Wirestorm

RSS + BitTorrent is gradually emerging, its only a matter of time before the two become indistinguishable.

iPodder (a cross platform podcast client) has already gained bittorrent support, and I guess clients like µTorrent and BitComet will also eventually support RSS.

This basically allows us to have all the immediacy of RSS with the low/fair bandwidth model of BitTorrent; suddenly mass distribution of all kinds of content becomes very simple.

Obviously, lots of services (some exist already) will start to offer dubious torrent-rss of popular TV shows and such like, but what I would like to see more than that is news. Good quality news, like the BBC, up to date, on my desktop (and therefore onto my phone/pda/ipod etc).

I have written a simple PHP script that goes off and parses the BBC site and pulls down the asx (ie, wmv) video, runs it through mencoder and convert it to mp4/mp3. All I would need to do then is create the torrent files and then publish an RSS feed… but not much point until there is a client available.