RE: [backstage] Yet more Google Maps...

s are automatically generated and ordered by town. More info here... http://www.dc-ia.com/events/ia03sum/bbc_model_regions.html http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2004/10/publishing_our.html J Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] CSD - CMC - New

RE: [backstage] MightyV

Is there any way of getting a bookmark-able page of today's TV? E.g. rather than... http://www.mightyv.com/day?date=2005-10-03 Have... http://www.mightyv.com/day?date=today J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Cu

RE: [backstage] CSS changes based on weather conditions

Very nice. More info here... http://www.1976design.com/blog/archive/2004/02/03/php-dynamic-css/ Jason Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 85151 M: 079

RE: [backstage] Certain Travel (rail companies) feeds down

Title: Message Hi Michael,   Apparently those pages are old. The producer is sorting it out some redirects :-)   There are links to the new pages here... http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/#rail   Regards, Jason   Jason Cartwright Client Side

[backstage] Client Side Developer Job

https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/jobportal/search/vacancy.aspx?id=5949 Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: BC5 B3 21, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12

[backstage] Radio SMS (was: TV Listings Competition : RESULTS!)

co.uk/radio1/djs/tenhour/works/1.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/djs/tenhour/aug05/stats9-10.shtml   Cheers, J   Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology   E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00

[backstage] Google Maps as board game

Why didn't someone think of this earlier? Risk! Superb... http://www.ashotoforangejuice.com/gmrisk.html J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 0

RE: [backstage] Where should I suggest that the BBC could their feeds?

Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 85151 M: 0797 65 00729 A: BC4 C5 29, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TP Personal site: www.jasoncartwright.com "Don't worry, d

[backstage] MetaWeather: Weather Mashup

ome parts are dodgy at the moment, and there may be licencing issues, but feedback appreciated! Cheers, Jason ____ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 85151 M:

RE: [backstage] MetaWeather: Weather Mashup

ccuracy figures for different providers over time, and use the data to weight your "predictability" rating. Brendan. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Cartwright > Sent: 03 January 2006 10:34

RE: [backstage] MetaWeather: Weather Mashup

data they gave you for non commercial purposes?). - Original Message - From: "Jason Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:33 AM Subject: [backstage] MetaWeather: Weather Mashup > http://www.metaweather.com > > A website I&#x

RE: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

out its nuclear programme."   Breaking stories (without a full story page) are also often posted to the ticker, it seems... http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/hi/front_page/ticker.stm   J   ________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Mana

RE: [backstage] Yahoo Weather API

Yahoo have also just released some AJAX libraries... http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/ The loction identifiers on the Yahoo Weather appear to be the same as Weather.com (who have an excellent API)... although it looks like Yahoo's weather data itself is from a different source. Jason -Origin

[backstage] MetaWeather.com Update

servations, and add your own basic data in I've also written about the first stages of development here... http://www.jasoncartwright.com/blog/entry/2006/2/metaweather_beta_launch (These sites have nothing to do with the BBC) Cheers, Jason ________

RE: [backstage] MetaWeather.com Update

REST API for playing with the data, and also adding your own - eventually. Cheers, J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Mastros Sent: 06 March 2006 11:21 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] MetaWeather.com Update

RE: [backstage] BBC Snapshot Archive

Hey James, Very cool. I'd be interested in a bit more information on how you generate the screenshot. I guess if your using C# (and therefore .NET) - does it use IE as the rendering agent? Cheers, Jason Jason Cartwright Client Side Deve

[backstage] Email Traceroute Google Maps Mashup

http://www.butterfat.net/emailroutemap/ Very cool, but obviously limited by IP to long/latt inaccuracies. J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 851

RE: [backstage] All streamable programmes

Sounds like (pun intended) you should checkout the multicast goodies at http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/ Most (all?) UK unis are on JANET, who are on the BBC's multicast trial Cheers, J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Manag

[backstage] Beta Bunny

Just came across this interesting service... http://www.betabunny.org.uk It's a community of uni students interested in testing new software before launch. What a good idea. J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Cu

RE: [backstage] Beta Bunny

Duncan Barclay Sent: 01 June 2006 12:26 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Beta Bunny It has to be said that that is tempting to try. Might give it a go later. Do you know any more about them, or did you literally just find the link and post it here? Duncan Jason Cartwright

RE: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?

