There are several threads here. One is to about observing a pattern where damage in emergent networks can be more or less localized for a variety of reasons,...
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Dec 1, 2003 6:05 pm
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... The Gridbus Project to Release GriSim 2.2 Software ************************************************** The open source Gridbus Project, led by the Grid...
Steve Gillmor: "BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution" http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1413403,00.asp Gillmor proposes using BT to transport RSS...
... This can be done right now and I believe someone is working on an RSS feed of .torrents. The problem I think is the location of all the parts. BitTorrent...
... If you have a Web site/RSS feed, it's served by a centralized server. So you just need to get a BT tracker onto that server. (Are you listening, Six Apart...
The comparison that interests me these days is not with prohibition but abolitionism -- the RIAA conflict has all the signs of a classic moral crusade. Check...
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Dec 17, 2003 7:46 pm
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Hi All, Just to let you know of a couple additions to the P2P Conference listing: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences 4th-5th...
The Open Collaboration Services Initiative (OCSI) will be meeting in Anaheim, CA, Feb. 4th. Vendors and users of collaboration-related technologies are invited...
Johannes Ernst
jernst@...
Jan 20, 2004 7:33 pm
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/ The explosive growth in Social Networking sites is starting to develop a backlash where people are asking for personal control...
Hi all, Just a heads up on another couple of list updates: 25th-27th August 2004 P2P 2004 The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing ...
New Yorkers for Fair Use Call to General Assembly ... Internet Commons Congress 2004 March 24-25, 2004, Outside Washington, DC Scheduled Sessions/Participants:...
This sounds good - up to the non fair-use related points about Microsoft (no easy choice, 'SCO is agent of MS'). Bringing that in makes it sound partisan,...
... Yes, I think I agree. When I came across that section, I was wondering why Microsoft was important enough to mention by name. I realized that Palladium...
I thank both of you for this input, and I will note that I myself observed that aspect in one of my later reads of the thing (after a considerable process of...
It's been observed before that google works by harnessing the collective opinion of the Internet about a page in deciding how important the page is for a given...
A question on all our minds, I know, is why RSS, rather than a server-initiated event model? This guy argues -- persuasively in my view -- that...
Lucas Gonze
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Mar 15, 2004 3:42 pm
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... Yes, but assume the following (without challenge): 1) I want my client to be updated almost instantly when any one of a very large number of RSS feeds...
... [...] ... Sounds like someone needs to be informed about Spread. Brian...
Brian Behlendorf
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Mar 15, 2004 5:54 pm
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Seth Russell wrote: ... A good place to start would be insuring that your clients support the 304 Not Modified return code. Googling for "rss not modified 304"...
... Good point! But I am not convinced that the a million-to-million computers can keep each other updated instantly (or near instantly) with a simple...
... I think there is, but it involves having a long-term store and forward protocol like email that can reliably contain data intended for machines to read. ...
... On the other hand, there is a way to save bandwidth that conserves the client-driven nature of RSS -- use a centralized aggregator like Bloglines....
Lucas Gonze
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Mar 15, 2004 8:09 pm
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... Nor am I. A real world million-to-million, nearly real-time scenario would require a significantly different approach. Maybe a P2P publish/subscribe...