Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-12-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
to play in. But MPs have to work on things as a whole, not take populist decisions. Oh right. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah Slater Sent: 28 November 2007 22:06 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-29 Thread Brian Butterworth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/nov/29/it.internet On 29/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's just so bloody facetious. Welcome to teh

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 28/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whilst were are at it, every room in the Houses of Parliament should be on CCTV, transmitted online 24 hours a day. And Number 10. And all the Ministry's. This is _so_ unlikely, because a lot of politicians are (and I mean this in a

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Billy Abbott
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

RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Deirdre Harvey
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra It was only one idea, I'm sure that there are others. who knows, one of them might even including resurrecting the noble art of journalism

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Jolly
Deirdre Harvey wrote: So can you give us any indication of when the technologists will have completed the prototype of the journalist that doesn't need food or shelter? Well, someone here at BBC RD presented a (tongue-in-cheek) design for an android journalist at an internal new

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Jolly
Billy Abbott wrote: 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

RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread zen16083
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra It was only one idea, I'm sure that there are others. who knows, one of them might even including resurrecting the noble art

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Richard Lockwood
It was only one idea, I'm sure that there are others. who knows, one of them might even including resurrecting the noble art of journalism as a public service rather than to make money. So can you give us any indication of when the technologists will have completed the prototype of the

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Richard Lockwood
Journalists in terms of national newspapers and national broadcasters aren't needed in modern society. We could easily and happily do without them. Really? Why's that then? Rich.

RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Deirdre Harvey
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 November 2007 12:11 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage Journalists in terms

RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Darren Stephens
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Lockwood Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:12 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage It was only one idea, I'm sure that there are others. who knows, one of them might even including resurrecting the noble art

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread vijay chopra
On 28/11/2007, Deirdre Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- ** So can you give us any indication of when the technologists will have completed the prototype of the journalist that doesn't need food or shelter? I believe that it's called the professional

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread vijay chopra
On 28/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote So can you give us any indication of when the technologists will have completed the prototype of the journalist that doesn't need food or shelter? Apparently it's already with us. It's called a 'blogger. Can't generally write for

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 28/11/2007, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/11/2007, Deirdre Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, where I've referred to Free in the context of this discussion I have generally meant libre, not gratis. Why should people who do important jobs in the

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Sean DALY
On the subject of citizen journalists, if I could generalize, I'd say it's quite true that we work for free and have to support ourselves by other means. Yet we feel that some stories should be covered that both the mainstream press and the specialised press cover superficially, or not at all, or

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Noah Slater
On 28/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would start by constructing Acts of Parliament by Wiki for a start. ROFLCOPTOR!!!1 -- Noah Slater http://www.bytesexual.org/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. - R.

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 28/11/2007, Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the subject of citizen journalists, if I could generalize, I'd say it's quite true that we work for free and have to support ourselves by other means. Yet we feel that some stories should be covered that both the mainstream press and the

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

2007-11-28 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 28/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Noah Slater
On 28/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's just so bloody facetious. Welcome to teh intrawebs: serious business. Whilst were are at it, every room in the Houses of Parliament should be on CCTV, transmitted online 24 hours a day. And Number 10. And all the Ministry's.

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 29/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's just so bloody facetious. Welcome to teh intrawebs: serious business. Whilst were are at it, every room in the Houses of Parliament should be on CCTV, transmitted online

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are Dave Crossland in a different hat, and I claim my five pounds. We are different people; that £5 belongs to me. -- Regards,Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Lockwood
You are Dave Crossland in a different hat, and I claim my five pounds. We are different people; that £5 belongs to me. Hmm. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... :-) Rich.

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Dave Crossland
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

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Sparks
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 09:26:51 Dave Crossland wrote: On 27/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are Dave Crossland in a different hat, and I claim my five pounds. We are different people; that £5 belongs to me. I've met both Noah and Dave and can confirm this :-)

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 27/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are Dave Crossland in a different hat, and I claim my five pounds. We are different people; that £5 belongs to me. -- Regards,Dave I can confirm that these are real people,

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. Banging on and on and on and on about the same tired, laboured point is wrong - and simply blindly quoting Richard Stallman doesn't make it any more likely to have people agree with your narrow viewpoint. You are Dave Crossland in

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Smedley
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 08:52 +, Michael Sparks wrote: I'd assumed that people would understand the concept of analogy and meme. A generation brought up on Reithian values would, but now it's all East Enders, and other reality shows :^/ - Richard - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Lockwood
No. Banging on and on and on and on about the same tired, laboured point is wrong - and simply blindly quoting Richard Stallman doesn't make it any more likely to have people agree with your narrow viewpoint. You are Dave Crossland in a different hat, and I claim my five pounds.

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Fearghas McKay
Noah On 27 Nov 2007, at 10:57, Noah Slater wrote: To which I have two suggestions: 1) Leave the /discussion/ list you're on. 2) Move to the next message, trash the message and move on. 3) Filter all email with freedom in the body into /dev/null and be done with it. My fourth suggestion

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27/11/2007, Fearghas McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My fourth suggestion would be that perhaps the discussion you want to have is not on topic for a list. As such continuing the discussion you want to have may be off topic for most list members. On this list the noise is the signal and you

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27/11/2007, Fearghas McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My fourth suggestion would be that perhaps the discussion you want to have is not on topic for a list. As such continuing the discussion you want to have may be off topic for most list members. As to whether this list is an advocacy list

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Lockwood
My fourth suggestion would be that perhaps the discussion you want to have is not on topic for a list. As such continuing the discussion you want to have may be off topic for most list members. On this list the noise is the signal and you are invited to use filters. Noise. Note noise.

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Rhys Jones
On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...you can minimise false positive terms by running the copy through several different flavours of term extractor, and only using terms thrown up by x or more of them (where x depends on your appetite for false positives vs false

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27/11/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26 November 2007 20:20:30 Dave Crossland wrote: That's the point - using web APIs is giving up your software freedom, because you are getting someone else to do your computation; you have no way of studying, understanding, or

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On this list the noise is the signal and you are invited to use filters. Noise. Note noise. Not Shouting. I THINK WE ARE HAVING A JOLLY OLD TIME DEBATING THE MERITS OF SOFTWARE FREEDOM, AND THAT THERE WILL NEVER BE AN END TO IT IS

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread robl
. Or just change the post title and start a new post : Free Software Nonsense was (Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage) That way this thread about MuddyBoots is actually useful to anyone who wants to find out about it and anybody who wants to talk about Free Software Nonsense can do

RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage On 27/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On this list the noise is the signal and you are invited to use filters. Noise. Note noise. Not Shouting. I THINK WE ARE HAVING A JOLLY OLD TIME DEBATING THE MERITS OF SOFTWARE FREEDOM

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread vijay chopra
On 27/11/2007, Nick Reynolds-AMi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me play devil's advocate for a moment. Making more things free and open only benefits a small group of technologists who are clever enough to know how to use the results. I see no problem with this, in fact it's a good thing, it

RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of vijay chopra Sent: Tue 11/27/2007 4:13 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage On 27/11/2007, Nick Reynolds-AMi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me play devil's advocate

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Billy Abbott
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

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Dave Crossland
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

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 27/11/2007, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27/11/2007, Nick Reynolds-AMi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me play devil's advocate for a moment. Making more things free and open only benefits a small group of technologists who are clever enough to know how to use the

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 27/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Lockwood
Nutritionists and Dietitians are just artisans of couse, whereas we programmers are computer scientists, no? Dietitians have real courses of study, and qualifications from respectable institutes of learning. Nutritionists don't. (See Gillian McKeith / Patrick Holford etc...) Listen to

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 27/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nutritionists and Dietitians are just artisans of couse, whereas we programmers are computer scientists, no? Dietitians have real courses of study, and qualifications from respectable institutes of learning. Nutritionists

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 27/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread robl
Hi, Rob - this is neat, though not entirely sure that it's working entirely as you might want... http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=pageid=701 http://muddyboots.rattleresearch.com/cgi-bin/mb.cgi?action=pageid=701 ...a page about The Sun (and the News of the World)

RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Jeremy Stone
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...

