Posts by James Grinter 1

Company wins US patent for podcasting

Carl Malamud's Internet Talk Radio

launched in 1993.

It was episodic - a new programme came out each week; it had a mechanism to notify of new content - an email list; and it had a mechanism to download it - FTP from your nearest archive/mirror.

The rest is just a fancy interface.

Government defeats Tories in 'McKinnon' extradition vote

Ratified, but..

I was given to understand that the US decided they weren't allowed by the constitution to actually extradite their citizens to the UK? Perhaps El Reg could actually go and research the actual current state of play with regards to this treaty?

ISPs vs BBC iPlayer: Missing the point?

Caching iplayer won't help

The BTW ADSL architecture means that ISPs pay a high tariff for all traffic that their customers

consume, even that which originates within the ISP's own network Caching, local CDN nodes, etc only reduce their transit costs and have no impact upon the "BT Central" pipe between the ISP and the BTW ADSL connections.

If the ISPs have got higher costs, then they need to start charging more to cover them.