BBC should concentrate on quality rather than quantity in online video. At least that’s what Pete Clifton of BBC News Interactive said at Future of News Conference.

“We should think more about what that page does in the round and come up with a piece of video that absolutely complements the text… we should do less video but be much more focused on how it works and give it a higher profile where it can work alongside the story.”

I agree completely, but I would add something extra that maybe doesn’t really apply to news pieces but still… fragments. I may or may not want to see an entire show. Sometimes all I want is a short piece and having the option of going directly to that piece is invaluable. Andraz Tori and others with MMC at RTV Slovenija are definitely onto something with Odprti kop (open pit). Thumbs up for our national public broadcaster for finally doing something exciting and (I’ll dare say it although I cannot confirm) innovative.

For those not fluent in slovene ;) and those that may not understand what it’s all about… in short it’s a service where they combined subtitles (if I remember correctly our public broadcaster is required by law to provide them) with video and in effect making the content searchable, quotable and playable in segments i.e. you have to option to play only the few seconds that are relevant to your search query. They also include links to slovenian chapter of wikipedia which could also prove useful in the future as it expands.

I despise everything Apple, mostly because people, for no apparent reason, tend to turn into sheep at mere mention of white rounded boxes and partly because everytime I find myself around one of their products it tends to die on me. No BSOD or some fancy effect like that either. They just die, freeze or give me some other signal I’m dealing with clearly malfunctioning equipment.

There are two things I do appreciate however:

1. They provide very useful guidelines for Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone By all means follow them for other similar handheld devices
2. They were among the first to support H.264 (otherwise known as MPEG4 part 10). Incidentally, H.264 will be the standard used for slovenian digital terrestrial broadcasting (DVB-T), among other aplications. I wonder if they’ll ever adopt Dirac…

via: What Do I Know

Še en teden mimo… smo na 18. dnevu in hrčki se pridno bližajo magični meji 1kg. Pravzaprav sem pričakoval, da bo Hanibal to mejo dosegel že danes pa je bil očitno na nedeljskem postu. Homer je po seriji nekoliko počasnejših krogov zopet v igri za prvo mesto z minimalnim zaostankom, Heli pa z velikim napadom iz ozadja v stilu Valentina Rossija (glej MotoGP v Assnu) po dolgem času spet vodi. Neopazno a vztrajno pa se vodilni trojici po dolgotrajnem ogrevanju približuje tudi Hana. Najbolj urejeno prebavo s skoraj linearnim trendom rasti ima vsekakor Hooch, žal pa je revež še vedno na zadnjem mestu po skupni teži in si deli zadnje mesto po relativnem prirastku.
Vsekakor bo zanimivo videti koliko trenutni trendi nakazujejo naslednje tedne in mesece.

Namesto tabel v obliki slike tokrat v ta namen uporabljam Google Spreadsheet, upam da je bolj pregledno in uporabno. Žal mi je edino za grafe, ki jih Google samovoljno odstrani pri uvažanju iz xls datoteke. Sicer bi jih lahko naredil na novo z uporabo njihovega čarovnika vendar zaenkrat ostajam pri screenshotih. Glej thumbnaile spodaj…

Prav zanimivo je opazovati spremembo vedenja odkar so vsi spregledali, počasi se postavljajo na majave noge in lezejo iz pomožne košare (v uporabi med čiščenjem škatle itd.), predvsem pa so postali nekam bolj glasni (a kljub vsemu še povsem spodobno mirni).

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It’s that time again… weight watching time.

Rather than uploading weight tables as images I’ve uploaded the behemoth (to be) to Google Spreadsheet – view it here. I’d do the same with charts but I haven’t figured out how to do that (yet). Google docs naughtily removes any charts contained in the xls file. Sure, I could make new ones using google interface… someday maybe. But for now I’ll have to make due with images, see below:

Skupna teža / Total weight

Skupni prirastek / total gain

dnevni prirastek / daily gain

Relativni prirastek glede na začetno težo / gain relative to birth weight