> In fact, I think there was a blog about this, which poked fun at the BBC’s stock image usage – bunny something or another.   There is the rather fantastic "Am I Abstract Or Not"...   http://amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org/   J   _

RE: [backstage] Urgent WCAG2: formal objection: final draft

Interesting article on WCAG2 from last month... http://alistapart.com/articles/tohellwithwcag2 J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Chetwynd Sent: 12 June 2006 20:01 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Urgent WCAG2:

[backstage] MetaWeather API

t) J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 85151 M: 0797 65 00729 A: BC4 C5 29, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TP Personal site: www.jasoncartwright.com "Politics is the

RE: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it!

ge user to click it (which remember - we're not). Perhaps someone from News will have the results of a usability study, or even hard clickthrough data (now it's live) to correct me :-) J ____ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Ma

RE: [backstage] MetaWeather API

co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] MetaWeather API On 14/06/06, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Made this the other day. Does what it says on the tin (hopefully)... > > http://www.metaweather.com/Tools/API/ > > Feedback/comments/bugs welcome. Its still pretty limited

RE: [backstage] Funny Story

I thought this email was going to be an amusing anecdote about a mashup :-) What is the URL of the feed your using? J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davy Mitchell Sent: 30 June 2006 22:58 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage

[backstage] Google Maps Geniusness

http://www.isoma.net/games/GogglesBeta09.swf J - 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] Google Maps Geniusness

clever.. and then I pressed the arrow keys.N On 08/08/06, Jason Cartwright < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.isoma.net/games/GogglesBeta09.swfJ-Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.  To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2

RE: [backstage] Flickr releases Geotagging for photos

shows some added, as yet undocumented, arguments on the flickr.photos.search method of their API... "bbox=-2.224731%2C50.950726%2C1.290893%2C52.000101&accuracy=8" - when zoomed into London.   J   ________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Devel

RE: [backstage] Top 40 RSS

expressed are my own! J ________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 57) 67938 Mobile: 07976500729 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard

[backstage] Newssniffer - BBC News site monitoring

Thought this might be of interest to the backstage crew:   http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/articles/list_by_revision http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/bbc/threads/mostcensored J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC

RE: [backstage] BBC weather IM bots

e :-)   J   ________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Desk: (0208 57) 67938 Mobile: 07976500729   "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury From: [EMAIL

RE: [backstage] BBC weather IM bots

iSent: 27 October 2006 08:48To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: Re: [backstage] BBC weather IM bots On 10/26/06, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Superb. It seems to be having some difficulties with the degree symbol though (rendering it as a zero?)...  "

[backstage] More on News Sniffer

From "The Editors" blog. Touches on the policies News have on URLs and corrections. Interesting stuff.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/sniffing_out_edits.html   J   ________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC I

[backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs

http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm   What a goldmine - all the latt/longs extracted from Wikipedia and compiled into a CSV.   J   Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs

V.   J   ____ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Desk: (0208 57) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729   "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury  

RE: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty slogan and design for Backstage T-shirts

Like Google's free SVN hosting offering... http://code.google.com/hosting/ J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Cashmore Sent: 01 November 2006 13:09 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty slogan and

RE: [backstage] Re: Sharing Code

in my humble opinion, of course, and not the views of the BBC or anything like that :-) J ________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 57) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in you

RE: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

ckr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html [2] argument "bbox", example value "-0.117405,51.458997,-0.092836,51.469902" - near where I live, crumbs! [3] argument "per_page", example (default) value "200" [4] argument "sort", example value "relevance

RE: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

ags: lodon, greenpark? is it possible to tell?  On 11/10/06, Jason Cartwright < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the pages is a limitation of the technology, and perhaps ausability 'feature' for showing that there is actually more results thanthe map can comfortably sho

RE: [backstage] Enquiry about commerical use of BBC News RSS data

** This is all my personal opinion ** Looks to me like they are passing themselves off as the the BBC. For instance http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3223484.stm#mysite states "You may not use any BBC logo or other BBC trademark", and they don't appear to be attributing the stories correctly. Ot

RE: [backstage] W3C and the Overton window

any of the other standards specified then you should buy a book like HTML Goodies by Joe Burns (like I did!), but if you want the definitive, specified standard then you should go to the no-nonsense w3.org site. J ________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Develo

RE: [backstage] W3C and the Overton window

ncy - and is something we need to overcome. Best recent example of this - Flash video - it just works and everyone loves it. :-D J * Unscientific number of 9s added, but you get the point ;-) ____ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive

