The backstage.bbc.co.uk team would like to invite you to the first backstage.bbc.co.uk meet-up.
When: 6:30pm Monday 12th December 2005
Where:Yorkshire Grey Pub in Langham Street, London
We’ve been simply blown away by the spectacular work you’ve been producing – so please allow us to toast your efforts and hopefully get to know you all a little better! It’s also an opportunity for you to meet your fellow backstage.bbc.co.uk enthusiasts, and of course get a chance to chat to BBC folk too.
The Yorkshire Grey Pub is located behind BBC Broadcasting House, and is a short walk from Oxford Circus, Goodge Street and Great Portland Street underground stations.
The Yorkshire Grey Pub
46 Langham Street
London W1W 7AX
Google Map - Streetmap - Multimap
If you would like to attend please sign up on my wiki - where you will also find the full invite and more maps, etc.
I hope you will be able to make it!
Ben Metcalfe
Project Lead, backstage.bbc.co.uk
The Washington Post has launched their own site to champion remixing of their content – unofficially dubbed “The Mashington Post�.
The aims of “Post Remix� is to spotlight cool stuff people have mashed up with WP content and to promote their RSS feeds.
Welcome to the mash-up party, Washington Post!
Is it possible to get a feed for all enviromental news. Or perhaps just a feed of https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm
A lot of the time I would just like to quickly view what it online NOW and what's going to be on next, at a glance. Like the teletext service.
An RSS feed would be perfect for this, particularly if I could integrate it with my personal google homepage.
Example:
BBC1: Now: 20:00 - 21:00 - The News
BBC1 Next: 21:00 - 23:00 - Film: A Random Film
BBC2: Now:
BBC2: Next:
etc...
By Ben
I’ve just come off stage here at the d.construct Web2.0 conference in Brighton. I was talking about backstage.bbc.co.uk and it’s involvement in the Web2.0 community. I also gave the first public demo of the BBC Programme Catalogue project, which Matt Biddulph and Ben Hammersley are currently working on (that project is hopefully due to be launched in beta in the new year).
There’s a great crowd of people here at d.construct – perhaps 80 or so. We’ve been listening to speakers ranging from AJAX experts through to the representatives of other sites with a Web2.0 presence (such as Simon Willison from Flickr).
My presentation from the event is available here.
The BBC News Website is currently running a Have Your Say debate about the opportunities of remixing on the Internet.
Promoted as "Have your say: Are you mashing, remixing and creating on the web?", it’s an opportunity for you to tell the typically-mainstream BBC News audience about the kinds of things you are up to – whether it be on backstage.bbc.co.uk, Creative Archive or maybe somewhere else that’s not BBC.
It’s also an opportunity to check out the recently-launched Slashdot-style community space on the BBC News Website. Now reactively moderated, users can rate the merits of each other’s posts – bubbling up good comments to the surface and ensuring the debate flows in the right directions.
Today I'm (Jem) in Bradford taking part in a launch day for what we're calling the BBC Innovation labs. The strapline is "seeking regional companies to imagine the future of bbc.co.uk". Its a pilot project to commission early stage prototypes from indies and developers in the North West, Yorkshire and London. We'll be reporting on its progress on Backstage and eventually the products that this project will help support will be hosted here. There are further events in North West and London later this month.
Two quick things:
Matt Locke (Head of Innovation at bbc.co.uk) who is running the events has just cited these Backstage prototypes; Davy Mitchell's Mood News, and Mario Menti's searching BBC schedules with IM to illustrate how the Backstage community has developed and implemented some great ideas.
Tony Ageh, the BBC's Controller, Internet said as part of his presentation.
"The BBC needs to break out of its website and be part of the internet. We need to make our solutions available to everyone else."
