Get Democracy!
Podcasting and Video Podcasting are not exactly new inventions, but tieing these forms of syndicated material with BitTorrent is a fairly new realisation. Finally, content creators can now publish content without paying through the nose for premium bandwidth usage.
Democracy is a feed aggregator (and player) for Video Podcasts, but with support for BitTorrent techonology, so viewers, help other viewers. The more popular your channel, the more bandwidth to cope with additional viewers.
The Get Democracy site are also hosting the Broadcast Machine, which is the PHP code you’ll need to host a Video Podcast feed on your site, along with additional BitTorrent options like one-step publishing and if you’ve got the stones for it, optional BitTorrent server-seeding.
All of the code is also, a 100% open-source GPL’d love-fest.
On a more personal note, I’m currently investigating the feasability of maintaining a Video Podcast channel (using this technology) for the Druid community, however, so far there’s very little need or support. So, it’s not looking like it’s a resource the community would need at this point in time… Also, JimJeroo of UKNova.com fame has also asked me to host a feed for him, stay tuned, it’s sure to be fun!
technorati tags: democracy, video, podcast, bittorrent, jimjeroo, gpl, broadcast, uknova
