someone can remove item 3 for me with

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

2008-03-03 Thread simon
Maybe it's implicit in your list but it'd be great if there could be some kind of image per item in the feed. I'm thinking mostly of iPlayer schedule and having some kind of still from each show. Call me superficial but I think an rss feed is a much more attractive prospect to work with when you

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

2008-03-03 Thread simon
On the back of Tim's suggestions about broadening the scope wider than just feeds, would it ever be possible to register for a dev account like youtube, delicious etc and get greater access to data in a way that tech bods at the BBC could 'control' more? S. On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:50 PM,

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] EFF: Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

2008-03-02 Thread simon
have prioritsed reading your mail behind hacking my arm off with a rusty saw. Good luck with the revolution. S. On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/03/2008, simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is NOT to replace HTTP delivery in order to enforce

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] EFF: Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

2008-03-01 Thread simon
sentence with almost any tech for some of the conversations on this list. I make stuff people use. I don't sit around waiting for other folks to make stuff so I can tell them why they're wrong to make it that way and this kind of grandstanding drives me nuts Simon out. On Fri, Feb 29

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-26 Thread simon
don't know if this has already been discussed here, but: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Home On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I never said anything about being unhappy with open standards, please do not implicitly misquote me like

Re: [backstage] Open source video streaming browser based video client

2008-02-24 Thread simon
again Dan On 17/02/2008 22:55, simon was seen to type: Hello, Flash appears to say yes to SMIL: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=0589.html http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html

Re: [backstage] Open source video streaming browser based video client

2008-02-24 Thread simon
nuts, I forgot to mention this article from Adobe explaining more about what's available for video in the latest player version: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flvplayback_fplayer9u3.html page 3 mentions SMIL capability. On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:48 PM, simon [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [backstage] Open source video streaming browser based video client

2008-02-24 Thread simon
Great. Also, my reaction to Adobe claiming only their Flash Media Server would stream MP4's into the flash player was 'that sounds like a challenge to me' :) If you do crack it, I'd be interested to know how you did since, like I say, it's one of those things I mean to find out but haven't got

Re: [backstage] Greater access to news data

2008-02-17 Thread simon
Could you use something like python's Beautiful Soup library? http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ It'll scrape the page and you can drill down to isolate the main content block. It's what I used to make a script that parses rss feeds, scrapes the stories from the sites then clusters

Re: [backstage] Open source video streaming browser based video client

2008-02-17 Thread simon
Hello, Flash appears to say yes to SMIL: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=0589.html though flash has caused me problems by only implementing limited subsets of other standard formats (eg limited html tags in flash

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-11 Thread Simon Cross
weeks! I like yours too and it would be a shame to remove it :-) You've already linked to Amazon to buy the CD now similar to what I suggested for Simon Cross. Rather than spreading FUD about the non-commercial restriction, I feel I ought to explain what I mean there. I'll do

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-10 Thread Simon Cross
the positive response to the prototype both in and out of the Beeb. S On 10/1/08 16:57, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/01/2008, Simon Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its around visualizing now playing information by pulling in data from across the web, and lives at... http

[backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-09 Thread Simon Cross
Hello Backstage faithful, Its a rarity on this list ;-) but heres a kinda product (or at least and idea) announcement We're working on a new 10% time project over here at FMT Audio and Music - and we thought we'd give you guys a super sneak preview. Theres a few of us involved here, including

[backstage] Radio Labs plug

2007-11-19 Thread Simon Cross
Hi All, Not sure if you'd see this, but some of you might be interested http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/ Here at FMT AM, we've got our own departmental Blog where we write about the stuff we're working on, both for public release (betas etc) and as internal RnD projects. The big

[backstage] Lifehacker's Top Ten free video rippers encoders and converters

2007-11-01 Thread Simon Cobb
there's a couple I hadn't heard of on here http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-video-rippe rs-encoders-and-converters-316478.php