RE: [backstage] Mozilla interview and Backstage Schwag preview

May I ask why you don't want to use Flash? How do you use all the Flash-based functionality all over the net? J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Crossland Sent: 04 December 2006 14:44 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backsta

[backstage] "Communitise" your data

guess. J ________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Desk: (0208 22) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury

RE: [backstage] The best WebAPIs

ation details. Not a big deal it turns out - but more hassle and different to all the other APIs I had consumed in the same app. Just annoying. ____ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 22) 59487 Mobile: 07

RE: [backstage] The best WebAPIs

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Armitage Sent: 06 December 2006 11:13 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] The best WebAPIs Quoting Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> For example, for me Flickr&#x

RE: [backstage] Site statistics

adio/onlinestatistics.shtml http://www.bbcgovernors.co.uk/annreport/ If you want specific info then try a FOI request... http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/ J ____ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Desk: (

RE: [backstage] Site statistics

Hehehe. Just a few more... like 500 times more. 2005/2006 annual report says bbc.co.uk does around 2.5 billion page impressions on an average month... http://www.bbcgovernors.co.uk/annreport/ Personal opinion: Google Analytics rocks. Can't imagine what other stats providers are doing now its fr

RE: [backstage] Techcrunch UK...

Soap opera for geeks. Usual blogging 'he said she said' storm in a teacup rubbish we've all become accustomed to, where personal publishing enables a situation to get quickly out of hand. I'm reminded of this phrase... "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human his

RE: [backstage] Best links of the year

Its an old one, I know, but I got into using del.icio.us properly this year. Apart from RSS, I think it's the technology/site/thing/whatever that's had the most dramatic effect on my browsing habits - with the 'network' feature responsible for me (among many other things)... * Browsing inordinate

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

** This is all my personal point of view ** > I'm glad to see that Ian is recommending Free Software and that you took the time to check it out. Nobody mentioned that it was Free Software. I suspect it was recommended by Ian and liked by Nic (and myself) because it's quick, its usable, and it jus

[backstage] NASA & Google to "make Nasa's data available to everyone"

Interesting stuff. J ____ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Desk: (0208 22) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "I hate people with quotes in their email signatures" - DH

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

** This is all my personal opinion ** This £1bn revenue stream [1] (more than half of which comes from abroad [2]) goes on to fund new content for you to enjoy for free (after paying your licence fee, of course). J [1] http://www.bbcgovernors.co.uk/annreport/report06/16.financialstatements.pdf

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

> I'm also concerned that the licence fee is used to support the BBC's net activities - it gives the BBC a huge advantage over other net companies who don't get public money to support their online ventures. You may be interested in this... "Market Impact Assessment of BBC's Online Services" http

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

asts (to *grin* download) e.g. last night's Newsnight... http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc2/newsnightvideopodcast/newsnightvideopodcast_20061219-1600_40_st.mp4 J On 19 Dec 2006, at 17:22, Jason Cartwright wrote: > ** This is all my personal opinion ** > > This £

RE: [backstage] democracyplayer

ay... http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc2/newsnightvideopodca st/newsnightvideopodcast_20061213-1500_40_st.mp4 >- make them into an atom feed RSS alright? http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc2/newsnightvideopodca st/rss.xml J _________

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

Google did this - extracting the closed-captions (American standard for subtitles?) from selected US TV channels and indexing them along with screengrabs of the video itself. Worked very well, although of course you couldn't then go on to view the video unless you were in the States and had access

RE: [backstage] What is web 1, 2, and 3?

It did previously, but not anymore (to my knowledge). http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/ J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 15 January 2007 08:10 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [backstage] Wha

RE: [backstage] SVG used by Office of National Statistics in BBC business report

** This is all my personal opinion ** > ONS and BBC reckon the public is ready. I don't see the BBC saying that. In fact the BBC News article disclaims itself from the content of the page linked to... "The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites" Personally, it looks

RE: [backstage] SVG used by Office of National Statistics in BBC business report

ge on an decent-sized website is generated by server-side code. Code doesn't produce inaccessible websites, developers do. J From: Jonathan Chetwynd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 January 2007 14:24 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Cc: Jason Cartwright Subject: R

RE: [backstage] SVG used by Office of National Statistics in BBC business report

007 15:39 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] SVG used by Office of National Statistics in BBC business report I'm very impressed that they've used SVG, and for some of the tutorial animations on bbc.news.co.uk I wish they would do the same! On 16/01/07, Jason Cartwrigh

