RE: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea
Be slightly tempted to then plumb that into a screensaver that shows you pictures of your team's classic moments when they've won, and comforting pictures of kittens when they're doing less well. You know, to cheer you up, like... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sargeant Sent: 14 November 2005 22:55 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea Just thinking out loud here (so feel free to ignore :-) ) but be nice to have a sports version of mood news and let me specify which teams I like in a positive context and which ones are good in a negative context: England win - Positive and Good News Australia win - Positive yet Bad News England lose - Negative and Bad News Australia lose - Negative yet Good News!?! Guess it depends how you are defining good and bad... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davy Mitchell Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:34 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea Hi Folks, Just added some personalisation features to Mood News. You can specify some keywords to track stories on which are presented in Good to Bad order. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ Cookies and Javascript required. Also there have been numerous backend tweaks and most of the javascript has been optimised. Anyway while putting it together I wondered if anyone fancied taking on this little idea... How about a Google News style page for BBC content. It would be handy to have single customisable page to view all to stories arranged by topics. I'd read it - promise :-) Thanks, 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/ - 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] Mood News Update and an Idea
Sounds good. You might need to save the kittens for me until Germany next year... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim Plowright Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:31 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea Be slightly tempted to then plumb that into a screensaver that shows you pictures of your team's classic moments when they've won, and comforting pictures of kittens when they're doing less well. You know, to cheer you up, like... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sargeant Sent: 14 November 2005 22:55 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea Just thinking out loud here (so feel free to ignore :-) ) but be nice to have a sports version of mood news and let me specify which teams I like in a positive context and which ones are good in a negative context: England win - Positive and Good News Australia win - Positive yet Bad News England lose - Negative and Bad News Australia lose - Negative yet Good News!?! Guess it depends how you are defining good and bad... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davy Mitchell Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:34 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea Hi Folks, Just added some personalisation features to Mood News. You can specify some keywords to track stories on which are presented in Good to Bad order. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ Cookies and Javascript required. Also there have been numerous backend tweaks and most of the javascript has been optimised. Anyway while putting it together I wondered if anyone fancied taking on this little idea... How about a Google News style page for BBC content. It would be handy to have single customisable page to view all to stories arranged by topics. I'd read it - promise :-) Thanks, 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/ - 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/ - 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] Mood News Update and an Idea
David Sargeant wrote: Sounds good. You might need to save the kittens for me until Germany next year... 'Save all your kittens for me' - sounds like a Brotherhood of Man mashup... Coming back on-topic, how about using the convention of a + or - prefix on your personalising keywords to indicate whether you have a particularly positive or negative association. So, you could have: +england -australia to tailor your cricket mood news. Although I wonder if that would be too much of a conflict with traditional inclusion/exclusion meaning. Quick, need a focus group :-) Best, Nick - 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] Mood News Update and an Idea
On 11/15/05, Ben Metcalfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you be able to flesh out a little more about your aspirations for a Google News type proposition for it? That sounds really interesting too, but I'd love to hear your take on it The Google News idea is more of a general layout idea rather than a Mood News expansion. The current BBC site is very hierarchical with 4 columns in contrast to the flat/wide/scrolling Google News page with 2(3 at top) columns. A layout of the BBC content like this would be interesting. Obviously a page like this needs a layout algorithm so the Mood News scoring might help for example a Good, Bad and Neutral story from each category. However a simple date sort might be better :-) Thanks to everyone else for the ideas regarding sport, personalising and kittens. Very interesting. Currently Mood News has no domain knowledge. It would be a very interesting experiment to make it, say, support a football team or political party and spin the news according to the bias. Oh well off to squish some bugs! Cheers, 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] Mood News Update and an Idea
This may seem stupid - but user input on whether the story was positive or negative, so say if the All Blacks win their next match against England (which will happen), and your system rates it as awesome, say people who have a membership can rate the news as bad and it will move into that category - 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] Mood News Update and an Idea
Hi Andrew I'm glad you have so much faith in the All Blacks! That's a good news story even if the outcome from your perspective is bad and if the world is watching rather than just the English/Irish/Welsh/Scottish then 'bad' is relative...:) as is all the new interactive news and entertainment as it all becomes personalised, customised and mobilised, maybe nothing will be good/bad black/white...it'll all be POV What about mobile development with Backstage - scuse me if i haven't kept up but is that part of the pilot? watching the bbc on our ipods? I have to admit i only watched my first full game of rugby a month ago when dan carter of the all blacks was player of the match and it was a pretty awesome game...:) Go the A.B.'s! Clare O'Leary New Zealand Eve Bay Studio Creative Digital Research Production www.evebaystudio.co.nz QTV Question Everything! Science is Cool for kids. www.qteam.co.nz -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Deakin Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:00 p.m. To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea This may seem stupid - but user input on whether the story was positive or negative, so say if the All Blacks win their next match against England (which will happen), and your system rates it as awesome, say people who have a membership can rate the news as bad and it will move into that category - 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] Mood News Update and an Idea
Just thinking out loud here (so feel free to ignore :-) ) but be nice to have a sports version of mood news and let me specify which teams I like in a positive context and which ones are good in a negative context: England win - Positive and Good News Australia win - Positive yet Bad News England lose - Negative and Bad News Australia lose - Negative yet Good News!?! Guess it depends how you are defining good and bad... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davy Mitchell Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:34 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Mood News Update and an Idea Hi Folks, Just added some personalisation features to Mood News. You can specify some keywords to track stories on which are presented in Good to Bad order. http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ Cookies and Javascript required. Also there have been numerous backend tweaks and most of the javascript has been optimised. Anyway while putting it together I wondered if anyone fancied taking on this little idea... How about a Google News style page for BBC content. It would be handy to have single customisable page to view all to stories arranged by topics. I'd read it - promise :-) Thanks, 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/ - 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/
