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VINTAGE OLD PEDOMETER NEW HAVEN WITH CHAIN **NO RESERVE** US $7.58 (6 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 8:39:43 PST

BIG DIGIT STOPWATCH BY LEARNING RESOURCES NIB US $14.99 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 8:56:06 PST

Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Running Watch with Wireless Heart Rate Monitor US $157.75 (11 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 8:57:06 PST

SPORTLINE 955 Men's Totoal Fitness Pedometer Black Sports Watch US $16.99 (1 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 9:08:56 PST

MOTOACTV 8 GB GPS Fitness Tracker and Music Player US $194.36 (11 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 9:17:09 PST

New GARMIN Forerunner 310XT SPORT Hand WATCH 310 XT NIB US $289.00 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 9:22:54 PST

Nike RUN WITH IT running shoe neoprene wallet US $6.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 9:38:31 PST

NEW Garmin Forerunner 310Xt Heart Rate Monitor with SDM4 Foot Pod FREE SHIPPING US $439.99 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 9:38:48 PST

Pro Chronograph running Digital Timer Stopwatches Sport Counter Watch sporting US $0.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 9:47:25 PST

Garmin Forerunner 210 GPS Watch w/ HEART RATE MONITOR US $202.50 (18 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 10:00:40 PST

Quick Release Kit Garmin Forerunner 310XT 010-11215-02 US $39.00 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 10:11:54 PST

Nike + Band US $5.00 (2 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 10:31:56 PST

KELLY HOLMES FITNESS SPORTS WATCH & HEART RATE MONITOR OLYMPIC DREAMS START HERE US $15.78 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 10:46:00 PST

Timex T5G971 Personal Trainer Analog Heart Rate Monitor US $69.95 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 10:48:55 PST

Timex Ironman Triathalon Heart Rate Monitor And Watch US $10.50 (7 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 11:16:26 PST

Digital Handheld Sport Stopwatch Stop Watch Alarm Clock US $51.07 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 11:31:11 PST

Garmin Forerunner 910XT GPS-Enabled Device with Heart Rate Monitor US $530.00 (17 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 11:38:43 PST

New Balance Sport Chrono Max 50, NEW US $29.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 12:02:47 PST

Suunto X9i GPS Altimeter Watch US $279.00 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 12:16:21 PST

**NEW** Garmin FR60W fitness watch with wireless sync US $69.99 (1 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 12:24:23 PST

NEW Pyle Ski Master Watch w/ Ski Logbook, Weather Forecast, Altimeter, Barometer US $64.39 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 12:24:35 PST

Pro Chronograph running Digital Timer Stopwatches Sport Counter Watch sporting US $0.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 12:36:48 PST

Garmin Forerunner 405 GPS US $103.50 (20 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 12:48:44 PST

SPORTLINE 4823 PEDOMETER / WATCH / HEART RATE MONITOR US $15.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 13:17:53 PST

Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Receiver and Heart Rate Monitor US $112.50 (4 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 13:20:44 PST

BRAND NEW SportLine Calorie Tracking Fitness Watch US $29.99 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 13:24:16 PST

InstaPulse 105 Hand Held Heart Rate Monitor US $114.95 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 13:41:30 PST

InstaPulse 107 Hand Held Heart Rate Monitor US $104.95 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 13:41:54 PST

Quartz Clip Stop Watch Normal Time Day Date Month Alarm Yellow NIB US $5.50 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 13:45:48 PST

New SOMA by SEIKO Men's RunONE 300-Lap Runner's Watch, Digital Chronograph Black US $49.50 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 14:10:19 PST

New SOMA by SEIKO Men's RunONE 300-Lap Runner's Watch, Digital Sport Chronograph US $49.50 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 14:10:19 PST

TECH 4 O WOMEN'S HIKING RUNNING WATCH BLUE PEDOMETER SPEED CALORIES COUNTER NEW US $68.99 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 14:14:13 PST

New Polar FT60G1 Heart Rate Monitor Watch w/ G1 GPS Sensor Purple Pur 90035748 US $168.97 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 14:27:07 PST

Antique Lustro Stopwatch US $80.00 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 14:35:37 PST

4 in 1Clock Daily Alarm Thermometer Count Down Timer US $2.99 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 14:35:39 PST

Garmin 305 Forerunner GPS-enabled trainer with heart rate US $91.00 (6 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 14:42:35 PST

Garmin Forerunner 405CX w/ HRM extra strap US $96.00 (20 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 15:00:27 PST

Neck Strap Navy Blue Stopwatch Digital Watch w Orange Whistle US $6.98 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 15:13:48 PST

