h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

think i mentioned it before several sites that should not have been effected where ,POV seemed to be completly unnafected yet i would have thought it would have ,yet could not post to MP on another site, same with ican thought that was part of the goverment innicative ,

Interesting to note got email re papers re charter today,any one else get one

Traveller in Time on top
"Whether you are posting on a pre moderated day or not is only in our interest, you are not going to 'listen' to silence as it would be on radio.

I think we did a good job in showing from less then 30 ! accounts online in the early hours peaking upto 160 in the afternoon. Considering there was not much to do here but reading old material.

The site was visited very good, we generated a fair amount of traffic showing our grief in not adding (much) new material.


The BBC employees are not allowed to speak up whether they are fore or against 'the industrial action' as they would use the medium to promote a 'political' coloured point of view. We were allowed to use the site as normal, but we did not.

I am trying to get some frustrations together on < A4107962 > Feel free to drop by at the CWW < Writing-Collaborative >"

Are you sure that's the best frame of mind for such a sensitive task, Jimster?



Mol

I just completed taking a group of bright eyed and bushy tailed media students on a tour of the facility I work at. Oddly, one of the questions asked was *What happens if you go on strike?* My response was totally out of my subconscious I suppose because I said *Everyone loses.* Looking at their faces I had to hastily add *No one goes on strike for themselves or for money, they go on strike for a principle or to help people who can't help themselves alone.* That seemed to placate them but perhaps I should have stuck with my first outburst.

Anyway, I hope you all had a nice day off. Here yesterday's date is called Victoria Day and we get to day off to celebrate a dead, conservative, frumpy, sexually repressed queen. (As opposed to Gay Pride Day when some celebrate a large group of living, liberal, frilly or oiled queens.)

Love that description of ' Victoria day' versus' 'gay pride' day or whatever it is called its soemthign I've heard earlier can someone confirm or deni this? I heard
*gulp*
A news Item on BBC RAdio Four
*gulp*
They were talking of the 24 hour action
*gulp*
and said
*gulP*
*gulp*
that
*gulp*
There was plans for there to be a 48 hour action taken this* week? when, I need time to build a new site to house us all on

The Tuesday and Wednesday after the bank holiday

Bluddy hell, that doesn't igve me long to find a quick thinggy to put together some kind of message bord thinggy I know I cna't survive that long

nor me 2legs so go to it .... I'd offer to help but I'm cr*p at that kinda thing

>> ...doesn't igve me long to find a quick thinggy to put together some kind of message bord thinggy...<<

plaguesville mentioned it earlier, now
it's my turn to remind everyone of:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/n2g2/

n2g2 means Nowhere 2 Go 2.
There are lots of off-site groups but
n2g2 has a history and tradition of
being dedicated to filling gaps in
the h2g2 Universe. It's a Yahoo
group set up more than 4 years ago during
the Great Vogon Detour. It has been lovingly
maintained by a hard core for those inevitable
days when h2g2 is unavailable for any reason
and you find you really have
Nowhere 2 Go 2.

No moderation, no dues, no fees. If you have a
Yahoo ID just click to "join this group". Be
sure to set your preferences to 'no email'
and join in the ongoing conversation online.

~jwf~

I say, you chaps; I've just found this amazing site! It has News and everything:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4574625.stm

"The BBC said Monday's 24-hour walkout saw 38% of staff strike - but the three unions involved put the figure at 55%. "

The first casualty of War is ... erm ... Mathematics.

The referral to ACAS - which involves an agreement between the combatants - usually indicates that there is a wish to get out of the hole which has been dug. Normally when this point is reached (and it has arrived fairly quickly) both sides claim that this was their wish all along and are pleased that the other side has seen sense at last. The time available for talks is short: a couple of days then weekend then bank holiday then strike.

Enough impartiality.
If management can read the runes, they should prepare some concession. If their figures are correct and the action of one third of the work force produced the service reduction witnessed, they have little to be pleased about. Next week, there will be quite a temptation for more people to join the action:
a) they've seen the initial response, and
b) many/most of them will be out of the office on Monday anyway. It will be just a slightly longer weekend than usual.
(Now if they could just organise some sunny weather ...)

That's without commenting on the justice of the case.

We have no public channels, only commercial and as Kea said, there are 4 minute ad breaks, 4 or 5 to each hour. That's why we prefer video!

Yes - I'm madly jealous of you Brits with all your public television channels! We in the States really only have the one - PBS. My family got so fed up with commercials that we gave up our TV 12 years ago. Now we just watch DVDs or that sort of thing.

Now here's an idea - and I bet it would raise some extra money, too - what if the BBC were to offer at least selections of their television programming online - give the overseas BBC fans a chance to pay their license fee and get the programmes too! It would actually be far more cost-effective from my standpoint than having to rent or buy every single vaguely interesting tv series a year after it's been actually aired.

Just an idea.

The BBC at one point were thinking along very similar lines - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3177479.stm

Of course since that story was published there has been a change of DG with a new vision and agenda, so nothing may come of it now. That said it's still worth noting that the thinking is in place somewhere within the corporate structure

That's still going ahead. They also want to make programmes available online for some time after broadcasting, for instance EastEnders for a week, via a P2P network. Only intended for licence-fee payers of course, but maybe they could find a way to allow overseas audiences to pay for the privilige if it works out. Long time away though I think.

I would just like to say that i think the site should stay open ,no matter what.Apart from the fact that the beeb might think we don't /really/ need it if it isn't in use for 48 hours,it gave me a chance to catch up on allsorts of things that i've missed in the past ,but which are current topics!
Of course i /do/have purely selfish reasons too,H2 is part of my daily routine,what would i do with my mornings......it's my contact with the outside world.

Seems like the next strike is off, or at least postponed, Unions are talking to Auntie; it's a start.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4585361.stm

zdt

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4585361.stm

strike has been suspended

Nice simulpost Kaz!!!

zdt

Great minds think alike!