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Probably even more off topic, and hello list, sorry, I lurk as I'm *so*
not techy enough for most of the conversations...
But
has everyone seen this flickr / google earth mix? Appols if it has done the
rounds...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/topic/50193/
And a
slightly un
Davy,
This is ace! A very elegant idea.
Have you seen the Livejournal mood logging site?
http://ilps.science.uva.nl/cgi-bin/livejournal/mood
Stumbled across it today (err, I think via plasticbag.org?), might be
useful to think about how you could adapt / mashup the two?
Kim
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Hi Kim
That's a great idea!
What is Interactive Drama and Entertainment then? Any examples I could
check?
cheers
carl morris
Plug Two http://www.plugtwo.com
t +442920190151
Kim Plowright wrote:
> Probably even more
>its effectively spam-assassin for news, but slightly different.
Wow - that's a slightly terrifying concept: the ability to filter news
according to your personal preferences so you only get 'good' news
delivered to you... Very 1984. *Shudder*
The mood would indeed only work effectively if it le
Hey all,
Because what I offer to the list is mostly blethering, and the
occasional bit of being motherly for no reason...
If anyone is coming down to Open Tech and needs somewhere to stay in
london, I can offer sofabed (or floor) space in my 'luxurious' geeky
house in Clapham. Not ideal if you ha
What about running a stream through some kind of acoustic fingerprint
lookup service like MusicBrainz or Shazam? As I don't think this kind of
data will be available in the near future...
Kim
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e app to sit on top of Google
Maps that would let the old'uns peg their memories on to the location
they took place? Should be doable, and is an interesting usability
challenge too...
Kim Plowright
Project Manager, BBC iD&E
MC1 D2 77, Media Centre, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, Lon
Title: Message
There's quite an interesting piece about the politics of IM space - and
the non-compatibility of the various networks, how Google may change market, why
MSN don't allow people to piggy back etc - here:
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000637.html
Worth
a read
http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices/
'Lo all.
Thought you might be interested in this - the Last.fm chaps have
released an API to their data. Might work nicely in some kind of music
news mashup?
K
Kim Plowright
Project Manager, BBC iD&E
http://www.bbc.co.uk/co
social software
app, goes home... :-)
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iD&E
MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12
7TQ
http://www.bbc.co.uk/entertainment http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama
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Help me find stuff
Then make sure that it *stays found*
Just a thought for an approach!
K
Kim Plowright
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that?
[3] pink tweed, with plastic grapes and a pheasant feather.
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iD&E
MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12
7TQ
http://www.bbc.co.uk/entertainment http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama
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Ben - but he's on peregrinations around China at the mo.
It should be reasonably trivial, as iirc the jobs site is run from
(gasp!) a CMS; there might be policy issues tho. There ususally are...
:-)
Could try badgering Jem. Jem?
k
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*seem* to remember some sweet user-time based design changes
somewhere, but can't track them down.
Thanks.
k
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iD&E
MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12
7TQ
http://www.bbc.co.uk/entertainment http://www.bbc.c
According to my mole in weather, the feeds are ready, but awaiting Ben's
return to be launched. This is assuming there aren't any HPIs (horrible
policy issues) that neither of us know about...
This is, of course, the unofficial answer!
K
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Ooh, ace, thanks everyone.
Really useful.
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Kim,
On 20/10/05, Kim
still
the case that you get the text feeds via the Met. Office and your muching
these to produce the XML? The Met. Office are so behind the times
:( So much information and no innovative use of technology on thier
website. Kim Plowright wrote:
According to my mole in we
Title: Message
>I
think a key thing is feedback - and this needs to happen quickly to keep the
flow of conversation / development going.
Hmn,
yeah, sorry. I think Ben's holiday came at a slightly unfortunate time,
bless his cybergoth socks. Come home, Ben!
We
(bbc and nonbbc folk) aren'
I'd second that. I more or less stopped following an opensource project
(musicbrainz) when the discussion split into several mailing lists and a
wiki.
Whatever happens, you need everything in one place, and searchable.
