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

I'll send a hampster over. Thanks mini

SEE! I said it was a good idea. Well done that Baron!

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i think it will be a task to clean all these and s out from the site, they are getting everywhere, and multiplying!

mini

Hee hee - excellent photo!

This I can confirm: the journal was always intended to be part of the Guide, right from the beginning. We started (circa 1997) calling them Web Diaries, but decided that both that term and the then new "Web Logs" were too clumsy, hence our choosing the title Journal. The bit we didn't twig was that, shortly thereafter, "Web Log" would contract nicely to "Blog". Thus is history made...

Richard

Cheers Richard!

Can we ask though, do you think we should get some mammoth powered servers? Or stick with the hampster and gnome power?

Ooohhhhh, Interesting, Richard. Thank you.

So, shall we ask the if he likes the idea of running a server?

WHEE we now have s.

We have ? Squeee!!

*stamps on the s*

When can we have an ?

The mammoth begins to *sniff out the gnomes*

Remember how the old Eds started closing Announcement threads because there was so much chat and then people were concerned about missing anything important that got said?

Was there anything I should have read in the last 5 pages of overnight backlog?

Nothing at all.

Maybe you did kea, maybe you didn't. As one of the "over one-half of a million readers" who wouldn't understand a bloody word of it, it's hard for me to tell you though.

Handy time to unsub though.

Except this post, which I did miss and only saw now because it was linked to elsewhere: http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F21546918?thread=8285371&post=110480623#p110480598 ? Where did that come from?

>>Handy time to unsub though

Only if there's nothing important going to be said again, esp from the other side of the fence... what the hell are they called anyway?

Mammoths. They're like elephants, only hairier.

I've no idea what you mean, kea.

I have a mammoth's tooth in my bathroom.

My aunty got it from a guy dragging gravel pits in the area of Kent in which we lived.

It's massive and brilliant.

KB, I mean this is an Announcement thread. Traditionally, the Eds would start one, and sometimes come back and say things during the thread. Important things. Then it got to the point that some people were missing those important things because of the pages of silly talk.

So, now, we have the people making the Announcements, but we also have all sorts of other people involved with running the site. They're all on the other side of the fence from the wider community, in that they have access to information, processes and tools that the wider community doesn't. If they say something important in this thread, it's easy for it to get lost.

We don't appear to have a collective name for the people on the other side of the fence.


Or: Announcements threads should be kept relatively clear of silly and off topic conversations so that those of us subbed to them for Announcement purposes don't get annoyed (or miss the important bits).