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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Pressing Question

Looks like Blogger has got a bit bored with supporting externally-hosted blogs (like mine) over FTP. According to the press release:
"FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only 0.5% of active blogs are published via FTP — yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that."
Understandable I suppose, but which way forward? Probably a good opportunity to have a look at Wordpress publishing (I've also got a Tumblr thing running with a feed from here but that's a whole different kettle of ballgames).

However, Solveig's used to the Blogger way so I guess we will port hers to be a Google-hosted 'Custom Domain' - she'll also then get access to the fancy sidebar widgets which might be a boon.

Anyway, between now and mid-March, expect to see some changes around here, not least with the RSS feed, the commenting system and probably the design.

Ah well, any excuse for a tinker :)

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

All Seeing iPlayer

I really love the BBC iPlayer; knocks Channel 4's feeble IE6+7 only(!) VOD thing into a cocked hat - and so it should: licence fee money, public responsibility, blah blah blah. However, I see they are about to launch an updated version with combined TV/Radio, easier to navigate user console, ability to resume playback later, a series link style function on your personalised homepage, RSS feeds allowing for mashup potential (yeah!) and a 25% bigger screen. More details:

BBC Internet Blog: iPlayer 2.0

Anyone want to buy a telly? :)

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At June 26, 2008 2:18 PM, Blogger Andy said:

The more I think about it the more I'm wondering what they do about the licence fee... As soon as I can stream cricket and rugby off t'internet my telly's useless (and will be going, too).

 
At June 26, 2008 2:42 PM, Blogger fourstar said:

But as soon as we can do that, the entire infrastructure of UK telecommunications is screwed, isn't it? Bye bye net neutrality; hello £-per-MB downloads...

Am I wrong?

 
At June 26, 2008 2:47 PM, Blogger fourstar said:

Have you tried this:

LiveTV

Obviously it relies on a whole host of differing P2P clients (TVAnts, SopCast, TVU, PCast, etc) with varying degrees of success, although some of the streams are now hosted as an embedded flash player which works OK (sometimes...)

 
At June 27, 2008 7:13 AM, Blogger Alex Andronov said:

Won't they just change the the way the licence fee works to include having a computer?

 
At June 27, 2008 8:20 AM, Blogger fourstar said:

I'm not sure they would be able to would they? Everyone that owns a computer for whatever reason would be obliged to contribute to the production of TV programmes?

They'd laugh them out of court.

 
At June 29, 2008 7:38 AM, Blogger Doug said:

Well we have iPlayer on our TV, and it works much better there than it does on the computer.

 
At June 29, 2008 7:20 PM, Blogger fourstar said:

That's with Virgin, yes? It's an excellent idea but I'm curious - how is it better? Resolution, choice, ease of use, speed of delivery?

So we're actually moving towards "screen with content" aren't we. How it gets there - aerial, satellite, cable, broadband, 3G - is becoming immaterial to the end user. But, obviously, not to the people who own the transmission systems :)

 
At June 29, 2008 9:18 PM, Blogger Alex Andronov said:

I also have it on my wiiiiii but that is a bit rubbish.

 

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