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Sun, 02 Jan 2005 09:41:43 -0700

I've got some back of the cranium wonderings about educational uses of BitTorrent -- if this has not yet crossed your scope, check out the January 2005 Wired article The BitTorrent Effect (no, the article does not star Ashton Kutcher...

comment by: David Davies

Sun, 02 Jan 2005 11:03:31 -0700

For me it's the distributed nature of the 'network' that's more interesting than the ability to download large files. I'd have to rack my brains a bit more to think of v large file size learning materials that people would want to download though I guess to parallel the primary use of BT then videos are an obvious example. Maybe the reason there's little high quality video in e-learning materials is because of the bandwidth? Or maybe it's just because a QuickTime video of a lecture, an obvious starting point, would be too pointless/boring. I dunno. But Boxmind (http://www.boxmind.com/products/electures/collection.asp) couldn't find a market for this with the best lecturers available. As for the P2P, folk have thought about P2P for distributing learning objects before (e.g Erik Duval's LOMster). Whatever happened to that? I guess for edu-nap-torrent the big problem is just finding something compelling enough to want to download?

And while I'm here, Happy New year! Maybe 2005 be spam free!

comment by: Alan Levine

Mon, 03 Jan 2005 07:42:12 -0700

Before someone elese leaps to what I missed in this post- BitTorrent only "works" where there is a significant demand for a file. Define significant? I don't know- but there is apparently no or litttle speed increase if yuo are the only one interested in an item.

Hence the subliminal promotion of "swarms".... what could form and sustain them?

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