Last week I got excited about the as-yet unreleased geolocation API for BBC Backstage. Now Larry D. Larsen of the Poynter Institute is excited too. In a post titled The Future of News (… Hint: GPS) he talks about putting news in geographic context with geolocation tags.
Eventually, clicking an article in a news/Google Map hybrid [...]

Posted June 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: api, bbc, future of news, geolocation, gps, news, poynter institute, reported. 5 Comments.

The APIs aren’t yet out, but the BBC has already won me over with their Backstage BBC concept. Of course, I’m a fan of anything with an API, but the real deal here is that it appears they’re planning on releasing a “query by geo-location data” API — and I’m all a gaga about about [...]

Posted June 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: api, backstage, backstage.bbc, backstage.bbc.co.uk, bbc, bbc backstage, geolocation, news. Be the first one.

I had just sat down to post a note about an interview with J.D. Lasica in On The Media (listen to MP3) this week when I found David Rothman beat me to it. The interview was one of the better treatments of copyright issues that’s I’ve heard/seen in the (relatively-) popular media.
Here’s the summary from [...]

Posted June 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property. Tags: api, bbc, bbc backstage, copyright, copyright issues, copyrights, darknet, david rothman, developer interface, on the media. One Comment.