Enabling technologies to facilitate community communication?

[Stephen Guerin]

If you take FRIAM as an example, it is a typical community with a need for a
place to aggregate and persist web links, member biographies, blogs,
searchable discussions and a file repository to name a few. All this can be
done with centralized servers and some configuration time or there's
standardized services like YahooGroups.

I'm wondering what can now be done when you add things like RSS and
BitTorrent into our existing technological soup. Is there an interesting mix
that will help users spawn new communities? As a reminder, Reed's law in
calculating value of networks is a function not just to the number of
pairwise interactions that are on a network but the number of subgroups that
can exist and the ease of creating them.
http://www.reed.com/Papers/GFN/reedslaw.html

So, I guess the point of this is that I'm interested if anyone has any good
examples to post of RSS/BitTorrent being used in interesting ways. Josh has
pointed me to a couple good ideas. Here's one on using RSS to automatically
download TV content of interest:
        http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000167021291/

-Steve

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[Carl Tollander-2]

I like the Azureus thing, it might be a good first app for peer
telematics; e.g. there's less of an 'other folks using my computer'
issue, since you're already in a shared milieu (traffic).  Don't have
a fast internet connection?  Get your movies downloaded to your car
while you drive home.  Traffic is good.  Gas credits for participating.

I've been looking at several ideas around RSS.  Artificial gene feeds,
reactive plan learning feeds, ABM feeds, n-Category feeds, etc.
(the last one's a real brow-furrower)  None of the notions result in
really big downloads, but there is a big role for RSS-style aggregators
which leverages Reed's law.

Carl

Stephen Guerin wrote:

> If you take FRIAM as an example, it is a typical community with a need for a
> place to aggregate and persist web links, member biographies, blogs,
> searchable discussions and a file repository to name a few. All this can be
> done with centralized servers and some configuration time or there's
> standardized services like YahooGroups.
>
> I'm wondering what can now be done when you add things like RSS and
> BitTorrent into our existing technological soup. Is there an interesting mix
> that will help users spawn new communities? As a reminder, Reed's law in
> calculating value of networks is a function not just to the number of
> pairwise interactions that are on a network but the number of subgroups that
> can exist and the ease of creating them.
> http://www.reed.com/Papers/GFN/reedslaw.html
>
> So, I guess the point of this is that I'm interested if anyone has any good
> examples to post of RSS/BitTorrent being used in interesting ways. Josh has
> pointed me to a couple good ideas. Here's one on using RSS to automatically
> download TV content of interest:
> http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000167021291/
>
> -Steve
>
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