Pedometer with Radio US $0.54 (5 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 15:27:51 PST

SPORTLINE PEDOMETER with MAGNIFIER - CLIP ON - STRIDE ADJUSTMENT - NEW!! US $2.99 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 15:50:43 PST

ADP3043 Adidas stopwatch Black Referee Timer Digital Handheld Sports stop watch US $23.70 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 15:52:22 PST

Stopwatch - Large Display - Water Resistant (810035) US $39.00 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 15:58:59 PST

Spalding Sport Timer - NIP US $4.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 16:08:30 PST

Sportline Digital Pedometer with Pulse US $9.95 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 16:56:59 PST

Pro Chronograph running Digital Timer Stopwatches Sport Counter Watch sporting US $0.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 16:57:21 PST

2 Multifunction Digital Step Counter Walking Pedometer US $54.06 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 17:00:50 PST

Ultrak 255 electronic pedometer NIP US $5.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 17:21:25 PST

Garmin Forerunner 50 Watch Wireless Sync Pedometer w/ HRM1 Heart Rate Monitor US $28.00 (7 Bids) End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 17:34:32 PST

Blk Alarm Timer Stopwatch w Orange Whistle for Teachers US $6.99 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 17:44:11 PST

SPORTLINE STOPWATCH US $10.00 End Date: Saturday Feb-04-2012 17:53:49 PST

With my posts over the couple the last couple of days about The Guardian's Open Platform and m.guardian.co.uk, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was going to be wall-to-wall Guardian on currybetdotnet from now on. However, on Tuesday night I was back at one of my old stomping grounds, the BBC, for the event wrapping up Steve Bowbrick's time as the BBC's "open blogger".

Although, to be fair, Emily Bell was on the panel, so there is still a Guardian angle to it...

Highlights for me:

• Someone in the audience suggesting that the triumphant figure that it only took £175 to clear the rights to re-use a Panorama programme for educational use would have taken more than £175 to calculate.
• Steve's view that anyone who starts their argument "I've paid for it with my Licence Fee therefore, regardless of any other consideration, it should be free for everyone for perpetuity" was actually inflicting some kind of heat-death on the creative industry of the UK.
• Tony Ageh suggesting that in the BBC, people could either say 'no' or 'not no', but no single person could ever say 'yes' to something and ensure it happened. I like to think that for my teams, when I was at the BBC, I was mostly a 'not no' person.
• The answer to a question from Ian Douglas: "Did you think there were any meetings or discussions you were excluded from?" being "I don't know, I wasn't invited to them". Steve seemed to have met a lot, but not all, of the senior figures at the BBC, but there was certainly a suggestion that some areas were much more willing to engage with the idea than others. He also spoke quite candidly about some senior figures seeing their role as protecting the earnings of 'talent' and commissioned production companies.
• The suggestion that the BBC's Future Media & Technology department should be renamed 'Media', and all the others be forced to adopt names likes 'Old Media' and 'Dead Media'.
• Watching interest grow on Twitter via the #openbbc hash-tag, and finding a few new people to follow/be followed. But still failing to meet @robertbrook

There was quite a bit of debate around whether, in terms of being 'open', EastEnders should be treated in the same way as source code, and a question fired in from Tom Dolan via Twitter suggested that using the guise of 'open' to break 'the fourth wall' damaged entertainment and comedy. Nick Reynolds was also concerned that for the viewer who just enjoyed watching EastEnders, what did all of this "open" actually deliver in value? Emily Bell suggested that programmes and source code were pretty much the same thing, as why shouldn't a Wendy Richards tribute site be able to carry clips of their favourite Pauline Fowler moments, just as much as a programmer should get to use the Glow javascript library.

It was also interesting to be at this BBC event on the same day that The Guardian had launched 'Open Platform'. And not just because I got to top'n'tail my day with events that made it look like I'd started stalking Emily. Steve Bowbrick was concerned that investment in the BBC's equivalent, backstage.bbc.co.uk had stalled. Tom Loosemore had wondered something similar aloud the same day:

"Thinking that Guardian's Open Platform is what BBC Backstage could and should have become" - @tomskitomski

My hunch is that backstage.bbc.co.uk has sponsored a lot of events, fostered a lot of discussion, and done a lot of good work within the BBC to sell the idea of being open in concept. However, I think that at a single stroke on Tuesday, The Guardian effectively released more easily addressable content.

Yet again though, I have a Broadcasting House wifi confession to make. I was also at the event that kicked this whole episode off - the 'Common Platform' Techcrunch UK meet-up. Then I was chastised for secretly watching Euro2008 via Zattoo at the back of the class. This time it was Liverpool vs Real Madrid.

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