Re: [backstage] BBC Programme Catalogue

2006-04-26 Thread Frank Wales
age.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/catalogue -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/

Re: [backstage] BBC Programme Catalogue

2006-04-26 Thread Frank Wales
On 04/26/2006 03:05 PM, I inadvertently echoed Dave in asking: > Is this still implemented using Ruby-on-Rails? Looks like this is answered on Matt's blog: http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/81.html -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion gr

Re: [backstage] BBC Programme Catalogue

2006-04-26 Thread Frank Wales
th' + the Paul McGann episode is listed with the title '27 May 1996' + 'Bad Wolf' is not a subject category Meanwhile, in other news, the gap between the first and second editions of 'Grandstand' is apparently 28 years, which must be some kind of a record (assumi

Re: [backstage] BBC Programme Catalogue

2006-04-27 Thread Frank Wales
On 04/27/2006 12:16 PM, Gordon Joly wrote: > torchwood? The Prime Monster isn't even supposed to know about that, so how can you expect the BBC to? -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.b

Re: [backstage] Funny Story

2006-07-04 Thread Frank Wales
ugins required for AJAX in a modern browser, the potential population of confusion is larger than ever. Hooray! :-) -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unof

Re: [backstage] Christmas Backstage bash

2006-10-17 Thread Frank Wales
David Burden wrote: Coming down from Birmingham it would be best to be mid-week so as to try and dovetail in with a business meeting. Good idea though. Perhaps Ian could stick a when-can-people-make-it poll on www.doodle.ch with suggested dates? -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] A sekrit from Virgin Radio

2006-10-30 Thread Frank Wales
anmannager. The green slips are all labelled 'Blitz Avoidance Copy Kept Until Peacetime', and are apparently carried clandestinely via the only route from London that avoids every bridge, railway line and transport cafe. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.u

Re: [backstage] Newcastle labs

2006-11-15 Thread Frank Wales
o the boil, but I don't see it mentioned on yonder page; something to do with those mobile newfangle-o-trons. Is my memory playing poker with dogs again? -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.u

Re: [backstage] Psiphon & Next Gen content

2006-11-29 Thread Frank Wales
omeone who > watches everything on demand but also tunes in for Torchwood every week > (what day is it on again?) All of them. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/ma

Re: [backstage] Re: (freeing) content is king

2006-11-29 Thread Frank Wales
ion] If the BBC required senior management to possess practical perl prowess, ITV would surely demand rock'n'roll, drag'n'plop PowerPoint skilz, so they can re-spiffify the sales demo of their attention-harvesting plans before Big Ad notices just how ensweatened ITV's brow has

Re: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-19 Thread Frank Wales
mme in question, "J'accuse...", could only be shown today as an object lesson in how to be totally clueless in public about the future of your own field. Now, who wants to start a sweepstake about which year we'll all be saying 'softwares' without flinching, t

Re: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-19 Thread Frank Wales
myself to all of it" defence, by the way. Just because the BBC is tasked with serving the British public, and just because it's generally moving in the direction of making content more freely available, it doesn't mean that each of us, individually, has the *right* to unfettered access

Re: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Frank Wales
rs of first-resort for that which is uncommercial, and for that which is difficult-but-important. And they should also act as the public's advocate in shaping the future of communication, both in their statements and in their behaviour. [Disclaimer: I don't work for the BBC, but I'

Re: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Frank Wales
Nic James Ferrier wrote: Frank Wales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In the other, we're just a natural resource to be harvested and sold off like so many varieties of attentional baked-beans; any benefits we might get are a side-effect of the process. I realise you said it was "v

Re: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Frank Wales
ular in its thinking and so shallow in its > production and performance pool, that it just can't see that the > world is changing around it and that it wants to sit there in an > Ivory Tower where it is forever 1956. I really do not recognize the BBC you're describing at all; it&

