{"id":309,"date":"2005-02-20T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=309"},"modified":"2005-02-20T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-20T19:22:53","slug":"bittorrent-casting-rss-torrent-osprey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/bittorrent-casting-rss-torrent-osprey\/","title":{"rendered":"Bittorrent-casting? (RSS + Torrent + Osprey)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an idea while reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetwowayweb.com\/payloadsforrss\">Dave Winer&#8217;s 2001 notes about adding a payload to RSS<\/a>. Podcasting came about because there needed to be a little more than a payload in RSS, but you had to have that first. Now you can hook the RSS payload into a number of enhanced aggregators like ipodderX and much is made seamless.<br \/>\nWe saw that <a href=\"http:\/\/bittorrent.com\/\">BitTorrent<\/a> has some pretty big missing gaps and aimed to address several by creating <a href=\"http:\/\/osprey.ibiblio.org\">Osprey<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/osprey.ibiblio.org\/?q=node\/12\">add permaseed<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/osprey.ibiblio.org\/?q=node\/3\">managable and searchable and distributable metadata<\/a> to the BitTorrent bag of tricks.<br \/>\nSo far so good. Now if the payload for an RSS subscription were to be the the B\/T Download link, we&#8217;d have a nice B\/T software release service (to think of one use). John says that we already &#8220;plan to generate several rss feeds in osprey,<br \/>\nthe first batch of which will correspond to the 3 blocks on<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/torrent.ibiblio.org\">http:\/\/torrent.ibiblio.org.<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nHmmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an idea while reading Dave Winer&#8217;s 2001 notes about adding a payload to RSS. Podcasting came about because there needed to be a little more than a payload in RSS, but you had to have that first. Now you can hook the RSS payload into a number of enhanced aggregators like ipodderX and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}