Also, I can imagine the HPIs and sheer looks of horror when Tom and Ben
tell
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Who says the BBC has to host it? Isn't this a community? I bet it'd
happen a lot faster if some philanthropist just put it up on a server
and pointed everyone on the list to it.
Ah yes. I
Title: Message
From
an internal perspective
Yes!
seperate out Series, Episode numbers and Ep Titles into clear fields. It's
really useful if you were to use TV anytime data to populate programme support
sites like, say, bbc.co.uk/buffy or /theoffice - and becomes really important
for foll
at some point ? It's a pain in the
neck when you trail a programme that is being prepeated later on another
channel.
Graeme
On 10/31/05, Kim
Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From an internal
perspective
Yes! seperate out Series,
Episod
>That sounds great! The prototype screen shots on Ben's website look
good
>as well (although I have to question whether John Peel may have
appeared
>in slightly more than 2 "Home Truths" programmes between 1993 and 2005,
>what with him presenting it most of the time and all! :-) ).
Yep - I not
Title: Message
Heh -
at risk of opening up the tagging vs 'proper classification'
argument...
Ambiguity can actually be a benefit of tagging, when it's held against
the very formal pre-existing taxonomy.
in
short - taxonomy can never be absolutley objective (it's culturally determined)
It's also complicated by the fact that there aren't just rights in the
TV programme, there are all kind of underlying rights (ie, copyright on
things that appear in programme) that might need to be cleared as well.
Literary - a script, for drama; poetry, quotations, song lyrics, book
readings etc
Yes, but zen ve vould haff to kill you...
:-)
Don't see why not - what's your beef?
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Are we allowed to talk about
You're *such* a terror. :-)
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Subject: Re: [backstage] iMP
Kim,
I'd just like to correct your suggestion that we only
execute inte
I don't know about exactly how they've taken accessibility into account
on iMP - maybe take the question to the message board posted here
earlier? I'll ask Priya on your behalf if I see her around, though. I
can't imagine for a second it's been ignored, but I suppose there's a
possibility that they
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ideas/archives/2005/05/the_peoples_wea.html
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f pages. I think it's getting a bit long in the tooth
and there are load issues, but I could be wrong.
K
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Subject: RE:
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...
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Just stumbled across this compo - write firefox extension, win tricked
up Alienware PC.
http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfirefox/
Thought some of the folk here might want to give it a bash.
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iD&E
MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC M
>BBC Worldwide Limited is company, wholly owned by the BBC, that sells
>BBC merchandise (e.g. video and audio recordings of BBC programmes,
>books, magazines, toys and games).
They're primarily there to hold the rights to BBC productions for
commercial exploitation - ie, for rebroadcast interna
GENIUS idea.
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Subject: [backstage] Where should I suggest that the BBC could their
feeds?
I had a idea about BBC News's channel us
Title: Message
I
might be misunderstanding you, but what about upcoming.org? Here's their
API
http://upcoming.org/services/api/
Don't
think this properly synchs with anything yet, but does have event feeds as rss.
Their recent aquisition (yahoo, i think?) suggests that someone at one of th
Title: Message
Humn -
This was a Tom Coates-y project, and he's now elsewhere. So I imagine (as it was
a proof of concept thing, IIRC) that it's dormant...
Shines
the Dan Hill signal on the clouds:
DAN!
Any idea what the status of Phonetags is?
Also -
have a search for Dan's postings
a bit difficult to get to, categorise, download in bulk etc.
If there's anyone out there interested in video search / social tagging
/ yadda yadda it might make an interesting start to a project?
Kim
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iD&E
MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Medi
engine runs on PHP+MySQL.
Dima Kuchin
http://k78.info
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Subject: [backstage] Random idea for someone - Creative Archive Clips
Hello chaps,
You all seem a bit... underwhelmed by the celebdaq game data being made
available. Is there any extra info I can get you that would make it more
useful / easier to work with?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/syndication/1/docs/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/
K
Kim Plowright
New
atch the prices of
> celebs when day trading. Maybe you could post it somewhere
> the daq players will be more likely to see it? I couldn't
> find it on the site.
>
>Helen
>
> Kim Plowright wrote:
>
> >Hello chaps,
> >
> >You all seem a bit...
Vijay - I'm not aware of any plans to open-source it, but I'm asking
around.
