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CBS offers a "blogger's toolkit" for fall previews, which doesn't work.

CBS has picked up "Kid's Nation," a reality show about a bunch of kids trying to start a civil society in an abandoned town. Thoughtfully, they've created a website dedicated to all their new shows.

At the top of the page is a link to a "blogger's toolkit" which purports to offer embeddable video previews of their shows, and the ability to link directly to these previews. Great idea!

Only one problem: It doesn't work.

I found the preview clip for Kid Nation, and grabbed the link (http://www.cbs.com/innertube/?src=ext&vid=139183), so I could add it to my bookmarking site. I pasted the link to my browser, only to learn (after a long loading delay) that it doesn't link to the video at all! It links to a generic front page on InnerTube, CBS's video site. I gave it a few more tries to make sure it wasn't my error, and I regardless of how I approached it, I could not link directly to the video.

After a couple more tries, I gave up, wrote this complaint, and moved on. If anyone can get this to work, let me know. If not, send this one back to the labs, CBS.

At least the embeddable stuff works:

Oh, nevermind, I guess that doesn't work either (at least in Firefox). Annoying!