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

>> Please continue sending us pictures. <<

Yes please.
How incredible that for all our years on the
Great Vogon Detour of Beebland - "let us all
be bland" - where, supposedly the best modern
visual and video artists are employed, we were
blind sided on every attempt to add some eye-
candy to our stalkings. Auntie Beeb was so mean
that for a couple of years we couldn't even post
links to offsite visuals. It was liking having
our eyes plucked. A virtual mind-pluck!

Now upon looking at these new illustrations I have
to compare their richness to the lack of merit in
most of the visuals one encounters on BBC websites.
The News pages are a but a mere comic impression
of old-fashioned newspaper pages.

If we are going to have significant presents
on the interwebbies we must remember it is
primarily a visual medium - especially four them
what's canna read words and stuff - and we must
paint thousands of words!



~jwf~

The posting above is inspired by new possibilities
suggested in Scientific American about the many
as yet unrealised capacities of cyberspace:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=social-science-virtual-lab-turk

Aye, Horatio, there are more things possible in the
webbies than are dreamed of in your philosophies.


~jwf~

EG:

"...as the rate of information flow increased, any one person would get overwhelmed; so it would be necessary to have a group of people working on it together. But depending on how the group is organized, you could imagine that they’d do a better or worse job, collectively.

"The goal of the experiment then would be to measure the performance of different types of organizations—say with different divisions of labor or different hierarchies of management—and discover which work better as a function of the complexity of the scenario you’ve presented and the rate of information being generated.."

Ah, Scientists g'bless 'em, bless 'em all.


~jwf~

The great thing about this announcement is that it makes h2g2 a more desirable place to publish good writing.

Unlike the BBC we also do no oppose adding more than one picture to an Entry as you can see here for instance: A87773863
Linking to pictures on external sites - as we did for years - always brings the problem of disappearing urls.

>>..the problem of disappearing urls. <<

Indeed! This is the main reason why we must
have our own onsite visuals. Back in the old
days we even had to have offsite links for
Marvin and Zaphod et al, and when the Beeb
took them down we had nothing. There was
also the BIG RED BUTTON. There was only
one constant - the fish on a bicycle.
Even the h2g2 logo got revised.


~jwf~

sounds not very nice... it was before my time
I found 1 picture per Entry very restrictive already. It's enough in many cases but it's a case-to-case thing.

We'll get to 'profusely illustred'.

If I have to raid everything in the Library of Congress...

Does anyone else have pictures for these Entries please?

Would be great if we could get a few more of these winter Entries illustrated, please.

I'll see whether I've one for my entry on tomato and lentil soup. I thought it had a blob!

Will check the others later. Not being into the Festive Season I don't tend to photograph it that much. Will check later.

MMF

thank you!