Since Speechfication seems to be working and the BBC iPlayer is such a delight we thought we'd have a crack at Watchification. It's very much early days; most of the posts up there are tests, the copy in the sidebar is the same as the speechification copy and it's not been designed. But you can probably see what the idea of the thing is. And we'd love to hear from anyone who'd like to be a contributor. (Maybe you could email me - russell at russelldavies.com - if you're interested.)
Some things to note: the iPlayer won't work if you're outside the UK. That's not our fault. But we're sorry. iPlayer programmes exire 7 days after they're broadcast so if you see something you like the look of watch it quickly. (We're going to try and make a little timer or something that'll tell you how long before the programme expires, anyone want to help with that?)
Looks like I'm the first to say well done - this great . . .
Simon James x
Posted by: Simon James | February 21, 2008 at 09:54 PM
I like it too but am puzzled by the name - if speechification wasn't listenification (and rightly so), then why is this watchification rather than something like telefication or tellyfication?
Posted by: John | February 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM
Oddly it's really hard to get expiry dates from the official iPlayer site. They're not on individual programme pages, but instead on the index pages only, and then only as mouseover overlays on the preview image of each show. Hardly very obvious.
Good site, anyway. I'm hoping it'll highlight some BBC Four seasons I'd have otherwise missed, for example.
Posted by: Paul Mison | February 22, 2008 at 01:01 PM