Ronen wrote: > I think the question is less about keeping backups so much as if there's a > way to develop a system for organizing all the links -- so that a blog can, > with a quick change, alter all the links to a new videohost.
I've thought about how to do this... It would be fairly simple using something like WordPress or a small web-app that basically masked/redirected your URLs for you. So the link to your video would look like this: http://yoursite.com/video.php?id=5 Which would send out a 302 Found header with the following: http://blip.tv/path/to/video.mov or: http://ourmedia.org/path/to/video.mov or whatever... The point being, you would abstract out the real URL to a variable (5 in this case) so if your videos ever had to move, you would not be changing the permalink, but just where it points to. This is pretty much what Ourmedia does, where a link like this: http://www.archive.org/download/First_Snow/20051124firstsnow.mov really redirects you here: http://ia300838.eu.archive.org/0/items/First_Snow/20051124firstsnow.mov As an added bonus, your site would log the requests for the videos too, which doesn't happen if you just link to the videos on sites besides your own. Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
