Not yet the iPod supporting the phone feature as I wrote, but Apple and Motorola announced a partnership to bring iTunes to Motorola phones.

There is an interesting interview of a Downhill Battle author about blogs, Bittorrent, filesharing. Especially he talks about a project that does what I was dreaming about in my A P2P video recorder box article:

Connecting BitTorrent to your TV would take all of this to the next level. Right now, for example, it wouldn’t be hard to put together a set-top box like a TiVo that pulled content using BitTorrent from RSS feeds onto a hard drive to be watched whenever. You could do it for cheap too: a $90 used X-Box on eBay can run linux, and it’s got all the hardware you need (okay, the hard drive is a little small, but it would be plenty for a couple days worth of compressed content). And the software’s already been written, it’s called Torrentocracy, check it out. The trick is packaging it all up so that you don’t have to be a linux hacker to make it happen.

Torrentocracy uses MythTV. It’s something to try out.

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