Re: [syndication] Special RSS feed for Lydon interviews

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Julian, there's been a misunderstanding.

No intention of sending around a 300MB file, that was just to give you an
idea of how much content Chris has created.

The enclosures are all under 10MB.

I suggest looking at the special RSS file with enclosures for an idea of how
it works.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/audio/lydonRss.xml

And yes, at some point, when enclosures are successful (if they are
successful) we should wire it up to P2P systems.

Last year I worked this out with the Morpheus CTO, Daryl Smith. We know how
to do it. But it's premature.

We have the opposite problem, not enough people using the content we already
have available.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian_bond@voidstar.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Special RSS feed for Lydon interviews


> Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:
> >Chris Lydon has been doing a series of audio interviews on his weblog
here
> >at Harvard. There are already over 25 interviews, representing 40
separate
> >MP3 files. The archive all the interviews is nearly 300 megabytes.
> >
> >It's a perfect application for RSS enclosures.
> >
> >http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/specialRssFeed
>
> I wonder if this could be combined with BitTorrent? That would both
> speed up the individual downloads and spread the bandwidth penalty
> across more sites. With the archive now over 300Mb, BitTorrent would be
> a good plan anyway.[1]
>
> I think there's some potential overlap here with iRate as well. To work
> properly that needs a back channel so that the client can inform the
> server of ratings and the server can in turn decide what music to
> suggest next. By time shifting the downloads via enclosures, you could
> have a fresh batch of MP3s every morning.
>
> [1] A couple of days ago I downloaded a Knoppix CD image of 699Mb. My
> cable connection is supposed to be 600Kbps down. BitTorrent maxed this
> out for 3 hours or so at an average of ~60KBps. The software works!
>
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