Re GorDaq - no, think that's completely separate. There's sportdaq,
which does run on the same engine. The politics one is a lovely idea -
I'm surprised no-one's thought of it. You could run it on Hansard
credits rather t
t is
released, we'll be the first to know, right? ;-)
On 30/01/06, Kim
Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Vijay
- I'm not aware of any plans to open-source it, but I'm
askingaround.
Hello,
I had a chat with my insiders at the BBC weather centre. They like the
idea of working to make the tide data available, and are going to look
at how they might do that. Obviously, they can't promise anything at the
moment...
Kind of all I can do for now, but it's a start!
Kim
> -Orig
OK - IANAL, and I'm not involved with news, or the homearchive, so this
is me with the only-semi-bbc hat on.
I can't see any reference to images in news's Terms of Use etc...'Fair
Use' is unlikely to apply to images reused elsewhere; even if an image
is 'small' it is still the image; it isn't an '
Quick general recap - sorry, have only just managed to dip in to the
list again,
- yep - people here are aware of the accessibility requirements under
the DDA, and there's been some excellent internal training and awareness
run which covered learning disabilities along with more the standard
visua
No, but I can try and find out for you.
Sorry for the slow reply; backstage is kind of rudderless
at the moment, and Ben was the man with the answers. I'll do my best to keep an
eye on the list between my other two jobs... it shouldn't be too long before
BenMk2 takes over the project.
Kim
I'll give the relevant people a poke for you.
And please accept my general appologies on behalf of Auntie.
K
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Sent: 02 July 2006 14:52
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
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Subject: Reboot winners: 30
>5) Flash is one of the most abused web technologies in the world ever.
>Disabling it by either not having it installed or using a flash-blocker
type app/extension can save a lot of
>eye-bleeding pain from those crazy kooky marketing guys.
/me laughs so hard she blows coffee out of her nose.
Actu
Agreed - a lovely thing.
So... hmn. What about plotting news publication times
against a similar timeline? Or...um, crikey, OK - Celebdaq prices graphed
over time against mentions in news stories on bbc.co.uk? Or... blog/search
activity around a programme name (publication times?) against i
e categories from http://alistapart.com/topics/ because they seemed to make sense.
Kim
Kim Plowright | Snr. Producer, New Product Development
BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment | MC1D6, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ
Rules of the Road for web2.0 sites: Data, Metadata, I
cher as more people use them
> Trusting users as co-developers
> Harnessing collective
intelligence
> Leveraging the long tail through
customer self-service
> Software above the level of a
single device
> Lightweight user interfaces,
development models, AND b
I'm seeing it internally - can anyone confirm it's dead
outside the firewall?
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MentiSent: 17 July 2006 14:00To:
backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] Web API
down?
The server hosting the BBC Web A
OK - so, the summary API/Ajax thoughts...
APIs
- are good. We love APIs.
- They give as much benefit within an organisation - (linking up
internal systems) as they do when publically exposed (mashups)
- There are different flavours of API, and the right API should be used
for the job; always use
OK, by the magic of telnet and white text on a black
screen, I've found out that the people that need to know about this do, and are
looking in to it. Can't give you anything approaching a time it might work
again, sorry.
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behave when playing nice on the
internet."
The ways that code etc should behave will depend upon what you are going
to allow; what content can be used to what end and by whom?
Pete Cole
---
On 7/14/06, Kim Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all
As threatened, here it is.
Title: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback
Crikey!
Hello Phil, and nice to see you decloak (as it is to hear
from all of these new names, by the way)
Those are lovely explainations, thankyou. (incidentally,
i'm glad people
Title: Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the backstage terms, please do NOT use them.
Hello Everyone,
Jem is not around today, so I've been asked to put my official BBC hat on [1] and let you all know the situation with the weather feeds referenced below.
Here's the short version
terms, please do NOT use them.
Ah - ignore my lat mail then. J
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Sent: 27 July 2006 20:18
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the
backstage terms, please do NOT
one else doing it ) and so in the cold light of day I
realise it was a little irresponsible for me to encourage you to put the
data on your site.
Please be patient whilst the BBC continues to work out an 'official'
weather offering with the Met Office.