RE: [backstage] Lifehacker's Top Ten free video rippers encoders and converters

2007-11-01 Thread Simon Cobb
with a CMS encoding hundreds of videos a month. J On 01/11/2007, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's a couple I hadn't heard of on here http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-video-rippe rs-encoders-and-converters-316478.php

RE: [backstage] Lifehacker's Top Ten free video rippers encoders and converters

2007-11-01 Thread Simon Cobb
to H.264 in the mainstream flash player - then it'll be hello HD (depending on bandwidth and HD source material, both of which are plentiful). J On 01/11/2007, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oo-er have we strayed onto the wrong list

RE: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

2007-10-31 Thread Simon Cobb
mean this ? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Cobb Sent: 31 October 2007 13:33 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview I'm unsure how this bussiness model would

RE: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-29 Thread Simon Cobb
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] flash accessibility but flash generally doesn't allow deep linking How do you work that out? On 10/15/07, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon, apologies, can be a bit blunt if not downright wrong at times

RE: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-29 Thread Simon Cobb
] On Behalf Of Jason Cartwright Sent: 29 October 2007 09:55 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] flash accessibility Sound? J On 29/10/2007, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, sorry for late reply, I've been on holiday. I agree that the splash

RE: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-29 Thread Simon Cobb
impressed with Flash video, It is simple to convert the videos using Flash 8 encoder and the files are pretty small. Can not wait until the H.264 codec support is released. Regards Adam Quoting ~:'' ありがとうございました。 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Simon, have you seen this rotating, movable video in svg demo

RE: [backstage] iPhone SDK news

2007-10-18 Thread Simon Cross
Finally we might be able to do things propery! We've been working on a podcast browser for iPhone which is in alpha at the moment http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/directory/iphone/ -- note: requires Safari to view, or an iphone/touch obviously! S

RE: [backstage] iPhone SDK news

2007-10-18 Thread Simon Cross
: [backstage] iPhone SDK news I was thinking of doing something similar for Windows Media Player.. On 18/10/2007, Simon Cross [EMAIL

RE: [backstage] iPhone SDK news

2007-10-18 Thread Simon Cross
.. On 18/10/2007, Simon Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally we might be able to do things propery! We've been working on a podcast browser for iPhone which is in alpha at the moment

RE: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-15 Thread Simon Cobb
Ah... Apple, the champions of open technology and freedom of the user to choose. Your choice of computer kind of invalidates your righteous anger at commerical vendors, no? Of course, I'm just being mischevious :) Because Flash is my business, I had to go and check your claims on the Mac on our

RE: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-15 Thread Simon Cobb
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ~:'' Sent: 15 October 2007 09:21 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] flash accessibility Simon Jason, maybe you are considering the webcam question doesn't need to be switch accessible? of course

RE: [backstage] From FoWA - Paul Graham from Y Combinator

2007-10-05 Thread Simon Cobb
By coincidence I read this on the future of web startups from paul graham just today: http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mr I Forrester Sent: 05 October 2007 01:48 To: BBC Backstage Subject:

RE: [backstage] New APIs... What next

2007-10-04 Thread Simon Cobb
Change to flash's crossdomain policy file on bbc.co.uk. Currently Flash's security sandbox won't allow flash hosted on non-BBC (sub)domains to load data like rss feeds. Its crossdomain policy file disallows access to data for all but *.bbc.co.uk hosted flash:

RE: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Cobb
Thanks for finding this Ian. Got me thinking too. Jase said: Auntie likes to have few, big, expensive, milestone projects to burn the cash in a predictable manner, whereas the more flexible internet industry takes a gamble on many small, inexpensive, iterative projects. Please fail very quickly

RE: [backstage] Re: built with

2007-09-20 Thread Simon Cobb
Wow, it's taken a real beating from the discerning folks on this list Note to self: test these things properly before sending them out :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mr I Forrester Sent: 20 September 2007 11:16 To:

RE: [backstage] Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:46:04 +0100

2007-09-14 Thread Simon Cobb
I am that closes thumb an forefinger to indicate atomic size interested in apple products because I think they dictate how a user can use their product far too much and marrying the iphone to a single network is typical of this arrogance (yes I know it's been hacked open so hopefully the hacks

[backstage] 50 designers 6 questions

2007-09-05 Thread Simon Cobb
more great stuff from the folks at smashingmagazine http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/09/05/50-designers-x-6-questions/ S.

