cheers!
On 09/07/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James,
Interesting...
Surely the point of Aston type graphics (in vision, non-interactive) is that
they are for passive viewing, as a mouse+menu is 1% better if you are
online (rather than selecting from one-to-many broadcast
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Christopher Woods wrote:
Pfft.
Good things and bad things will come from this:
Good:
O2 won't be able
I'd be happy to setup a mailing list for discussion about this.
It does seem a little unfair to Ian to habitually hijack his list for
dicussion of rights issues. It it supposed to be a techie list after
all.
If the owners want to contact me I'll gladly set them up on a list on
my list server.
Ian Betteridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Assuming you mean me, replying to other's comments is hardly
hijacking.
I don't mean you (unless you are the owner of www.FreeTheBBC.info).
I don't mean to be rude either.
I simply mean that the discussions about how the BBC should be run are
really
Gary Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You mean Ian Forrester?
I meant that backstage is Ian Forrester's list, yes. He runs it.
I'm not trying to say anything other than there's a lot of talk about
this and maybe it's time it had a separate discussion place and I'm
willing to spend my money
The Photosynth technology preview runs only on Windows XP SP2 and
Windows Vista.
Ah well.
shorttermmemoryloss.com
Christopher Woods wrote:
Just noticed this:
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/blogs/Britain+In+Pictures+BBC+Collection.aspx
Checking out Ely Cathedral right now, it's working
On 6/11/07, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I think I like the idea of
the BBC offering an OpenID login option, rather than the BBC turning into
yet another OpenID provider.
You say yet another OpenID provider - yet the only 'real world' one I'm
aware of right now is AOL... I think there's
James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 6/11/07, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I think I like the idea of
the BBC offering an OpenID login option, rather than the BBC turning into
yet another OpenID provider.
You say yet another OpenID provider - yet the only 'real world' one I'm
I really want to understand how OpenID works from a login point of view.
If anyone can easily point me to some PHP code that allows a user to log in
via an OpenID, I'd dearly like to have a play with it for mediauk.com - I've
failed, so far, to find anything that my little brain understands
I got one of our crack developers on the case, and the result is
http://apps.facebook.com/virginradio/ in case anyone wants to take a look.
We're quite pleased with it, but it's certainly a work in progress. Works
best if you're already registered at virginradio.co.uk but still works fine
if not.
PEOPLE to claim here so email me your address. or rss feed it straight
into my analogue telly here in hong kong. you guys can do that by now
right?
love from the new york of china
james
ps i'm kidding, the aerial's knackered, send an email.
On 07/06/07, Sean Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason
Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OpenID is an excellent thing, but it still seems too complicated to
explain to a consumer. Getting the BBC involved in sorting that problem
out can only be a good thing.
Lots of cool openid stuff from Simon Willison over here:
Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I run my own PHP OpenID server on another of my domains
(christopher.woods.name - I bought it and failed to have a use for it until
suddenly I realised it'd make the perfect domain for an OpenID identity :)
However, I've noted that there's already
/ C4, for example, which requires a fast and reliable internet
connection.
James
If anyone wants any Joost invites, please mail me privately -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - and I'll get an invitin' when I'm next near wifi.
Which will be tomorrow, probably in Oslo airport.
Any Joost user gets unlimited invites, so no special favours with the Joost
lot need be procured.
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On 5/25/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He's at the BBC now... *No mercy!* (As my housemate vehemently argues, he
works for us license-payers now ;)
Sorry to disappoint you and your housemate, but as an employee of Virgin
Radio Ltd, as I still am, I am still beholden to the
On 5/22/07, Chris Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(golly, mr cridland, looks like you've got the expectations of a whole
darn mailing list on your shoulders?!?
frankly, tho, first things first: i've got a whole stack of holiday leave
forms waiting for you to sign when you're able?
Oh...
On 5/21/07, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting idea - look forward to seeing your gadget :-) I did try to
write a prototype which flattened out the front page of news.bbc.co.uk
into a big Google News style page. Perhaps I could dig that out and
modify the output.
If you have
Since I'm at home tending a cold, I thought I'd do some reconfiguring of my
iGoogle page (that's what they insist on calling the Google personalised
homepage these days - Steve Jobs has a lot to answer for).