RE: [backstage] SVG used by Office of National Statistics in BBC business report

** This is all my personal opinion ** I think its worth noting that I have nothing against SVG... what I do have a problem with is zealotry in the face of real-world, practical content consumption. If the BBC released something as unsupported and unusable as this ONS app we would have users compla

RE: [backstage] SVG used by Office of National Statistics in BBC business report

10:21 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] SVG used by Office of National Statistics in BBC business report "Jason Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Catering for over 95% of users vs well under 20% of users is deemed > lazy... then yes I am lazy. I

RE: [backstage] crappy "have your say" forum

I've never posted to it - although having a look at posts on there, it does appear to have a rather simplistic moderation system when you compare it to the likes of slashcode. What's your problem with it specifically? J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [backstage] crappy "have your say" forum

appy "have your say" forum "Jason Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never posted to it - although having a look at posts on there, it > does appear to have a rather simplistic moderation system when you > compare it to the likes of slashcode. &

RE: [backstage] crappy "have your say" forum

service/languages/ J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 19 January 2007 11:48 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] crappy "have your say" forum On 19/01/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

RE: [backstage] crappy "have your say" forum

to test it, I'm willing to submit bugs via an open bug tracking system a la bugzilla, and maybe even develop for it. What with the new licence fee settlement, it's a cheaper and better way to get things done. Personally the engine that's used in sports\celeb daq is somet

RE: [backstage] DRM

All my personal point of view, as usual > Seriously guys why the need for DRM, I've only just reconciled myself that I'm not going to get radio in ogg format, and will have to put up with real player as long as I want Radio on demand; now this?! Most BBC stations have a Windows Media stream as

RE: [backstage] BBC Trust "reaches Provisional Conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals"

This is all my personal point of view. "offer very little on demand, or use DRM" - Tom L, the other week. Would you prefer DRMed content on Linux, or just the current video offerings? "I'd like all of it in a 'free' format right now please" isn't possible, at least not right now. Yes, IMO all DR

RE: [backstage] Hosting (Slightly OT)

I did some sums on this, with a view to using S3 to deliver some images and video. I pay around £15/mbps for my bandwidth (in the UK, its less elsewhere). 1mbps = ~320Gb/month transfer 320Gb transfer with S3 = $64 = £32. About twice the price. Of course I'm not factoring in storage costs - and

[backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE : [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torre nts)

This is all my personal opinion. > withdrew DRM, since it totally failed, like it always will iTunes Music Store (solely selling DRMed content?) appears to be doing pretty well... over 2bn songs, 50m TV episodes and 1.3m films sold [1]. It turned over around $1.7bn last financial year [2]. Doe

RE: [backstage] bbc offline?

Hi Jonathan, No problems that I know of, or can see on any internal monitoring. Most problems like this are usually nearer the user than the server - which is understandable when you think that most large websites have massive redundancy of power, servers, connectivity etc, and that most users ar

RE: [backstage] "platform-agnostic approach to the iPlayer"

> The BBC hates charities! Woo. The BBC is required to be impartial. http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/advice/nonsportevent s/8charities.shtml This was highlighted during the Live 8 coverage - a charity with a political motive, but broadcasting an entertainment event... http:/

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backs tage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)

The purpose of being good enough to satisfy the people that own the rights to the content - and therefore being able to release the content in this manner. J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Crossland Sent: 08 February 2007 16:18 To:

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backs tage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)

>Click and Torrents) On 08/02/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The purpose of being good enough to satisfy the people that own the rights to the content - and therefore being able to release the content in this manner. Satisfy them to what end? The cu

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backs tage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE : [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)

Subject: Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents) On 09/02/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > its deemed 'good enough' f

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backs tage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion que stion (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrent

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents) On 09/02/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > its deemed 'good enough' for the general public (the vast, vast > &g

RE: [backstage] News categories: bob's revenge

Are you referring to the left-hand-nav on news.bbc.co.uk? Has it changed? J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Chetwynd Sent: 14 February 2007 08:12 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] News categories: bob's revenge N

RE: [backstage] HD-DVD " how DRM was defeated"

Surely the content wouldn't exist to link to without the adverts being present - paying for the publishing of the content. Ad blocking is short-sighted and selfish - you are costing the publisher money and preventing more content being produced in the future. Pretty unethical. http://www.jaso

[backstage] Ad Blocking (was: HD-DVD " how DRM was defeated")

This is all my personal point of view. > you're possibly saving them money by not downloading their assets, saving them a (fractional) amount of transit costs. Ad serving costs are usually bore by the advertiser or an agency. Anyhow - this cost is "cost of revenue" so the higher it is the better

RE: [backstage] Tube on Twitter

It's coming, by next year apparently... http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-centre/press-releases/press-releases-con tent.asp?prID=58 J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 26 February 2007 09:56 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Cc:

RE: [backstage] Ad Blocking (was: HD-DVD " how DRM was defeated")

>> Nobody can stop you blocking ads, but by doing so you are taking food >> from people's tables. > Out of interest, how do you stand on hiding ads... (That being an option of Adblock) Probably even worse. Your hurting the website even more - lowering the CTR [1] by registering an impression, y

RE: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM?

