Blog update

So in the last couple of posts I made, I had to find a new way of sharing my photos and videos and possibly a new home for this blog.  Here's an update on that topic.

Years ago when I moved from my original blog host, the late Yahoo!360, it was a lot of copying and pasting around 100 blog post to Blogger.  Now I have over 200 blog post and no easy way to export and import them onto another blog platform.  So never mind.  It's too much work relocating.  I'm stuck here I guess.

As for the videos and photos, I already mentioned Google Drive will archive all the photos I insert in Blogger and it seams it'll work the same way for videos, provided the video file in 100MB or less per video.  No problem there as my videos in FLV format are around 10-20MB's each.

I was trying to ditch Google altogether, but all the alternatives are too limiting, for free.  So my plan is to use my Google account only for Blogger.  I'll use a different email service for personal use.  Now I just need to convert all my videos in FLV and reupload all my past photos and videos.  You'll see I've already redone a few posts, but it'll take me a long time to fix all of them.  I'll start with the most recent and work my way backwards through time.


John

YouTube, COPPA, The World Gone Mad

You may have noticed that now the videos don't work.  That's because thanks to YouTube trying to throw all the content creators under the COPPA bus, I have decided to stop using their service.  I don't think I had to worry about my videos being thought of as "directed at children," but the way YouTube was handling the whole thing was irritating me.  I'm even considering going as far as moving my blog and email from Google to something else, although I don't know where that would be.  Remember that this blog started on Yahoo's platform before they shut it down.

In the mean time, I'll be looking for a new video hosting service.  Shoot, at this point I might as well rent a private server.  But $$$$$.

Lots to think about.

Stay tuned.

John

Photobucket Links

Long time.  So you may have noticed all the picture links are now broken.  That's because I deleted my Photobucket account where I was storing them.  Apparently, a free account on Photobucket only gives you a 25MB max bandwidth and I was going over that limit by 300% and over a storage limit too..  As such all the photo's had a watermark added and were low rez, plus I couldn't upload any new photos unless I started paying a subscription.  I don't know when these new restrictions started, but I wasn't having these problems when I last made a blog post.  So instead of paying $5.99 or more a month (which I can' afford right now) I decided to delete my account with them and find an alternative solution....which I'm still looking for.

One idea I've been mulling over is switching from a Blog to a Vlog using my YouTube channel.  This way I wouldn't need a new online storage for my photos but would make slideshow videos for all my existing photos and then new content would be in video form.  Of course that could mean no more updates here except maybe a post with a link to my Vlog video.  Still mulling it over.

Anyway, I've been very busy in real life and have had no time for Droid building, or anything else really.  But I have recently acquired a LOT of free time so I might just try getting back into things here.

Stay tuned,

John


UPDATE Nov. 12th!!!  I just learned that Blogger will store photos and videos using Google Drive.  Wish I knew that a long time ago.  So I'll be updating the photo links over time, starting with the most recent posts and work my back through over 200 posts....oh joy.