Re: Special RSS feed for Lydon interviews

Julian Bond <julian_bond-/Fkc1E/MbsFWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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Dave Winer <dave-rH/ioLL7x7RWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> 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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