Sunday, September 21, 2003
Not much going on here at the moment, but I have noticed a couple of interetsing little snippets in online news recently.Typically, I didn't bookmark the news pages, but the basics of one of the stories goes like this...
An internet marketing company has recognised the value of weblogs as a source of realtime market evaluation. What they're doing is setting up a search/database facility that searches through hundreds of thousands of weblogs, looking for attitudes and market trends in what people write... the relevance of a particular blogger's views being ranked by how many links they have. This information is then sold on to marketing and advertising companies.
Now while I'm no great fan of advertising, and hate spam and popups as much as the next guy, I do find it interesting to know that blogging is being taken seriously in such fields. Who knows, one day maybe they'll try to sell us something we actually want, instead of something they want us to want.
The other news article that caught my eye was about my favourite peer to peer file sharing system.
Everyone's heard of kazaa (or kazaa lite if you know what you're doing), winmx and suchlike... and god knows, the RIAA and MPAA sure know about them... but there's another system that's hitting the headlines again, namely bittorrent in conjunction with the top torrent site suprnova.org. It would seem that this is now one of the most popular methods of getting video files of tv shows, especially in europe and the uk, where many shows are either broadcast several months later than in the usa, or aren't broadcast at all.
I have to admit to being a bit worried whenever suprnova and bittorrent get into the news, 'cause being somewhat centralised, based around a specific website, extra publicity usually heralds a mass of ddos attacks that knock the site offline for days on end. On the other hand, unlike other file sharing systems, the more people downloading a file, the faster it goes. Clever stuff indeed.
Steve 2:18 AM [+]
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