John, I'll email you (as soon as I get around to it). Profile address good?
Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?
Anya ,'Storyteller'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Fiona - Nov 08, 2002 4:39:02 am PST #293 of 9843
Jim - Nov 08, 2002 4:40:40 am PST #294 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
THey haven't arrived here yet, due to the horrors of privatised postal services...
John H - Nov 08, 2002 10:47:14 pm PST #295 of 9843
John, I'll email you (as soon as I get around to it). Profile address good?
Yes, and thank you!
Angus G - Nov 09, 2002 5:55:25 am PST #296 of 9843
Roguish Laird
John and Plasmo, I hate to criticise Your Organisation, but it's struck me lately how very lame their TV advertising is at the moment. Take, for instance, oh, just at random, the ad for the online service, that promises things like "loads of info on your favourite shows". Loads of info? Wow, I must go to that website right now! That it finishes with some hopeful-sounding rhetorical question like "what will you find there?" Well, I don't know, why don't you bloody tell me? I realise neither of you has anything to do with this, but still, it must be frustrating to have a great product and have it lousily promoted. (Or perhaps you disagree...? With the lousy promotion bit, obviously, not the great product bit.)
Am-Chau Yarkona - Nov 09, 2002 8:46:14 am PST #297 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
You lucky people to have Buffy tape smugglers!
I have to confess I didn't hear about the german woman being eaten by a crocodile- and while I don't read the newspapers I do hear the BBC news most days, so it can't have got much coverage over here. Funny how they decide what's big news, isn't it?
John H - Nov 09, 2002 5:37:32 pm PST #298 of 9843
the ad for the online service, that promises things like "loads of info on your favourite shows". Loads of info? Wow, I must go to that website right now! That it finishes with some hopeful-sounding rhetorical question like "what will you find there?" Well, I don't know, why don't you bloody tell me?
I can't speak for Plasmo -- who caught the logging industry trying to rig one of our online polls the other day, cool! -- but yeah. The advertising is lame.
But we have a fundamental problem with the website.
People see that we have a website (we're almost universally known as a TV and radio broadcaster, for people who don't know) often just assume that we have details of TV and radio shows there.
We do.
But we have literally hundreds of thousands of pages of other, online-only stuff.
Going back seven years.
They don't see other broadcasters doing that, because their websites are just there to back up the TV and radio programs. What we are is an independant third information network.
If you'd like to let us know how to communicate that to the public quickly and simply, you'll have solved our number one problem.
CaBil - Nov 09, 2002 6:16:42 pm PST #299 of 9843
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Hrm, it's news mostly John H?
Typo Boy - Nov 09, 2002 7:27:54 pm PST #300 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
John H.; for those of us not familiar with your information network can you explain in a little more detail than is possible in a single sentence exactly who the organization you work for is , and what they do?
Maybe creative lighting will strike.
DCJensen - Nov 09, 2002 7:50:16 pm PST #301 of 9843
All is well that ends in pizza.
Link, John H?
Angus G - Nov 10, 2002 12:20:56 am PST #302 of 9843
Roguish Laird
John--maybe they could bring back the "eight cents a day" person to come up with something striking. Of course, you guys probably want to strangle the eight cents a day person, but you have to admit at least it was memorable. At the moment the publicity (not just for the online service--all of it) just screams "cash-strapped public broadcaster"--it's what for some reason I imagine publicity for American PBS being like.
(Everyone else--I'm not being intentionally annoying by not mentioning the name of John and Plasmo's organisation; I'm just not sure how comfortable they are with having it explicitly mentioned.)