I saw this via AlwaysOn yesterday. It hit a nerve with me. I know I've felt like I've had a cloud over my head since a little before the elections. While the elections, daylight savings time ending, and a few things happening at work have contributed to my general feeling of unhappiness, my gut is telling me that there is something bigger unfolding. Americans are looking to leave the country in record numbers to become Canadian citizens, we are at war with a faceless and ever morphing enemy that can inflict costly damage at a fraction of our costs, and the economic outlook for 2005 is not good. Something has got to give and it's going to start with me. I'm choosing to be happy, to influence what decisions I can that affect me, take what control I can of my situation, and make a happy and harmonious existence for my family. This "national" feeling starts and stops with each one of us. I’ve made my decision. What’s yours going to be?

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The integration of BitTorrent and blogging continues with AzBlog 1.0, a plugin for the Azureus BitTorrent client. This is very cool.

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Steve and I are going to have to try this for our next TechFire Podcast.

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I found posts from Doug Kaye and Glenn Fleishman today both reporting on bandwidth consumption related to RSS and blogging and Podcasting and streaming. Glenn argues that RSS readers need to get smarter. I couldn't agree more. Doug offers a solution of scheduled torrents to conquer his problem of rich media distribution. Doug's idea is quite intriguing. While it's not quite what BitTorrent is used for today, everything he discusses is quite possible and solves the large file problem. A solution for both of the problems that Glenn and Doug describe is a better distribution system that leverages economies of scale for all aspects of personal publishing via a smart caching mechanism. This caching mechanism can either be based on a network of infrastructure or ad hoc hosts providing caching services. An example of infrastructure caching would be a content distribution network (e.g. Akamai). An example of ad hoc caching is swarming (e.g. BitTorrent). I'd like to believe that BitTorrent alone could solve this problem, but it just doesn't offer the reliability need to form a solid foundation for person broadcast networks. I believe a combination of BitTorrent and a CDN is the solution to both problems, along with smarter RSS readers and tools for all personal publishing data types.

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