Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

2007-10-08 Thread Gavin Montague
struggle to point to a single online project where I could say there, the BBC are leading the way.. At the risk of showing my ignorance; perhaps a web section of the BBC should be split off with a different mandate. G * Auntie also paid for the bar afterwards, I think. ;-) Gavin Montague Web

Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

2007-10-08 Thread Gavin Montague
Ok. I'll have a go... - the leading pre-school website, certainly in the UK if not the world. - millions of hours of radio listening on demand every month and more than any other website in the world. - probably the most pioneering (Radio 1) media brand online in the UK - the UK's leading

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-17 Thread Gavin Montague
It is possible to make the conversion through Google, but I doubt it's really within the rules. Purely as a thought-experiment (cough), a wee ruby script that you might be able to use. #!/usr/local/bin/ruby # # Example # ./pofinder G38DN # 55.866061 -4.273608 # require 'rubygems' require

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-17 Thread Gavin Montague
Purely as a thought-experiment (cough), a wee ruby script that you might be able to adapt. #!/usr/local/bin/ruby # # Example # ./pofinder G38DN # 55.866061 -4.273608 # require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new postcode = ARGV[0] begin gmap_url =

Re: [backstage] Newcastle labs

2006-11-15 Thread Gavin Montague
Ian: are you going to be putting your/jem's slides online? My frantic scribbling didn't quite keep up. Oh, and the Newcastle lab was very useful: it's given me a lot to think about before submitting an proposal! Gavin Montague. http://www.leftbrained.co.uk http