Library Cataloging
BitTorrent is often seen as nothing more than a tool for stealing copy-protected material. In reality, P2P networking is a powerful tool for moving large files. Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox have already agreed to use it to distribute content. Now the BBC will also be using BitTorrent. Would it make sense for libraries to offer torrents of our digital files? This is a tool our patrons are using.
BitTorrent
- Open Office And Bittorrent
Open Office 3.0 is released today. It is also Open Access Day, nice fit there. But don't bother to try to download it now, the servers are overwelmed. You can grab it using BitTorrent. A nice P2P tool that is for more than stealing movies. BitTorrent...
- Marc Records
Ed Summers has "created a bittorrent of the concatenated MARC files donated to the Internet Archive by Scriblio (7,030,372 records)": http://inkdroid.org/torrents/lc-bib.torrent...
- Bandwidth
At times we take big hits on our system. For instance, when we recently put up scans of 100 lunar maps and hundreds of folks decided to download them all at the same time. Now demand has tapered off and things are back to normal. I've been an advocate...
- Podcasting 101
I'd not normally point to this, Podcasting 101, too many others are already pointing to it and it is slides from a talk. However, it has some very information packed slides. It is a good introduction to podcasting. Thanks to Jenny Levine and Su Bochenski...
- Downloading
BitTorrent is a unique approach to sharing files. It uses a distributed method to share the load of downloading. The more users requesting a file, the less the load on the host machine. This could be very useful for RLG, OCLC and LC when they offer new...
Library Cataloging
BitTorrent
BitTorrent is often seen as nothing more than a tool for stealing copy-protected material. In reality, P2P networking is a powerful tool for moving large files. Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox have already agreed to use it to distribute content. Now the BBC will also be using BitTorrent. Would it make sense for libraries to offer torrents of our digital files? This is a tool our patrons are using.
BitTorrent
- Open Office And Bittorrent
Open Office 3.0 is released today. It is also Open Access Day, nice fit there. But don't bother to try to download it now, the servers are overwelmed. You can grab it using BitTorrent. A nice P2P tool that is for more than stealing movies. BitTorrent...
- Marc Records
Ed Summers has "created a bittorrent of the concatenated MARC files donated to the Internet Archive by Scriblio (7,030,372 records)": http://inkdroid.org/torrents/lc-bib.torrent...
- Bandwidth
At times we take big hits on our system. For instance, when we recently put up scans of 100 lunar maps and hundreds of folks decided to download them all at the same time. Now demand has tapered off and things are back to normal. I've been an advocate...
- Podcasting 101
I'd not normally point to this, Podcasting 101, too many others are already pointing to it and it is slides from a talk. However, it has some very information packed slides. It is a good introduction to podcasting. Thanks to Jenny Levine and Su Bochenski...
- Downloading
BitTorrent is a unique approach to sharing files. It uses a distributed method to share the load of downloading. The more users requesting a file, the less the load on the host machine. This could be very useful for RLG, OCLC and LC when they offer new...