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Loosemore
Thanks for the feedback ! Muddy boots is cool... TheyWorkForYou.com adds links to Hansard by matching Proper Names with Wikipedia entries. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2007-11-21a.1190.1 The number false positives is acceptable and the wikipedia links are miles better than the

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Brian Butterworth
How about using a two-frame page as the link with a rate this link option shown as a one-line toolbar at the top of the page? Users could then rate the appropriateness of the link from wrong to fantastic, which would allow automatic removal of incorrect links and an simple administration list of

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Cartwright
Personally, I'd prefer an XML API for most things like this... no worrying about porting it to your platform of choice, less/no hardware cost, probably (maybe) faster, less maintenance etc. J -- Jason Cartwright Web Specialist, EMEA Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44(0)2070313161 On 26/11/2007,

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I'd prefer an XML API for most things like this... no worrying about porting it to your platform of choice, less/no hardware cost, probably (maybe) faster, less maintenance etc. No worrying about freedom, either, though...

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Loosemore
On 26/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The BBC has at least one *excellent* term extractor in house which adds extra metadata like 'this term is a person/place/topic'... would be a lovely API to offer, hint hint... API?

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Cartwright
You have complete freedom - you can go and use someone else's API if their terms or tech are better. Just change the URL and a few XPaths in a config file. J On 26/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I'd prefer

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I'd prefer an XML API for most things like this... no worrying about porting it to your platform of choice, less/no hardware cost, probably (maybe) faster, less maintenance etc. Me too, great for doing some AJAX. J --

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread robl
Tom Loosemore wrote: Thanks for the feedback ! Muddy boots is cool... Thanks :) TheyWorkForYou.com adds links to Hansard by matching Proper Names with Wikipedia entries. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2007-11-21a.1190.1 The number false positives is acceptable and the

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have complete freedom - you can go and use someone else's API if their terms or tech are better. Just change the URL and a few XPaths in a config file. To talk of the freedom to stop using a data source is absurd. The Ordanance

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /me sits down with big tub of pop corn and expectantly googly eyes... /me puts on his flame retardant suit and rubs on the troll repellent -- Noah Slater http://www.bytesexual.org/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread robl
Brian Butterworth wrote: How about using a two-frame page as the link with a rate this link option shown as a one-line toolbar at the top of the page? Users could then rate the appropriateness of the link from wrong to fantastic, which would allow automatic removal of incorrect links and an

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given you can't have both (the source code isn't owned by the BBC) I'd be happy with open data. Open data would be fantastic, free software + open data would be better. See my sig. I did. Cathy Come Home would seem to disprove it as a

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Matt Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We didn't spend 25 years getting faster computers and larger hard disks so we could run all our applications over a network and have third parties store our data. I think having services in the cloud is an immensely useful thing - only that they

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Loosemore
On 26/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given you can't have both (the source code isn't owned by the BBC) I'd be happy with open data. Open data would be fantastic, free software + open data would be better. See my sig.

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Cartwright
No... that isn't what I said. J On 26/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have complete freedom - you can go and use someone else's API if their terms or tech are better. Just change the URL and a few XPaths in a

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People were not free (as in freedom) to choose whether or not they wanted to pay for Cathy Come Home to be made in the first place. It they had been granted the freedom not to pay the licence fee, it would never have been made. This could

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No... that isn't what I said. You said: You have complete freedom - you can go and use someone else's API if their terms or tech are better. I think any reasonable person would paraphrase this as you have freedom to stop using it. To

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Adam
Matt Lee wrote: Jason Cartwright wrote: That doesn't really seem to be the way things are going... It's certainly not the way some would like to take things. It's certainly one of the things that 'Web Twenty' promotes, but I think it's a mistake. We didn't spend 25 years getting

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Cartwright
I was referring to Term Extraction APIs. There are plenty, so it doesn't really matter which one you use... you are free to choose. J On 26/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No... that isn't what I said. You said: You

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was referring to Term Extraction APIs. There are plenty, so it doesn't really matter which one you use... you are free to choose. Yes, but if they are all restrictive with the data silos then all you have is the freedom to choose which

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Loosemore
People were not free (as in freedom) to choose whether or not they wanted to pay for Cathy Come Home to be made in the first place. It they had been granted the freedom not to pay the licence fee, it would never have been made. This could be said about the decisions of any public body.

