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KM, Beeb style

KM, Beeb style 06/24/2005 09:58 PM
Inside Knowledge devotes 2,300 well-written words (by Sandra Higgison) to the work of Euan "The Obvious" Semple at the BBC. Euan has been leading the BBC down the social software path before software was called social. Meanwhile, I'm trying to wrestle my 75+ pages of notes on the Beeb's digital make-over into 2,500 words for Wired. More words! I need more words!...

Auntie Beeb

Auntie Beeb 02/17/2004 11:55 AM
The history of the BBC
A chronological history of everyone's favourite broadcaster, from Guglielmo Marconi to Ricky Gervais.

Gina at the Beeb

Gina at the Beeb 02/01/2005 09:07 PM
Hey, cool, Gina's post about fixing her mother-in-law's computer made the BBC website. I was spending those same few days doing some very similar tasks, so I'm glad to see that the unpaid IT department that actually subsidizes the tech industry is getting some press. I haven't finished my post...

Beeb Under Apple's Sway

Beeb Under Apple's Sway 04/29/2004 07:44 AM
The independence of the state-run BBC has come into question after stories that gush so much about Apple, that they could have been penned by Job's Mob spinners have been appearing. By Nick Farrell, The Inqurier (via MyAppleMenu)

Creative archive licence group at The
Beeb

Creative archive licence group at The
Beeb 04/14/2005 04:38 PM

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Beeb sites face 'public value test'

Beeb sites face 'public value test' 07/05/2004 12:49 PM
"BBC wields axe over websites" Some BBC websites are going to be going away soon due to a "public value test", discussed earlier here and here. This comes after the Graf Report and charges that they aren't different enough from commercial sites. Will you miss "Pure Soap," "Fantasy Football" and the others?

Join Friends of the Creative Archive and
help the Beeb put EVERYTHING online

Join Friends of the Creative Archive and
help the Beeb put EVERYTHING online 06/02/2004 12:10 PM
The BBC's Creative Archive is well underway now and a group of UK-based copyright activists and concerned license-payers have gotten together to lend their support to the project. The Archive is a project to put the BBC's enormous archive on the net for free viewing and remixing by the license-paying public. If the Beeb pulls this off, it will be the largest and most ambitious open-content project in the history of the world; a shining proof of the idea that the sky doesn't fall when you relax your copyright a little. I mean, we're talking the future of public service broadcasting here.

So the Friends of the Creative Archive are a bunch of concerned people who want to keep this on track. It's certain that there's going to be a lot of opposition to this -- from rights-holders, commercial broadcasters, even parts of the Beeb. But at the end of the day, the license-payers bought that programming, and it's not doing us any good sitting on the BBC's shelves.

You can help: if you're a license payer, you can join the Friends, and there will be lots of opportunities in the near future to petition the Beeb, the Governors, the DCMS and Parliament for this -- there's an open letter now that you can sign onto.

Here are some of the elements critical to the creation of a real, useful, relevant Creative Archive:

* It must be broad: drawing from all areas of the BBC's broadcasting from factual to light entertainment, from drama to sport, and everything in between.

* It must be accessible: files must be made available in open, standards-defined formats without "digital rights management" or other technology locks that will keep Britons from creatively re-using the BBC's offerings.

* It must be free: Material should be licensed under conditions that do not restrict any licence payer from accessing, storing, modifying or sharing archive material for non-commercial use.

* It must be whole: Material should be provided in its entirety for non-commercial use, not only in excerpted form.

* It must be soon: the BBC's own internally produced material should be released into the Archive as soon as possible, to prove to the world that the sky won't fall if you relax your copyright stance.

* It must be complete: the BBC should take steps to clear the rights to the independently produced material in its archive.

* It must be sustainable: the BBC's new licensing agreements with independents should all include the right for the BBC to make the works available in the Creative Archive for full non-commercial use.

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Copy-crippled CDs launch in UK, baffling
Auntie Beeb

Copy-crippled CDs launch in UK, baffling
Auntie Beeb 02/12/2004 11:26 PM
Borked by the BPI

Boing Boing: Join Friends of the
Creative Archive and help the Beeb put
EVERYTHING online

Boing Boing: Join Friends of the
Creative Archive and help the Beeb put
EVERYTHING online 06/03/2004 06:37 AM
Join Friends of the Creative Archive and help the Beeb put EVERYTHING online .. Boing Boing

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PENTAR Avionics' Latest Airborne Network
Computer, the JetLAN AR230, Provides
Integrated Wireless Capability w

PENTAR Avionics' Latest Airborne Network
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Notes and Tips: iPod Troubleshooting

Notes and Tips: iPod Troubleshooting 07/26/2004 10:56 AM
Apple updates its iPod troubleshooting FAQ.

iPod is favourite stocking thriller as
internet shopping finally booms

iPod is favourite stocking thriller as
internet shopping finally booms 12/13/2003 08:43 PM
Observer Dec 13 2003 8:12PM ET

iPod Is Favourite Stocking Thriller As
Internet Shopping Finally Booms

iPod Is Favourite Stocking Thriller As
Internet Shopping Finally Booms 12/14/2003 08:43 PM
The iPod may be just a hard-disk storage device, but it has become a cult consumer gift that has achieved a unique festive status over the past few days: it is the fastest-selling item being snapped up by internet shoppers. By Robin McKie and Ben Wilson (The Observer via MyAppleMenu)

PerlPodder 0.2 (Default branch)

PerlPodder 0.2 (Default branch) 04/12/2005 11:54 PM
Perlpodder is a tool similar to iPodder that downloads RSS2 enclosures as subscriptions or based on a keywords search in the tag. It can run as a cron job, searches for your MP3 player's mount point, and downloads all the podcasts on your list. It keeps a list of podcasts that have been already downloaded.

