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Cleared: Thursday, 6/28 Afternoon Journals Outage, and an Update on Video
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
3:52:00 PM EDT
Hearing Mike Doughty, Tremendous Brunettes
Hi folks -- we had a Journals outage this
afternoon, where people were getting the blue "Journals Are Not
Available" error screen; blogger
John gave me a heads-up around 12:45pm EDT, and it was
resolved about 90 minutes later.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
The Journals team is investigating the problem; they think it's probably related to the ASA release that went in early this morning. They rolled back the change, and things went back to normal.
Once they figure out what went wrong, they'll be trying the install again.
I posted about the outage in the Journals Message Board, which is what I usually do when Journals are down (since I can't post here). Even when there's not an outage, it's a good place to find out what's going on and talk to other Journalers.
Update on Video
*********************
Now, while the ASA release is primarily for users in Germany, France and the UK, there will be one new feature for all Journals users that I forgot about (thanks to Leona for reminding me): The ability to upload video files from your computer into blog entries.
When it's live, this will give you four methods to include video in your blogs:
1. Embedded flash video players from UnCut Video, YouTube, and other providers. See the AOL Journals Whitelist page for a more complete list (I have to make some updates).
2. Recording Webcam video directly into your blog.
3. Moblogging video from your cellphone (I haven't tried this yet).
and 4. Uploading video files from your computer.
I will write more about #4 once it goes live.
Thanks -- Joe
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3:52:00 PM EDT
Hearing Mike Doughty, Tremendous Brunettes
Cleared: Thursday, 6/28 Afternoon Journals Outage, and an Update on Video
Sorry for any inconvenience.
The Journals team is investigating the problem; they think it's probably related to the ASA release that went in early this morning. They rolled back the change, and things went back to normal.
Once they figure out what went wrong, they'll be trying the install again.
I posted about the outage in the Journals Message Board, which is what I usually do when Journals are down (since I can't post here). Even when there's not an outage, it's a good place to find out what's going on and talk to other Journalers.
Update on Video
*********************
Now, while the ASA release is primarily for users in Germany, France and the UK, there will be one new feature for all Journals users that I forgot about (thanks to Leona for reminding me): The ability to upload video files from your computer into blog entries.
When it's live, this will give you four methods to include video in your blogs:
1. Embedded flash video players from UnCut Video, YouTube, and other providers. See the AOL Journals Whitelist page for a more complete list (I have to make some updates).
2. Recording Webcam video directly into your blog.
3. Moblogging video from your cellphone (I haven't tried this yet).
and 4. Uploading video files from your computer.
I will write more about #4 once it goes live.
Thanks -- Joe
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Pharmolo: I've asked the team to look into this.
Csandhollow: I will check with the team to see what file formats are allowed.
-- Joe -
What extensions will ne allowed on uploading from your own files?
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Joe,
Things are actually not quite back to normal. I still get intermittent Journals not available errors, e.g. after putting in an entry or a comment. Said activities ARE being carried out by the system, but it throws you. Occasionally, entries show up as if they've lost their formatting - a reload of the page sorts that. But something's not right.
6/28/07 6:29 PM
mp4, wmv, avi, mov, 3gp, mpg, mpeg, mpeg4, qt; max file size is 15 megabytes.
Thanks -- Joe