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the strangest thing happened. my graduation film Goner, which i uploaded last November (2006), disappeared from the Internet Archive. It uploaded successfully last year. I was able to give the link to people and the Quicktime file was intact too. otherwise I would've re-uploaded right away.

I happened to need the link to the Quicktime file earlier to give to somebody, so i went to Goner's Ourmedia node to get it. http://ourmedia.org/node/269385

The Ourmedia node is still there, but when you click on the Quicktime media link, you end up downloading a 7kb blank file (the video is gone), and when you click on the Internet Archive details page, you are redirected to an error page.

Weird. Anyway I reuploaded my film again today. new node: http://ourmedia.org/node/332203.

I still wish to know what happened to the old video though.

i didn't sweat too much about it though because at least it uploaded successfully. at least i don't have to upload again like yesterday.

Once your file is ready to download from archive.org servers Example: http://www.archive.org/details/your media name here

Please send me that URL to my email: kornyhiv@hotmail.com , and i will add it in one second to your ourmedia.org account.

i e-mailed him my problem last night and this morning, i got a reply. he's already put it up on its very own ourmedia node! he rules!!!

he also said that if ever i've other files that i need to add to ourmedia i shouldn't hesitate to contact him. the thing is, i do. i have two files that i put up on archive.org last year before ourmedia.org started.

i remember when ourmedia started i e-mailed tech support here if it was possible to add files that were already on archive.org to ourmedia. this was back in april ('05).

the reply i got was "Due to our current software configuration, I believe that it *is* necessary to upload your media again if you intend to have it listed using the standard format. You can certainly link to the media in any place that accepts a hyperlink, however.".

i didn't want to waste archive.org's hard drive space so i just tried to re-upload the smaller file (and just link to the bigger file through a personal ourmedia blog post). uploading the small file didn't work though. this was the node it created.

so anyway i e-mailed joshua back telling him about these two files, and then a couple of hours later, he e-mails back that their nodes have been created! wow he rocks!!!

hi i'm sorry i posted to ourmedia twice. it's just that it's been a little over a day since i posted my podcast for dec. 19, 2005 and the audio still wasn't showing up, so i re-posted tonight. it works fine now.

merry christmas to everybody in the ourmedia community!

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oh yeah and to anyone who's interested in face reading/ fortune telling/ moles, here's something i talked about in my latest podcast. in case you don't want to listen to it, just click on the photo and read about it in its flickr page. lots of notes on the photos.