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Sen. John Edwards uses Bittorrent
Regardless of which side of the political fence you stand on, I'm sure we can all agree that we need more people in government who understand how the Internet works. Sen. John Edwards, former running mate of John Kerry and possible 2008 presidential hopeful, was an early adopter of the podcast as a way to reach constituents. Now he's using Bittorrent to distribute campaign video.
Edwards, according to Torrentfreak uses Movedigital, a service that combines .torrent downloads with web-seeding. Movedigital acts as the main seed, but once there are enough seeds and peers around, the bandwidth bill for Edwards drops.
Say what you will, but Edwards is showing a level of tech savvy that, I think, gaggles of geeks have been waiting for. The Internet has become a part of every aspect of our daily lives, and Internet issues (P2P, DMCA censorship, net-neutrality) affect us all. Seeing a candidate who "groks" a legal and important use of P2P could make many geeks take a second look.
[via TorrentFreak]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Anon said 12:55PM on 7-19-2006
You mead John Edwards Marketing Guru is showing a level of tech savvy that gaggles of geeks have been waiting for.
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