[backstage] Questions for upcoming interviews
Hi All, Those who are subscribed to the Backstage Calendar http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic - XML http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics - ICAL http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.comctz=Europe/London - HTML May have noticed were at the FOWA expo this month. As part of the shift in emphases for backstage we're also doing more interviews with people in the industry or around the culture of mashup and remix. we're currently interviewing Kevin Rose, Alex Albrecht, Jason Calacanis, Matt Biddulph, Matt Jones, Mark Zukerberg and others. If you guy's were asking the questions, what questions would you ask them. I'm really hoping we can serve up the challenging questions which you really want to hear not the what is digg type questions you usually get from tech interviews. I know I want to hit Zukerberg with a question about data portability. Cheers Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 - 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] HD Videocamera advice please...
If I was buying one now, I would get the Sanyo Xacti HD1010. But I love flash media and am not so bothered about the quality of the actual footage. I also love the 300fps mode. http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/05/sanyos-xacti-hd1010-1080i-camcorder-shoots-300fps-slow-mo/ Cheers Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Tonge Sent: 29 September 2008 22:56 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] HD Videocamera advice please... ...had bad experience with sometimes the picture breaking up... Never had any problems with ours: try using better quality tapes and striping them first (I always do it but videophiles disagree on this). Jim - 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] Questions for upcoming interviews
2008/9/30 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, Those who are subscribed to the Backstage Calendar http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic - XML http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics - ICAL http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.comctz=Europe/London - HTML May have noticed were at the FOWA expo this month. As part of the shift in emphases for backstage we're also doing more interviews with people in the industry or around the culture of mashup and remix. we're currently interviewing Kevin Rose, Alex Albrecht, Jason Calacanis, Matt Biddulph, Matt Jones, Mark Zukerberg and others. If you guy's were asking the questions, what questions would you ask them. What does freedom mean for the users and developers of web services? What is at risk? What should the free and open source software community do to ensure that software, and its users, stay free in this new technological environment? - http://autonomo.us/about/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman has some great quotes. - 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] Questions for upcoming interviews
If you guy's were asking the questions, what questions would you ask them. What does freedom mean for the users and developers of web services? What is at risk? What should the free and open source software community do to ensure that software, and its users, stay free in this new technological environment? - http://autonomo.us/about/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman has some great quotes. --- Good questions. What bugs me about the Stallman interview (and oracle's comments) is cloud computing is already here and many users are already using it. Call it gibberish and marketing hype isn't going to help solve the real problem of cloud-based lock-in. They should be talking up user/freedom/rights friendly services practices. While slamming down the ones which don't. Putting a mid rule through cloud computing is like putting a mid rule through mobile. - 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] Questions for upcoming interviews
2008/9/30 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What bugs me about the Stallman interview (and oracle's comments) is cloud computing is already here and many users are already using it. Call it gibberish and marketing hype isn't going to help solve the real problem of cloud-based lock-in. I believe Stallman wasn't quoted clearly in the article, but until he writes and publishes an essay about the topic, its hard to know precisely what he thinks about the topic in detail. It sounds to me like his marketing hype quote is scoped to inevitablility. They should be talking up user/freedom/rights friendly services practices. Its a shame the article doesn't mention www.autonomo.us, which seems like a central collection point for that talk. While slamming down the ones which don't. Putting a mid rule through cloud computing is like putting a mid rule through mobile. More like putting a mid rule through proprietary software. And that did put a rule through mobile computing, until OpenMoko. - 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] Questions for upcoming interviews