Re: [backstage] WebDD - Saturday 3rd February 2007 - A free conference for you

2007-01-08 Thread Frank Wales
ordo, I'll have a beer too; one of those web-enabled ones I keep hearing about. If they're out of web-enabled beer, I'll have a beer-enabled web instead. RSS, no lemon. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please vi

Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-10 Thread Frank Wales
difficult to make happen. No doubt some actual BBC people will explain further. Or, ideally, say: "it's all sorted out now, here they are!" -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/a

Re: [backstage] BBC Trust "reaches Provisional Conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals"

2007-02-01 Thread Frank Wales
l, there are many companies that would pay to be on the BBC, you should exploit that position to promote free(libre) media. The day the BBC sells its airwaves to the highest bidder in this way is the day they betray the public's trust. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.

[backstage] Classical music on iPlayer

2007-02-01 Thread Frank Wales
recordings of *all* classical music, after all, even if they wanted to. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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://

Re: [backstage] BBC Trust "reaches Provisional Conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals"

2007-02-01 Thread Frank Wales
ferent from the situation with MP3 players, for example, where there is a world-wide standard on how to go from bits to audio that isn't hamstrung by history. Consequently, I think lessons from DVD region coding have limited applicability to how DRM might work out in other areas. -- Frank Wale

Re: [backstage] BBC Trust "reaches Provisional Conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals"

2007-02-01 Thread Frank Wales
le number of throats that my fellow Earthicans possess is the argumentative way to re-build our world in true digital glory. In some ways, DRM is a comfort blanket that the young digital age is using to get through difficult growing pains; the trick is to make sure it doesn't get dragged into a

Re: [backstage] BBC Trust "reaches Provisional Conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals"

2007-02-06 Thread Frank Wales
Although I would understand if you'd blotted that one out, as it wasn't exactly the zenith of writing for the new series.) I'm sure it was no more of a coincidence that we had an Ally Pally episode in 2006 than that the two-part episode about Satan was broadcast on days that straddled th

[backstage] End of week exam

2007-03-02 Thread Frank Wales
logic that is legally permissable, show how hacking such a machine to make copies of Steve Ballmer would lead directly to the end of the world, as well as causing a widespread loss of confidence in Blu-Ray technology. End of the exam -- or is it? Exam Raider Anniversary Edition -- coming

Re: [backstage] Browser Stats

2007-03-27 Thread Frank Wales
web site today simply has to take account of differences at the client, both in implementation and in customization, and this isn't a situation that's going to go away any time soon, especially with the burgeoning of Ajax-like interactivity and the use of mobile devices as browsers. -- Fr

Re: [backstage] BBC Archive trial

2007-04-19 Thread Frank Wales
th them on their definition of 'news'. Perhaps it'll become newsworthy now that Michael Dell is running Ubuntu Linux (and OpenOffice and Firefox) on his new laptop: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/04/18/12261.aspx#comments -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent vi

Re: [backstage] BBC "Radio" 7

2007-05-29 Thread Frank Wales
rhaps now living in a media universe that is epsilon less confusing. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/

Re: [backstage] DVD Region 2

2007-06-27 Thread Frank Wales
region coding.) More info on DVD video coding, and how it differs from region coding, here: http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.19 -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/

[backstage] iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-04 Thread Frank Wales
, just like normal web development, then (except for all the differences). -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: [backstage] iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-04 Thread Frank Wales
something like them is clear. > + no self-signed or custom X.509 certificates Which, by the way, breaks the device for me as a potential future phone, since we use self-signed X.509 certs to authenticate to secure web services, and we're certainly not the only people doing this. (It doe

Re: [backstage] iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-04 Thread Frank Wales
scrolls in or flies out. On the iPhone, with its "Javascript is enabled, but you're never going to see a mouseover or hover event" mode of operation, this assumption probably breaks, with hilarious consequences. And probably more gnarly CSS/JS hacks to compensate, why not? --

Re: [backstage] iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-04 Thread Frank Wales
y the time it lands on these shores, and indeed whether or not the Linux phone from FIC actually gains more traction that the rest of the promising-but-discontinued Linux-based handhelds did. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe,

[backstage] Worried about your music being pirated?

