PeerCast Introduction - English - Francais - Deutsch - Japanese Download | Source Help | Forums | FAQ | Wiki Yellow Pages Donate PeerCast.org was established in April 2002 as a non-profit site providing free P2P radio software. The aim of the project is to create an easy to use, simple and reliable software client that enables anyone to broadcast streaming media on the Internet without the need for expensive servers or bandwidth. PeerCast offers considerable savings for broadcasters because they do not have to provide bandwidth for all of their listeners. A single 56K modem can be used to broadcast a radio station to the entire network. PeerCast is a robust network because there is no central server, each user can be a client, server or broadcaster of streams. PeerCast can also serve streams directly to any media player. It works in much the same way as other P2P fileshare clients except that instead of downloading files, the users download streams.
Rockbox - Open Source Jukebox Firmware Venture Voice - podcast on entrepreneurshi Welcome to MusicBrainz! - MusicBrainz shows/detail784.html Memetics is an intellectually rich but controversial field which seeks to explain how our minds and cultures are designed by natural selection acting on replicating information, just as organisms evolve by natural selection acting on genes. Sue Blackmore, one of the field's leading thinkers, skillfully unfolds the major arguments for a meme's-eye view of the world, and explores the implications for humanity. Are our brains best seen as machines invented by and for propagation of selfish memes? First articulated in Richard Dawkins' classic work, The Selfish Gene, memetics has been dismissed by some scientists, and proven a useful framework to others. Since humans are evidently the only species capable of wide-spread imitation, we are likely the only carriers of memes. This talk was from the The Future of Ideas session at Pop!
the universal Tag Editor (ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2) IT Conversations: James Surowieki In technophile circles, the idea that networks and network effects will inherently provide for better decision making is an understood, a truism widely agreed. Author and New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki, argues that while there are many benefits to aggregate decision making, there are several perils and misbehavior that individuals and observers would be wise to take into account. Drawing on research for his recent book The Wisdom of Crowds, Surowiecki explores several areas in which a group's process can result in improper decisions. These failures are traced to the problem of individual humans acting when aware of their membership - the irony of group wisdom is that it is only when a group is unaware of its intelligence that it can be effective.
IT Conversations: Folksonomy In this dynamic panel from ETech 2005, Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us), Stewart Butterfield (Flickr), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) and Clay Shirky discuss several topics important to folksonomies. Surprising aspects of the implementation of tagging in various environments and approaches to balancing the needs of the system to the desires of the user are discussed from various viewpoints. The participants field questions from the audience regarding aggregation of tagged data from multiple applications, "folksonomic" approaches to large-scale categorization, and feedback for new taggers to increase the usefulness of the data for the user and the group. Throughout the discussion the panel emphasizes both the similarities and the differences between the services, the ways they are used, and how they accomplish what they set out to achieve. IT Conversations' publication of this session is underwritten by your donations and: Stewart Butterfield is a director of Product Management at Yahoo! Resources: