I know there have been some issues with the Majordomo servers, and that
some work is planned on them, but I'm not aware that they have packed in
completely
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I know there have been some issues with the Majordomo servers, and
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In the wierd way that the BBC works I am responsible for both the homepage
Breaking News and the system that delivers the breaking News email. The
breaking news email and desktop alert gozmo are both much more fequent events
than switching the homepage into 'breaking news' mode
The BBC sends
Firstly I'd echo Tom's sentiment:
Strange behaviours surface when you see bbc.co.uk at the end of your email
address; fear of bringing opprobrium to the BBC due to saying the wrong
thing in public can cause otherwise eloquent BBC employees to clam up.
I'm normally happy to shout to the
Fair play, the delay is annoying, as is building up a false expectation - but
I'll wager my tuppence that Ben and Jem are more fed up with the wrangling
causing the delay than anyone outside the BBC :-(
m
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I suspect at many points in the show, he's has on two different
tracks, plus his own drum machine.
Well, that at least goes some way to explaining why I find it an
intolerable racket ;-)
More seriously on this point, I think on this list there are a
collection of people who are likely to
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
Now a useful feature would be the ability to drag someone's incorrectly placed photo across the map to the right spot.That way I could stop greyhounds winning races a good bus ride away from Walthamstow's dog stadium -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emsef/227626652/ - and somebody Sapnish could
One of the things I tried to do that I was suprised didn't work [and
is an issue for backstage I suspect] is the normal BBC 2 tv
schedule. It only has links for one week. I didn't try url hacking
maybe that would have worked I don't know. I was just suprised that
the standard listing showed only
What happens when setting up a proxy service is as easy as running
an application and using one is as easy as typing in a url?
It means I finally get to listen to the Ashes here in Austria :-)
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So it looks like some kind of GPL
As far as I am aware, every song on TOTP up until 1983 was
re-recorded so that the BBC owned the rights of broadcast in the
charter it clearly states that the BBC must distribute its content to
the UK public. so where is all that music that I payed for :-)
A lot of it got discarded,
Ian, why don't you apply for the job of Chairman of the BBC?
I think the Chairman is more of a strategic hands-off job, and I'm
sure Ian would miss getting his hands dirty with widget code :-)
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I don't know why it seems to be Flash in particular that brings this
out in folk.
I can tell you that it is no different on the continent either - I
spent a very entertaining meeting here in Austria the other week
facing exactly the same The horror! The horror! reaction to the
notion of using
What you're talking about is a global, industry issue with thousands of
diverse stakeholders - from actors to cameramen.
And you also have to realise that the rights are not just for the UK,
there are different rights frameworks across the globe. So, for
example, if the BBC started chucking
even wonder what the BBC is for in this digital era... ... ...
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What you're talking
don't get public money to support their online ventures.
Festive wishes
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Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but will do. Does that mean
we don't have to carry on the debate here anymore ;-)
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I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who
not *exactly*... the 'it was too popular for its own good' refers to
various local radio stations having their bandwidth soaked up due to
people downloading stuff... not good for business, that...
It didn't do much for productivity either as I recall - I think at the
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On a related DRM tip, I just thought I'd chip in with some comments my
wife made last night. We download podcasts from the BBC, and from
Virgin Radio (thanks Mr Cridland!), but obviously it is all talk
related, not full track music content.
My wife asked me Are there any podcasts from XFM or
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Again, who (that is assuming sanity) buys the ridiculously overpriced
monstrosity that is Sky+ ?
As is often the case on this list we seem to be leaps and bounds ahead
of the general learning curve of the general public. Sky+ might not
make sense to the sane people here, but they have shifted
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Whereas, looking at the photos indicates that 20 is an exaggeration of
about 100%.
Cheers,
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More likely, Organisers put the turnout at 800...
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IIRC a kids version of iPlayer is on the roadmap - with various content
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Any chance you could add this?
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and invite you to have a play
Perhaps that is where all my bandwidth went...
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On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 00:50 +0300, Martin Belam wrote:
Yeah, mostly Pipes to process the RSS feeds, and the Google Custom
Search Engine. There's also some very crude Perl of my own
Hi all, I have my BBC hat back on at the moment, and one of the things I
am working on is a project to do with online voting and ratings.
Part of my brief is to explore how the BBC might utilise and re-use
information and data gathered via voting, and hopefully make a business
case for releasing
that, quite possibly, the more we listen to what some people
say, the less we know about what - or even if - most people think.
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I was in a class of four people in the sixth form that did a
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There's a statistics joke in there somewhere but it is too early for me.
