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 19:03To

[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 k

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 possible

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 reproduces them - who ends up potentially legally liable - the site re-hosting the content, the BBC, or the original poster, even though

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] 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 'é' in world/4026.xml that I don't _think_ is valid XML(because eacute isn't a predefined

Re: [backstage] Newssniffer - BBC News site monitoring

2006-10-24 Thread Richard P Edwards
I totally agree Brian, imagine if the results included the censored comments that apparently do break the rules.RevisionistaIt has been noted recently, regarding speeches by both the Pope and the President of Iran, that words have been taken out of context and reported as news in the media.

Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Ferenduros
Hello, Pedantic bug-report: There's an 'é' in world/4026.xml that I don't _think_ is valid XML (because eacute isn't a predefined entity). I wouldn't mention it otherwise, but it causes the parser I'm using to barf. Tarra, Mike - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscri

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 "h

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] Official

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 PROTEC

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 int

[backstage] Newssniffer - BBC News site monitoring

2006-10-24 Thread Jason Cartwright
Thought this might be of interest to the backstage crew:   http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/list_by_revision http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/bbc/threads/mostcensored J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interact

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: http://feeds.bbc.