Hi Neil
Thanks for your suggestion, it's obviously a no brainer.
We've been working on a BBC jobs RSS feed for the last couple of weeks.
We've now progressed to the stage of a test feed working internally and
should have something to show the list very very soon indeed. Thanks for
badgering.
Ta
Are we allowed to talk about iMP here ?
Sure.
We can also pass on any specific queries to the iMP team if you're on
the trial.
There's also quite a lengthy thread on one of our message boards with
contributions from the iMP trial team.
Back on topic...
Heads up for backstage list.
The iMP message board is now live at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbimp/
It launches formally on Monday.
Priya Prakash from the project is one of the board's hosts.
Ta
Jem
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For some reason we've allowed Ben Metcalfe, our lovely colleague, out in
public again to speak at a Web 2.0 conference in Brighton.
http://www.clearleft.com/training/dconstruct.php
When Ben has recovered from seeing the sea again:
On 11/14/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any chance of a heads up on upcoming talks about web2 /general web
stuff ? I havent really found a great source and it might
be nice to
go to some of these :)
I'm sure you're subscribed but in case not..NTK's Event Queue is good
for this
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Dear all
In case you've not seen.
Jem, backstage.bbc.co.uk
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Hi Backstage list
This is a favour.
The BBC is looking for people to help take part in a session at a
conference we are hosting on May 3rd. The only criteria to take part are
that you are over 16, talkative, a passionate user of digital media
(sorry we here at the the BBC love that phrase) and
Hi Backstage list
This is a favour.
What I actually meant of course was can I ask you a favour ?
Oops.
Thanks
Jem, backstage.bbc.co.uk
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Just wondering if there is a plan for promotion Jem? Seems a shame to keep
it hidden.
You're right. duly chastized.
Will fix this.
Jem, bbc.co.uk
Hi Dave
I'm sure Tom L will be on later to reveal more but yep, the online BBC
programme catalogue is going to be released/announced tomorrow.
Jem, bbc.co.uk
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Sent: 05 April 2006 16:07
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Hi Backstage list
This is a favour.
The BBC is looking for people to help take part in a session
at a conference we are hosting on May 3rd. The only
Title: RE: [backstage] BBC Jobs in Radio and Music Interactive
Hi Aj
7D represents the salary range and terms and conditions for the job. D represents Days. Some jobs are H for Hours.
BBC job grades are numerical and like Spinal Tap go up to 11 (except confusingly the most senior BBC jobs
Dear all
Thanks for your emails alerting to this issue both on list and off list.
I'm doing some digging behind the scenes and will get back to the list
asap clarifying the issues raised. Hopefully later this afternoon.
Thanks
Jem, backstage.bbc.co.uk
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circulated to the list yesterday...
http://bbcmodules.menti.net/
cheers
Jem Stone, backstage.bbc.co.uk
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Dear all
suitably poked
We'll be announcing the winners/runners up on the site this Wednesday.
Apologies for the delay.
http://open.bbc.co.uk/reboot/blog/2006/07/reboot_judging_and_sorry_for_t
.html
Thanks
Jem
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Dear all
Obviously its already been blogged but I'd just like to let the list
know that Backstage finally has a new Senior Producer. We're ummed and
aahed for what seemed like forever but I'm now delighted that veteran of
the list, Mr Geek Dinner and UK Barcamp co-organiser: Ian Forrester has
- but what they have cracked though is making it really easy to use/well
integrated into the service.. (the video tutorial, adding the tab in
organise, adding the word map at the bottom of photos next to comments,
views etc if you've tagged it. I started doing it without even thinking.
- the map,
Hi Davy
One of the first things that Matthew and Ian will be looking after in
the first week or so is clearing
the backlog of submitted prototypes and ideas.
Anyway. Thanks Davy for this... For everyone else It's a really quick
and neat use of the feeds for The Time When API (share stories of
Steve Hermann (who is the Editor of BBC News Interactive) has just
blogged this response to the Newssniffer app.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/sniffing_out_edits.html
He goes into a fair bit of detail outlining the revision/iterative
changes to BBC News stories that the
Haven't played it myself but Yahoo and O Reilly have had this out for a
couple of years now.
The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech
products, concepts, and trends
Put your (fantasy) money where your mouth is by buying stock in the
technologies you believe will be popular
Gordo
Jimbo was there. I didn't speak to him
Whilst he was in the UK he did speak to Simon Mayo on Five Live.
It's a long interview. 25 mins...