I thought I might look at the current BBC News gadgets, and write a nicer
one (which
:
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml
This is ordered editorially. Is the widget messing with it? Am I missing
something?
J
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On 5/9/07, Sam Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since the bbc don't provide an ical feed of the proms
Odd. They do, though, provide some quite nifty SMS reminders (at least, they
did last year).
Your iCal feeds don't import correctly into Google Calendar - though I
notice that someone has
On 9 May 2007, at 09:21, David Greaves wrote:
James Cox wrote:
On 8 May 2007, at 15:05, David Greaves wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
If you're contemplating signing up for this, then you're too
late. All
50 places went in less than 48 hours. We're currently taking
names for a
waiting list
make my toes
curl. :P
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backstage think it should do with all that?
vibrating alerts when you reach a pre-set station would be useful for
those of us who like to snooze on the train... but i'm sure the list
can come up with something more media than that! how about another
competition Mr F?
james
ps and OT: this whole w***r
On 1/8/07, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the Twitterati amongst us: just add/follow bbcnews to get BBC
news updates in Twitter
More info here: http://menti.net/?p=85
Experimental as usual... feedback welcome!
If I might steal this idea...
FOLLOW MEDIAUKRADIO
FOLLOW MEDIAUKTV
On 5/3/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oo blimey - looks like we have a man inside now! How useful...
Not inside yet!
http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/05/03/to-the-bbc/
But thanks, all. I'm a big fan of Backstage. I only hope that Virgin Radio
can launch its own (which I
i see your problems and raise you life in hong kong, where i picked up
a phone for HK$300 in the 3-shop, no contract, and after two months of
local and international calls had a gentle SMS reminder I should pop
into the shop and pay my bill of HK$29.50.
that's about £2.
AND the phones work on the
second option is definitely the right path... though if companies
want to throw some schwag at it, i'm sure some of us could volunteer
to package up and create some schwag bags. (a la valleyschwag)
best,
james
On 2 May 2007, at 11:57, Matthew Cashmore wrote:
We’ve been getting a lot
On 4/22/07, Lamptey, Derryck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RoR, spring, hibernate Dotnet, java, php, etc, etc.
What is the real backstage story? I'd find it very informative for someone
to give us non-BBC-backstagers (without violating what's left of the
official secrets act) some sort of
Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Naaah - everyone's just drawing breath for the next round of
opinionated shouting about DRM, open source, free beer or
whatever...
WHAT?? HOW DARE YOU!!!
WE ARE NOT DOING THAT EVER! THIS IS JUST LIES PERPETRATED BY PEOPLE
WHO WANT FRAMEWORKS TO
to get you started quickly.
Most people happy with rails typically won't use it to get started,
opting for a more definite class/model spec.
-james
On 22 Apr 2007, at 08:29, cisnky wrote:
Users putting scaffold into production deserve what they get!
Do elaborate.
On 4/22/07, James Cox
this distinction is telling.
- - james
On 21 Apr 2007, at 10:06, Gordon Joly wrote:
Twitter, Ruby on Rails redux.
Perhaps one more issue? Security.
There is an accelerating trend to frameworks and other CMS systems
for user generated content (wikis, Zope, Drupal, Ruby on Rails,
etc). Applications
showing their showreel.
It's a tough one though, how to 'vet' an audience to ensure a certain
vibe, without coming off really pretentious.
James Darling
http://abscond.org
On 19 Apr 2007, at 13:22, Tim Cowlishaw wrote:
On 4/19/07, oliver wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've signed up, but know
On 19 Apr 2007, at 14:39, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
James Cox wrote:
I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and
gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking
up into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery
to have
Kim -
sure thing! the beauty of hack days is to make stuff - linking tech
with electronics and you know, sewing. :)
besides, i've got a stack of shirts. ;p
- james
On 19 Apr 2007, at 15:13, Kim Plowright wrote:
Well - I ruled myself out of the running for this as frankly, I'm
great
was initially thinking a flickr app which used voice activated
commands to browse tags etc... you'd have a big screen which you
spoke to, and from v.a. an apollo app flickr api interaction
shame i can't find good quality voice activation. :)
- james
On 19 Apr 2007, at 16:02, cisnky wrote
On 19 Apr 2007, at 16:07, Mutt Baskerville wrote:
Slightly Off Topic, as you mentioned Ubuntu ISOs, nice to see that
the
BBC is not covering this on it's technology news, it gave an awful
lot
of press to Vista.
