Re: [backstage] Get BBC news on Twitter

2007-01-10 Thread Mario Menti
On 1/8/07, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mario you are a god of IM hacking! Very cool! Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965 For those who think the BBC frontpage feed is a little chatty (to put it mildly) for twitter, I just added a number of individual twitter bots fo

[backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-10 Thread Brian Butterworth
Hi I was just watching Click (BBC News 24 et al) and they were showing a 'Microsoft future' system that downloaded video (from video podcasts, they said) and ran a voice recognition process on the audio which converted the output to text. The point of this was to allow video content to be searc

Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-10 Thread dave miller
Great idea - I'd find it very useful to have all subtitles available as RSS feeds - could do a lot with that. Would there be copyright issues though? Dave Miller On 10/01/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I was just watching Click (BBC News 24 et al) and they were showing a

RE: [backstage] Jimbo Wales is in town.

2007-01-10 Thread Gordon Joly
At 17:51 + 9/1/07, Gordon Joly wrote: We expect Jimbo in the house at some point in the evening,,, He seems to be double booked! Gordo Jimbo was there. I didn't speak to him Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage

Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-10 Thread Frank Wales
Brian Butterworth wrote: Some BBC programs provide their scripts online, but I was wondering if it would be possible to provide ALL the subtitles used by the BBC (and other broadcasters) over the course of the day as RSS feeds? I asked some BBC people about this last year, and the answers gen

[backstage] BBC web site search integration?

2007-01-10 Thread Brian Butterworth
Hi I was wondering why the BBC web site has not implemented the opensearch tag in the web page headers on the bbc.co.uk site? This makes it easy to add customized searches to Internet Explorer 7, Firefox (Windows and Mac) and other browsers HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch"h

Re: [backstage] Get BBC news on Twitter

2007-01-10 Thread Mario Menti
On 1/10/07, Mario Menti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote For those who think the BBC frontpage feed is a little chatty (to put it mildly) for twitter, I just added a number of individual twitter bots for some of the more specific BBC news feeds: http://menti.net/?p=89 Cheers, Mario. Just noticed t