RE: [backstage] Na sowas!

2007-09-28 Thread Christopher Woods
Ah never mind, I just figured out it's his funky German out of office message. Those crazy Germans... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Christopher Woods > Sent: 28 September 2007 21:40 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: R

RE: [backstage] Na sowas!

2007-09-28 Thread Christopher Woods
Hallo und Willkommen zur BBC Backstage Postsendungliste. Sprechen sie Englisch? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 September 2007 15:02 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] Na sowas! >

[backstage] Na sowas!

2007-09-28 Thread Andre . Berthold
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Re: [backstage] TV Data Formats and Sources of Data

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Jolly
Ben Poor wrote: Incidentally, I'm intending to start a project on SourceForge for a Java API to marshall/unmarshall TVA data, inspired by some work that the BBC did some time ago [http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/projects/tv_anytime_api/]. We've done similar work before around the ETSI DAB EPG sta

Re: [backstage] TV Data Formats and Sources of Data

2007-09-28 Thread Richard Lockwood
> > Another question I have is about where to find TV listings. > > Radio Times provide data (though I can't seem to find the link on > > their site) (and it's for personal use only) http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat for the list of channels, http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat f

Re: [backstage] TV Data Formats and Sources of Data

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Newell
Andy, I can't answer all your questions but I'll try to deal with some of them. At 13:30 28/09/2007, Andy wrote: >Although the TV-Anytime specification says the >references should be found in a certain location on the ETSI site, >they are missing. Let me know which documents you can't find. If t

Re: [backstage] TV Data Formats and Sources of Data

2007-09-28 Thread Jonathan Tweed
Hi Some answers inline below. On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:30:19 +0100, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is iPlayer using to hold it's Meta data? iPlayer gets its metadata from an internal BBC product called Pips, which has been previously discussed on this list (I work on Pips). Pips receiv

RE: [backstage] TV Data Formats and Sources of Data

2007-09-28 Thread Ben Poor
Lots of stuff in there, but I'll just throw in a few thoughts based on what I'm currently looking at. TV-Anytime is certainly rich enough to be geared to any use, and it's a spec that I think should be more widely adopted. To the best of my knowledge, it has little take up with device manufacture

Re: [backstage] TV Data Formats and Sources of Data

2007-09-28 Thread James Ockenden
get a fast laser printer. On 28/09/2007, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I know some of you will find this question dull, but it's something > that I would be interested in knowing the answer to (though a suspect > there is no definitive answer the discussion would help with making >

Re: [backstage] Voting data ideas

2007-09-28 Thread James Ockenden
i would like a data feed of all the BBC Have Your Say responses which have a) been most recommended and b) feature a large amount of capital letters (eg BOYCOTT CHINA). That way, you could launch a very low cost newspaper to rival the Daily Express/Mail without any real journalism. And thank-you n

[backstage] TV Data Formats and Sources of Data

2007-09-28 Thread Andy
Hi all I know some of you will find this question dull, but it's something that I would be interested in knowing the answer to (though a suspect there is no definitive answer the discussion would help with making informed design decisions). I am writing what was originally intended to be a small

Re: [backstage] Voting data ideas

2007-09-28 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 28/09/2007, Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's possibly a bit of a sledgehammer / nut scenario for a poll like > "What should we call the Tikkabilla ("Play School" for you other > oldies...) hamster?". > > :-) > > Cheers, > > Rich. You tell that to Socks and Cookie! I can'

[backstage] Invite: MiniBar tonight

2007-09-28 Thread Christian Ahlert
Hi all its MiniBar tonight - MiniBar is a social evening with web start up presentations in Shoreditch. More details at: www.openbusiness.cc/webmail Tom Leitch, BBC, will make some Backstage announcements! If you have not RSVP'd simply reply to this email. News: We'll have an additional pre

Re: [backstage] Voting data ideas

2007-09-28 Thread Richard Lockwood
That's possibly a bit of a sledgehammer / nut scenario for a poll like "What should we call the Tikkabilla ("Play School" for you other oldies...) hamster?". :-) Cheers, Rich. On 9/28/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin, > > On 26/09/2007, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [backstage] Voting data ideas

2007-09-28 Thread Brian Butterworth
Martin, On 26/09/2007, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No I hadn't, thanks for pointing it out. I used to be Senior Producer on > Online Voting at the BBC for a couple of years, and so I have some quite > strong opinions about when it is right to run an online vote and when the > corr