admin: December 2007 Archives
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Dec
2007
Merry Christmas!
We're not in, of course, so it's only through your correspondence that we've discovered the main SciCast site has been suffering a little from festive excess (ie. it crashed). This might make it tricky to enter the competition if you're trying to sneak in before the deadline, so here's some specific advice:
- The entry form is here. It's on a different server to the main one (as is this blog), so you may have more luck with that direct link.
- If you have problems, drop us an email. We'll sort you out.
- If you can't enter because of a technical problem, that's clearly our fault and not yours. So long as we know you've tried, we won't be looking too closely at the 'deadline' of 4th Jan.
13
Dec
2007
As we stagger towards offering you proper, high-quality downloads of SciCast movies (yes, downloads are coming. Promise promise promise), this query appeared in our email inbox:
We use ClickView, a digital video library tool to share video resource across the school. Would it be OK to place your films onto our digital library once downloaded?
Absolutely!
We're publishing everything under Creative Commons licenses and you're positively encouraged to do this sort of thing. Hack the films up, join them together with other material, burn them to DVD, archive them, embed them in Powerpoint slideshows, hand your versions around at conferences – anything and everything you like.
The only caveats are:
- You acknowledge, somewhere, the source of the material.
- You don't sell the results for a profit. Duplication and distribution costs are fine, but no sneaky worldwide broadcast with advertising!
- You make your versions available under the same terms (for example: if you hand somebody SciCast films on DVD, you don't prevent them from handing on another copy).
05
Dec
2007
Apologies to anyone who tried to leave comments here in the last week or so: I'd managed to break something, as you'll have seen from the cryptic error message. Now fixed, I think.
01
Dec
2007
Just three new films this week; two connected to the new Inside DNA exhibition which opened in At-Bristol, and one charming little make & do for a rainy weekend. Click through to the main site to view them.(And yes, we will get downloads and a podcast feed going just as soon as we can, so you can have the latest films delivered to you automatically)
01
Dec
2007
This afternoon's edition of iPM on Radio 4 (5:30–6pm) features an interview with me, about SciCast; the show running order is here, and here's a blog post from the journalist I spoke to.
