I used a Google Street View image in yesterday's
my eJournal and images entry. As I always tag entries, I easily loaded a page with previous references to Street View. Gasp! I noticed that the newest Maps implementation no longer allows for embedded images. Over the five or six years, I had done that at least a dozen times, I noted. Yikes, these old entries would now have to be edited! I had to save and upload a static picture to my Flickr account but use the existing link on my pages. Not all links seem affected as not all were embedded. In fact, my very first mention and link from
August 2007 still works.
Seeing a single error is why I hesitate 'mashing up' anything with this blog. I have been doing this daily thing for over ten years and many Internet apps simply come and go. I guess I'm happy for my seeming fortitude. As a blog writer, though, there's not much worse than coming across a dead link in one's own work. As well, by making changes I feel as though I'm screwing with history.
Anyway the good point of all of this is I was able to re-discover the Street View page with the special 360 degree bubbles. Click the image above.
