P2P Technologies, Infrastructure, Media, Social Software
THEMATIC ISSUES OF P2P NEWS
P2P Social Software, Issue 100 of P2P News, at
http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p100
P2P Technologies, Issue 94 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p94
RECOMMENDED WIKIPEDIA ENTRIES
Collaborative Filtering, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
Collaborative software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_software
Computer-supported collaboration, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-supported_collaboration
Computer-supported cooperative work, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_supported_cooperative_work
Debian Free Software Guidelines, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines
Filesharing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesharing
GNU, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU
GNU General Public License, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
Grid Computing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing
FLOSS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS
FOSS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS
Free Content, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content
Free software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
Open Source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
Open Source Initiative, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative
Open Source Definition, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Definition
Open Source software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software
Open Source Software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Software
Peer to Peer (technology), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_to_peer
Point to Point (technology), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point
Public Domain, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
Recommendation system, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_system
Reputation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation
Social software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software
Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wiki software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software
ARTICLES
The rise of the bottom-up content creation and the Web 2.0. documented by the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/29content.html?
Tools marrying blogs with content management, are reviewed by Info World at http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/26/35NNblogcm_1.html
Third generation P2P, http://news.com.com/Super-powered+peer+to+peer/2100-1032_3-5397784.html?
David Reed on Viral Communicators, at ; http://dl.media.mit.edu/viral/viral.pdf
Writeable Web tools are reviewed at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/t/84
A directory of open source content management systems at http://www.la-grange.net/cms
Amongst the recommended do-it-yourself blogging programs are http://movabletype.org/ and https://www.typepad.com/ (from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20235-2005Mar9.html?)
Amongst the directories to find podcasting programs: http://audio.weblogs.com/ ; http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/ ; Blogradio http://home.imgeorge.org/blogradio/ ; http://www.podcast.net/
iPodder, podcasting 'receiver software, at http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php âis technically a Media Aggregator, a program that allows you to select and download audio files from anywhere on the Internet to your desktop.â? ; Radio2MP3, at http://www.radio2mp3.com, ârecords internet radio stations, burns music files to a CD, converts media to different format and splits songs into individual MP3s. The software also tags each file with the artist, title, genre and album.";
The Podcasting guide by Business Week at http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/tc_05podcasting.htm? ; and here a how-to-guide for the beginner as well, at http://ipodlounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/beginners-guide-to-podcast-creation/
Odeo, http://www.odeo.com/, is a private enabler of podcasting: What would happen if you combined a TiVo, with your MP3 player, with the webâso, you could listen to a selection of content as varied as the web, whenever, and wherever you want. Odeo makes all of the above easy, so you donât have to know how it works. More specifically, Odeo consists of three major parts: A catalog of audio content, of all types, which is constantly being added to. The Odeo Syncr, which letâs you download anything in the catalog (and, optionally, put it on your MP3 player). And creation tools, including the Odeo Studio, which let you publish your own audio content, which will then show up in the catalog.;
MotorFM allows MP3 downloads and songs streamed directly to mobile phones, at http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,66597,00.html
Business Week on Skype, at (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_44/b3906091_mz063.htm; http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_44/b3906087_mz063.htm)
An article explaining the rapid diffusion of Skype, at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/business/yourmoney/05tech.html?th
Open Source telephony developments for the enterprise market are summarized here at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823596,00.asp
PC to Phone services such as SkypeOut are reviewed by the New York Times, at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/technology/circuits/01basics.html?; Among the competing services it mentions are : www.gizmoproject.com, www.voicestick.com.
Google Talk vs. Skype VoIP, a comparison by Red Herring: http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=13339&hed=Is+Google+Talk+a+Skype+Killer%3f
http://blog.commonbits.org/2005/06/be_the_media_th.html?, which offers an overview of webcasting developments (June 2005)
On Vlogging: http://www.seriousmagic.com/products/vlogit/ ; http://www.vlog.com/ ; An article at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7226225/ . For an example see the live video blogs at vobbo.com
Wired has published a 3-part reportage on vlogging, at http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68171,00.html?
Doing live video on a shoestring, a how-to based on personal experience at http://vloblive.info/
FireAnt, at http://www.antisnottv.net/ , âis said to be the easiest way to find, download and watch video on the webâ?.
Wired on Bittorrent, http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65625,00.html?
Another explanation can be found here at http://journal.planetwork.net/article.php?lab=pantic0704
A profile of Bram Cohen, designer of Bittorrent, in Wired at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html
Sources for Bittorrent downloads; Note that they may disappear due to legal action.
⢠Legal Torrents, which includes a wide selection of electronic music. It also has the Wired magazine Creative Commons CD, which has songs from artists like the Beastie Boys who agreed to release some of their songs under a more permissive copyright that allows free distribution and remixing. ⢠Torrentocracy has videos of the U.S. presidential debates and other political materials. ⢠File Soup offers open-source software and freeware, music from artists whose labels don't belong to the Recording Industry Association of America trade group, and programs from public television stations like PBS or the BBC. ⢠Etree is for devotees of "trade-friendly" bands like Phish and the Dead, who encourage fans to share live recordings, usually in the form of large files that have been minimally compressed to maintain sound quality." (http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65625,00.html?)