Closers Blow Leads for Giants, Braves
(AP)

Closers Blow Leads for Giants, Braves
(AP) 04/13/2005 06:45 AM
AP - With their new closers on the mound and seemingly secure leads, the Giants and Braves must've been thinking victory was a certainty. Think again.

Coffee With Networking for Macmillan's
World's Biggest Coffee Morning

Coffee With Networking for Macmillan's
World's Biggest Coffee Morning 09/13/2004 03:17 AM
Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning Event to auction off lots from original works of art to lunch with IT/telecoms journalists. Great fun for a great cause. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

On my favourite books...

On my favourite books... 04/12/2005 08:22 AM

Okay. I don't normally do these things and please God don't take this as an opportunity to start sending me more of them, but I'm going to respond to Lubin Odana's book-reading memetic challenge. I don't normally do these kinds of things because I don't really think they're aimed at me. I think they're really good ways to introduce people to the wider world, to help people get a grasp on your character and stuff, and that if people haven't figured out what I'm like by now after five years of slapping this rubbish on the internet, then they basically never will. Still never mind, here we go...

You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? This is a really tricky one for me. Probably my all-time favourite book is Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 which I'll talk about in a bit. But another favourite of mine is a book called Ready to Catch him Should he Fall by Neil Bartlett which I think is one of the few books that I've read that managed to capture a powerful and natural-feeling, balanced idea of a non-hetero-orthodox gay relationship. I found it incredibly powerful and interesting. More importantly, I'm much less confident that anyone else would look after it in a dystopian future than I am about Slaughterhouse 5, and someone has to stand up for the poofs and it might as well be me.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? God, I have absolutely no idea. Probably when I was much younger I thought that Keill Randor from Planet of the Warlord was unbelievably hot and there was some weird S&M plot in that book too which probably did a lot to confuse my teenage mind. There are many characters in books that I've idolised in various ways - Des Esseintes in Huysmans' Against Nature was probably a core one. And Dionysus in Euripides' Bacchae. But I think probably I have more crushes on fictional characters from TV shows, comics and films than I do from books. This probably suggests that what people look like is important to me. So I'd talk about Booster Gold from his original comic book series, Dr John Carter from the first few seasons of E.R., Ricky Fitts from American Beauty, Han Solo / Indiana Jones and maybe the Colonel from Stargate. I'm so shallow that the slightest drop of water would find no rest in my embrace...

The last book you bought was: Terrifyingly it was Getting Things Done by Dave Allen. I bought it months ago and have bought no books since because I've been busy and found it difficult to focus. I read about half of it. Then got stuck. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

What are you currently reading? On my last count I had 160 open tabs in Safari, I had 30 open tabs in NetNewsWire, I had 3000 unread posts in my newsreader and I had 27,000 unread e-mails across my work and personal e-mail accounts. What the crap do you think I'm reading?

Five Books you would take to a desert island:

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers - A sprawling, indolent and defiantly (arrogantly) colloquial / personal autobiography that pushes many of my fantasy buttons - being able to hang out with my brother a lot, being relatively free in the world, being able to be creative and misbehave, working and living in San Francisco.
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster - or ideally a huge anthology of all of Paul Auster's books. The thing about these books for me is that their resemblence to reality seems entirely incidental to the clean arcing groves of plot and narrative that don't necessarily convey you through character but which one feels (if one could move abstractly in a direction orthogonal to the book) would look so perfect and structural when observed from 'above'.
• Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein - honestly because it's the longest book I've ever read and because it's wide and deep enough to get lost in for long periods of time. It appeals to the completist and the geek within me, always looking for consistent continuities and wanting to be convinced that the world could be something other than it is.
• Slaugherhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut - a time-travelling blackly comic war novel. I think that you can deduce much about my character from this book. Science fiction books and fantasy novels are read by people ill-adjusted to reality, the same people who write comic books and aspire towards making future technology that will make everyone happy. This book has that in it. These people are also kind of childish, and if confronted by the world directly seem to only be able to understand it in terms of black humour. This book has that in it. There's also a desperation and a wit to it as well that I really respond to. I don't know if this is a particularly happy description of my personality, but there you go.
• Gravity's Rainbow or V by Thomas Pynchon - because I haven't completely read either of them, and they're rich and deep and thrillingly written enough to last a while and continue to resonate and mean for a long period of time (and because I'll never read them in the meantime).