Cheers
Ben
On 27/07/06, Kim P
Title: The Time When - new feeds!
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/memo_4_new.html
Enjoy. And don’t forget applications for the running backstage job shut on Monday!
Kim Plowright | Snr. Producer, New Product Development
BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment
Done!
kim
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Sent: 04 August 2006 15:48
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Feeds & APIs page down again - fixed
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:17:54PM +0100, Mario Menti wrote
Gratz Mr. Ian!
xk
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Yes - It's surprisingly patchy, the different coverages isn't it? I just
tried to place some photos I took in West Africa... Has anyone ever
tried plotting the various map services on top of each other, to augment
the lowfi sectors of each? Mind you, I'm sure it would be completely
against the TOS.
Mario
Have you seen this? Might be up your
street...
http://www.3pointd.com/20061023/sustaining-the-metaverse-a-3pointd-think-tank/
(just saw your technorati pillars,
nice!)
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Any subsequent republication of the libel is also
actionable, though...
IANAL!
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WinstanleySent: 25 October 2006 09:03To:
backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] Newssniffer - BBC
News site monito
ase
and desist letter for using this information, sadly.
Regards
On 25 Oct 2006, at 11:50, Kim Plowright wrote:
Any
subsequent republication of the libel is also actionable,
though...
IANAL!
From:
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> I’d be interested to know the technical
set-up behind Virgin and the BBC’s last.fm pages though (i.e. how the track data
gets from the playout system to the last.fm page) – I’d gather it’s not as
simple as> hooking up the
last.fm player to whatever you use for your playout – I use the
Backstage: You're not on the list, you're not coming in
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T-shirts
On 10/31/06, James
Oh, dear, that makes me sound like a tit, that blogpost :-)
I think there's some *really* interesting stuff going on in SL at the
moment (Mario, Kosso, hello!) - but there's a lot of hype around the
platform, too; a lot of big companies are going a bit mental about it. I
heard someone say the othe
Hmn,
You're all very quiet.
Hung over?
Kim
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I see your 'written by a Torrent site' and raise you a 'written by a
broadcaster'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6168950.stm
"Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile
device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a
result."
Sigh.
-Ori
Heh, Second Life
Speaking of which: the list might be interested in this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/programme.shtml?day=tuesday&service
_id=4223&FILENAME=20061205/20061205_2235_4223_3276_50 (Mn, how
broken are our listing pages? Quick, someone remind me of one of the
mashups?)
I'll be there - anyone else?
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Sent: 01 December 2006 11:10
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Second Life Event - London 13th Dec
Oh - and I've got the Nabaztag WiFi bunny wired up so that it tells me
in RL whenever someone enters the office in SL (where there's a virtual
bunny)
Oh my god, that's fantastic! Demo! Demo on youtube immediately!
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Um - it depends what you're after? Statistics, or general 'isn't the bbc
marvellous?' kind of stuff? I might be able to dig some stuff out.
What/who is the report for?
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Sen
"FEES AND SERVICES . Subject to Section 15 herein, the Service is
provided without charge to You for up to 5 million pageviews per month
per account, "
http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html
I'll tell you this: our volume is a wee bit more than 5m PI/month. :)
We do have a big internal stats
FFMpeg?
(I may have misunderstood what you're after tho)
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
>FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and
video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library.
FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most
operating
>Haven't played it myself but Yahoo and O Reilly have had this out for
a couple of years now.
>"The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech
products, concepts, and trends"
Always struck me as a very clever way for Yahoo! to get ahead of the
curve market information on where to
>>> Maybe we should try and get more BBC managers here.
>>
>> How do you know there not watching this already? Seriously!
Define Managers?
Because, well, if Tom L (in charge of plan for future of bbc.co.uk), Jem
(in charge of strategy group for user generated content), Matt L (in
charge of in
>At the moment Mark Kermode's review of The Last King of Scotland is
currently available as a podcast on the BBC site, and a link to that in
the same feed would be excellent! (There is an RSS feed that contains a
reference to this podcast, but as far as I can tell, it has no
relationship to the fe
do
something with it (i.e., do more than just list the data), and then
discover that you can't put the results on a map (for example) because
the feed doesn't include appropriate geo data.
