Re: [backstage] Google Wave
Luf Ball wrote: I would like a Google Wave invite. I would like a pony. -- http://billyabbott.co.uk You say tomato, I say EMACS - 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] Encryption of HD by the BBC - cont ...
Mo McRoberts wrote: I might be being dim, but I can’t see an angle to this where the rights holders actually get what they want (anything which even impedes pirates) without fundamentally altering the conceptual landscape of free-to-air receiving equipment in the UK. I've always assumed that they don't want to impede the pirates, but instead want a way to pursue them legally and then make an extra profit. --billy -- http://billyabbott.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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Tim Dobson wrote: I suspect that specialist areas of journalism will remain - sailing magazines for instance won't stop employing people to write about new yachts and dinghies, but I suspect some of the more general publications will need to adapt their business model or suffer consequences... I think that niche journalism is one of the first places to suffer. The most common blog type that I see (after the random daily diary) is the niche blog, with people writing about the small areas that they know a lot about - the barrier to entry has lowered and as such those who are experts in their field now no longer need to submit to the editorial process of the special interest magazines but can just publish their own material online whenever they want. The more general print magazines should do a bit better, if anything, because they remove the effort of the individual having to look around and find 'high quality' pieces of writing from a variety of sources, doing that collation and selection for them. --billy -- http://billyabbott.co.uk Transvestite ninjas - how did I not see that coming? - 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 the best video experience online?
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Jim Tonge wrote: Oh, while I'm on a roll, any plans for a Wii/PS3-friendly interface ? la Youtube for Television? iPlayer with Wii-specific UI has existed for ages - or am I missing the point about Youtube for TV here? Sorry, was too busy looking for my accented ' ? '. Sorry, was too busy looking for my accented ' ? '. I meant any plans for an *official* Wii/PS3-friendly interface - the WiiPlayer is great, yes, but not publicised or redirected from the iPlayer pages. I thought there the interfaces were already set up for both PS3 and wii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/cy/where_to_get_iplayer (click on Games Consoles) mentions both by name and I have a vague recollection (although not one that google is helping me prove) that specific versions for each have been released. I've not turned my wii on for a while, but thought that last time I was demoing it to someone (which I seem to do more than actually use it) that the iPlayer site was adjusted for it. --billy -- http://billyabbott.co.uk Are you on a day pass from Satan? - 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] Android UK launch set for Tuesday
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Ian Forrester wrote: Once again, a reason for the non-geeks to buy the Dream/G1/1st Gphone? Or maybe there isn't one and its truly a phone for geeks and geeks alone? As yet, as far as I can see, it is a phone for geeks alone. However, I suspect that this could well be the initial intention as the early adopters will also be those most likely to develop for the platform, and the wodge of cash being offered in competitions (if my memories of Open Tech aren't as hazy as I think they are) can only help. Once you've got your geeky posse, and the occasional company understanding that this is happening, on board, the applications flow, the platform becomes useful and the non-geeks come running to get their nice, free, open apps that don't come through the iTunes store. Maybe. All of it without much effort from google to actually build the killer-apps. --billy -- http://billyabbott.co.uk When you say things like that, do you actually believe other people know what you mean? - 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] cool visualisation thing for text
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Alia Sheikh wrote: So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ Not all that late, as far as I can see - nothing particularly new (I have a backstage tag cloud tshirt somewhere...) but a nice and simple way of playing with clouds. Flickr has been filling up with various screengrabs for the last week or so, with some vaguely interesting ones popping up from time to time: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=allq=wordlem=text Sticking the complete text of books seems to be the current fad, which produces occasionally interesting, but generally pretty things. I ran my del.icio.us tags through it and it worryingly accurately described my brain (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cowfish/2583141053/). It's all rather pretty and has me wondering if I should do unspeakable things with scheduling data. Yes, you should. --billy -- http://billyabbott.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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Video recordings of the House of Commons on TheyWorkForYou.com
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Andy wrote: Just tried it out. I did notice the text from Hansard was not actually the same as what was said, is this common? As it says in the bullet points to the right of the video and text: Hansard is not a verbatim transcript, so spoken words might differ slightly from the printed version. Making things more formal or more followable than when the MPs are talking over each other seems to be very normal. --billy - 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 alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
I also had a lot of success in getting my Wii to be reliable by playing around with which wireless channel was being used. It sounded unlikely to me but seems to have worked. There's a load of pages out on the web about tweaking the settings to get them to work nicely. --billy On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Chris Johnson wrote: That's most likely down to the signal strength of the relatively cheap wireless chip inside the Wii. The distance between the console and the wireless access point will really make a difference to how well the iPlayer streams. Chris On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great idea, finally got around to trying it out. I do seem to have an issue with the video streaming - on the Wii it keeps stopping and starting, while watching the same programme on my MacBook Pro works fine without any stuttering at all.. the two devices share the same Wifi connection, so not sure what the difference is? Cheers, Mario. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the iPlayer on the Wii quite a lot recently and felt the interface could be improved to make navigation easier on the Wii's low resolution. Because of this, I've created an alternative interface that integrates better with the Wii UI and hopefully improves usability. To use it just point your Wii browser at: http://defaced.co.uk/wiiplayer/ More information and screenshots can be found here: http://defaced.