The Dowbrigade News is quite excited by the possibilities of broadcatching (Video Aggregator 1.0).
A broadcatching discussion has been taking place on a Yahoo! BitTorrent group (RSS + BitTorrent = Broadcatching).
Jonathan Schull jumps on the broadcatching bandwagon and points to an RSS torrent feed (As Scott Raymond Foretold).
Dave Brondsema is experimenting with Grumet's work. If it works well, he promises to port it to a Linux client (spring break accomplishments).
Paolo Valdermarin sees potential for videobloggers (Are We Ready for Videoblogging).
realkosh, a self-described "aussie music fan," thinks the broadcatching concept is "excellent" (Promotional music should be free). He also has some interesting things to say comparing music to peanuts:
When was the last time you bought a peanut? Peanuts are something you just get for free. People buy peanuts to give to other people for free. I'm sure there are hundreds of people out there who buy more peanuts for other people than for themselves. Peanuts are just there when you go to your local pub. When you go to a party. Peanut night clubs where the peanut people go.
I like the analogy, but for the record will note that I do buy peanut butter.
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d-volution looks at the future of the internet and television with the advent of broadcatching (Weblog/RSS + Peer to Peer).
John Robb has a couple of posts on the subject. In the first he references a report he wrote in 1996 (Personal Broadcast Networks). In the second he successfully experiments with the technology and offers some suggestions (Andrew's BitTorrent Test).
Playlist Progress
Lucas Gonze reports progress on the development of a portable playlist (Radio TWF. :)). You can monitor the working group's progress here: Portable Playlist Wiki. Last week, Gonze also reported on a new Webjay feature: cannibalization, which allows users to copy another's playlists and add them into their own playlists (A New Webjay Feature: Cannibalization). This an excellent example of collaborative filtering in action. Not unexpectedly, a couple of day's later, The Tofu Hut, a playlist creator expresses mixed feelings about this cannibalization feature (Tofuhut sez). On the one hand, people who get the cannibalized list may miss some of the nuance and info that is part of Tofuhut's list. On the other hand, more people are exposed to very cool music. Tofu Hut's final position comes down nicely in favor of sharing: "Ego loses: the more the merrier is our motto."
IT Conversations
IT Conversations has a great interview with Andrew Grumet discussing the technologies he is creating, including broadcatching, of course (Andrew Grumet - March 22, 2004). IT Conversations' RSS feeds are enclosures enabled! How long before they add broadcatching capability?
Steve Kirks enjoyed Andrew's interview - noting that it was great for the morning commute (Listened to Andrew's interview). Wouldn't it be great if your car could broadcatch news stories overnight to listen to on the morning commute. That would be a killer app, I'm thinking.
Related Goodness
Scott Johnson promises "Good BitTorrent goodness coming [this] week" - could it be broadcatching related (Feedster, RSS and BitTorrent)?
Blogdigger provides a new RSS feed for newly discovered BitTorrent files. The feed is here: Blogdigger Torrents. via Lockergnome's RSS Resource
Softpile now provides new freeware and shareware RSS feeds (Softpile RSS Feeds). Select from a variety of categories, such as games, utilities, and education. also via Lockergnome's RSS Resource
I'm not really sure whether this has any application to broadcatching, but it seems interesting and something to think about. Joe Hall reports on a new RSS template which allows blog comments to be part of the feed (Full text RSS w/ comments).
I think the "Broadcatching" term has to go. It brings to mind the image of chasing after broads. :)
Don't have any other better suggestions, though.
Shortly after the cancellation of "Angel", I blogged on how television will probably move away from broadcast networks, so Joss Whedon eventually won't have to cater to pointy-haired boss network execs anymore. I'd never heard of BitTorrent, but my concept of what would replace television was pretty similar. Looks like you were blogging on broadcatching about the same time. Creepy.
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