On Blogtorrent, (http://broadbanddaily.gigaom.com/archives/2004/12/06/seeds-of-change-nicholas-reville-on-downhill-battles-blog-torrent-initiative/)
Good French-language summary of P2P TV, in particular the distribution of TV series through Blog Torrent, at http://www.futura-sciences.com/sinformer/n/news5076.php
On Exeem, (New Scientist, http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6830)
Tools and services that enable Webcasting: The better known civil society initiatives are Common Bits (http://www.commonbits.org ) and the Broadcast Machine (http://www.particpatoryculture.org/bm ). They are associated with sites that enable sharing of such material through online communities, such as Common Tunes (http://www.commontunes.org ) for music and CommonFlix (http://www.commonflix.org ) for videos. Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/ ) allows users to share small clips.
Many new sites are also acting as repositories such as Our Media (http://www.ourmedia.org ), the Archive (http://www.archive.org ) or the Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
One World TV is at http://tv.oneworld.net . Alternative TV stations are build around such open source content. For example UK Nova (http://www.uknova.com ) is webcasting BBC programs which have been put in the public domain. Movies for the masses is a peer to peer financing scheme for producing movies and videos, at http://www.moviesforthemasses.ibiny.com/ . Search engines have been developed to identify this kind of content, see http://video.google.com/ and http://www.omn.org/
In the corporate world, examples are Audiolink (http://www.audiolink.com/home.html ) and ODEO (http://www.odeo.com ) which assist users in their broadcasting efforts. Prodigem (http://www.prodigem.com ) allows any audiovisual creator to sell their content. Current TV (http://www.current.tv) is a similar attempt to commercialise citizen webcasting.
Companies are building software that allows users to manage time-shifted radio and television, as well as self-created content into their playing devices such as iPods. Griffin Technologies recently announced iFill, while El Gato's (http://www.elgato.com ) EveHome software enables viewers to watch internet-downloaded content on their TV.
A videoproduction suite is discussed at = http://journal.planetwork.net/article.php?lab=pantic0704
Most of the above material was reviewed at http://blog.commonbits.org/2005/06/be_the_media_th.html?
Broadcast Machine, (http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/24/publish_video_channe.html )
Information about the Broadcast Machine is located at http://www.participatoryculture.org/bm/
Interview with creator Steve Holmes at http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2005/06/holmes_wilson_i.html
Customer-built network infrastructures, at (http://shirky.com/writings/zapmail.html)
It's called collaborative citizen journalism (CCJ), where ordinary citizens band together on the Web to write original stories and critique mainstream media stories, using the Internet to connect with each other and to make sure their thoughts reach the public. This new form of journalism differs from its more popular blogging cousin in that, unlike blogging, which eschews (in many cases) the more rigorous elements of journalism, collaborative media efforts tap into a particular community to make sure a story is as complete as possible; (http://technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_052005hellweg.asp )
See also the report: We Media. How audiences are shaping the future of news and information. Written by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis. Edited by J.D. Lasica. Available via the Hypergene weblog for PDF download, at http://www.hypergene.net/wemedia/weblog.php .This report describes the emergence of participatory journalism, following the new rule of âpublish, then filterâ rather than âfilter, then publishâ.
Steve Outing is one of the most keen observers of the scene, hereâs an overview of varities of citizen journalism: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83126
Open source video documentaries i.e. audiovisual citizen journalism, at http://cyberie.qc.ca/jpc/2005/08/aprs-les-journalistes-citoyens-les.html
The concept of a self-informing public is mentioned in http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/12/28/tptn04_opsc.html
Backfence is based on the concept that local news was just a neighbour's fence away, and is now possible again on a global scale, see http://www.backfence.com/what_we_re_doing.html
OhmyNews is a kind of 'fantastic mix' of the citizen reporters and professional reporters, Oh told the audience. It has 35,000 citizen reporters and 40 staff reporters whose reporting style is very similar to professional journalists. So they are in charge of the straight news and investigations.; (http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=8&no=201599&rel_no=1)
Similar initiatives are WikiNews, which is based on a collective 'vetting' of news articles, at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page ; also see News Trust as another vetting cooperative, at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page ; Indymedia: http://indymedia.org ; Take Back the News, http://www.takebackthenews.com/ ; In France, see http://www.agoravox.fr/
Blogs as 'self in conversation', at (http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/transcript_weinberger1_050201/pfindex.html)
The Washington Post explains: âRSS lets Web sites publish free feeds of their content, which a program called a newsreader collects on a set schedule, displaying new headlines and links for you to read within the newsreader or, with one click, in your Web browser (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A55027-2004Mar13¬Found=true)
Some sites offer the same functions as an RSS reader, i.e. the possibility to combine various blogs in folders and to monitor them all from the same place, see http://www.bloglines.com/
An article on the âegocastingâ aspect of blogs and many other technologies, at http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/7/rosen.htm . The author sees these technologies as a âstroking of the egoâ, and misses the collective point altogether.
