Internet Archive Chages Video URL’s
Published by Josh Leo on 28 Jul 2005 at 8:49 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Vlog News.
Video blogs across the internet are suffering from many-a dead link. It looks like the Internet Archive (and obviously Ourmedia) has been doing some reconfiguration with some stuff, which has recently been causing problems for Vloggers trying to upload videos. But this new problem effects videos that have already been uploaded and linked on your video blog.
If when you posted your video, you linked to the URL that started with something that looks like this:
http://ia108026.us.archive.org/3/items/Your Name/Title.mov
then you probably wind up with a nice error message.
So, now all those people who have dead links need to go back into the Archive or Ourmedia and link to the URL that looks like this:
http://www.archive.org/download/Title_of_Post/Title.mov
I guess we all have learned our lesson as to which URL to link to from now on. Either way, it would have been nice to know that this was going to happen, or exactly which URL’s to link to
Steve Watkins does a nice job of explaining the situation in his post to the Video Blogging Yahoo Group
Jennifer on 28 Jul 2005 at 9:54 am: 1
Thanks for posting this vital information to those of us interested in being seen online. I have been frustrated lately with enticing titles with no usable link. Perhaps you will be a hero for those of us just learning how to use this media.
We Are The Media : Jay Dedman Interviews Marc Canter on 1 Aug 2005 at 12:24 pm: 2
[…] While at the Blogher conference in San Fancisco, Jay Dedman interviewed Marc Canter about what is going on with Ourmedia. He addresses some of the recent problems, and also some of the recent developments that are on their way. Ourmedia is an amazing resource that, despite it’s kinks, is being worked on by many peope willing to donate their time, energy, and money. I love the fact that my media is mirrored in Amsterdam and Alexandria (let’s just hope that this archive in Alexandria doesn’t go the way of the last one there) […]
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