2007-07-04 Thread Frank Wales
You could always try this: http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2007/07/dude-releases-his-new-album-on-nes.html Probably a bit extreme for the BBC to consider, though. (P.S., don't mention using emulators to distribute copies; it'll only upset people.) -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] feeds with icons or pictures?

2007-07-24 Thread Frank Wales
, misleading, pornographic or many other categories of material, and not in a way that would bring the BBC's reputation for impartiality into question. Actual terms and conditions of use: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediabank/documentation/guidelines.doc -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent vi

Re: [backstage] This weeks top 10

2007-08-10 Thread Frank Wales
, let's listen to "You ain't bookmarkin' yet" by Backstage-Browser Overdrive... -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unof

Re: [backstage] From Private Eye - BBC Shock!

2007-08-16 Thread Frank Wales
wn every BBC programme except for Graham Norton's new audience participation reality show, 'Strictly Coming'. Asked to comment on future possible protests, Dr Jeremy Paxman, the union's ambassador to the BBC, just looked tired and sad." -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sen

Re: [backstage] From Private Eye - BBC Shock!

2007-08-16 Thread Frank Wales
s. And Debby Mengele isn't standing behind me right now with a hose. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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.

[backstage] Russia forces World Service off FM radio

2007-08-18 Thread Frank Wales
Does this make things like RSS feeds of BBC News more valuable in Russia now? http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2151253,00.html -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005

[backstage] "I would gladly sell the BBC, and all it contains, for my house."

2007-09-17 Thread Frank Wales
At least, I think that's the quote. Anyway, here's a load of gear being flogged by the BBC, just in case there are any people on this list who understand old technical stuff: http://www.goindustry.com/en/speciallist.asp?SaleID=7658&Track=Auction&Scope=group -- Frank Wale

Re: [backstage] Mobile Developer Un/Conference/Camp

2007-09-18 Thread Frank Wales
also wonder about the exchange rate between internet pages, AJAX requests, MP3 files and e-mail messages; a limit based on requests rather than total bytes transferred would be highly comical. And is the limit a cap, or merely the threshold to the land of severely enlarged bills? -- Frank Wales [EMAIL

Re: [backstage] built with

2007-09-19 Thread Frank Wales
relying on server headers, who knows how reliable their results are? -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/

Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-25 Thread Frank Wales
despread use behind the scenes not count as 'popular' or 'mainstream' when it's the bedrock of things that are? > My concern is that because the process does not include users, it is > difficult for their needs to be met. Which 'process' are you talking ab

Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-29 Thread Frank Wales
nology in things that are ostensibly more popular than it; other people made the point better by referring to set-top boxes such as TiVo. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/

Downloading Flash video (was Re: [backstage] Argey Bargey on iPlayer)

2007-10-31 Thread Frank Wales
oo! YUI! Theater! for later playback on my shiny video iPod bauble, thus allowing the computers to be used for more computery purposes, such as accountancy, or sending out advertisements for international criminal syndicates, or something. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.c

Re: [backstage] weather feed: thursday

2007-11-09 Thread Frank Wales
eta for the BBC's new weather catch-up service, iMbrella. If you missed yesterday's weather, you can catch it again today. Note that, because of the use of Digital Rain Management, sunlight is not presently available through this new service. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent v

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-09 Thread Frank Wales
s list, it'll be Matthew or Ian -- that they'll do it with good humour is a bonus.) Personally, I was waiting to see whether anyone's irony fuse was going to blow, since arguing in public about how good your manners are is a fairly robust demonstration of how good they aren'

Re: [backstage] Freesat and backstage - can we MHEG? Yes we can...