Self-publishing, (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/books/review/24GLAZERL.html? ) The article mentions such examples as iUniverse and Booksurge. See also lulu.com.
âOn Nodeb.com, people list their open nodes, essentially inviting strangers to join a worldwide community of users. This site has more than 11,000 registered access points in the United States. Even if service providers can make it more difficult for users to share Internet access, techies will eventually find a way around them.â? (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/opinion/19CONL.html?th )
An article about the advances of the Personal Telco movement in the U.S., at http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0615/p01s03-ussc.html ; home page at http://www.personaltelco.net/static/index.html
Wireless Commons in Hawaii, (http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,38492,00.html)
Reports by Business Week, on wireless and WiFi developments: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_40/b3902057_mz011.htm http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/03wireless2.htm, http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/tc_04wifi.htm
Cities like Philadelphia are developing free wireless broadband systems for their citizens, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54754-2004Sep1.html?
Muniwireless.com â best site for news on developments in unlicensed wireless at the municipal level worldwide.
Open Spectrum reform, at (http://www.reed.com/dprframeweb/dprframe.asp?section=openspec )
Mesh Networks for telecommunications, at (http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1176136)
Mark Pesce on building an alternative media network, (http://www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce/fbm.html)
Mark Pesce on the Internet TV Tuner, at (http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle4565.html; see also http://www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce/fbm.html)
Voice over WiFI, (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/technology/circuits/03next.html?8cir)
Mark Pesce on the economics of netcasting, (http://www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce/fbm.html)
Some discussions on the future of television broadcasting: 1) a special report by Newsweek, at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7935605/site/newsweek/ ; 2) a report by Deloitte, at http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/research/0,1015,cid=80658&pre=Y&lid=1&new=I,00.html ; http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/dtt_tmt_TelevisionnetworksGLOBAL_042005.pdf
File-served television as model for interactive TV, (http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208364 )
TV Over Internet, http://www.tvover.net/TVStation.aspx, says it is the most detailed guide of free TV over the Internet. The stations below will either be live TV or video on demand broadcasts. Below each description of the TV station, you will find the category and type of video stream in bold.
Review of U.S.-based TV-IP developments, in The Washington Post:
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2165-2004Oct27.html?)
European TV-IP plans reviewed by Wired ( http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65105,00.html?)
Actlab TV, http://actlab.tv, new internet TV station: ACTLab TV. They are streaming Creative Commons, Copyleft, public domain content, and original videos using Alluvium software and their own media player.
An overview article on P2P 'streaming' infrastructure at http://open4all.info/up2speed.pdf It mentions the Open Source Streaming Alliance and the Direct Video Network.
Overview of some digital radio developments and recording and management tools http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/26/technology/circuits/26stat.html?th )
Shoutcast aims to enable the setting up of streaming radio broadcasts on the internet, see http://www.shoutcast.com/
Business Week, on the future of internet telephony, at http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/04voip.htm
The new generation of VoIP telephones, reviewed at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/05/technology/circuits/05basics.html?
An open source alternative to Skype is Project Gizmo, at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/05/project_gizmo_voip/
Self-publishing, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/books/review/24GLAZERL.html? ) This New York Times article mentions iUniverse and BookSurge as examples.
The history of social software and related earlier concepts (groupware, etc..) is narrated in this excellent overview, at http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/10/tracing_the_evo.html
The development of 'gifting technologies' is described here at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/mcgee/index.html
The Shinkuro Collaborative Platform, http://www.shinkuro.com/
Shinkuro is a research and development company with a strong interest in information sharing across organizational boundaries. For a review at http://blog.realworldsystems.net/blog/_archives/2004/4/9/118359.html
Mobile Social Software, dodgeball and playtxt, (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66813,00.html? )
Cooperation Project, The overview essay is at http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf, the project is explained at http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/CooperationProject_3_30_05.pdf
It sponsored a first course at the Stanford Humanities Lab: http://shl.stanford.edu/hum202_syllabus.html
Mono is an open source alternative to the Microsoft .Net specifications, at http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html
Five fundamental reasons why Open Source projects do not make great inroads amongst ordinary users, at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/levesque/index.html#l5
And this blog entry with discussion gives additional reasons why âLinux is not ready for the desktopâ, see http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/008499.html
Windows ecosystem is weakening, (http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=261)
An in-depth series of reports on the usage of FLOSS methodologies and their institutionalization, http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/, June 2002
Wikipedia.org: The pro's and cons of Wikipedia (vs. traditional encyclopedia production) are discussed in this article: http://soufron.free.fr/soufron-spip/article.php3?id_article=57
This paper explores the character of âmutual aidâ? and interdependent decision making within the Wikipedia at http://reagle.org/joseph/2004/agree/wikip-agree.html
A profile of the most prolific contributors and the values driving them, at http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66814,00.html?
A listing of technologically-supported collaborative methodologies can be found at http://www.thataway.org/resources/practice/hightech/intro.html
The human-machine global network symbiosis is researched by this project on Symbiotic Intelligence, at http://ishi.lanl.gov/symintel.html
Social bookmarking tools / T Hammond, T Hannay, B Lund, J Scott -- <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html/>