backstage [4-11 Mar]
by Jem Stone
Ian Forrester [cubic garden] kicked this one off, a few months back, by asking this on his blog; "BBC Persian filtered out of Iran, what can we do?" back in January. Mario Menti who's been experiementing with a number of IM bots around news feeds/tv listings had a conversation with fellow lister; Dan Brickley was pointed to Ian's post and developed this; a IM Persian News bot.. The result is a bot now working across a number of IM clients. This might potentially be a solution to freer access to BBC Persian.com.
You can see a screenshot at Dan's Flickr stream.
James Holden has developed the The BBC Homepage Snapshot Archive which in an alternative to Matthew Somerville's take on trying to visually represent how our services/editorial decisions evolve and change over time.
Apologies for the TV Anytime data failing to update a couple of times this week.
Ben of this parish has been away at Etech 06 and has been feeding us emails of new launches, developments and gossips. Ben's highlight was this; Ray Ozzie's [from Microsoft] announcement of a Live Clipboard.
And whilst we're at it, you might be interested in some of the experiments that Tristan Ferne [one of my colleagues from the BBC Radio and Music Interactive team] has been having with the iTunes signature maker. He's developed some nifty sound representations of the BBC's National Radio networks. [inspired by the fuss over the decision to stop playing the UK Theme every morning on Radio 4.]
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