RE: [backstage] resize, rotate and move multiple video files while they are playing...

2007-08-29 Thread Simon Cobb
Thanks for that, very interesting. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ~:'' Sent: 29 August 2007 10:11 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] resize, rotate and move multiple video files while they are playing...

RE: [backstage] DAB Radio - channel icons // BBC Radio website icons

2007-08-21 Thread Simon Cross
for Digital TV etc. I've passed your comments onto the team, but I'm sure this is on their list, they just haven't got there yet! Simon Cross Senior Client Side (Web) Developer BBC Future Media and Technology - Audio Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] x50849 | 07967 444 304 Rm 718, Henry Wood House, London

RE: [backstage] more data visualisation links

2007-08-15 Thread Simon Cobb
Kim said: Useful or Playful? Is the question to ask. I'd argue that useful and playful can be part of the same thing. Certainly nothing ever stuck with me that I didn't enjoy using/ thinking about. Likewise many of the children I used to teach. The trick is to combine the 2. I think there's

RE: [backstage] more data visualisation links

2007-08-15 Thread Simon Cobb
. I'm done here. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 15 August 2007 10:10 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] more data visualisation links On 15/08/07, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED

[backstage] more data visualisation links

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Cobb
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-app roaches/ Now, I'd like to see the musicovery.com approach applied as an alternative nav for the bbc radio player: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/index.shtml?button From: Simon Cobb

RE: [backstage] more data visualisation links

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Cobb
, but the whole point of them is that you create them personally to help you to use a visual system to help memorise abstract things - if someone else (or a machine) makes them then you are into meaningless territory... The spiky-graph one is the most comprehensible style. On 14/08/07, Simon Cobb [EMAIL

RE: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

2007-08-01 Thread Simon Cobb
(EXTREMELY) minority OSes? I mean, come on, hands up who here on the list uses Linux as their primary OS. And me. And as such I just accept that if I want to watch any channel's output on-demand, there's a box in my living room that will capture it for me with the minimum of configuration.

RE: [backstage] Kontiki Backlash

2007-07-30 Thread Simon Cobb
That IS funny, but how many folks ever ever read the t's and c's? I know I don't: http://www.eff.org/wp/eula.php and http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000892.html S. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Bowyer Sent: 30 July 2007

RE: [backstage] iplayer reviewed on mashable.com

2007-07-27 Thread Simon Cobb
Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Jolly Sent: 27 July 2007 09:22 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] iplayer reviewed on mashable.com Simon Cobb wrote: p2p though? I thought it was straight downloads. Can

RE: [backstage] Over 10,000 sign BBC iplayer petition

2007-07-25 Thread Simon Cobb
did you all see this already? NOt been following the list today: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/25/bbc_iplayer_linux_macosx/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of vijay chopra Sent: Wed 25/07/2007 3:28 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage]

[backstage] Microsoft TV - Live!

2007-07-06 Thread Simon Cobb
Microsoft Research beta 'livestation' - in Silverlight, yet! http://beta.livestation.com/ I tried to sign up for this but got the following reply: Thanks for your request to sign up for the LiveStation beta technical trial. We are currently running a public technical trial and this means

RE: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live!