Ian Forrester wrote: If you guy's were asking the questions, what questions would you ask them. What does freedom mean for the users and developers of web services? What is at risk? What should the free and open source software community do to ensure that software, and its users, stay free in this new technological environment? - http://autonomo.us/about/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman has some great quotes. --- Good questions. Indeed, in fact, so good I can't think of any questions that might have the same effect. (Does that say more about me or the questions? ;) ) What bugs me about the Stallman interview (and oracle's comments) is cloud computing is already here and many users are already using it. Call me pedantic, but proprietary was already being used by many users when Richard Stallman set up the Free Software Foundation in 1985. Suggesting that because things exist, it is futile to resist isn't a line of thought that works with me or most of the free software community... :P Call it gibberish and marketing hype isn't going to help solve the real problem of cloud-based lock-in. Well to be fair there is a lot of hype around it at the moment (practically anything web 2.0 means in practise that it uses cloud computing) Richard has actually put forward ways to help solve the 'real' problem in the form of the GNU Affero GPL[1]. They should be talking up user/freedom/rights friendly services practices. While slamming down the ones which don't. Putting a mid rule through cloud computing is like putting a mid rule through mobile. To be honest, I think the FSF is doing everything in it's scope. I would suggest that what you think (ie. freedom of data/information) is more in the scope of the Open Right Group - Perhaps they should be doing more :) Tim [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License -- www.tdobson.net If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw - 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] Questions for upcoming interviews
If you guy's were asking the questions, what questions would you ask them. If Dopplr's offering isn't compelling enough to non-nerds, in particular with the potential recession, who will buy you out? Alternately, if you don't sell, how will you continue to afford coming to all these conferences? ;) - 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] Questions for upcoming interviews
While slamming down the ones which don't. Putting a mid rule through cloud computing is like putting a mid rule through mobile. More like putting a mid rule through proprietary software. Ian mixed two quotes - one from Stallman, the other from Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle (hype and gibberish respectively). With this in mind, it was only Stallman putting a mid rule through proprietary software. Ellison was seemingly putting it through *all* cloud computing, which is what Ian went on to declare nonsense. Which seems reasonable. Getting back to the topic, ask Zuckerman what he thinks he could learn from Dopplr's data export and account closure procedures! Phil - 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] HD Videocamera advice please...
linked article from that page: Sanyo's line of Xacti camcorders have traditionally looked mighty fine on paper, but for one reason or another, expectations haven't exactly been met on the previous iterations. The firm's latest pistol-grip device yet again looked superb at a glance, but TrustedReviews found that the VPC-HD1000 still wasn't able to live up to its claims. On the upside, reviewers found the design to be much improved, and the Full HD recording abilities were drooled over as well. Still, the crew couldn't help but be disappointed in the paltry four-megapixel CMOS sensor, and while it did perform better than its predecessors as a camcorder, the optical zoom was tagged as slow, colors seemed slightly oversaturated and you'll still need plenty of light in order to get halfway decent results. Furthermore, it was noted that quick changes in scenery caused noticeable pixilation, and shooting in low-light introduced a lot of grain. Overall, the HD1000 wasn't totally slammed nor lifted up on a pedestal, but we'd probably hold off on this unless you're cool with a jack of two trades, but master of neither. Mind you, this is from Engadget, who get nice stuff given to them gratis on daily basis... IMHO, plus points for the Sony include no-light nightshot for your Blair Witch-style fun, and a (albeit low-rent) Carl Zeiss lens. The audio jack is the main selling point for me though. ...the GOP length will affect the ability to edit the output. I've never really understood GOP (I know it's to do with interlacing, right?) - could you point me in the direction of a clear explanation please? Thanks. Jim - 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] Questions for upcoming interviews
Hi Ian, My question... When, after waiting thirty years, will I and others, be able to truly own our digital files on computers and over the internet? Where every file is stamped with digital ownership. A stamp that is integrated to all files and attributes universal ownership to the person who put it in to a computer first. Is that so difficult that we still have to rely on licensing to contract usage instead of simply getting the code to do the work? Regards RichE On 30 Sep 2008, at 17:21, Ian Forrester wrote: Hi All, Those who are subscribed to the Backstage Calendar http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic - XML http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics - ICAL http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=q7frqh0v016rki1769l9d7jlro%40group.calendar.google.comctz=Europe/London - HTML May have noticed were at the FOWA expo this month. As part of the shift in emphases for backstage we're also doing more interviews with people in the industry or around the culture of mashup and remix. we're currently interviewing Kevin Rose, Alex Albrecht, Jason Calacanis, Matt Biddulph, Matt Jones, Mark Zukerberg and others. If you guy's were asking the questions, what questions would you ask them. I'm really hoping we can serve up the challenging questions which you really want to hear not the what is digg type questions you usually get from tech interviews. I know I want to hit Zukerberg with a question about data portability. Cheers Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 - 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/
