Re: [backstage] BBC Archiver

I can't stand the new News page design - maybe it will grow on me? It's all cluttered with a weird empty column in the middle of the page for stories. Sorry, Davy

Re: [backstage] BBC Archiver

Glad someone likes it :-) People have being saying to me it looks unfinished, is cluttered, slow to navigate, 'pants', colours don't contrast well, 'pretty bad'. Just passing on feedback - don't shoot me... I'll give it time... Maybe I am holding it wrong... Cheers, Davy Mitchell

Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

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Re: [backstage] co-branded Miro players

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

Just tried watching Hood in full screen flash - far too jerky. No download option this week either, a very very clunky interface, no subscription feature, DRM times out wrongly (too early)... Is this supposed to launch on Christmas day? Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http

Re: [backstage] Wii News Channel

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

Hope Podcasts of the content have been started to circumvent this :-) -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please

Re: [backstage] feeds with icons or pictures?

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[backstage] Web Service For Terror Alert Level?

Is there an official Web Service for the Terror Alert Level? Be nice if the BBC supplied it :-) Thanks, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Web Service For Terror Alert Level?

to parse it out from there... http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/current-threat-level/ J On 4/7/07 08:47, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an official Web Service for the Terror Alert Level? Be nice if the BBC supplied it :-) Thanks, Davy - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] DRM does not work... what next?

partly to feel like 'winning' or beating the system. Good old greed which you won't ever get rid of with any technology :-) Yours cynically, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - Sent

Re: [backstage] Davy M - Mood News?

://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/moodnews/mn-topic-faith-morals.html Might work with a bit less yellow :-) Cheers, Davy Mitchell -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] The real backstage story?

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Re: [backstage] new prototype, geoRss feeds for travel data

You're waiting too eh? :-) Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Tube on Twitter

Mornington Crescent. -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 on Twitter

More Twitter nonsense :-) Been making it talk... http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_02_17.html#e143 Davy http://twitter.com/daftspaniel -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified

[backstage] Mood News has moved

Latedecember has become a .co.uk so the new address is http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/moodnews/ Cheers, Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites

Re: [backstage] Hosting (Slightly OT)

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions on and off list. Cheers, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog Will Be Reborn At - http://www.latedecember.co.uk - soon - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01

[backstage] Hosting (Slightly OT)

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. Any suggestions? Cheers, Davy Mitchell - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe

Re: [backstage] Joost anyone?

On 1/29/07, Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that Libby, much appreciated. Off to play with my new toys now ;-) Media wise, Scouta.com is interesting too. Beta is private invites but blog has some details. Cheers Davy Mitchell - Sent via

[backstage] Video Encoder

and not found anything practical. Free or very close to it preferably. Thanks, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.com/sites/personal/davy/ Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - Sent via

Re: [backstage] The Time When - new feeds!

Good to see Mathew and Ian taking up their posts :-) On 9/2/06, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/memories.html I submitted this prototype to the website. Is it just stuck in the Q or lost in the recent crash? Cheers Davy Mitchell Mood News

Re: [backstage] The Time When - new feeds!

On 8/12/06, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/memories.html Sorry for taking so long to reply to this thread. Thanks to Gordon, Jonathan and Barry for the feedback. The Mood Memories page now has the colour key present. The main Mood News page

Re: [backstage] Flickr releases Geotagging for photos

Looking forward to news.bbc.co.uk having tagging :-) Especially since sub-categories were dropped recently. Cheers, Davy -- Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - Sent via

Re: [backstage] The Time When - new feeds!

On 8/11/06, Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/memo_4_new.html Thanks Kim. One quick hack later http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/memories.html :-) Cheers, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com/sites/personal/davy/ - Sent

Re: [backstage] Funny Story

I see now - its a flash plugin which I don't have installed :-) Still begs the question why a 2004 story is still in the RSS feed? Cheers, Davy On 6/30/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Davy Mitchell wrote: Looks a bit broken? What's wrong with it? -- From the North, this is Kirk

[backstage] Funny Story

I keep noticing this story in the RSS used by Mood News - been there for months... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4121411.stm Looks a bit broken? :-) Davy -- Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites

Re: [backstage] New Web Feeds for press, jobs, homepage, blogs

BTW it is really annoying not being able to link directly to a photo on that page :-) Cheers, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group

[backstage] Podcast for Mood News - Good News

Hi Folks, 'Good' podcast now available at: http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/goodpodcast.xml Thanks Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion

[backstage] Mood News - Good News

: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=mood+news Take care, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http

[backstage] Mood News on Values Shacker

with it. Thanks, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Google homepage module

Another me too post :-) Mood News for your Google homepage. In true Google fashion, it is very simple! http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/moodnewsghm.xml Beware the cache... Cheers, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http

[backstage] Go Digital

? :-) Thanks, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - 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] Mood News Update and an Idea

interesting experiment to make it, say, support a football team or political party and spin the news according to the bias. Oh well off to squish some bugs! Cheers, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews

[backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea

:-) Thanks, Davy Mitchell Mood News - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html

[backstage] From Prototype to what?

. Or am I way off here? :-) Thanks, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.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

[backstage] Mood News Podcast

to the scoring system. Current tough word is 'aid' - filter on that and you will see some incorrect ratings :-) Thanks, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01

[backstage] Mood News 4

is much slower to respond with the filter. FF is fine and Opera is really quick. Hopefully IE7 might improve javascript/DOM performance though the beta looks pretty poor. Thanks, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please

Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories

at updating the XML with more data such as supplying the colour data used on the web page instead of the raw score. If 2 or 3 of these feeds are combined. well the mind boggles! Off bug squishing... See you, Davy -- Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via

Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories

but never thought of anything quite so detailed. How about an XML with the URL as GUID plus the data (rating, colour etc) ? Would it need a basic schema structure? Could lead to some very interesting client applications! Thanks, Davy -- Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via

[backstage] 3D?

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Re: [backstage] RSS App test

the window frame? Theres some good tips at: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/12/08/swing.html Good stuff - I could do with a ticker app :-) Cheers, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http

Re: [backstage] Mood News 3

(or bad or Evil or whatever) Indeed, Mood News offers one perspective of the news that is hopefully useful and interesting. Now back to my neutral Python... :-) Thanks again, Davy Mitchell - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Mood News 2

almost essential in an application like this. I'd like the Good/Bad/Neutral categories only used for summaries and have the stories marked by an appropriate shade. Well better get to work on all of this - thanks again everyone. Cheers, Davy Mitchell http://www.latedecember.com - Sent via