They even gave coverage to some World of Warcraft expansion pack!
Then
refreshnewcastle.org
frontendarchitecture.com
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Tom Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 4/19/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there will be a small but deadly group of XSL developers working
together on some killer web applications.
Absolutely deadly. I'm bringing the revolver. Ian, you bring
candlesticks, and I'll ask
On 17 Apr 2007, at 23:47, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 10:31 +0100 17/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
I think it can scale if they open up the queuing system and stick to
charging for SMS's. I think Kosso has the right idea -
http://kosso.wordpress.com/2007
James Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So hop off the language hate bandwagon, because no-one cares.
Instead, add something constructive.
Actually, I wasn't on the language hate bandwagon.
I was on the frameworks hate bandwagon.
Down with rails! Up with some random other thing!
Come
Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I started learning about Ruby on Rails. Then I found out it is a
framework. So I stopped.
EURGH! You got some ON YOU! Look! there! on your shoulder!
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On 18 Apr 2007, at 15:38, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
James Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So hop off the language hate bandwagon, because no-one cares.
Instead, add something constructive.
Actually, I wasn't on the language hate bandwagon.
I was on the frameworks hate bandwagon.
my mistake
Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its
doors. Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your
interest form is up (16:30). So if your interested in taking part in
the trial, go to http://bbc.co.uk/archive now.
Euuwww... that was
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show some understanding of the marketspace.
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On 18 Apr 2007, at 22:51, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
On 18 Apr 2007, at 20:03, James Cox wrote:
On 18 Apr 2007, at 19:34, Tom Loosemore wrote:
it'll be delivered via the internet... using that funny HTML stuff
(streamed in Real/WM I expect, cos that'll make it easier to set
up
Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 10:31 +0100 17/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
I think it can scale if they open up the queuing system and stick to
charging for SMS's. I think Kosso has the right idea -
http://kosso.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/os-twitter-and-services/
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I don't see how
On 12 Apr 2007, at 02:12, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did talk to the twitter guys about this issue. I think from there
point of view, they never said twitter was meant to be a real time
system. It just behaved like that from the start.
They're
On 16 Apr 2007, at 15:23, Richard Lockwood wrote:
I think you'll find that's designed... /personal bugbear
So yes, it was architected badly in the first place, but this doesn't
mean that they knew what was going to happen
and how would you define those terms?
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On 4/10/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I understand it, it was more a case of the BBC (and ITV)
trialing
broadcasting via the multicast infrastructure
Cough - Virgin Radio has been running multicast trials with the BBC for a
long while too.
Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 01:37 +0100 12/4/07, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about something longer term? like being able to follow the doctor
around during the week?
Can anyone follow twitter these days?
It's so s l o w .
All
Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about something longer term? like being able to follow the doctor
around during the week?
Can anyone follow twitter these days?
It's so s l o w .
I think the beeb is missing a trick in not doing something like the
dath vader/luke skywalker
Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did talk to the twitter guys about this issue. I think from there
point of view, they never said twitter was meant to be a real time
system. It just behaved like that from the start.
They're winding you up.
Have you noticed the tricks they're
On 4/8/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenBSD 1 visit
Does that mean the user never came back!!?!??!?!
It means that user never came back that month, yes.
Possibly they visited on March 31st, and have been visiting every day since!
;)
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I'm coming late to this discussion, as always, but if you're interested,
here's the information from virginradio.co.uk (sitewide).
Visits by operating system in March 2007 (compared with November 2005)
Windows: 96.39% (was 97.45%)
Macintosh: 2.87% (was 1.75%)
Linux: 0.48% (was 0.55%)
Unknown:
(sorry anyone who lives in EC).
Cheers,
James Brook
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I'll not reply to all of that, but one thing is worthwhile saying...
On 3/19/07, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The iPlayer will have crap on it, in part because of this: the content
providers do not want their content to be visible where you shouldn't
get it; so you should only
On 3/23/07, Allan Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone knows any of the site statistics for the BBC
web-sites. In particular what the browser market share is, as I am
wondering how much longer to support IE5 and 5.5 for certain sites -
depending on their application and
While I know we've done this to death, and that life may be moving on from a
DRM discussion on here, could I just clarify the comments attributed to me?
