Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom'

2009-10-09 Thread Martin Belam
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, ab

Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom'

2009-10-08 Thread Martin Belam
>> 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,

Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom'

2009-10-08 Thread Martin Belam
owledge or consent on an advert. I genuinely don't understand why you think forcibly taking that freedom away from me in a complete abolition of copyright enhances society. Martin Belam, Information Architect, guardian.co.uk - currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.

Re: [backstage] [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

2009-04-27 Thread Martin Belam
co.uk/604644/telegraph-swaps-microsoft-office-for-google-apps > > Cheers, > > jod > > From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk on behalf of Martin Belam > Sent: Sun 26/04/2009 00:28 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] [Fwd: [

Re: [backstage] [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

2009-04-25 Thread Martin Belam
01 > > > -Original Message- > From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk > [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Martin Belam > Sent: 25 April 2009 23:18 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Offi

Re: [backstage] [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

2009-04-25 Thread Martin Belam
easy 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 ;-) all the best, Martin Bel

Re: [backstage] Google Streetview ... UK at last

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Belam
v - independent digital television and switchover > advice, since 2002 > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - 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] Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Belam
beit one without a print edition. >> >> Robert (Jamie) Munro >> > > > > -- > > Brian Butterworth > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover > advice, since 2002 > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - 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 becomes the British Botnet Corporation

2009-03-12 Thread Martin Belam
he demo on the 6 o'clock news today, and I did wonder about the legal > implications. > rgds > Sam Mbale > Mpelembe Network > http://www.mpelembe.net > > Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe > > > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the bac

Re: [backstage] News Radar

2009-02-20 Thread Martin Belam
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 s

Re: [backstage] BBC - "a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g (0.25oz) of carbon dioxide"

2009-01-12 Thread Martin Belam
> Is this the worst bit of maths on BBC News so far this year? Figures actually come from Google no? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-search.html - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/ma

Re: [backstage] Linguistic discrimination?

2008-12-08 Thread Martin Belam
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 ar

Re: [backstage] Public Transport APIs

2008-11-19 Thread Martin Belam
Bowyer > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee > - > 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] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Martin Belam
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

Re: [backstage] Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Martin Belam
rnet Censorship! http://www.eff.org >> ~ >> Open-Source Community, and Technology Testbed: http://www.house404.co.uk/ >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please >> visit ht

Re: [backstage] RSS for /complaints, please?

2008-07-17 Thread Martin Belam
ml. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > - > 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: >

Re: [backstage] Film Reviews

2008-06-03 Thread Martin Belam
> 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... - Sent via the backstage.bb

Re: [backstage] "BBC website review: Site failing to act as 'trusted guide"

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Belam
One thing I find naive interesting here is (and I could be wrong because I haven't waded through all of the reports) is that they don't seem to have a benchmark of what other similar sites might expect their figures to be for internal search use versus external search use. Nor do they seem to have

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by a single US citizen

2008-05-01 Thread Martin Belam
> > - > 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/ > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - 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] The future of the internet

2008-05-01 Thread Martin Belam
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 expla

Re: [backstage] iPlayer email updates, RSS

2008-01-31 Thread Martin Belam
I've got a hunch the answer is going to involve the word "Majordomo"... martin - 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.b

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

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Belam
> (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 a

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Gnash] Adobe EULA

2008-01-08 Thread Martin Belam
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 the

Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

2008-01-08 Thread Martin Belam
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 w

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

2007-12-29 Thread Martin Belam
> 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

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-06 Thread Martin Belam
> 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 m -

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Martin Belam
> 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

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Martin Belam
> 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

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread Martin Belam
> 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 e

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-23 Thread Martin Belam
> This is a particular feature of Internet Explorer 7, I find. Google Reader does the same as well -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.h

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Martin Belam
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 musi

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Martin Belam
are on them? On 20/11/2007, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19/11/2007, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music > > for free, forever, at the point of delivery, to anyone, regardle

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Martin Belam
p. 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/ > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. T

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-05 Thread Martin Belam
val from a manager > > probably not all that efficient when all you want to do is send an email out > and go home (or to the pub!) > > - james > > > > -- > > > James Cox, > Internet Consultant > t: 07968 349990 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://i

Re: [backstage] iPhone SDK news

2007-10-18 Thread Martin Belam
ing_list.html > . Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Please email me back if you need any more help. > > > > Brian Butterworth > > www.ukfree.tv > > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - 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] iPlayer usage

2007-10-18 Thread Martin Belam
se > 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/ > > > > > > -- > Please email me back if you need any more help. > > Brian Butterworth > www.ukfree.tv

RE: [backstage] Voting data ideas

2007-09-27 Thread Martin Belam
>> I was in a class of four people in the sixth form that did a Statistics A-Level 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 online votes are to be effectively taken with a pinch of salt, and not

RE: [backstage] Voting data ideas

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Belam
heir day in the sun. But while markets and manipulators invest in research, surveys, psychology, profiles and debriefings from the rising cacophony, it is a curiosity that, quite possibly, the more we listen to what some people say, the less we know about what - or even if - most people think.