2007-07-06 Thread Simon Cobb
about but never seem to see much of? From: Simon Cobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 July 2007 09:04 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live! Microsoft Research beta

RE: [backstage] BT 21C SDK

2007-06-26 Thread Simon Cross
Very Cool. 250 texts for £10 via a API, awesome. I'm paying 6p/msg at the mo. 4p is very good value. Now placing voice calls in an app S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Cartwright Sent: 26 June 2007 18:01 To:

RE: [backstage] BBC Radio 7

2007-05-29 Thread Simon Cobb
I can't answer that, but I noticed that during the championship playoff final yesterday my digital radio (some Argos cheapo) displayed 5 live as: BBC Radio 5l I had to look twice at the lower case l on the end to work out what it was. S. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [backstage] Web 2.0 'neglecting good Accessible design'

2007-05-22 Thread Simon Cobb
This was an interesting article on UI design. http://tantek.com/log/2007/02.html#d19t1813 It's from February so you may have already seen it. I found it referenced on the codinghorror blog which also has an article in praise of javascript (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000857.html)

RE: [backstage] Web 2.0 'neglecting good Accessible design'

2007-05-22 Thread Simon Cobb
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Cobb Sent: 22 May 2007 11:47 To: Simon Cobb; backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Web 2.0 'neglecting good Accessible design' This was an interesting article on UI design. http://tantek.com/log/2007/02.html#d19t1813 It's

RE: [backstage] attendin' Hackday

2007-05-20 Thread Simon Cobb
can't get any reaction from the page. S. -Original Message- From: ~:'' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 19/05/2007 11:31 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Cc: Simon Cobb Subject: Re: [backstage] attendin' Hackday Simon, not sure if you're referring to me and http

RE: [backstage] attendin' Hackday

2007-05-18 Thread Simon Cobb
argh that page makes me wish I was going. hackday clearly needs flash/ flex! JC, I'm clearly missing something, but how is the web page you link to navigable by keyboard only? I had to use my mouse. Tab, space, enter and the arrows - all standard conventional access keys produce no response

[backstage] data visualisation links

2007-05-16 Thread Simon Cobb
Despite its use of the word 'awesome', this article led me to some interesting stuff: http://mashable.com/2007/05/15/16-awesome-data-visualization-tools/ hope it does the same for you. Disclaimer: I forward it for the ideas/ concepts deployed by these sites, not for their accessibility

RE: [backstage] Web 2.0 'neglecting good Accessible design'

2007-05-15 Thread Simon Cobb
Uhhh, del.icio.us ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ~:'' Sent: 15 May 2007 12:52 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Web 2.0 'neglecting good Accessible design' Jason Gordon any good Accessible Web 2.0

Re: [backstage] xmltv.radiotimes.com

2007-04-11 Thread Simon Pearson
if you have any further problems with this through the usual address: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon Pearson

[backstage] Free TV Listings?

2007-04-02 Thread Simon Huggins
Haven't seen any comments on http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Free-TV-listings/ here yet. I don't suppose anything will come of it but it would be nice for people like http://bleb.org/tv/ Simon. -- -+// What's an elephant? A kind of badger, said Granny. She\\+- -+hadn't maintained forest

RE: [backstage] SVG used by Office of National Statistics in BBC business report

2007-01-16 Thread Simon Cobb
I feel obligated to do this DISCLAIMER: these are my views - I, not the bbc, should be held responsible for any buffoonery contained herein more svg: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/DRAWINGS/clock_plain.svg but as a Flash developer my first reaction to any current svg content is nice try,

Re: [backstage] The best WebAPIs

2006-12-06 Thread Simon Cobb
it's not an API, but I like the javascript library 'mochikit': http://mochikit.com/ http://mochikit.com/ I like that it is lightweight, practical, tidy (because it's modelled on a tidy language - Python) and feels so clean to use. And the docs are exemplary in my view. Basically, it doesn't

[backstage] Screen Scraping Advice ...

2006-07-24 Thread Murray, Simon \(IED\)
on the subjectparticularly when accessing data spanning across multiple pages. Thanks in advance Simon This is not an offer (or solicitation of an offer) to buy/sell the securities/instruments mentioned or an official confirmation. Morgan Stanley may deal as principal in or own or act as market

Re: [backstage] Publishing TV listings? BDS are after you...

2006-06-23 Thread Simon Huggins
as possible. It's like free advertising. I used to reformat the bleb.org data myself (for local use) into a format I much preferred but given bleb.org isn't supplying a full feed any more I'm stuck using the radio times site. I don't understand why they want to enforce this law or why it exists. Simon