I'd also take with me about four hundred dodgy comic books and a pile of DVDs. But hey. Anyway, I hope that's satisfactory and interesting enough for you filthy voyeurs out there in realspace. I'm going to pass the challenge on to some people who almost certainly won't want to go near it: Dan Hill because he's my boss and needs to suffer, Stefan Magdalinski because he's a stroppy bastard and as such I'd enjoy hearing his rants and Matt Jones because he reads weird shit...

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"Favourite expressions"

"Favourite expressions" 06/18/2004 11:21 AM

favourite favicons

favourite favicons 06/02/2004 01:47 PM
i like how favicons went from being evil MS spyware to a must-have design feature

How not to re-enact your favourite movie

How not to re-enact your favourite movie 02/17/2004 10:03 AM
How not to re-enact your favourite movie Two girls take their love of Thelma and Louise too far. Laws aside, what scene from a movie would you live out if you had a choice?

What's YOUR favourite ascii fart? \m\
(-_-) /m/

What's YOUR favourite ascii fart? \m\
(-_-) /m/ 11/15/2003 10:03 PM
Ascii Farts.

Snooker: O'Sullivan is favourite

Snooker: O'Sullivan is favourite 05/01/2004 11:00 PM
Graeme Dott admits he faces a huge task in Sunday's final against Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Henman starts favourite

Henman starts favourite 06/30/2004 01:05 AM
Tim Henman takes on unseeded Mario Ancic in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.

Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language

Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Brian Kernighan, the documenter of the C programming language, wrote a rant entitled Why Pascal is Not My Favourite Programming Language. I can picture him thinking to himself smugly as he repeatedly strikes facetiously at Pascal by describing a few of its small flaws over and over again. Unfortunately, time has not been kind to Kernighan's tract. Pascal has matured and grown in leaps and bounds, becoming a premier commercial language. Meanwhile, C has continued to stagnate over the last 35 years with few fundamental improvements made. It's time to redress the balance; here's why C is now owned by Pascal. - James Joyce. James appears to be more fond of PHP than C. No objections there! And if you don't take it all too seriously, the responses are quite amusing.

"Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language || kuro5hin.org"

"Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language || kuro5hin.org" 02/10/2004 09:26 PM

Favourite makes Booker shortlist

Favourite makes Booker shortlist 09/21/2004 10:47 AM
Six authors are shortlisted for the Booker prize, including favourite David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas.

IT rackets are favourite for organised
crime

IT rackets are favourite for organised
crime 06/10/2004 08:05 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 10 2004 12:33PM GMT

"he set about perpetuating his favourite
lie about the invasion of Iraq"

"he set about perpetuating his favourite
lie about the invasion of Iraq" 05/25/2004 05:39 PM

Daily Updates On Your Favourite
Musicians

Daily Updates On Your Favourite
Musicians 07/25/2004 09:31 AM

Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language kuro5hin.org

Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language kuro5hin.org 02/10/2004 09:18 AM
industrial strength nail gun .. Dave Winer

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normbl0g: Favourite Movies of All Time

normbl0g: Favourite Movies of All Time 01/27/2004 08:57 AM
results of his “favorite movies of all time” poll .. Norm Geras .. normblog

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Cold Mountain is Bafta favourite

Cold Mountain is Bafta favourite 01/19/2004 08:29 AM
Jude Law movie Cold Mountain has the most Bafta nominations at 13, one more than The Return of the King.

Everyone's favourite Camelite father

Everyone's favourite Camelite father 12/19/2003 01:17 PM
T he latin lover
Father Reginald Foster, the Pope's own Latinist has a weekly show on Vatican radio, they are always informative and often hilarious (Real player required).

Favourite Non Main Stream Search Engine

Favourite Non Main Stream Search Engine 02/24/2003 09:11 AM
General survey on the second and third teir of search engines.

Favourite Favicons | Delta Tango Bravo

Favourite Favicons | Delta Tango Bravo 06/03/2004 06:37 AM
Favourite Favicons Delta Tango Bravo .. Nice list of good "favicons" .. favorite

deltatangobravo.com/archives/2004/march/favourite
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Muppets top poll of Britain's favourite
TV boffins

Muppets top poll of Britain's favourite
TV boffins 09/06/2004 03:34 AM
BBC Sep 6 2004 8:00AM GMT

Lego rated adults' favourite toy
(Reuters)

Lego rated adults' favourite toy
(Reuters) 05/31/2004 10:01 AM
Reuters - Lego, the multicoloured plastic bricks which delight youngsters but catch out unwary barefoot parents, has been voted the nation's favourite toy, according to a poll.

TCP/IP Troubleshooting

TCP/IP Troubleshooting 04/13/2004 10:06 AM

Microsoft payout makes Gates everyone's
favourite uncle

Microsoft payout makes Gates everyone's
favourite uncle 07/22/2004 09:40 AM
He's been branded a corporate bully and hailed as technological visionary, but Microsoft Corporation's plans for a record pay-out to shareholders has thrown the spotlight onto Bill Gates, the ultra-generous philanthropist. The US software behemoth on Wednesday unveiled a plan to deliver an estimated $75 billion (R456 billion) to its shareholders over the next four years as it moves to slash the $56 billion cash mountain it is sitting on.

The Beeb On Your Pod

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