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Blog Torrent Beta Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the certain-people-are-nervous dept.

chatooya writes "Downhill Battle has released the first public preview of Blog Torrent a "simplified" BitTorrent package that they developed because, "Making it easy to blog large video files means that people can share their home movies the same way they share their photos or writings." Features include: integrated torrent creation and upload, simple non-MySQL installation, and an RSS feed for every tracker. Currently Windows only on the client side, but Mac and Linux versions are in the works."

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  1. Is it really easy enough? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When you compare it to something like Dijjer, which requires zero effort to publish content, while it might be easier than BitTorrent - is it easy enough?

  2. Why is this a "blog"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anybody else see this as a misuse of the word "blog"? Sounds like they just combined two buzzwords together (bittorrent and blog) in the hopes that it would increase the popularity of their product. And since it ended up on the front page of Slashdot, it appears to have worked.

    1. Re:Why is this a "blog"? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Does anybody else see this as a misuse of the word "blog"? Sounds like they just combined two buzzwords together (bittorrent and blog)

      Misuse of a misuse of a misuse of a made-up name. One of my family member is here behind me, looking at this /. article, asking me what the hell a blog-torrent is, and I'm about to tell her to sit down for a little while, whil I explain the concept of P2P and blogging, and bandwidth, and Slashdot to her. Oh dear...

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  3. Incorporate into /. by cuteseal · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Perhaps they could incorporate it somehow (don't look at meef, I'm no techie) into slashdot posts -- slashdot certainly has a huge readership, and as soon as an article links to a site, it usually goes belly up.

    Perhaps this could help alleviate the slashdot effect?

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  4. THTTP by areve · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've wondered about Torrent being an extension to to the http protocol for surfing the web. I wouldn't expect it to happen but if our web browser would just get data from the nearest node instead of the original site then the slashdot effect would be a positive one increasing your sites bandwidth not a negative one.

  5. Ideal for podcasting by brdweb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Adam Curry and Dave Winer have already been thinking about ways to better integrate bittorrent into some rss readers and blog tools. It's not hosting your blog itself, but rather your podcast or show which takes up the vast majority of available bandwidth. This allows the 'small guy' that has talent to compete with some of the big broadcasters out there. At least on the 'net.

  6. Re:sounds like a cool idea but by ZorinLynx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Blame the assymetry of most high speed connections. For instance, I have a whole 3 megabits downstream, but only 384Kbps upstream. This means that if I get even half my connection speed downloading a torrent, my ratio will still be pathetic.

    Sure, you can let torrents seed for a while, and I frequently do. But a 3 or 4GB torrent has to seed for days before even coming close to a 1:1 ratio.

    I wish residential connections weren't so assymetrical. BitTorrent would be amazing if everyone had 3000/1000 or even 1500/1500 connections.

    -Z

  7. Re:sounds like a cool idea but by realdpk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Worse yet, due to the assyemtry, if you let BitTorrent use that full 384Kbps upstream, all other Internet use will be abysmally slow. So you're best off capping it at half that, or so.

    A good compromise would be for the cable companies to uncap inter-customer connections, and keep the cap on for anything that goes to the Internet. Probably too expensive tho.

  8. Re:sounds like a cool idea but by Champaign · · Score: 2, Interesting
    All you need is for the original seeder to be responsible for their torrents (keep seeding) and this is avoided. And that would certainly be the case if someone was distributing media through their blog/website. If they can't be bothered to keep seeding it, why are they trying to distribute it in the first place?

    What I think would be useful would be a super easy way to seed a bunch of torrents at once, and throttle the bandwidth on them, so you could provide a tiny trickle to many different torrents and prevent exactly the starvation you're talking about. This is probably already available but I haven't seen a client that does it.

  9. How they are called? by gmuslera · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Video Blog = Vlog? Already saw Blikis (Blog+Wiki) and other extrange mix between words, so, there is an standard, compressed way to name them?

  10. Re:sounds like a cool idea but by Taladar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Popular blogs would have an advantage here and for unpopular ones the one original Bittorrent Seed would be enough and not much worse than hosting it on Webspace.

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