[backstage] Voting data ideas

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Belam
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 i

Re: [backstage] Kreta -- was: Re: Introducing Chipwrapper search for UK newspapers

2007-09-02 Thread Martin Belam
Perhaps that is where all my bandwidth went... m On 02/09/07, Richard Smedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: [backstage] Introducing Chipwrapper search for UK newspapers

2007-09-01 Thread Martin Belam
gt; -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Belam > Sent: 30 August 2007 22:12 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] Introducing Chipwrapper search for UK newspapers > > Hi all, I wanted to introduce to the list

Re: [backstage] Introducing Chipwrapper search for UK newspapers

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Belam
stamps, so won't work > with twitterfeed which needs the time stamps to know if an item is new > and/or has been posted previously. > > Any chance you could add this? > > Cheers, > Mario. > > > On 8/30/07, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > &

[backstage] Introducing Chipwrapper search for UK newspapers

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Belam
ng to build it up by hand? I'm going to be in London for most of September and October with my BBC hat back on for a bit, so hopefully I might see/meet some of you at something suitably geeky during the course of that. all the best, martin -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sen

Re: [backstage] A bit late

2007-08-22 Thread Martin Belam
MAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Bowden > Sent: 22 August 2007 09:13 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] A bit late > > > > IIRC a kids version of iPlayer is on the roadmap - with various content > controls to preve

Re: [backstage] Russia forces World Service off FM radio

2007-08-20 Thread Martin Belam
t hold of it m On 20/08/07, oliver wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > And what of the Numbers Stations? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_stations > > > Is it just me who finds those amazingly creapy? I ran across them l

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Belam
#x27;t owned by Bill Gates' company... > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Dave > > - > > 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: &

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City

2007-08-15 Thread Martin Belam
ut 100%. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > R. > > > > > > On 8/15/07, Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> More likely, "Organisers put the turnout at 800..." > > >> > > >> R. > &

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City

2007-08-15 Thread Martin Belam
-off.html > > Dan Lyons is a well known Microsoft shill. > > -- > Regards, > Dave > - > 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: > htt

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City

2007-08-15 Thread Martin Belam
strictions in the iPlayer will make a difference. > > -- > Regards, > Dave > - > 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-arc

Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-08-06 Thread Martin Belam
Indeed most large sites of the scale of the BBC > have had bespoke solutions over the years. > > In the meantime the forum industry has continued to improve their > offering. Next time there's a requirement for a software refresh of the > forum software, then it might just be tha

Re: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

2007-08-02 Thread Martin Belam
> 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

Re: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

2007-07-31 Thread Martin Belam
ttp://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - 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] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-28 Thread Martin Belam
> > Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if > > you open windows. > > -- Adam Heath > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > > unsubscribe, please visit > > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing

Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-27 Thread Martin Belam
w.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > -- > Gary Kirk > - > 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/ > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - 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] iplayer reviewed on mashable.com

2007-07-27 Thread Martin Belam
____ > Simon Cobb > Technical Project Manager, BBC Vision (F&L) > BBC Future Media & Technology > 2507, White City, London W12 7TS > T: 020 875 27968 > > > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - 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] Over 10,000 sign BBC iplayer petition

2007-07-25 Thread Martin Belam
commercial negotiations. The whole point of the BBC is that it's not a commercial entity (at least domestically). Besides, if I don't ask, I won't get; if I do ask, the worst they can do is refuse me. Vijay. -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstag

Re: [backstage] iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-05 Thread Martin Belam
ackstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/ mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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] Worried about your music being pirated?

