Monday, March 15, 2004

RSS and BitTorrent RSS news syndication + BitTorrent file sharing = a new channel for movie distribution. A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls Big Media Objects. [Scripting News] • Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool. Big files are a pain for sender and receiver. A programmer proposes a slick solution: a marriage of RSS and BitTorrent. [Wired News] [Cinema Minima] 6:17:47 PM

How Information Travels In Blogosphere Useful Viral Marketing Flowchart. How Information Travels In Blogosphere. A quick follow-up to Wired’s article on blogs and viral marketing: check out this map of how information travels on the Internet [Viral Marketing Blog] [Cinema Minima] 6:14:06 PM

The Edge of Real The Edge of Real. That's a photo from the far edge of Real de Catorce. Its about a 15 minute walk to the far side of town where you enter through a 3km long mining tunnel, one lane wide. The road continues out on the other side of town, but I never saw a single car on it. [Abstract Dynamics] 6:35:36 AM

Beat Suite Tone Lacy and friends give a tune to the Beat Generation's tone. It would take a subtler critic than this one to truly trace the influence, the neurological effect, that jazz had on the writers of the Beat Generation -- a critic as subtle, perhaps, as the soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, who in his 50-year career in jazz has moved from Sidney Bechet-inspired Dixieland, through the avant-gardism of Cecil Taylor's band, to ... [Boston Globe -- Living / Arts News] 6:29:00 AM

Lectrr Funny. In fact, very funny. Cartoons by the Belgian artist Lectrr. [The Cartoonist] 6:22:46 AM