On 3/5/07, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was particularly concerned to see that someone (I believe it was
James) was allowed
Many thanks to everyone for their help. As David Riddle spots, this came out
of beta yesterday at around 11.30am, and is now the live player for all
users.
On 3/1/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are there any thoughts of making the new player in to a widget James?
Widget
If you're a fan of the Radio 1 SMS text thing, then you'll be a fan of
this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/407672266/
...as someone's already commented, it's an electro-cardiograph for the
station.
(The way we're all feeling today, we could all do with an electro-cardigan
for the
On 3/2/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Might interest some people here.
*http://www.youtube.com/BBC* http://www.youtube.com/BBC
*http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bbcworldwide*http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bbcworldwide
Particularly interesting is the announcement that Top
If you're a Virgin Radio VIP, go to
*http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/*http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/and
click the link marked participate in our beta (it's just under the
Listen live now link if you're logged in).
All feedback is very welcome: please use the link you'll find within the
I would like to know what percentage of my license fee will go
towards funding the proposed iPlayer services which are only to be
made available to people stupid enough to be using Windows - so that
I can withhold that amount from my payment, or seek a refund of that
amount back from the BBC.
On http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ there's a blog, and the main item of the blog
is currently 'More Twitter Hacks and BBC Goodness'.
Click the headline, to be rewarded by a 404 error.
(Or, worse, click the 'see original' link in the RSS feed to be rewarded by
a 404 error).
And now I can't blog
On 2/26/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Probably even worse. Your hurting the website even more -
lowering the CTR [1] by registering an impression, yet user
has no opportunity to click.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_Through_Rate
Depends if you ever click ads...
On 2/27/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Take a site like slashdot, I visit, I like the content, so I decide to
white-list. However I find the ads over intrusive so I put it back on the
black list
Ah. Other people might get irritated with the ads and therefore not go back
to
On 2/27/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The fact you deliberately linked to a torrent site - thus removing the
chance of the oscar winners to earn money from their films
Well done, Dave. Don't you owe me a drink? ;)
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On 2/26/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Out of interest, how do you stand on hiding ads... (That being an
option of Adblock)
Probably even worse. Your hurting the website even more - lowering the
CTR [1] by registering an impression, yet user has no opportunity to
click.
For
On 2/23/07, Sebastian Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Michael said] you're not a for-profit entity and you're
screwing it up for everyone else.
He then referenced the recently-announced CBBCWorld: you just launched
some stupid kids social network, well you didn't actually launch
anything, you
On 2/20/07, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another hack/prototype: Partly inspired by Martin's
(http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2007/02/tv_twitter.html)
and Mario's
(http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2007/01/bbc_news_just_s.
html) experiments we've put Radio
On 2/22/07, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You shouldn't take any notice of people who think you're ideas are
desperately sad.
I'd never take any notice of anyone then, and where would be the fun in
that?
Or mention good ideas at a BBC backstage bash! Though, honestly, I wasn't
Dave,
The fact you deliberately linked to the print version of Vanity Fair - thus
removing the chance of the publishers to earn money from your visit from
advertising, and/or effectively market the other content on their website,
is very telling.
I am deeply sorry that you don't want people to
This might be interesting and/or relevant to this discussion...
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Harris [*mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 February 2007 19:11
To: IWA-Europe/UK-Webcasting
Cc: Philip Haggar; James Cridland; Alex Wolfe
Subject: Re: [iwa-europe
On 2/15/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the point, then? Well, the point of the BBC is that, by
informing, educating and entertaining everyone in the UK, the
population of the UK gains both individually and collectively to an
extent greater than the BBC's negative market
On 2/14/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 14/02/07, David McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed, this seems particularly pointless when I can simply point my
desk
antenna at the Crystal Palace transmitter and record the 20Mbaud H.2641080p
stream being broadcast in clear.
This
On 2/13/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also note that its been published in the free software, open
standard, cross platform ogg vorbis format as well as MP3, and hope
this demonstrates that such formats do indeed exist - As I said in the
show, I think that everything the BBC is
On 2/13/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is all my personal opinion.