Regards,
Mark
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> >At the moment
You are a very very nice man.
x
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Sent: 24 January 2007 15:19
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Subject: Re: [backstage] Movies Data
> Yeah - I know that you can't do anything fun unless we can give y
I've been lurking on the Musicbrainz dev list for years; iirc, there is
some hidden category to make duets/collaborations like that resolve to
two artists.
It may well be worth finding their list archives to check we're not
about to rediscuss all of the conversations!
(Is Rob Mayhem and Chaos on
Now - an aside - Musicbrainz was set up because of Gracenote. If I
understand correctly, the dataset that Gracenote CDDB is based on was
orginally an 'open' database with information contributed by the public.
It was sold, and changed its licensing structures away from the original
open source mode
BTW - stumbled across this last night
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/ftvdb/
Might be useful, or at least somewhere to poke to open up their data,
too? (Did the Movies Data list get set up?)
Thanks for the LibraryThing tipoff from last week, too.
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> Any more suggestions?
Gosh, inspired by Nick
You might want to understand 'sections within a longer chunk' - for
things like continuous performances where 'songs' elide in to one
another / there's no break between movements, and you have an arbitrary
change point / blending period between 'song
o mean to them, they're a nice bunch. I used to use their library
back in the day.)
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Sent: 31 January 2007 08:04
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Movies Data
Hi Kim,
Read the press release, penguinista! :)
"This requires the BBC to develop an alternative DRM framework to enable
users of other technology, for example, Apple and Linux, to access the
on-demand..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press-releases/31-01-2007.html
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Cor blimey, it's like watching Walter Benjamin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction
and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon
Go at it like luchadores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucha_libre
>On 31/01/07, Jam
>> I believe that you would see some big players come forward to take
>> advantage of the service. At the same time it opens the power of the
>> BBC to lesser known artists, independent studios and even totally
>> independent artists (a bit like a book publisher who accepts
unsolicited manusc
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From: Kim Plowright
> Great idea. They could call it "Young Filmmaker Of The Year." Get
Michael Rodd to judge the entries.
Or maybe Film Network? That's got a nice ring to it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/
And you could do something similar fo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Web2.0 in a nutshell.
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could submit previous short stories to the BBC for a possibility of a
reading on a BBC radio station (probably BBC 7, though I'd personally
like BBC radio 4).
[Kim Plowright] So, here's a dumb question, that I'm going to ask anyway
because sometimes they get interesting answers.
> (Having said that, looking at
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/ now I see most of the
> images are 404ing and the navbar at the top says "[an error
> occurred while processing this directive]" - so I guess
> Auntie doesn't care for minorities that much afterall...)
Sometimes a server g
> (Yep - the BBC doesn't even own the Daleks...)
The BBC owns *half* the daleks - specifically, the look and visual identity.
The estate of Terry Nation owns their behaviour.
So - if you want to use a picture of a dalek, you approach the BBC. If you want
said dalek to move around shouting 'E
ackstage] RE: [backstage] 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 13/02/07, Kim Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> I wish I was being paid to debate this stuff, haha :-D
I'm not paid to debate this stuff. I do it for 'fun'. Ha ha.
Re other arguments:
I DON'T KNOW. I AM NOT A RIGHTS LAWYER.
I was just trying to explain my understanding of the situation.
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Heh
(aside)
I know it's 'rubbish flash', but this was the first area of the BBC site I
produced all on my own:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/testcards/
They're made by a chap called Dave Jeffrey - more of his stuff here
http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash.htm
Oddly, I got a phonecall about them
> >> I had to rescue the original FLA file from a Zip100 disk that I've
> been keeping safe in my desk drawer for about six years...
>
> Ah, BBC archiving at its finest :-)
Hey, don't knock it. :-)
I once rescued a record of the output of the old drama plays department.
It had been originally
Yes - you could charactarise the US way of working as a way of
maximising ad revenue from a the diminishing halo of a brand, regardless
of whether creatively the project is still vigorous. Or, in plainer
language, flogging a dead horse.
Not to say there aren't long runs of UK stuff. My Family, for
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