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

Welcome Jimster!

So does that mean you're the h2g2 producer someone here found on the BBC jobs website?

Just wondering!

Jonny

Welcome and good luck!

Oh yes, the job for some sort of producer, of course! I'd forgot about that.
I'm curious too, then.

Nope, Jimster's our new Editorial Assistant, not the Producer - check out <./>Team</.> for the list of h2g2 people and their job titles. We're in the process of employing the Producer as we speak (interviews were last week), and we hope to be able to announce the lucky candidate very soon.

If anyone's interested, these new staff have all joined in the last handful of months:

Editorial Assistant (Jimster)
Community Assistant (Linda)
Programmer (Tom)
Programmer (Igor)

plus there's the Producer to come. If anything, this demonstrates what the BBC thinks of h2g2/DNA - it's putting its money where its mouth is. Nice one!

Hurrah for the ihe italics!!

any one think italics might be related to tribbles?......they do seem to be multiplying at an alarming rate.

FABT

I've seen photos of the London meet which could explain that...

Good news all round, eh Mark? The BBC have made a very wise investment!

Tribbles eh, well that could explain Mark's beard

U000292 = (0!x0!)x(0!+2+(9x2)) = 42

Right, thats that one sorted

what's the difference between an Editorial Assistance and an Assistant Editor?
Sorry, stupid naive 15-year-old here.

Greydesk, shouldn't that be (0!+0!)x(0!+2+(9x2)) = 42

"what's the difference between an Editorial Assistance and an Assistant Editor?"

Those job titles are meaningless, aren't they! (Blame me, I picked 'em.)

Let's see. Sam and Ashley, the Assistant Editors, are managed by Anna (the Deputy Editor), and together they make up the Guide Team. The main responsibility of the Guide Team is to manage the editorial process and to ensure the Edited Guide continues to grow and continues to improve in quality. Up until Jimster's arrival all the in-house subbing on h2g2 was done by Sam, Ashley and Anna, which took up a lot of their time and meant there wasn't any left for developing new stuff.

However Jimster has now joined and is going to be taking a lot of the subbing responsiblities off the Guide Team, so the latter can start implementing some cool new editorial schemes. Meanwhile Jimster will also be providing subbing resources to the Community Team (Peta, Abi and Linda), so he's a stand-alone 'team of one' who will provide his skills to anyone in the h2g2 team who needs help subbing (in the same way that Sri, our artist, is available to do illustrations for the whole h2g2 team).

Jimster needed a different job title to 'Assistant Editor' but one that wasn't a million miles away, so I picked 'Editorial Assistant' because it seemed to sum up his job pretty well, while also confusing the hell out of anyone reading the <./>Team</.> page. And this appealed to me, because I'm warped.

Nothing to do with tribbles, though.

For both Greydesk and Whisky:
Why not (0!+0!+0!)x2x(9-2)=42

How many sticks of rock it that then?

Welcome Jimster, let me know if you prefer aniseed

Welcome Jimster!

The only thing further I'll say is be wary of Linda (Mina)!

B.

Oi! I heard that!
There's no need to spoil all my fun.

Linda... I thought it only fair to warn him about your alter-ego.

Sorry!

B.

And just imagine, many entertaining scenes in the h2g2 offices have been eliminated...

And hello to Tom and Igor, by the way. Programmers are, as everyone knows, the most important people there are...

MaW
(a programmer of a sort)

Oh yeah, without them, practically no h2g2!

Welcome Jimster, by the way!