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] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Cartwright
They are restrictive data silos for a reason - they contain proprietary data and code. They contain proprietary data and code for a reason - it was easier and cheaper to build them that way. Given that these systems aren't going to be released in their entirety (at least not in the near future,

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But in this case, API would easily trump source code and dictionary/thesarus with patches IMHO - API could react within minutes to a sudden change in the significance of a term. Who would want to wait 15 days lag for a patch to keep

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Matt Lee
Adam wrote: You could argue that computers started this way 25 years ago with a central mainframe storing all the data centrally and we moved away from this architecture due to limited connection speeds. Or because the cost of running one big computer and a bunch of dumb terminals became

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are restrictive data silos for a reason - they contain proprietary data and code. This is a tautology. They contain proprietary data and code for a reason - it was easier and cheaper to build them that way. Do you have the

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This could be said about the decisions of any public body. your point being? (The BBC is not 'any public body' - it is unique in being funded by a hypothecated regressive tax. ) My point being your point is irrelevant. In the case of

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Matt Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] other supermarket chains are available Prove it. -- Noah Slater http://www.bytesexual.org/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. - R. Stallman - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have complete freedom - you can go and use someone else's API That's the point - using web APIs is giving up your software freedom, because you are getting someone else to do your computation; you have no way of studying,

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's such dogma which gets you described by otherwise pretty measured civil servants and MPs as 'The Copyleft Taliban' lol Do you have a reference for that? :-) http://www.vivisimo.com/search?query=%22copyleft+taliban%22

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Loosemore
I disagree entirely with your hypothetical link between cost of creative production and the freedoms that should be awarded to society. Copyright and trademark law were specifically designed to give away a little bit of societal freedom in exchange for stimulated creativity. I agree with all

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's such dogma which gets you described by otherwise pretty measured civil servants and MPs as 'The Copyleft Taliban' This would be highly offensive and on a par with Godwin's Law. I guess I'm just bored of placard waving. I want to

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 26/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's such dogma which gets you described by otherwise pretty measured civil servants and MPs as 'The Copyleft Taliban' This would be highly offensive and on a par with Godwin's

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Sparks
On Monday 26 November 2007 20:20:30 Dave Crossland wrote: That's the point - using web APIs is giving up your software freedom, because you are getting someone else to do your computation; you have no way of studying, understanding, or modifying the computation done behind the API. Wrong -

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Sparks
On Monday 26 November 2007 20:32:49 Tom Loosemore wrote: It takes patience, time and - most importantly - evidence to demonstrate that re-use can be a good thing for all concerned. Even then, consider: * Copyright was created as a mechanism to benefit the public as a mechanism to

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Sparks
On Monday 26 November 2007 21:14:20 Noah Slater wrote: This would be highly offensive and on a par with Godwin's Law. Oh, I don't know Mind Performance Hacks has a suggestion based on the analogy of Memes - Enjoy Good, Clean Memetic Sex - which appears to take a couple of analogies one step too

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Noah Slater
On 27/11/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, some people have memes that they feel compelled to evangelize at all costs, and they won't stop when they're told to. Memetically, this is the equivalent of rape. Avoid memetic rapists, and respect the

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Richard Lockwood
Basically the author is saying that anyone who has strong opinions is committing the equivalent of rape. Now, ignoring the highly inappropriate analogy to forced sexual penetration, I think that you could sum this up as having strong opinions and sticking by them is wrong. which is clearly

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-22 Thread Brian Butterworth
Rob, This is an interesting - and very subtle - enhancedment to the BBC news pages. Took me a while to spot what was being added, so well was it done. I was wondering if you could modify it so that it could also add links to Wikipedia articles by adding hypertext links within the text. For

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-22 Thread James Ockenden
Brian, I also missed the very subtle changes to the page- but I would say, hyperlinking scientists and headaches etc every other word is gonna give the reader sore eyes and thousands of hours of lost work as they educate themselves in mass trivia. And to Rob, respect for your project; from a user

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-22 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 22/11/2007, James Ockenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, I also missed the very subtle changes to the page- but I would say, hyperlinking scientists and headaches etc every other word is gonna give the reader sore eyes and thousands of hours of lost work as they educate themselves in

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-22 Thread David Greaves
James Ockenden wrote: Brian, I also missed the very subtle changes to the page- but I would say, hyperlinking scientists and headaches etc every other word is gonna give the reader sore eyes and thousands of hours of lost work as they educate themselves in mass trivia. So, if we discount the

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-22 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 22/11/2007, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Ockenden wrote: Brian, I also missed the very subtle changes to the page- but I would say, hyperlinking scientists and headaches etc every other word is gonna give the reader sore eyes and thousands of hours of lost work as they