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TW transcript? Flash?

Post 1

The Wisest Fool

Hi,
I was wondering if you could stick up the relevant bit of the transcript of the Tomorrow's World prog that launched h2g2. I live in the UK, but work some strange hours so I missed it.
Maybe it would shine a bit more light on just what direction D.A. wants the guide to go in and could be of interest to people in other countries.
I encountered the site by random so I posted an entry in a 'continuation of the book' type style. Later in the week a bit of editorial popped on the main page that inferred that this was not was what was wanted. It reminded me of the Vogons telling the people of Earth that the plans for the bypass were made available on Alpha Centauri for all to see.
As a supposedly valued Field Researcher I want to get it 'right'.

Also, I can make shockwave/flash doohickeys. Is there any scope for creating interactive user pages, or do you want links to our own sites to keep the file sizes down? If we could embed Flash stuff like we can apparently do with images (by linking to an external image), wouldn't that solve problems in that last respect? RealAudio stuff would be cool too. I know text is nice, most of us signed up because we loved the books, but interactivity on a big site like this could make it an even more useful guide. By keeping it in a separate area you could evade most of the problems with plug-ins.

Whatever happens, good luck!


TW transcript? Flash?

Post 2

Slacker

Thanks for your points - we'll aim to address them as soon as we can.

We plan to enable users to do more things with their home pages, so the ideas you're talking about will probably come about on h2g2.

Thanks.

Tim


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