2007-07-05 Thread Martin Belam
/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - 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 Ofcom complaint raised

2007-06-26 Thread Martin Belam
Both stop working, if you open windows. -- Adam Heath - 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

Re: [backstage] [Fwd: Fwd: Twitter Fever]

2007-04-12 Thread Martin Belam
ssion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, p

Re: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u & me

2007-04-11 Thread Martin Belam
gt; http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > > -- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.0.0/754 - Release > > > Date: 09/04/2007

Re: [backstage] Browser Stats

2007-03-28 Thread Martin Belam
port Firefox is?" every five minutes during meetings here. cheers, martin On 28/03/07, Kim Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you read Martin Belam (hello Martin!) on the methods he used to derive these figures, you'll note that he's extremely thorough in his dat

Re: [backstage] UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming

2007-03-05 Thread Martin Belam
archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.htm

Re: [backstage] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm

2007-03-02 Thread Martin Belam
/www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - 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] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM?

2007-02-28 Thread Martin Belam
ttp://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/200

Re: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM?

2007-02-28 Thread Martin Belam
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 som

Re: [backstage] A couple of things including Arrington

2007-02-23 Thread Martin Belam
ars being a recent example. -- From the North, this is Kirk - 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 Clocks in SVG

2007-02-21 Thread Martin Belam
es/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.ht

Re: [backstage] First BBC Backstage Podcast: DRM and the BBC

2007-02-19 Thread Martin Belam
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/ -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion

Re: [backstage] "platform-agnostic approach to the iPlayer"

2007-02-15 Thread Martin Belam
dition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.39/685 - Release Date: 13/02/2007 22:01 - 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/b

Re: [backstage] First BBC Backstage Podcast: DRM and the BBC

2007-02-15 Thread Martin Belam
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 point my team blagged two or

Re: [backstage] First BBC Backstage Podcast: DRM and the BBC

2007-02-13 Thread Martin Belam
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 ;-) cheers, martin -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net On 13/02/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I'd just like to say t

Re: [backstage] "platform-agnostic approach to the iPlayer"

2007-01-31 Thread Martin Belam
"The Trust has also asked the executive to adopt a platform-agnostic approach to the iPlayer. The original proposal for the service would have meant it was only available to Microsoft users but the Trust's proposal will require them to develop an alternative framework which will allow users of oth

Re: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Martin Belam
net activities - it gives the BBC a huge advantage over other net companies who don't get public money to support their online ventures. Festive wishes Josh -Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Belam Sent: Wednesday, December

Re: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-20 Thread Martin Belam
BC content suppliers rich and make people pay twice for their BBC content? I even wonder what the BBC is for in this digital era... ... ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Belam Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:41 AM To: backstag

Re: [backstage] democracyplayer

2006-12-19 Thread Martin Belam
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 out

Re: [backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread Martin Belam
I know that Martin Belam has done a little work on this ( http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php ) but these results are now a year out of date. Yes, my new report about visitors to Sony's CONNECT store doesn't make such interesting reading - 100% IE & Windo

Re: [backstage] Mozilla interview and Backstage Schwag preview

2006-12-05 Thread Martin Belam
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

Re: (freeing) content is king (was Re: [backstage] Psiphon & Next Gen content)

2006-11-29 Thread Martin Belam
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 :-) On 29/11/06, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Ian Forrester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri

Re: [backstage] Psiphon

2006-11-28 Thread Martin Belam
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, e

Re: [backstage] Psiphon

2006-11-27 Thread Martin Belam
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 :-) On 27/11/06, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So it looks like some kind of GPL tunnell

Re: [backstage] AGH! Cruddy BBC website

2006-11-14 Thread Martin Belam
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

Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Martin Belam
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 sort

Re: [backstage] Newssniffer - BBC News site monitoring

2006-10-27 Thread Martin Belam
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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] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-20 Thread Martin Belam
>> Is there any chance this could have 5 days like the url suggests?>> Are there any plans to include the full 5-day forecasts in the feed?I'm pretty sure the key phrase in Kathryn's opening email was "(Met Office willing)" :-(martinOn 18/10/06, Michael Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: also th

Re: [backstage] Last played songs?

2006-05-18 Thread Martin Belam
> 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

RE: [backstage] Weather feeds

2005-11-16 Thread Martin Belam
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dogsbody Sent: Tue 15/11/

RE: [backstage] Backstage - Stagnant

2005-10-26 Thread Martin Belam
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

RE: [backstage] breaking news alerts

2005-09-07 Thread Martin Belam
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 ou

RE: [backstage] Test

2005-08-16 Thread Martin Belam
005 4:12 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Test On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:51:03 +0100 "Martin Belam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know there have been some issues with the Majordomo servers, and > that some work is planned on them, but I'm not a

RE: [backstage] Test

2005-08-16 Thread Martin Belam
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 Martin Belam, Senior Development Producer, BBC New Media & Technology -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail