The most interesting piece to me is the bit about infringements of
copyright. I totally agree that rightsholders need to protect their
work, as covered in the report, but considering some law firms are
already completely abusing the legal system as is to go after people on
very flimsy evidenc
There is a way to get the comments to output in an xml format to make them
easier to scrape off of each blog post and parse. But it is per blog post and
not a central feed of all comments. It appears they are driven by the h2g2
software, so someone involved in that section of the bbc site might
Another quick bug report.
The character set on the page appears not to support £ signs, this story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7149616.stm appears
with the ? black diamond replacement character in firefox.
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Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubsc
Just a small point on the buying out of all the rights. Merely because
programmes would be available free would not totally kill off other
forms of money raising based on the product. After all, a significant
portion of worldwide broadcasters would still be after syndication
rights. DVD sales a
From what I've used of Joost it seems to keep some degree of data
cached.. initial plays can result in the usual buffering issues etc, but
subsequent replays seem to play a lot smoother and allow better seeking.
Would be nice if it precached more though specifically after play and
then pausing.
This is almost entirely irrelevant to the list purpose, but I thought
I'd air a personal annoyance with the BBC Weather site. If I put in my
postcode I end up with the weather for my town (Rayleigh) which is
correct, but I only get a 5 day and not a 24h forecast. As both are
taken from the same
I was testing in firefox, latest version on win xp. Also tested with IE6
and Opera 8 which work fine (IE 5.5 and less won't load at all). My old
copy of Opera 9 Beta does not work with the keys, perhaps this extends
to the non beta version too. In Ubuntu with firefox zoom appears to work
using
Well you can scroll around with the arrow keys and zoom in and out with
+ and -. Not sure how you change to satellite using keys, but I'm sure
its in there.
~:'' ありがとうございました。 wrote:
Richard,
how does one use http://maps.google.com/ via the keyboard?
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 15 May 200
James Cridland wrote:
On 2/1/07, *Stephen Miller* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
What needs to be developed is new distribution systems, not
excuses for
old methods, nor seeing any form of global market as a problem. If
content is availab
:
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Stephen Miller wrote:
[...] If content is available at a fair price globally and
simultaneously, the advertising markets and audiences should greatly
expand.
That could be a sticking point, until we have a single global currency
and economy. What might be a fair price in
Total validator ( http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/ValidatorForm
) appears to be happy with the page now, however it does report 3
errors. Two of these are down to broken links, the BBC Trust page and
the reception page, which both 404, so thats something that'll need a
quick fix. The re
James Cridland wrote:
This is a splendidly informed debate, incidentally. I'm enjoying it.
On 1/31/07, *Stephen Miller* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Media groups tend to equate a download
with a (potential) lost sale. This is just n
This I feel is one of the main sticking points which leads to the
current trends in litigation. Media groups tend to equate a download
with a (potential) lost sale. This is just not the case. Many people who
download, especially cross borders may discover television from other
countries to whic
m the internet may have had a fairly large
effect on time shifting.
Anyone else got more thoughts in this direction?
Cheers,
Stephen Miller
Tom Loosemore wrote:
On 28/11/06, Kim Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I see your 'written by a Torrent site' and raise you a
Congratulations to Ian,
Looking forward to see how the project moves forward with a new leader :)
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The winner has been announced on the blog at
http://open.bbc.co.uk/reboot/blog/
Congratulations to all the runners up and the winner, if any of them are on
the list! :)
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future.
Thanks again :)
Stephen Miller
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Dear all,
Today is my las
Pageflakes looks fairly complete, well developed and a nice app.
The only thing that annoys me slightly, is that I have personally been
working on and off on a very similar idea for several years, but never got
round to finishing it off due to time constraints.
The progress of my own project up t
Title: Reminder: backstage meet-up on monday
Thanks Ben and Jem,
It was an enjoyable evening, had some good
discussion, look forward to the next meet up I can make!
Thanks again,
Steve
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Sent: 09
Title: Invite to the first backstage.bbc.co.uk meet-up
Will try to make it straight from work in Reading,
should be fun at rush hour! We’ll see! :D
Hope to see a good turn out.
Stephen Miller
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Ppt = powerpoint (presentation).., a lovely MS product.
If you are on windows, you can get the viewer here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-
90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en if you dont have office.
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Distance between two points of longitude and latitude can be calculated
using the great circle method, which is what I used on my Sports map
previously.
PHP;
$dist = round(abs(3963.0 * acos(sin(deg2rad($lat1)) * sin(deg2rad($lat2)) +
cos(deg2rad($lat1)) * cos(deg2rad($lat2)) * cos(deg2rad($long2
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Hi Kim,
If Melvyn was to add on address or
postcode information it would certainly be doable. Better still if you were to
take a GPS device with you, or find the location on an OS map, these can all be
converted to degrees of longitude and latitude which can then be easil
Right... now I've seen everything on this mailing list, address book updates
and out of office notifications.. ;)
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Subject: [backstage]
Nice idea, will be keeping an eye on this virtual monopoly to see if it
catches on :)
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Subject: Re: [backstage] A practical use for RSS traff
Slashdot are carrying a story that google maps have sent out some cease and
desists to some sites for using their maps. It may only be targeted on sites
that are non-personal, although I guess time will tell as to what google is
planning to do.
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/06/08/203208.shtml?ti
Yes it is possible, but google produces
directions etc through AJAX,
and hence requires _javascript_ support (directions box and text are created at
runtime and can’t be found in the source etc). To get it to work, you
would need to port a copy of the google maps API to your own server, the
Brief note for anyone waiting (I doubt anyone was!). Our host has put the gd
library back, so my prototype is back to full working order again. I have
also taken off the moderation queue, although it will obviously go back if
any abusive photos or whatever get submitted.
Cheers :)
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Updated every minute of every day
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That data is almost certainly freely available. Most of the US government
departments have to make their materials freely available to Americans, NASA
footage etc is also public domain.
Although you are probably not an American citizen in any shape or form, I
suspect you would have no problem usi
Title: Message
Duncan doesn’t want to know how often the max is, but rather an
average time between major stories that get onto the front page. Basically the
site will be busier during the day, but not during the night, so if we check
every 15mins/half hour in the day, what would be better
Just a brief note that the photo map is on
hold temporarily, 3 people submitted photos yesterday, but due to errors, one uploaded
by John Barton has unfortunately been lost (Sorry John if you read the list). Any
photos submitted will be held for a while in moderation now, as I have traced
t
Hi guys,
Have submitted another map as a prototype, again it is interactive. This
time, similarly to the photo map, you locate and centre on a location, and
it calculates from a list of teams (Eng Prem -> conf and Scottish prem ->
league 3) the closest in miles from your location.
The closest sma
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