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So I’ve been thinking about podcasting a bunch recently (why do I get into these things so late?). If you need a primer - here. I was having a quick beer with Boris and I was asking him about vloggers. So we know that a big reason that podcasting has taken off is because of the playback mechanism (the ipod). So I was trying to find out if Tivo’s or the OpenSource build-your-own PVR’s (Freevo MythTV) supported RSS and if they could grab video through it. Couldn’t really find anything. Does anybody else have any info?

Then I was wondering if vloggers could use bittorrent so that they could broadcast without killing their int. connection. I was going to blog about it, and then I got an email 2 days later on the nycwireless mailing list with info about BlogTorrent.

“Blogtorrent is a package that makes Bittorrent easy to use. Bittorrent is the most popular way to distribute large audio and video files online. Right now Bittorrent constitutes about 35% of all internet traffic (for real). Using Bittorrent, anybody with broadband can distribute a large file (for example, television programming) to a mass audience, without needing a big expensive server. This works because with Bittorrent, everyone who wants the file helps distribute it. ”

and it doesn’t stop . .

“Another feature we’re really excited about is RSS. Every tracker makes an RSS feed of all publicly available torrents. The RSS feed supports enclosures, so it will work with programs like Torrentocracy or iPodderX that can automatically download RSS feeds of torrents. The RSS feed also includes “stats” data on your most popular torrents. If people want they can ping Blogtorrent.com with the URL to their RSS feed. At some point, we hope we can put together an awesome, blogdex-style “Blogtorrent Top 40″.”

Torrentocracy?!?!

“Torrentocracy (pronounced like the word democracy) is the combination of RSS, bit torrent, your television and your remote control. In effect, it is what gives any properly motivated person or entity the ability to have their own TV station. By running torrentocracy on a computer connected to your television, you not only become a viewer of any available content from the internet, but you also become a part of a vast grass roots media distribution network. This is not about the illegal distribution of media, but rather it’s about enabling an entirely new way to receive the video which you watch on your TV.”

and

“It is written to be integrated with MythTV, the Linux-based home media server project.”

WTF? Where have I been hiding myself not to know about this? Why didn’t you guys let me in on this stuff? ;-)

But seriously, have you guys heard about this?

The only thing that I can think of that would be missing is a trustable -read:won’t go down tomorrow with all my data - del.icio.us to tag everything properly - audio, video, photos, everything - not for it to only work as a silly little tool to share my bookmarks.

Then instead of only viewing the vloggers that I can subscibe to, I would also automatically get every video that someone else tag’s as “wifi” or “burkina”.

I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight.

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