Yes we (me, and it seems most of the list) know DRM is evil. However - in
this case DRM is enabling people to view the content and making it MORE
accessible. Perhaps the industry will change and we'll see
.
Its BBC backstage's first, so I'm expecting you guys will tell us
exactly what you think.
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/02/bbc_backstage_p_1.html
Enjoy
Sheesh... that's a pretty good round table.
The thing that most leapt out at me was James Cridland's point about
DRM
Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's OK. I won't be there.
Tee hee. Neither will I. Though it might be fun becuase when BT
de-resourced me last month I was given specific instructions not to
connect to their network.
Port 23 is open btw.
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Tim Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, in the PC space it's only constrained if you want it to be. Most PCs
sold today have a TPM, which is rarely used (I've only met one person so
far who uses their TPM, and I work in the industry). You need to enable
it. You can use it to constrain your
Tim Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nic said:
I don't want a constrained comptuer because I don't trust the computer
maker to be open and above board about the precise way the computer is
constrained.
What do you feel may be hidden?
What do you feel a company might not hide?
I think
On 2/9/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where did you get the idea that DRM is a benefit to the computer's owner?
If content-owners* require DRM to be able to release content for use on your
computer (currently the case in the BBC iPlayer, and/or Channel 4's
on-demand plater,
On 2/1/07, Stephen Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What needs to be developed is new distribution systems, not excuses for
old methods, nor seeing any form of global market as a problem. If
content is available at a fair price globally and simultaneously, the
advertising markets and audiences
Tim Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, this /is/ an implementation problem, and can be overcome with a
trusted hardware element on the platform. At that stage, the hoop
will be more than simply running some code.
Do you work for ARM? If so maybe you have a different perspective on
these
Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You never know though, there maybe someone reading this thread thinking ooh,
that's a nice idea :) Then again, you could probably scale it if you had some
form of peer review system in place, and you took all the short chapters in a
standard form
On 2/1/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for doing a good job here,
Thankfully Auntie is leading the way in this area
cough
Other media sites have been validating correctly long before the BBC.
(Though I note to my shame that the one I'm in charge of, which was
validating,
Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why should society accept that a device like the personal computer be
subject to the control of a special interest group? (namely media
companies)
Well, all the chipsets are controlled by hundreds of patents,
surely?
That doesn't affect my ability to
On 1/30/07, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Thought this might be the ideal crowd...
I am looking for a free (or cheap) hosting for MP3 files for my
various auto-generated podcasts such as Mood News and
comp.lang.python.
Not free, but certainly very, very cheap and hellishly
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getLocationschannel_id=BBCROneformat=simple
...defines
real-audio
multicast-real
multicast-aac
...as location types.
Virgin Radio will support this API shortly; but we need additional audio
formats for this - possibly
On 1/31/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BBC Trust gives iPlayer the go ahead Jessica Rogers 11:00am
(Broadcast)
This is a better link - it gives rather more detail (and isn't Emap's
copyright either!):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press-releases/31-01-2007.html
On 1/30/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Metaphors that compare digital data to physical objects are almost
always confusion.
Agreed.
Stealing is stealing, copying is copying. Stealing is not copying.
Not agreed. But then, you might be confusing physical objects with data. (!)
On 1/31/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you make furniture, the fact that furniture-duplication wands are
invented does not give you the right to restrict people from
duplicating chairs.
No, but I should have the rights to restrict people from duplicating MY
chairs.
I'm
James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, but I should have the rights to restrict people from duplicating MY
chairs.
I'm not sure... I don't think you should have that right if the means
of protecting it is detrimental to society.
Why should society accept that a device like the personal
This is a splendidly informed debate, incidentally. I'm enjoying it.
On 1/31/07, Stephen Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Media groups tend to equate a download
with a (potential) lost sale. This is just not the case. Many people who
download, especially cross borders may discover television
On 1/29/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 29/01/07, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In most cases, the broadcaster has negotiated limited rights
The distributor's limited rights have been extended in the opposite
direction to where distribution technology has taken us
Michael Smethurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
snipThey should never be the exact same audio object with different
[isrc] codes./snip
I'm just not sure this happens in practice. According to our production
staff ISRC codes are not as reliable as intended
Don't think i was too clear on the
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