[backstage] Washington Post - welcome to the party
Title: Washington Post - welcome to the party The Washington Post has launched a remix site for their content - unofficially called the mashtingtonpost.com http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/post_remix/ Adrian Holovaty introduces it on his blog: http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2005/11/22/1548 More content for you guys to mash up and play with! Ben Metcalfe Project Lead, backstage.bbc.co.uk
Re: [backstage] Patronising
Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Agreed! We do have computers north of the M25 you know... :-) David "Almost a third of the UK's IT industry and research activity in Informatics is concentrated in the area around Edinburgh" (OK, thats from the universitity's 'why study informatics at Edinburgh' blurb, but still) - 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@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Sony Phone Home?
This via Rocketboom.com http://www.doxpara.com/ http://www.doxpara.com/planetsony2_europe.jpg Welcome To Planet Sony Submitted by Dan Kaminsky on Tue, 2005-11-15 09:28. Sony. Sony has a rootkit. The rootkit phones home. Phoning home requires a DNS query. DNS queries are cached. Caches are externally testable (great paper, Luis!), provided you have a list of all the name servers out there. It just so happens I have such a list, from the audits I've been running from http://deluvian.doxpara.com Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - 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@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Firefox extension competition
Just stumbled across this compo - write firefox extension, win tricked up Alienware PC. http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfirefox/ Thought some of the folk here might want to give it a bash. Kim Plowright New Product Development SCP, BBC iD&E MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ T: +44 (0) 020 800 83413 | M: +44 (0) 7980 303 908 | F: +44 (0) 20 800 83480 http://www.bbc.co.uk/entertainment http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama - 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@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Patronising
I have to agree. It's a lot of work and tons of running around. But its honestly worth it in the end! I'm currently helping out by hosting a few events in London at geekdinner.co.uk (sorry had to get the link in). I'm sure with a few tries you will start to get about 20+ people going along every month. I know for a fact that there is a Russian programmer who has just moved to Leeds and would love to meet other developers in the area. Reminds me I need to get him on this list. His previous work includes reader2.com, myprogs.net and the new myfilmz.net. Remixing BBC content is/would be right up his street. Cheers, Ian Forrester | BBC World Service [New Media Software Engineer] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Walker > Sent: 22 November 2005 15:16 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] Patronising > > > > I never seem to find any meetings, groups, talks > > etc where I am in Leeds > > http://www.pm.org/groups/europe.html > http://www.ukuug.org/ > http://www.ieee.org/ > http://www.bcs.org/ > http://www.computer.org/ > > all ought to have various non London based talks, with > varying frequencies, although some of the pm groups are a bit > vacant (eg, Hull). > > I can also heartily recommend organising something yourself. > It's a bit of work, but it's good cv material and you get to > choose the topics, or at least guide them. > > My general technique is find someone interesting to talk > who's in your area or passing through, then start > begging/broadcasting. > > And plan months ahead : sounds bonkers, but total elapsed > time to arrange tends to be high, but that might just be my > organising skills. > > - > 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@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Patronising
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:29:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Almost a third of the UK's IT industry and research activity in > Informatics is > concentrated in the area around Edinburgh" > > (OK, thats from the universitity's 'why study informatics at Edinburgh' > blurb, > but still) More of the Edinburgh posse chiming in here :) Olly -- http://cyber-junky.co.uk | http://www.googlesightseeing.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@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Washington Post - welcome to the party
On 11/23/05, Ben Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Washington Post has launched a remix site for their content - > unofficially called the mashtingtonpost.com Thanks for that Ben - interesting. Hmmm. Should Mood News go USA :-) 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. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] iMP issue
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:06:34 + Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Don't even *think* about telling me what I should and shouldn't support this is not about you its about what is a good codec to use for the BBC's IMP system , a system that is supposed to be platform agnostic . Anything from microsoft is out from the start as it is not platform agnostic. simple logic. > 2 & 3 error these questions are unworthy of response. > Try looking at products produced by a company as individual pieces of > software/programmes (as opposed to programs)/initiatives, and taking > each on its own merits. You never know, you might broaden your mind a > little. you can't take them on their merits when they are designed and implimented as a cohesive mesh of interlocking non-standards . Toodle-pip Amias - 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@lists.bbc.co.uk/