After finding the share function through youtube and being so excited I hit a roadblock around midnight. I had spent 3 hours going through and sharing each video to my blog. I couldn't find a group way of doing so the process required:
*clicking on my account's "my videos"
*then clicking through the pages to the last page (first videos loaded as new ones were coming in from another computer where I was still uploading videos)
*clicking on the individual video
*pressing the pause button so I didn't have to hear the video as I completed the other steps
*clicking "share"
*It defaults the blog address and puts the video title as the blog entry title but I still had to paste a description ("video from Egypt trip March 2008")
*click "send to post"
*click on my accounts "my videos" and repeat the above steps
I used to go back and check the blog but after seeing about 20 I was feeling overly confident so I just kept going and ended up going through the entire list of videos I had all the way uploaded into youtube. When I went back to check I only had a approximately 40 of the 150 I had tried to upload. I couldn't figure out why they weren't loading. I didn't get any error message. No email was sent. They didn't appear to be in draft storage. They simply were nowhere to be found--cyber heaven I guess. Since I didn't get any message as to what the cause was I had to spend more time trying to figure it out.
What I concluded was that I had met my limit on storage space. I was so bummed. It seemed to be working so well. So I spent some time trying to change the posting date on some of the videos thinking that would free up some storage. However, I still was not able to share the video to my blog. Crap! I still had probably 150 some videos. Now what was the plan? I went to bed frustrated because I had been on such a role and I would REALLY REALLY like to be done with this project that has taken over so much of my sabbatical time. My one hope was that I would try again the next day in hopes that the storage limit was per day not per blog.
I wasn't feeling over confident and got distracted with school email, recording on my other blog all the information and web addresses I learned about from my last meeting with Michael, that I didn't get time to get back onto youtube and the Egypt blog until late afternoon. When I did I only tried sending one video through and voila! There it was. But that was just one. Would it accept 2? It did. So I tentatively sent about 8 more thru. I didn't want to get overconfident. And they all showed up! So I kept going checking my blog after ever 3-4. Luckily they show up rather quickly on the blogsite.
Eventually they quite going through again. Humm. What I didn't know at the time is that blogger has a spam flag (my term) that goes into effect when a blog sees several posts being made in the same day. If a person was just typing, they could get around this by typing in the sercurity word that displays bellow the text box. However, since the posts are coming in from youtube, I am not able to get to the post screen in order to type in my keycode. So I simply have to wait 24 hours and then it will allow me to do another chunk.
So I guess I'm learning patience on sabbatical ;)
Here's more details about the security block as detailed by blogger:
Why do I have word verification on my posting form?
Word verification on the posting form is meant to be a spam reduction mechanism for BlogSpot in general. There are two potential causes:
Potential Spam
In this case, word verification is applied to certain potential spam blogs by an automated system. Because this is automated there will necessarily be some false positives, though we're continually working on improving our algorithms to avoid these. If your blog is one of the false positives, we apologize. Having the word verification on your posting form does not prevent you from publishing and does not mean that your blog will be deleted or otherwise punished if it is not actually in violation of our policies.
To avoid further inconveniences when publishing, click the "?" (question mark) icon next to the word verification on your posting form:
That will take you to a page where you can request a review for your blog. We'll have someone look at it, verify that it isn't spam, and then whitelist your blog so it no longer has the word verification requirement.
High Posting Rate
If you make a large number of posts in a single day, you will be required to complete a word verification for each one, independent of whether your blog has been cleared as a potential spam or not. If this happens to you, simply complete the word verification for each post, or wait 24 hours, at which point it will be removed automatically.
This restriction is in place as much to control the load on our servers as to prevent explicit spam. Therefore, there is not a whitelisting review process to exempt individual blogs.
Notes:
- In cases where word verification is required, all posts made via email will be saved as drafts, rather than published.
- This is unrelated to the word verification setting for comments.
- If your word verification is continually reported as incorrect, even though you are entering the correct letters, please try logging out, clearing your browser's cache and Blogger.com cookies, then logging in again to post. Remember to copy and paste your post to a text file first, to keep it safe.
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