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BBC's h2g2 Goes Mobile - Again
zaktheduck writes "According to a recent press release, in anticipation of the new movie and the h2g2 website's sixth birthday, the BBC have relaunched the long-shelved h2g2 Mobile service. The new version of the popular community website allows access to the 7000+ and growing edited guide entries from PDAs, and smartphones. H2g2 had a WAP service back in 2001, aptly named "h2g2 on the Move", but was cancelled when the company faced financial trouble and was purchased by the BBC. Here's a copy of the old promotion page for the service."
I thought the whole of planet Earth had only one entry: Mostly harmless...
h2g2 could have been great, but Wikipedia and e2 have it beat both in size and content quality. 7000 entries is nothing.
So should I throw away all my reference books and keep just one encyclopaedia?
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
Douglas would be happy.
I think Wikipedia has grown into what Douglas had envisioned.
A Free encyclopedia, updated by almost anyone who wants to update it.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
Sounds a lot like the guide to me.
I'll have to look more closely at this new version to see if it can be parsed more easily.
If the Hitchhiker's Guide wasn't mobile, it wouldn't be much use to a hitchhiker, now would it?
I am officially gone from
Please don't start bashing the movie until it has been released to the public and we've all seen it...THEN you may start the bashing.
That's 7000 entries specially edited for reading on mobile devices. The complete guide has lots more.
I stumbled apon this the other day: incase anyone is looking for the original BBC radio show.
The actual entry presented was "Harmless.". "Mostly " was added in the version Ford presented to Arthur, but I really don't recall that it actually made it into updated guide (that shrilly bird, ya know).