2007-11-09 Thread Frank Wales
would be the ability to grab personalized gubbins from sites based on your very own ID, so that your have your mates' insane opinions show up, with hilarious consequences. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Frank Wales
othesis. /me sits down with big tub of pop corn and expectantly googly eyes... -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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: h

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

2007-11-27 Thread Frank Wales
at, in 2026, there will not be a physical object called 'a fiver'. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

2007-11-27 Thread Frank Wales
willing to gamble a Mars bar over it, since I have more confidence they'll be around. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 arc

Re: [backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

2007-12-07 Thread Frank Wales
I think people are now getting used to ignoring schedules (which are only a hack to get around radio spectrum capacity limits anyway), and are deciding what they want to watch, when, rather than organizing their activities around a TV schedule. Or worse, zillions of schedules. "Let's a

Re: AW: [backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

2007-12-12 Thread Frank Wales
opposed to existing solutions. I hope there's something fundamental that I haven't grasped about what they're doing, because I can't even think of use cases from the porn business to support them, which can't be a good sign. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via

Re: [backstage] flash streaming version of iplayer is live

2007-12-13 Thread Frank Wales
ay here." Presumably, this is because it's from longer ago than yesterday, since shows from this morning seem to be available. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01

Re: [backstage] flash streaming version of iplayer is live

2007-12-13 Thread Frank Wales
's staff are more inclined to watch TV at work than getting some work done, they have bigger problems than those that can be fixed with some overly-broad firewall rules. I don't think the BBC should be worried about such dysfunctional companies. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PRO

Re: [backstage] New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-18 Thread Frank Wales
ne available local station, and I'd like to have a list of locations that I can switch between for the whole page. Oh, and I'd like a pony (preferably one I didn't have to feed). Feed! An RSS feed of fixes and updates to the new page, too, I'd like, please, thank you very much. -

Re: [backstage] New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-18 Thread Frank Wales
for both, the character encoding selected is ISO-8859-1, which is also the charset specified in the respective Content-Type headers. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/m

Re: [backstage] Re: New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-20 Thread Frank Wales
e that this is a nostalgic touch, but I don't lose sight of the meaning of a BBC clock to Mr and Mrs Punter. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html

Re: [backstage] Identity/trust/reputation project savingtheinternetwithhate.com

2008-01-09 Thread Frank Wales
le-lot-more He sounds like he'd be a hoot to have around, as long as you're not one of those cheeseburger-eating, IDE-loving, PHP douchebags, as he might call them. (Which I'm not, by the way, if you're reading this, Zed. I'm more your coffee-drinking, emacs-loving, meta

Re: [backstage] Identity/trust/reputation project savingtheinternetwithhate.com

2008-01-09 Thread Frank Wales
ething, I'd probably hire him. (And yes, I have been punched in the face before, but not for technical reasons.) -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/

Re: [backstage] BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed

2008-04-10 Thread Frank Wales
; to mean 'limited', and hoping that our paying customers won't get so pissed off with us when they learn how we've tricked them that they find cause to sue us, or leave us for someone more honest(+)." (+) Small print small print: by "someone more honest", I mean &quo

Re: [backstage] iPlayer and the ISPs - a solution

2008-04-14 Thread Frank Wales
aimed that skipping commercials was stealing the programmes, since both of them seem to want the world to change so that their business models can work. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archiv

Re: [backstage] Video recordings of the House of Commons on TheyWorkForYou.com

2008-06-05 Thread Frank Wales
? Firetruck! Hey, look at that, my pants are still up. They're on fire, but they're still up. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_li

Re: [backstage] Video recordings of the House of Commons on TheyWorkForYou.com

2008-06-06 Thread Frank Wales
John O'Donovan wrote: Now that you know what happens I bet you won't do that again... Actually, I think that behaviour is a bug, but as I'm now out of scratch pantaloons to test with, I'll leave it for others more versed in surprise linguo-tailoring incidents to investi