Mayo discusses how his children edited his entry. There's a
transcript/write up here
It's impossible to have a conversation. There are just 5 gazillion posts
all at the same level.
For the BBC licence fee debate a conversation is necessary. And no one
else can really facilitate that discussion (or wants to).
Apparently the BBC doesn't either.
Nic
There are numerous
Kevin Hinde, my News colleague and a fellow poster to this list has just
written a number of answers to common queries about our use of
audio/video on bbc.co.uk over at the BBC Editors' blog
specifically
Why don't you use Flash ?
And that old chestnut...
Why don't you use open standards ?
For those following the DRM/Player thread on this list will want to
know that the BBC Trust this morning reached provisional conclusions on
BBC on-demand proposals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press-releases/31-01-2007.html
The headline is that
Our (BBC Trust) view is that the BBC's new
]Those watching the DRM debate will be interested to see the latest music
industry developments which will presumably set the precedent for download
video bus models.
Last week's Music Week (the weekly UK music industry trade paper) led with the
headline reporting from Midem (the annual
The cost of the BBC's On Demand proposals (including the iPlayer) are in the
public domain anyway as part of our (BBC's) submission to the BBC Trust and the
the resulting Public Value Assessment document.
Its worth a look.
In section 8
The proposals will cost the BBC an additional £131m
Dear all
Can I remind everyone that this is a public mailing list that is
archived and searchable.
Please keep civil to everyone. Yes even the ones that that harp on
about DRM noon and night ;)
Thanks
Jem
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Yes even the ones that that harp on
about DRM noon and night ;)
Actually the DRM discussions in recent weeks have been incredibly
stimulating and provocative and much appreciated inside BBC towers and I
hope for other subscribers. (I always knew I shouldn't try and make weak
jokes on
Also the vecosys post also refers to this UK start up that is using UK
traffic data and Microsoft's Virtual Earth.
http://www.dotnetsolutions.ltd.uk/evidence/web20/trafficeye/
A Microsoft Live! Local Web 2.0 Mash-up that combines real time traffic
information with a rich, interactive map allowing
Matthew Somerville has done some more fantastic tweaks and pokes with
the BBC News headline/front page archive that he's been running for
quite a while now.
There's a selection of tag clouds weighted by use of keywords in the
story, the headline and just the main headline. Its for Feb 07.
Andy
What a great idea.
This immediately made me think of NPR who have a simple books page which
aggregates their talk shows, highlighting all book related audio
reviews, readings, interviews from across a vareity of sources in the
preceding week/month (and has tie-ups with amazon)
Martin (who might be on here later) put this article together which
could also be of interest.
http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php
before I knew it I was involved in a lengthy statistical analysis of
the browsers and operating systems that request the BBC homepage at
The DRM free songs are going to be more expensive I notice
$1.29 a song as opposed to 99c.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html
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Just to keep Auntie on her toes, another company has
decided to not bother with wasteful DRM:
Video content has developed pretty differently from music ... I
wouldn't hold the two in parallel right now, [Steve Jobs] said.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2048507,00.html
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For those of you haven't seen it; this is a timeline of the early (pre 2000)
infrastructure history of bbc.co.uk
In Jan 89 I registered with the DDN NIC and got a Class B address for the
whole BBC on the pretext of linking all BBC sites into one network and then the
Internet (but a dream then)
When i first started at the BBC, biscuits including posh shortbreads and
bourbons were quite commonplace at meetings.
Greg Dyke put a stop to all that. In White City, most of us get our biscuits
from Tesco Metro on the corner.
I did have a nice pizza slice after a meeting yesterday though.
Ian Betteridge has critiqued the 5 claims made by http://www.freethebbc.info/ at
http://www.technovia.co.uk/?p=1180
He concludes his post with
Im against DRM - Im an associate member of the Free Software Foundation,
avoid closed formats, and contribute every month to the Open Rights Group. I
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Ian Betteridge has critiqued the 5 claims made by http://www.freethebbc.info/ at
http://www.technovia.co.uk/?p=1180
He
How about a letter supporting the efforts of the BBC to educate
rights holders about the future of media?
Is there any evidence that there _are_ any such efforts that we can
support?
Well backstage is quite a good place to start.
Yesterday the Cabinet Officde published a paper; The
Dear all
Before we all get too stuck into DRMagain.
Can i just extend my thanks to Matt and Tom for the past weekend.
I sat Matt yesterday. He was exhausted. He didn't even mind me teasing him
about his appalling Djing.
