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Telling Stories
I spent some time this afternoon in an edit suite in Belfast Broadcasting House. Some of what I watched, all of it in fact, was pretty powerful stuff. Footage of British soldiers on the streets, saluting the coffin at a republican funeral. A Panorama filmed in a local hall with an audience of political moderates, [...]
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Tags: archive, bbc, history, northernireland, storytelling, web
Last week I blogged about how I’d been working on a way to use BBC iPlayer on my Apple TV. At the request of the BBC, my employer, the plugin is no longer available. The BBC raised concerns around deep linking to iPlayer content and the use of the iPlayer trademark. The plugin was also [...]
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Tags: apple, apple tv, bbc, iplayer, software
X Lossless Decoder
I was given a very special gift on Thursday, a copy of Ash 1977. That on its own is enough to make me happy, but it wasn’t just any copy, this one is from the first 50,000 CD pressings and so has two hidden tracks (Jack Names The Planets and Don’t Know) in the pregap [...]
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Tags: itunes, mac, music, software
Imagine if the BBC was created today. Imagine what it would be like if it was born into this world of the semantic web, linked data and always on, high bandwidth connections. Programmes would be ondemand, programme metadata would advertise and make the programme findable and then it would live a long and happy life, [...]
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Tags: archive, bbc, programmes, time, web
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is a fascinating place. A country of creationists and the place that only just started playing football on a Sunday, it’s also the place I’m proud to call home. Four days in Northern Ireland – a set on Flickr
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Tags: northernireland, photography
iTunes Genius
I’m convinced the Genius feature in iTunes actually sends your track to a real person who works out a playlist by hand. I just got this: I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses Here Comes Your Man – Pixies Supersonic – Oasis This Charming Man – The Smiths Molly’s Chambers – Kings Of Leon [...]
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Tags: apple, itunes, music
links for 2008-09-01
BBC Web Developers on blip.tv "Talks for webdevelopers, especially those working for or with the BBC on new projects which are to make use of their new technology platform (The Forge). Topics include PHP, distributed databases and modern Web/2.0 technology." (tags: bbc web development video training presentation php couchdb database web2.0) Code: Flickr Developer Blog [...]
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Microsoft
It says something about a company when the best thing about their flagship product is the way the Product Key textbox in the installer automatically adds the hyphens to the key as you type…
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Tags: microsoft, userexperience
Post Office
From postoffice.co.uk: Welcome to the Post Office® website – offering you a range of products from Post Office® Broadband, travel insurance and car insurance to life insurance and Instant Saver. I’ve heard they do stamps too… Ok, ok. They do mention that, but only right at the end. I’m almost prepared to forgive them for [...]
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Tags: postoffice, userexperience, web