Re: [backstage] BBC DRM iplayer mobiles etc

2008-10-17 Thread Frank Wales
Andrew Bowden wrote: > Even for smaller channels, there are "benefits" to being encrypted, such > as reduced EPG listing fees. It costs less to tell people about your programmes if you encrypt them? The reason being...? -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the bac

[backstage] I've woken up to a new world

2008-11-04 Thread Frank Wales
where bbc.co.uk is unavailable, and twitter.com is responding well. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: [backstage] I've woken up to a new world

2008-11-04 Thread Frank Wales
Alison Young wrote: > Have spent most of the night cheering whenever the BBC broke out the > incredibly zoomy graphics. Fab. Was is just a coincidence that Jeremy Vine appeared to repeatedly poke McCain in the face as he was calling up results that were in Obama's favour? -- Frank W

Re: [backstage] I've woken up to a new world

2008-11-04 Thread Frank Wales
stems in distant locations. Probably rats chewing on cables. > Obama won in case you were wondering :o) Oh, I wasn't wondering -- BBC News on the televisual gramophone still worked, despite Gore Vidal's best efforts to stupefy everyone. I notice I sent out several more tweets than I re

Re: [backstage] I've woken up to a new world

2008-11-05 Thread Frank Wales
bbc.co.uk>) last night from my Be network at home, Well, there you go then. I'm on Be at home also. Problem characterized. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mai

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

2008-11-28 Thread Frank Wales
Nick Morrott wrote: > The Beeb could have used kiloponds as themetric force unit, Kiloponds, eh? Why, that's very nearly a lake. Which brings us back to the fish. I'd say more, but I'd be out of my depth. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.u

Re: [backstage] Nice CC-ND-ish DVD

2009-02-02 Thread Frank Wales
son.com: NXDOMAIN -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - 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/

Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-02-05 Thread Frank Wales
nce other providers tend to stripe you up if you want to treat your phone like a modem for your computer, while 3 seem quite happy to let you do this, at least on this model. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please v

[backstage] Twittering on

2009-02-09 Thread Frank Wales
Apparently, there are complaints about how much air time twitter is being given by the BBC: http://thenextweb.com/2009/02/09/bbc-radio-listeners-kick-fuss-twitter-time-bbc-create-microblogging-service/ -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Autonomo.us] Skype, out?

2009-08-03 Thread Frank Wales
Brian Butterworth wrote: > Thanks to all the Appleheads we are now at the "If you want a picture > of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever" stage > aren't we? Well, you have to imagine it, because you're not allowed to copy it. -- Frank W

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Autonomo.us] Skype, out?

2009-08-05 Thread Frank Wales
Alex Mace wrote: > I compressed the run time on my toaster and now it won't shut up about > grilled bread products. Other hot flat snacks are available. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstag

Re: [backstage] Site check

2009-08-21 Thread Frank Wales
Ant Miller wrote: > is www.welcomebackstage.com down for all you guys too? It's down for me, and it's down for downforeveryoneorjustme.com: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.welcomebackstage.com -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussi

Re: [backstage] Site check

2009-08-21 Thread Frank Wales
welcomebackstage.com > Accept: */* > [...just hangs here...] Scientific toecap, following be forensic exam, I think. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.

Re: [backstage] Site check

2009-08-21 Thread Frank Wales
Frank Wales (that's me, that is) wrote: > Scientific toecap, following be forensic exam, I think. s/following be/followed by/ Either it's Friday, or I've installed my hands wackbards again. Or thob. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk dis

Re: [backstage] Warning: Super geeky - Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread Frank Wales
On 09/03/2009 11:28 AM, Tim Dobson wrote: > Ian Forrester wrote: >> http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build- >> cheap-cloud-storage/ >> >> Found via Frank Wales, > > Haha. So Frank reads /. too! :) Actually, I got it (and RTed

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - encoding from broadcast rather than master tapes

2009-09-12 Thread Frank Wales
Ant Miller wrote: > If you've got ideas and suggestions for improvement, or any further > questions, I'd be happy to pass them along to the team. Completely geeky one: make iplayer.bbc.co.uk do something sensible. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.

