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

For anyone not reading http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/08/h2g2_an_update.html

You've got an online resource that you've given very little attention or funding for most of the decade.

Regardless of the lack of attention, it's built up a loyal user-base (and judging by the stats, lots of non-regular interest) and thousands of people have used their time and effort to create an interesting, informative and entertaining resource.

What do you do? It looks like you're trying to justify dropping it.

With funding and attention, you could've had Wikipedia, Myspace and Yahoo! Answers rolled into one. What you've got is something lesser than all three, but still more than the sum of it's parts.

Rather than asking "can we justify keeping h2g2 on", you could do with asking "can we justify letting a golden egg slip through our fingers AGAIN?"

Still, never mind. I suppose you need license payer's cash to fund another interminable season of "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps" instead.

Reading that link I just imagine David Mitchell was sitting there going "CHRIST! What do YOU think Male 45-54?!"