Ian was so tired he was watching Jekyll to relax.
Hack Day was an
The TV festival runs from Friday PM (the MacTaggart lecture is traditionally on
Friday night. This year its Jeremy Paxman).
All day Saturday and until mid afternoon Sunday.
As part of the Unfest you get tickets to the TV fest Saturday night bash/dinner
and the traditional TV fest events on
Hi Vijay
Thanks for uploading that. It will get to the BBC FOI site soon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/docs/responses_bbc.shtml
There are other FOI requests relating to the iPlayer there too. The BBC seems
to receive many FOI queries based around its web/digital activity ;)
Hi Graeme
Get in touch with me off list and we can sort this out.
thanks
Jem Stone.
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Subject: RE: Uploading the BBC programme
Is anyone aware of any reason why they do not link directly to the story
on the relevant site instead?
The journalists working on the relevant news story pick the related link to
publish alongside their piece. However they use a tool to help them in this
task where stories are suggested to
, but this mailing list is just becoming a BBC
Bashing list.
From time to time there has been (mostly around iPlayer) some strong
criticism of how the BBC develops products. That's good.
When Tom L once kicked off this list, in his first post/introduction he
said that the Noise *is* the
I don't mean to sound snide, but I'd struggle to point to a single
online project where I could say there, the BBC are leading the way..
Actually the BBC once did a promo advert with John Cleese mimicing the Life
of Brian's what have the romans ever given us. (its got space invaders in the
Do you mean this ?
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Subject: RE: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview
I'm unsure how this bussiness model
Sorry I mean this
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,,2200816,00.html
From: Jeremy Stone
Sent: 31 October 2007 13:47
To: 'backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk'
Subject: RE: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview
Do you mean
Whether it was deliberately misleading I couldn't say. I suppose my opinion
will
depend on whether he corrects himself or lets the misunderstanding stand. It
was certainly a derogatory remark to make about the size and implied
importance/relevance of the linux community.
Ashley now
Am I on the right list ?
We seem to have ended up discussing the merits, bugs, inner workings of
a prototype.
Whatever next !
could be used ...)
Hi, Rob - this is neat, though not entirely sure that it's working
entirely as you might want...
Ashley Highfield has written a blog post explaining how kangaroo
complements iPlayer here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/iplayer_and_kangaroo_1.ht
ml
it is much better for the BBC, ITV and C4 to have a say in a
distribution service rather than leave it just to the likes of Joost
James Cridland of this parish has also written a blog post here with a
screenshot of it running on Ubuntu.
http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/12/12/iplayer-on-gnulinux/
BBC staffers still recovering from shock of near universal response of
people now saying. iPlayer..its quite good. I might use
Yet again. Another example of the BBC being in hock to Gates and the
evil oh hang on a minute.
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Subject: [backstage] BBC
no better
than the BBC executives who are routinely criticized on this list.
blimey! stop damning us with faint praise Dave.
the transcript and audio have just been uploaded.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/thefuture/transcript_fry.shtml
video goes out on bbc parliament and then iplayer after that on sat 9pm.
fry's point about downloading iPlayer files is actually a sideshow to (another)
lengthy spirited defence of the licence
don't shoot the messenger!
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iPlayer is secure. It's anything but secure
Jeremy Stone
A few interesting points picked out by the guardian ;)
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A few interesting
Sorry fellas.
Can we have this discussion somewhere else ?
This makes life harder for the iPlayer team who will have to look again at what
they're doing.
this makes life harder for the backstage team who want this list to carry on as
unmoderated.
We know this stuff is going but discussion and
R
.
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mp4 when badly setup glitches horribly on slower machines. and it
Oh its just like the old days :)
Jem Stone
Communities Executive | BBC Audio and Music
O7966 551242 | twitter: @jemstone | jem.stone [at] bbc.co.uk.
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Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer for Apple TV
On 2 Feb 2010, at 22:14, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
Thanks,
Sorry to spam list ! Hope this is relevant:
Thought list might be interested to know that tomorrow lunchtime; George
Wright; the BBC's Head of Prototyping will be answering questions for an hour
via Twitter about his teams' work building demos, services and prototypes for
the BBC's Research
From the iPlayer FAQs
BBC Nations and Local Radio live streams will feature Paralympics coverage and
therefore will be unavailable to international audiences (this applies to all
Nations and Local Radio stations except Radio Cymru which remains available
internationally live and on-demand).
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