RE: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea

2005-11-15 Thread Clare OLeary
Hi Andrew I'm glad you have so much faith in the All Blacks! That's a good news story even if the outcome from your perspective is bad and if the world is watching rather than just the English/Irish/Welsh/Scottish then 'bad' is relative...:) as is all the new interactive news and entertainment as i

Re: [backstage] Weather feeds

2005-11-15 Thread Dogsbody
Is there any word on when the weather feeds are being released? I went to OpenTech 05, and I seem to recall it was happening "next week"! Oh, it's a long story - but I'm sorry it's been delayed and I'm hoping we can get this out in the next 14 days or so. Sorry for sending a chase but I'm v

RE: [backstage] Ben/Backstage at D Construct

2005-11-15 Thread Stephen Miller
Ppt = powerpoint (presentation).., a lovely MS product. If you are on windows, you can get the viewer here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24- 90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en if you don’t have office. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m

Re: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea

2005-11-15 Thread Andrew Deakin
This may seem stupid - but user input on whether the story was positive or negative, so say if the All Blacks win their next match against England (which will happen), and your system rates it as awesome, say people who have a membership can rate the news as bad and it will move into that categ

Re: [backstage] Ben/Backstage at D Construct

2005-11-15 Thread Gordon Joly
At 15:37 + 11/11/05, Jeremy Stone wrote: For some reason we've allowed Ben Metcalfe, our lovely colleague, out in public again to speak at a Web 2.0 conference in Brighton. http://www.clearleft.com/training/dconstruct.php When Ben has recovered from seeing the sea again: http://benmetcalfe.c

Re: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea

2005-11-15 Thread Davy Mitchell
On 11/15/05, Ben Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Would you be able to flesh out a little > more about your aspirations for a "Google News" type proposition for it? > That sounds really interesting too, but I'd love to hear your take on it The Google News idea is more of a general layout idea

Re: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Kaijaks
David Sargeant wrote: Sounds good. You might need to save the kittens for me until Germany next year... 'Save all your kittens for me' - sounds like a Brotherhood of Man mashup... Coming back on-topic, how about using the convention of a + or - prefix on your personalising keywords to indicat

RE: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea

2005-11-15 Thread David Sargeant
Sounds good. You might need to save the kittens for me until Germany next year... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim Plowright Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:31 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Mood News Upd

Re: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea

2005-11-15 Thread James
Looks really good Davy, fast and accurate - have you thought about doing an RSS feed for it ? You could use the category element in the RSS spec to define the mood, would be really useful. I know of a number of tourist based websites that would like to push news out but are hesitant since put

RE: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea

2005-11-15 Thread Kim Plowright
Be slightly tempted to then plumb that into a screensaver that shows you pictures of your team's classic moments when they've won, and comforting pictures of kittens when they're doing less well. You know, to cheer you up, like... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea

2005-11-15 Thread Ben Metcalfe
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davy Mitchell > Sent: 14 November 2005 22:34 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea > > > Hi Folks, > > Just added some personalisation features to Mood N