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AKMA's Preliminary Aftermath AKMA has partially recovered from his project to create an audio version of Lawrence Lessig's latest book using the contributions of many individuals. I just posted the following comment regarding plans to consolidate the files...
Part of the beauty of this experiment is that it's distributed. We recorded chapters in our own voices, on our own systems, in our own ways. We don't need to consolidate the recordings and host them all in one place. There's a better way using playlists and/or RSS. My recording can stay on my server, George's on his, etc.
If I have time this afternoon (or anyone else can do it) I'll build two playlist files (.m3u and .pls versions) that link to all of the current recordings. I'll do the same using RSS 2.0 with enclosures. That way, all of the chapters will be available virtually in one place. Listeners can access the book using programs like iTunes, Winamp, Zinf, Sonique, SoundJam, etc. Or they can use Radio or any other aggregator that understands RSS 2.0 enclosures and they'll receive new chapters automatically as they are added. If you have limited bandwidth but still want to host your own files, check out Bit Torrent.
Then the question arises, what to do about the playlist(s). Again, there's no need to copy them to multiple locations, since we'd never be able to keep them synchronized. That's an old paradigm. Since AKMA is to blame for staring this whole project (~) I suggest he host the playlists and RSS file on his site. If you want to point to the entire book, all you need is the URLs of those files: playlist or RSS.
Posted Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:45:57 AM 
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