blech:
posted on 2006/07/27 21:13
Today the (UK edition) of the BBC News front page gained a new "beta" "in your area" feature.
I switched very briefly from the International edition, put in my postcode, decided it looked awful, and went happily back to a news page that doesn't feature Big Brother evictions.
The:
How long will it be beta for? google news lengths of times?
blech:
However, Ben Metcalfe, possibly (ab)using his insider knowledge, pointed out that the data was coming from JSON feeds and also reverse-engineered the RSS lcoations.
The:
By "insider knowledge" you mean can he use Firefox's TamperData too?
blech:
In the comments, and on a post of his own, Ian Betteridge decides to rip him a new one.
His point seems to be that, by freeing commercial Met Office data, Metcalfe has weakened the BBC's negotiating position, and that he shouldn't have done it.
Metcalfe's defence seems to be that if he hadn't done it someone else would have anyway.
As The points out, once you realise it's driven by something AJAXy it doesn't take the world's most sophisticated debugging tools to find URLs like this one.
Can I just call a pox on both their houses and elect not to care?
The:
I think that would be covered by the disclaimer, tbh
blech:
How handy.
We hate you all. Yes, especially you. Sod off and DIE