Re: [backstage] Green Ink.

2010-06-18 Thread David Tomlinson
Richard has mistaken me for a Hollywood Mogul. Copyright is a state sponsored monopoly, often associated with other anti-competitive behaviour, especially among marketing and distribution. Also according to economic theory, they (copyright owners, distributors etc) capture the positive exter

Re: [backstage] Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
Not really, the whole point was that I had 15,871 iPlayer images. Your suggestion sound like "repeats" to me On 18 June 2010 07:10, l...@leenukes.co.uk wrote: > Pretty cool. I always thought those effects worked better with duplicate > images though. Any chance of trying it again with the d

Re: [backstage] Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Jakob Fix
very cool! just a naive question, what tool did you use to create the image? cheers, Jakob. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:42, Brian Butterworth wrote: > Not really, the whole point was that I had 15,871 iPlayer images.  Your > suggestion sound like "repeats" to me > > On 18 June 2010 07:10, l..

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Guy Strelitz
My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) ³Does it link through to the episode for each image?² Heh! :o) G Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration & Consultancy BBC Programmes & On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 On

Re: [backstage] Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
I used AndreaMosiac in the end, very impressed actually. http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/ On 18 June 2010 09:50, Jakob Fix wrote: > very cool! just a naive question, what tool did you use to create the > image? > > cheers, > Jakob. > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:42, Brian Butterworth >

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
Guy, I actually did that, but it's not really good on the performance front. Here it is: http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/pandorica_with_links.html On 18 June 2010 09:59, Guy Strelitz wrote: > > My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) “Does it link through to > the episode for each

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Guy Strelitz
That¹s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation tool/toy... I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the programme, on iPlayer or /programmes. Don¹t suppose you still have the PIDs associated with the images do you? G On 18/6/10 11:36, "Brian Butterwor

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:41, Guy Strelitz wrote: > > That’s very cool!  It starts to turn it into a data visualisation > tool/toy... > I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the > programme, on iPlayer or /programmes. > > Don’t suppose you still have the PIDs associated

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
Yes, the PID is there, the redirect could just point to http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/PID On 18 June 2010 11:41, Guy Strelitz wrote: > > That’s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation > tool/toy... > I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the > programm

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Dan Brickley
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Brian Butterworth wrote: > Guy, > I actually did that, but it's not really good on the performance front. > Here it is: > http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/pandorica_with_links.html Very nice x2 :) didn't realise the prog IDs are in there, so eg http://node2.bb

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Guy Strelitz
This has prompted me to try my first Greasemonkey script! G On 18/6/10 11:58, "Brian Butterworth" wrote: > Yes, the PID is there, the redirect could just point to > http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/PID  > > On 18 June 2010 11:41, Guy Strelitz wrote: >> >> That¹s very cool!  It starts to turn it

RE: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Andrew Bowden
> From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk > oh you'll never manage to answer that one. I know of a fair > few which are BBC employees & friends' photos, some are > captures, some are publicity shots... :) The BBC employee ones usually come from a flickr pool IIRC so it's quite probable some will

Re: [backstage] Green Ink.

2010-06-18 Thread David Tomlinson
Gordon Joly wrote: On 17/06/2010 22:19, David Tomlinson wrote: 1. As a recipient of public money, the BBC can not discriminate against suppliers (requiring content control). 2. The BBC is subject to Public Service Obligations, and therefore must reach as wider range of the public as possibl

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
Glad to hear that. I've just changed the Javascript so that now you get the image for the programme when you hover, and you get the programme link when you click. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/pandorica_with_links.html On 18 June 2010 12:01, Guy Strelitz wrote: > > This has prompted me to

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Guy Strelitz
Brian that¹s really cool! Can I email it round the UX&D (user Experience and Design) team as a data visualisation? G On 18/6/10 15:11, "Brian Butterworth" wrote: > Glad to hear that. > > I've just changed the Javascript so that now you get the image for the > programme when you hover, and yo

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
Guy, Yes, of course. On 18 June 2010 15:18, Guy Strelitz wrote: > > Brian that’s really cool! > Can I email it round the UX&D (user Experience and Design) team as a data > visualisation? > > G > > > > On 18/6/10 15:11, "Brian Butterworth" wrote: > > Glad to hear that. > > I've just changed the

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Adam Sampson
Brian Butterworth writes: > I actually did that, but it's not really good on the performance front. > Here it is: > http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/pandorica_with_links.html I guess the next trick is to add some Javascript so that when you click on one of the images, it then makes *that* imag

Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 18 June 2010 20:47, Adam Sampson wrote: > Brian Butterworth writes: > > > I actually did that, but it's not really good on the performance front. > > Here it is: > > http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/pandorica_with_links.html > > I guess the next trick is to add some Javascript so that when