[WebPub] Important Changes to MIT TechTV ? Please Read!

[John Hawkinson]

Hi, Kris.

    This is disappointing. As timbl says, "Cool URIs don't change."
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

    Why is it necessary to break old TechTV URLs? Is it not possible
for you to put in 2,000 (or whatever) redirects programatically?

    Thanks.

--jhawk at mit.edu
  John Hawkinson
  +1 617 797 0250

Kris Brewer <brew at MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 10 Aug 2010
at 12:46:48 -0400 in <7F1FC02D-C8F5-4956-B3F5-F118186A6E91 at mit.edu>:


> Greetings MIT TechTV Users! 
>  
> We have some very exciting news that requires your attention and
> participation.
>  
> MIT TechTV is undergoing some major changes as you read this to
> allow us to make the site bigger and better suited for your needs
> (more details below).
>  
> What this means for you:
>  
> 
>   * Any MIT TechTV video(s) that you have currently embedded (placed
> in your own website all non-MIT TechTV pages) will need to be
> replaced with the new code after the site upgrade on Monday, August
> 23rd, 2010.  This doesn t have to be immediate, but please don t
> forget.  We will leave the old code working until the end of October
> 2010 to give you plenty of time to update your sites and to tell
> your friends to do the same.
> 
>  
> 
>   * Also, any video file download links copied from MIT TechTV pages
> (the gray box to the right of a video under the title of Formats )
> will also need to be replaced after Monday, August 23rd, 2010 and
> before the end of October 2010.