Gordon Brown’s visits overseas – New animation for Channel 4 News.
Why did you come here from another site that was previously hosting the full animation ? – Explanation below.
Note – If you came here from another site that was previously hosting the full animation, here’s the explanation :
The other sites were running the animation from my server which, due to their traffic, was hitting me very hard and affecting this site’s performance, bandwidth and ultimately my pocket.
I won’t get into the complexities of cache-ing but even if someone visited the commercial sites and didn’t press play, the whole animation is downloaded from my server.
So, rather than remove or rename the file (or replace it with something dodgy), I thought it best to provide an intro giving the viewer (with the necessary notification) the opportunity to view the animation here.
While it’s nice to have one’s work appreciated, it becomes a bit of a problem when, not only is my bandwidth taking a major hit but a commercial site with all its funded resource uses my content without considering the impact on my own self-funded operation.
This can also affect my relationships with those who may have commissioned the work when they may think, because it is run from my server, that I am condoning its use.
I hope you appreciate that my redirection is not a cynical ploy but a way of minimising the effect on my server without damaging any relationship with viewers from other sites.
I’ve said before that I don’t have a problem with non-commercial sites using most of my work as long as there is a credit and a link back to this blog.
Meanwhile, the government has broken its word over Iraqis who have helped UK forces.
Channel 4 report here.
More info on Bloggerheads here.
