Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-24 Thread Matthew Somerville
Michael Ferenduros wrote: Feeds listed by country/place: http://mike260.dyndns.org/~mikef/countries.opml Wow, that's great, thanks. :) You found *another* Aberdeen, too: http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/4005.xml with a slightly different forecase to:

RE: [backstage] Newssniffer - BBC News site monitoring

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Forrester
Thanks Jason, Interesting stuff... Ian From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason CartwrightSent: 24 October 2006 12:56To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] Newssniffer - BBC News site monitoring Thought this might be of

RE: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
Nice to see the weather feeds! I was going to make a Vista sidebar version, but there appears to be no index of places to get the locations_id. Is there an index or search facility to get locations_id? Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv From: [EMAIL

RE: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-24 Thread Phil Winstanley
http://www.myservicescentral.com/Temp/bbcfeed.csv http://mike260.dyndns.org/~mikef/countries.opml -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 19 October 2006 18:18 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage]

RE: [backstage] Newssniffer - BBC News site monitoring

2006-10-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
J, re: http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/bbc/threads/mostcensored This is one of the most insiteful sites I have ever seen. Very sadly it appears that Auntie is taking it upon herself to remove comments that, on the face of it, do not appear to break any of the house rules for "have

Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-24 Thread K Schmitt
doh! sorry. I'll fix that...but possibly not until I return from my holiday (unless I'm really bored).Best,KassOn 10/24/06, Michael Ferenduros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,Pedantic bug-report:There's an 'eacute;' in world/4026.xml that I don't _think_ is valid XML(because eacute isn't a

RE: [backstage] Christmas Backstage bash

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Forrester
For some reason my email didn't reach the backstage list (only myself to blame I guess) http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/10/bbc_backstage_l.html Saturday 9th December | 6:30pm - 1am Venue (TBC) is The Cuban http://www.thecuban.co.uk/city/near.htm Yes I know its in London,

Re: [backstage] Newssniffer - BBC News site monitoring

2006-10-24 Thread Martin Belam
As someone who used to work closely with the BBC community site teams my first thought was what happens when the BBC pulls posts for legal reasons, and this site reproducesthem - who ends up potentially legally liable - the site re-hosting the content, the BBC, or the original poster, even though

Re: [backstage] Newssniffer - BBC News site monitoring

2006-10-24 Thread Matthew Hurst
One thing that might be worth considering in terms of adding and removing comments to have your sayis a ranking function. Consider a model where each new entry gets a relevance score. Then, all those abovea certain rank are kept. I know this isn't exactly what is happening, but would it be

[backstage] BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash : Sat 9th Dec

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Forrester
Hi All, What happened after we mentioned the Christmas party on the list a while ago? Well we found a venue : The Cuban Near Moorgate Station in London. Set a date : Saturday 9th December. And got in touch with other communities and groups to make it a real community driven event. If you can

RE: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-24 Thread Kim Plowright
Mario Have you seen this? Might be up your street... http://www.3pointd.com/20061023/sustaining-the-metaverse-a-3pointd-think-tank/ (just saw your technorati pillars, nice!) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario MentiSent: 06 October 2006