Ross Notes

For quite a while I’ve been imagining how someone might combine TV, RSS, and BitTorrent in just the right way to create an open, standards-based, scalable broadcast network– or thousands of them. RSS provides the publishing and subscription mechanisms, and remixability. BitTorrent ensures the effective use of bandwidth, in fact increasing in efficiency and performance as a particular video gets *more* popular.

The Participatory Culture Foundation’s Miro software is *very* close, it’s just missing the TV part. My opinion is that the revolution won’t begin until it’s in your living room, and it has to be as easy as setting up an AppleTV or DVD player.

I want to know what would be involved in creating an affordable set-top box that either runs Miro or has equivalent features (unless someone knows of a device that already does this). I’m not a hardware geek, but I think I understand enough to have an intelligent conversation about this.

This is what I want to talk about at BarcampDC.