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/28/wiiplayer-the-better-way-to-view-the-bbc-iplayer/ There are still a few rough edges here and there but I think it works well overall. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Chris - 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 alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Phil Wilson wrote: Billy Abbott wrote: I also had a lot of success in getting my Wii to be reliable by playing around with which wireless channel was being used. It sounded unlikely to me but seems to have worked. There's a load of pages out on the web about tweaking the settings to get them to work nicely. Any pointers? I can't find the article I read when I fixed it, but Nintendo mention that channels 1 and 11 are good as they don't overlap with other channel. There's a bunch of other stuff from them on this page as well: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/onlineWirelessRouterTroubleshooting.jsp --billy - 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 in Wii
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Andy wrote: In case anyone hasn't seen the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7338344.stm Does anyone know if the BBC have something exclusive going with Nintendo or if there is a technical reason why this wouldn't work with the PS3? As far as I know the PS3 only supports flash 7 (for similar reasons to the wii I'd guess) so it could well be a candidate for being able to easily use this as well. I don't have a ps3, but my office mate is still searching for reasons why it's better than my xbox :) --billy -- http://billyabbott.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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] iPlayer in Wii
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Dave Crossland wrote: On 09/04/2008, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case anyone hasn't seen the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7338344.stm Discuss. I believe you can install GNU+Linux on a Wii, and then you can use the MPEG4 streams to watch iPlayer content with free software on a Wii. Currently, as far as I'm aware, there is no way to install anything unless you have a modded Wii. There's work on a LiveCD, but I think that's for modded ones as well (http://www.wiili.org has a bunch of details). I would be very happy to be proved wrong. --billy -- Billy Abbott http://billyabbott.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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] iPlayer in Wii
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Andy wrote: In case anyone hasn't seen the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7338344.stm My officemate just asked me if it worked on the PS3, as it also runs flash 7. I suspect the answer is no, but that shouldn't be much work on the beeb's side. The thing that caught my eye is the last paragraph in Anthony Rose's blog post (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/04/bbc_iplayer_on_wii.html) As iPlayer usage on Wii takes off, we'll consider creating an optimised version of the iPlayer for Wii. Hopefully this won.t require people to shell out for the Internet Channel, and which will provide an optimized browsing and playback experience, perhaps even as a dedicated BBC iPlayer channel on Wii. The BBC building a Wii specific app for the iPlayer? I don't know of anyone other than Nintendo who has any channels released at the moment, so this could be a rather good thing in general. --billy - 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] HD-DVD / Blu Ray
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard P Edwards wrote: I would love to know who it was that decided to make the two systems incompatible.. I found the Wikipedia pages on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD quite informative when I was trying to find out the answer to the same question a couple of weeks back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-DVD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_definition_optical_disc_format_war The train of events on pages pretty much matches up, which makes me think it might be vaguely reliable :) --billy - 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] Muddy Boots on Backstage
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Dave Crossland wrote: On 27/11/2007, Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is naieve to think that a choice of providers will have identical functionality. I wasn't clear - I meant common open APIs, ie. the same API with different vendors behind it. That way they will offer very similar levels of functionality, with the choice being based on how good they run. Sure, and I'm suggesting that a common API will be a base that each gatekeeper will add bespoke features too. I'll be surprised if similar services offered with a common open API from Google and Yahoo and Microsoft do not have any specialist features to differentiate them. That is the obvious point that somehow flew straight over my head. Now I don't like common APIs as much. Boo. Freedom means more than a choice of lords. You can happily run your own things and then be your own lord, ...but not if the gatekeepers continue to offer software to the public without making the source code to that software public. In order to get the gatekeepers to offer that software they need to have an incentive to do so. Apart from idealistic ones who are doing it for the reason of wanting the software to be free, I don't currently see what the incentive is for the others. While I'd like to be able to get the software (so that anyone can run their own service and also have the potential to grab the software and run their own service if their provider goes tits up) I can understand why people don't give it out for free. Pleae let me know if I am missing a reason why people should, outside of idealogical reasons. --billy -- Hey, it's our constitutional right to complain about the products we have willingly purchased without any forethought of consequences. Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Dave Crossland wrote: On 27/11/2007, Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Noah Slater wrote: but what happens when That's the reason why having open APIs that multiple sites conform to strikes me as an excellent idea - if your provider of choice does up and go away you can just switch the URL to another and off you go. It is naieve to think that a choice of providers will have identical functionality. They might be _similar_ overall, and have some basic functions that are exactly the same... But the primary reason to pick one API over another is the functions they offer that are unique. I wasn't clear - I meant common open APIs, ie. the same API with different vendors behind it. That way they will offer very similar levels of functionality, with the choice being based on how good they run. Freedom means more than a choice of lords. You can happily run your own things and then be your own lord, but that doesn't mean that everyone wants to. We might as well let those who don't want to get the most reliable service they can. --billy -- #Hotdog, Jumping Frog, http://www.cabq.gov Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
