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Saturday, February 8, 2003

mj smoking gun Smoking Gun makes you think again about Jackson. 6:54:27 PM    Discuss

alert level orange As a symbol of America's power, this weblog is now a potential terrorist target. 5:23:33 PM    Discuss

downing street dossier The top of the blog charts today is dominated by one of the most awesome mistakes ever made in public indoctrination. An intelligence dossier released by Tony Blair's "10 Downing street", heralded by Colin Poell as "exquisite" turns out to be plagerized from a graduate student. 5:20:54 PM    Discuss

Meanwhile, in Australia: Mayor denies claims she masturbated businessmen [WeirdAssShit.com] 5:13:10 PM    Discuss

Kelly kewl. Osbourne's original style. 5:07:21 PM    Discuss

bittorrent and rss Since first posting about it, I've been thinking more and more lately about the possibilities of combining rss enclosures and bittorrent ad-hoc p2p networking. The more I analyze the setup the more I like it. RSS enclosures enable pre-caching of a payload on the receiving end of a file transfer. Notification of an updated payload feed is deferred until the file has been downloaded. In my scenario, the payload is a bittorrent url, which fires a BT download helper application (possibly built into Radio?). Opening the bittorrent file (approx 40k in size) connects your computer to an ad-hoc network of people sharing the same file. Every bit of the file you download is immediately made available to upload to others. In effect, you are downloading from multiple upload sources. All bandwidth in the network is dedicated to the transfer of that one file, which could very well be a 400 mb mpeg. The downside of this type of file transfer network is that eventually availability will die off, leaving to archive to point to. My gut tells me this could even be a standalone application. Just drag and drop your homemade tv show on a folder on your desktop and away it goes, sending an xml message to thousands of subscribers, who will automatically form a sharing network dedicated to distributing your content! All without the cost of centralized distribution. I've asked Marcus to help me develop this functionality in Radio, to get us going. Hopefully other developers will think about adding the rss-bittorrent connector bits onto their aggregators and weblog software. 3:24:28 PM    Discuss

bittorrent turok Does anyone know what happened to turok.info? Has the bittorrent project stumbled? 3:22:47 PM    Discuss