[backstage] For our younger travellers

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Wales
BA are listing 'BBC Backstage' as a children's 'Music and Stories' selection on their flights this month: http://www.britishairways.com/travel/ifeoutavodlisting/public/en_gb?class=wt My favourite is "Goldilocks and the three APIs". -- Frank Wal

Re: [backstage] Encryption of HD by the BBC - cont ...

2009-10-06 Thread Frank Wales
lectronics industry and therefore the public. The consumer electronics industry has absolute control over me? OH NOES! Is my iPod making me type this now? HALP! -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage

Re: [backstage] BBC News - Googlejuice vs Usability

2009-11-21 Thread Frank Wales
–30.0best understood by university graduates So, am I supposed to conclude that: 43.2 Floods body is missing policeman is noticeably easier to read than: 22.6 Whisky body backs safe drinking ? -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubs

Re: [backstage] BBC News - Googlejuice vs Usability

2009-11-21 Thread Frank Wales
Mo McRoberts wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 03:11:28PM +, Frank Wales wrote: So, am I supposed to conclude that: 43.2 Floods body is missing policeman is noticeably easier to read than: 22.6 Whisky body backs safe drinking I’d contend that in terms of sheer readability of the

Re: [backstage] What is TV?

2009-12-15 Thread Frank Wales
Rain wrote: Wot that pastime you only end up doing if you really, really have nothing better to to do instead? Oh, I know, I know! Is it: "debate the meaning of 'TV'"? -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe

Re: [backstage] "NoSQL" databases

2009-12-23 Thread Frank Wales
welcomebackstage.com/node/15 -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - 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/

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

2010-01-22 Thread Frank Wales
not ensue, then we might have: "BBC wastes your money to shore up Hollywood's profits" This is quite separate from any debate on how content management might support or hinder the BBC's public purposes, which I will happily leave to others. -- Frank Wales [f

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Wales
scape they're presiding over? Why, that's...inconceivable! -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - 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-archiv

Re: [backstage] MusicDNA and ItunesLP

2010-01-26 Thread Frank Wales
and it decides to check and update my 12,000 tracks. Never mind the potential for more Kindle-1984 scenarios. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unoff

Re: [backstage] Any more DEB reading footage from today on iPlayer?

2010-04-09 Thread Frank Wales
Brian Butterworth wrote: Did no one tell those stupid MPs that the whole Internet is peer-to-peer? To most of them, peer-to-peer communication is what happens when Lord Mandelson does a deal with Baroness Scotland. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion

Re: [backstage] Any more DEB reading footage from today on iPlayer?

2010-04-09 Thread Frank Wales
technical issues? Medical, military, etc. None of us are experts in all fields None of us are setting government policy, influencing public opintion or writing laws in the fields we're inexpert in, though. I hope. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk dis

Re: [backstage] BBC Trust approves Project Canvas ...

2010-06-28 Thread Frank Wales
ke the debate about a platform's 'shape' off the table, it allows everyone to concentrate on building stuff on that platform, which can only be a service to the public. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, pl

Re: [backstage] The web complaints form ate my complaint.

2010-07-07 Thread Frank Wales
.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/01/freeview_hd_content_management.html> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/01/freeview_hd_content_management.html> (But then, I have my mail client's 'Wrap plain text' column set at .) -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the bac

[backstage] 'Project Canvas' to be called 'YouView':

2010-09-16 Thread Frank Wales
http://informitv.com/news/2010/09/16/youviewisconfirmed/ Personally, I think 'WeView' would have been a better follow-on from 'iPlayer' and 'YouTube'. But that might suggest open collaboration and public participation, so perhaps not. :-/ -- Frank Wales [f