January 25th: The Tour getting smaller? Yes, and that’s a good thing. One of the challenges for managing an image database this big is duplicate-looking images. Try as we might, dupes get into the Tour and are hard to root out. But now we’ve found a great new tool for finding these images and the result is an overall image reduction of over 300 images. Now that we’ve cleaned up our act so to speak, we’re poised for a new phase of growth. And for that the Tour will need you help. An announcement pertaining to that will follow.
January 4th: Well the BBC certainly knows how to gin up interest in the program don’t they? It has to be said that the interim period between learning of the impending announcement of Friday to the unveiling Saturday was one of delicious anticipation for the THT Brain Trust. This was truly the first ‘Next Doctor’ announcement for the internet age. Tennant was named just after the 2005 started rolling and we learned Eccleston was leaving. Eccleston’s surprise casting was made without terrific fanfare, and McGann was cast in the formative days of the net. So now Mr .Smith goes to Gallifrey, He brings the relative anonymity of Tom Baker and the exaggerated youth of Davison. It has to be said, at least for this fan–who started watching Doctor Who in 1981–that Matt Smith hadn’t even been born! I suspect that says more about me than him. In Moffat We Trust. Matt Smith also poses a bit of a challenge for internet scavengers, at least initially. Not much of a web presence. Still we’ve begun that process of building out the Matt Smith portion of the Tour
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January 2nd: Well the BBC have certainly trumped anything I was going to say today. We can promise that, as we did both in 2004 and 2005 when the previous Doctors were cast, we’ll throw a quick "Who Not Who!" gallery together for the new Doctor no later than the end of the weekend. On a separate matter, as we do every year, as the twelve days of Christmas come to a close, so must The Feast of Steven. Catch it before it hibernates for another year.
