Next Backstage Podcast is coming soon, we're waiting on our own better that
Broadcast quality (Matthew would kill me if I didn't mention this) to all come
before recording it.
I can also reveal it won't be about Copyright, Patents or even DRM. We're
actually got some great guests to talk about something which came up on the
list a while ago. Guessed yet?
Looking into why backstage has hit a bad gateway right now
Ian Forrester
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Christopher Woods
Sent: 25 May 2007 06:39
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Subject: RE: [backstage] This one's for Cridland... BBC A/V interface
ideas
He's at the BBC now... No mercy! (As my housemate vehemently argues, he
works for us license-payers now ;)
Out of curiosity, when's the next Backstage podcast being done? And you
do know the backstage site's currently gone all wonky, right?
Bad Gateway
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
Dun dun dunnnnn...
Christopher
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From: Ian Forrester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 May 2007 18:10
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Subject: RE: [backstage] This one's for Cridland... BBC A/V
interface ideas
Yes can we make this clear, James Cridland is a great person to
have on the side of the BBC but you can't start put in requests for changes
right now....
...Let him settle in a little at least :)
Ian Forrester
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Sent: 23 May 2007 06:06
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Subject: RE: [backstage] This one's for Cridland... BBC
A/V interface ideas
Haha :D
Careful though, now you've revealed your address to us
lot you'll no doubt have emails flying your way with suggestions or requests
for changes regarding your multimedia offerings ;) The last email was just
directed in the area of your new boss because I know he reads this list ;)
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From: Chris Sizemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 May 2007 22:28
To: [email protected];
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Subject: RE: [backstage] This one's for
Cridland... BBC A/V interface ideas
Importance: Low
(golly, mr cridland, looks like you've got the
expectations of a whole darn mailing list on your shoulders?!?
frankly, tho, first things first: i've got a
whole stack of holiday leave forms waiting for you to sign when you're able?
ah, the multi-faceted responsibilities of a
newly-appointed dept. head...
;-)
best--
--cs)
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Butterworth
Sent: Tue 5/22/2007 7:47 PM
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Subject: RE: [backstage] This one's for
Cridland... BBC A/V interface ideas
The BBC News facility that works with Windows
Media Center (XP or Vista) is
a much better way to view these videos (when it
works) and does much of what
you describe.
Personally, I've stuffed all the video feed
URLs on an iGoogle tab...
Brian Butterworth
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Christopher Woods
Sent: 22 May 2007 18:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: [backstage] This one's for Cridland...
BBC A/V interface ideas
Whilst on the subject of interface and UI
design, I was thinking about the
BBC site's design.
So, the BBC has a burgeoning portfolio of
online multimedia offerings, and
they have their BBC Audio/Video link in the
left bar of the BBC News site
(and elsewhere on the site), but once you're
actually on that page you're
given a rather odd selection of videos.
Why not give surfers the best of both worlds,
having an AV player interface
which takes elements from the old player and
gives you a different menu for
the regular Programmes (Panorama etc) and then
gives you a category list?
Sometimes I just want to watch all the most
recent SciTech videos, for
example, which was as easy as clicking through
the list on the old player,
but is nigh on impossible on the new one...
There's only three videos per
category!
Consolidating all the available videos for a
certain time period in sections
on the page would be very useful and helpful,
plus it would probably attract
more eyes because when the content is easier to
get to, people'll come back!
I just feel there's room for improvement, and
it'd be great to have a little
area in the AV player where you can choose to
watch N24, or the o' clock
news broadcasts, or any of the programmes, all
from one place with two
clicks MAX - none of this faffing about having
to go to the respective
programme's page just to fire up the player
with the relevant stream
(although that can stay, because I'm sure
people do it that way too if
they're entering via that particular page).
Just throwing these ideas into the pot..
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