Just to be clear here, the BBC has strong editorial guidelines that
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You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music
for free, forever, at the point of delivery, to anyone, regardless of
whether they had paid their Licence Fee or lived in the UK
That is kind of the figures I was expecting. Just to be clear here,
the way I see it is that if the BBC stands up and says we believe in
libre not gratis, so we don't want anything to do with software
or codecs that involve patents, pretty much at least 80%+ of the
people who own portable music
This is a particular feature of Internet Explorer 7, I find.
Google Reader does the same as well
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So what you are really saying is that as long as it is not generally
known that saving streams is easy to do, then this is fig leaf to
placate the rights holders.
To be less glib than I have been on here recently, erm, pretty much
that is it. *I* know you can rip streams to files to keep for
With internet speeds increasing these online systems are very useful for
the average user who sends emails, writes letters, etc, as they take away
the burden of looking after software and keeping it up to date.
Or another way of looking it, if you keep building systems with the
expectation
I would start by constructing Acts of Parliament by Wiki for a start.
If that isn't a job creation scheme for lawyers I don't what is...
May it please the court to get back to the matter in hand, is a
blaspheme against the Flying Spaghetti Monster still a crime if it is
was spoken in LOLCAT by
The difference is that the BBC could drop the probability to zero by
not requiring the use of proprietary software...
Or by closing the list if it was deemed to be an unhelpful echo
chamber that wasn't beneficial to the BBC for the amount of money
spent on the backstage.bbc.co.uk project
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An excellent quote which I will endeavour to use in 2008 every time
the zealots start drowning out the conversation.
though I suspect you will be met with similar content to almost the
first reaction to that article:
It's sad to see that Linus Torvalds, one of the leading figures in
the Free
I think 10% or 20% time is a great thing to allow not just developers,
but many areas of the BBC, and I wished it had happened whilst I was
there. Just a shame that if people get to know more widely about it
you can be sure that the press will be asking that everyone gets a 10%
or 20% rebate on
I used to face this kind of question when doing the analysis of search
logs at the BBC to produce the popular searches right now list.
Obviously I used to filter out obscenities, but, for example,
something like 'big brother' or the 'x-factor' would generate a lot of
searches on bbc.co.uk, but
(From http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html which I
found hilarious and may be of interest to Ruby on Rail developers :-)
I *loved* that, but I wasn't convinced I'd ever hire him and expect
him to respect an NDA after the event - which maybe doesn't show he is
a good a business
I've got a hunch the answer is going to involve the word Majordomo...
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There is a piece on this in The Guardian today - he makes some
interesting points but at one stage he suggests that Facebook is a
closed system, and that nobody can move onto a new social platform
because all of their friends are there, so Facebook will rule forever.
I would have thought that
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Just a quick idea. How about a page on bbc.co.uk noting sections that have
closed?
I think that is called the 'Press Release' after the
govmt/DCMS/Ofcom/BBC Trust/Uncle Tom Cobbly review of the BBC website
that seems to have to be carried out out every 18 months...
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I don't think it is evil, and as I've pointed out on their blog and
on Sphinn, since Patrick at Blogstorm himself applies nofollow to
all outbound links it is a little rich to be complaining that the BBC
doesn't provide 'trusted' links. Interesting point about how Google
can be expected to run a
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Since the BBC is more generally accused of being pro-Chavez because it
enjoys his anti-US position, maybe this is just a bit of balance?
More seriously, it does raise wider issues about how Internet access
and language skew online representation. The BBC is always very clear
that polls online are
Is this the worst bit of maths on BBC News so far this year?
Figures actually come from Google no?
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Looks great but shame launching yesterday seemed to break the main site ;-)
More seriously, I think it is a really interesting application of the
'river of news' UI.
My tuppence would be:
* Make the category name in the right-hand site a link through to the
index page for that category.
* I'm
today, and I did wonder about the legal
implications.
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that news.bbc.co.uk is already a public service newspaper -
albeit one without a print edition.
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to share documents inside and outside of the
corporate firewall.
Mail serverwise on WIndows - Notes/Domino. Don't know what the set-up
is on a Mac, but if you search for Jemima's tweets on the subject,
you'll know it isn't popular ;-)
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Those of us at The Guardian who are using
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I suspect you can trust your family, friends etc to respect your wishes, and
you can limit the distribution through trust.
Images of children can be sourced for advertising without having to resort
to using private images.
So your basic answer is that in a world without copyright,
I'll just run this by everyone again
If you wish to talk about personal images use the example of adults,
a spouse for example. Or personal information. Involving children is
like using the word Nazi, it is designed to close down debate, because
of the moral panic surrounding the issue.
Yep,
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