This is all my personal point of view. I can't receive digital TV, so I'd like a refund on money spent to make BBC3 and BBC4. Oh, and I can't read welsh so could TV Licencing please send me a cheque for the money spend on http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/ J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: [backstage] Ad Blocking (was: HD-DVD " how DRM was defeated")

>> Doesn't. Depends whether the ad is good enough for you to click on. > Not seen one yet - doubt I ever will. Yet more proof that this list is not indicative of the general internet users (which is understandable). Adverts get clicks and people make money from it. LOTS of money - for instance G

RE: [backstage] Coders needed for BBC Weather New Media

The choice of scripting language on the server doesn't mean the URLs have to be any particular way, usually. Its perfectly possible to get nice looking URLs using IIS/ASP. View-Source fans and usability bods should note that jobs.bbc.co.uk is nothing to do with the BBC technically - its managed b

RE: [backstage] Ad Blocking

> Slashdot has put content on a public network, it serves me what I request, there is no obligation on me to request it all. The deal your informally entering into with Slashdot is that in order to pay for your request taking up thier resources you are served an advert. If you don't like this 'de

RE: [backstage] Ad Blocking

To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Ad Blocking On 28/02/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Slashdot has put content on a public network, it serves me what I request, there is no obligation on me to request it all.

RE: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM?

> It never set out to make them happy: It set out to give them freedom. Who would have thought a conversation about the concept of people watching TopGear a couple of days late could end up at this melodramatic line? J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM?

DRM? On 28/02/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It never set out to make them happy: It set out to give them freedom. > > Who would have thought a conversation about the concept of people > watching TopGear a couple of days late could end up at this >

[backstage] Traffic Info

87.632446 J ____ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Desk: (0208 22) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "I hate people with quotes in their email signatures" - DH

RE: [backstage] Traffic Info

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 01 March 2007 11:39 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Traffic Info On 01/03/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [backstage] Flash required?

Hi Andy, This is all my personal opinion. Thank you for presenting yet another "The BBC isn't supporting my favorite format" moan. > Flash may be running at startup I don't believe it does this. > If you can't see what code is doing to your machine better assume its doing something bad to it.

RE: [backstage] Flash required?

This is all my personal opinion. > Or has the BBC examined it's source code and is it willing to guarantee that this software is free from any malicious code? For every anti-Flash zealot yelling "Flash isn't Free Software", there are millions of people using flash without any problems at all. Tr

RE: [backstage] Flash required?

> sites which make flash _mandatory_, with no alternative, are generally a bad idea (and of dubious legality in some cases, given disability legislation). As you can see from the guideline I sent around yesterday that should never happen on a BBC site... "If a user does not have the correct plug-

RE: [backstage] Flash required?

> Are you joking? People can create a huge amount of revenue by doing just that. Do youever get a spam email? The majority of that comes from boxes that have been taken over by someone other than the legitimate owner. You are suggesting that Adobe may knowingly put code in their apps to send spam?

RE: [backstage] Angus McBean

http://www.google.com/search?q=Angus+McBean+site%3Abbc.co.uk Google some better results than our internal engine, and holds some info in its cache. J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hayfielddigitalparish Sent: 09 March 2007 11:02

[backstage] Freebase

No, nothing to do alkaloids. Looks like Google Base, but more open... http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/this-is-cool-unless-it-achieves-con sciousness-and-kills-us-all/ http://www.freebase.com/ J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer

RE: [backstage] BBC parliment

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet... http://www.parliamentlive.tv J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 09 March 2007 11:46 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC parliment Thanks for th

RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics

The annual report designers like big numbers too.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/bb cannualreport.pdf Lots of boxes saying interesting things like: "56% of children in Great Britain aged 7-15 accessed bbc.co.uk/CBBC in December 2005" "91.6% of programming

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