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Scoble is having bandwidth problems

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger

I see my link blog is back up. Kunal Das is looking for a new host that has unlimited space. We chewed through 25 gigabytes in 29 days last month. That’s one reason I haven’t turned on full text.

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard problems associated with bandwidth and RSS feeds. Microsoft futzed with their main feeds not too long ago because of bandwidth concerns. For a long time, the same problems were noted when single sites hosted large binary files like movies, music, or software. Bittorrent came along and provided a means for distributing the bandwidth load over all the clients.

See what I’m getting at here?

We need a “you got your chocolatte in my peanut butter” moment.

We need to combine RSS feeds with Bittorrent. I’m thinking maybe the first step is through an RSS aggregator. Allow the user to “seed” an RSS feed and have other aggregators check to see if there is a torrent of the RSS feed already. Maybe create an option element in the RSS file that contains a list of client? I’m fuzzy on how the .torrent files work, the structure and all that. Maybe the RSS feed just includes an enclosure of a .torrent file?