If it were me, I'd build it on Wordpress. There's a catalog/ directory tool for Wordpress called Scriblio.
http://about.scriblio.net/ It was designed by a team of librarians to be an open source OPAC - Open Public Access Catalog for libraries. But if you look at it, it basically turns Wordpress into an editable catalog with pictures/screenshots and all sorts of other data. It'd be searchable, cataloguable. It's free and it's supported by grants and used by a few libraries, so chances are it'll be well-supported as Wordpress gets upgraded. And Wordpress, obviously, has the benefit of so many developers and plugins - it keeps getting better. You can allow people to register as Contributors and upload their own files. Set different levels of permissions. And you'd have a variety of feed options - Wordpress makes a main feed and one for each category. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 4-Aug-08, at 11:11 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: Great info, Rupert. I guess this wont be hard to use; what I want to try to figure out is how to make the torrent pages pretty/accessible so it doesnt feel so l33t. I used to be very confused with trackers because of their l33t layouts. I want screenshots of vids, and easy learning curve for the newbie. Everyone is saying that bittorrent is getting more and more use, then lets have an underground vid tracker that displays works in a way that is inviting and helps push something different than just More Shows. Fuck Shows, Make Art On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use uTorrent to set up your own private tracker at your own > domain name or IP address. > I'd be happy to help if you need it, but it should be super easy. > Details here: > http://filesharefreak.com/tutorials/utorrent-make-your-own- bittorrent- > tracker/ > When people create a torrent file, they would create it with the > Tracker URL: > http://moneythong.com/yourport#/announce > > This covers the tracker part of the process, but not the index/ > sharing of the torrent files. You can then share the torrent files > privately by email, or create an index that's either public or > accessible only to members, or use something like Pownce. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > > On 4-Aug-08, at 10:34 AM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: > > When I get back to SF this week, I'll start to figure out how to make a > tracker for moneythong.com > I see it as a tracker for underground/independent visual work. > Figured if > the Internets didn't have one of these yet, where people can go through > lists of artistic torrents, then now is the time!!! > > Maybe, like Jackson mentioned, we put up Broadcast Machine to help > people > figure out and use bittorrents. (we teach and entertain!) > > I just need to find someone who knows how to create and maintain a > tracker > that can teach me the ropes. Should be able to find that somebody -- > if you > know anyone, send em my way! > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM, ractalfece > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <john%40detrimentalinformation.com> > >wrote: > > > Schlomo, that would be awesome if you created a tracker for > > underground video. This latest video was my first attempt at ever > > putting anything on bittorrent. The public tracker I used seemed to > > conk out after about 12 hours. I asked one of my sixteen year old > > fans what I should do. Put it on Demonoid. So I did and it started > > working again. > > > > Only problem, now it's searchable. I wanted it to be underground, > > distributed via email and bittorrent. You'd have to know somebody who > > knows somebody to get it. > > > > So far nobody has blabbed that it's public. So my youtube fans are > > still sending me emails. It's such a relief to be in contact with > > them. I'm learning my audience isn't exclusively moron. I've got > > faculty. I've got art students. I've got Europeans. Shutins. Life > > strugglers. I feel much more connected. I email the torrent out and > > I see another leecher sucking it off my computer. It feels great not > > to be hosted anywhere. > > > > So if anybody wants my new online video you can do it the fun way and > > send me an email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <John%40totalvom.com> <John% > 40totalvom.com> Or you > can just > > search for > > "Information Dystopia" and grab it off Demonoid. > > > > This new video is a scorcher. I call out some of the corporate > > content creators. Epic-Fu, Ask A Ninja, French Maid. I think I > > called Michael Rosenblum a human potato. > > > > Anybody else notice how about every six months, shit hits the fan on > > this list? > > > > It's that time again. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-john%40totalvom.com> <-john%40totalvom.com> > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com><videoblogging% > 40yahoogroups.com>, > > "schlomo rabinowitz" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > John from TotalVom, whose work has often discussed his role > within a > > world > > > of online content creators (as well as comment on them), has had > > enough of > > > the youtube comments and decides to go BitTorrent only. > > > I can see a whole slew of bittorrents by small artists that dont > > need the > > > ubiquitous nature of posting content everywhere and just put out a > > torrent > > > that you send to friends. > > > > > > http://totalvom.blip.tv/file/1127884/ > > > > > > I envision a bittorrent tracker only for original longish form > video > > > content; people "friending" each other in Vuse to share the > workload > > (does > > > anyone actually friend each other in their trackers? I dont, seems > > weird). > > > Awesome and easy to set up, where creators create to dialog with > > each other > > > without the need/care of Views and Comments. > > > > > > I own moneythong.com, sounds like a good name for an Underground > Video > > > Bittorrent tracker site. Does someone know how to make one of > these? > > > > > > And yes, I'm inspired and serious. > > > > > > -- > > > Schlomo Rabinowitz > > > http://schlomolog.blogspot.com > > > http://hatfactory.net > > > AIM:schlomochat > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > . > > > > > > > > -- > Schlomo Rabinowitz > http://schlomolog.blogspot.com > http://hatfactory.net > AIM:schlomochat > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
