Thursday, August 07, 2008

Technical Difficulties

I'm not sure what's going on with the YouTube videos. I checked their site's help forum and saw that they're blaming "the usual suspects"; pop-up blockers, some contention with Flash player and Javascript, old versions of Internet browsers (though this seems to be occurring regardless of whether or not you have IE or Firefox), but they don't seem to have an explanation for the fact that the audio plays while the message "We're sorry, but this video is no longer available" appears for ALL OF THEM!
 
Also, MSNBC is apparently no longer allowing videos downloaded from their site to play if they're more than a day old. Pray tell, who was the genius who came up with something as dumb as that?
 
At least the "Pap Attack" videos from Air America seem to be unaffected. Aside from them, though, I'm not going to embed any more YouTube videos until they figure out what's going on.
 
Sorry about all of this - if I can fix this, I will ASAP (and Blogger itself appears to be hosed - ugh).

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