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

[Ed Carlevale]

Oh good, this gives me a chance to express kudos to TechTV. Without  
Kris' help my websites would look like something I made with Frontpage  
when Jimmy Carter was president. TechTV makes it easy to post videos  
and embed them on a site. Not only that, the view count for even the  
humblest video is amazing, presumably because of the cross-posting  
with YouTube and iTunes U. So if updating code and changing some urls  
is necessary, though I might grumble instead of whistle while I do the  
actual work, I'm all-aboard for helping TechTV continue to grow.

-- Ed


On Aug 10, 2010, at 3:39 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:

> 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.
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