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Web of Trust Audio News Distribution 168

c0rtex writes "Wearlab (University of Bremen) has designed a cool web of trust voice message routing system with a decaying credibility metric. It supports xmms and winamp. Source available for Linux and win32. "MPN makes it possible to deliver completely decentralized and independent news. Everyone has the possibility to be a reporter, no filtering publisher is required...""
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  • by ekrout ( 139379 ) on Tuesday December 10, 2002 @07:05PM (#4858430) Journal

    I've been reading about decentralized news for quite awhile now and have been waiting for some real, concrete results/products to be released. As such, here are some of my Mozilla bookmarks from my Decentralized News folder. Please enjoy!

    infoAnarchy || Comments || The Circle: a new decentralized search ... [infoanarchy.org]
    ... Gossip: This is a decentralized news service, with a trust system kind of
    like Advogato. Nodes on the network swap gossip with their friends. ...
    www.infoanarchy.org/comments/ 2002/1/15/82223/3481?pid=1 - 12k - Cached [216.239.51.100]

    Scripting News [userland.com]
    ... Call us cockroaches if you want, I'm sure IBM thought Apple, Microsoft and Intel
    were cute and dirty too, but distributed and decentralized news is rapidly ...
    scriptingnews.userland.com/backIssues/2002/02/15 - 25k - Dec. 9, 2002 - Cached [216.239.51.100]

    Research News: TVC Alert, 31 May 2002 [virtualchase.com]
    ... Before summarizing software available for reading RSS/XML news feeds (end of article),
    the author opines about the value of decentralized news or information ...
    www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/may02/31may02.html - 38k - Cached [216.239.51.100]

    Hoosier Review [hoosierreview.com]
    ... used to their privileges as brokers of information in a top-down world, threatened
    by the rise of new, bizarre, egalitarian and decentralized news sources? ...
    www.hoosierreview.com/musgrave10.html - 12k - Cached [216.239.51.100]

    Netizens Info [columbia.edu]
    ... Non-electronic Reference Sources. Bellovin, Steve M. and Mark Horton, USENET
    - A Distributed Decentralized News System, an unpublished manuscript, 1985. ...
    www.columbia.edu/~hauben/CMC/netizen_thoughts.ht ml - 11k - Cached [216.239.51.100]

    www.columbia.edu/~hauben/CS/netizen_thoughts.txt [columbia.edu]
    ... and future of the data highway Non-electronic Reference Sources Bellovin, Steve
    M. and Mark Horton, USENET - A Distributed Decentralized News System, an ...
    8k - Cached [216.239.51.100]
    [ More results from www.columbia.edu [slashdot.org] ]

    MetaLog [larkfarm.com]
    ... just recycled news from major outlets. But what the weblogs did do
    was provide a decentralized news source. At a time when all of ...
    www.larkfarm.com/metalog.asp - 18k - Dec. 9, 2002 -

    Michael Barone [jewishworldreview.com]
    ... years ago. That's how it's bound to be in a country with increasingly
    decentralized news media and a fragmented electorate. The ...
    www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone100300.a sp - 17k - Dec. 9, 2002 - Cached [216.239.51.100]

    SubIntSoc.net: The Suboctagon Report - The Center Cannot Hold, ... [subintsoc.net]
    ... Another example: personal video cameras. People on the streets with cameras formed
    a decentralized news-gathering system that the TV networks couldn't match. ...
    subintsoc.net/suboctagon_20011121.php - 39k - Dec. 9, 2002 - Cached [216.239.51.100]

    Wired Online: Brain Tennis [lycos.com]
    ... Or will the many-to-many nature of the Net lead to self-correcting, decentralized
    news media that nobody owns and everybody contributes to? ...
    hotwired.lycos.com/braintennis/96/23/index2a.htm l - 11k -

  • Re:OGG.DLL Where? (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10, 2002 @07:32PM (#4858588)
    vorbis.com [slashdot.org]
  • Re:Why bother? (Score:2, Informative)

    by John Hasler ( 414242 ) on Tuesday December 10, 2002 @07:34PM (#4858608) Homepage
    > It has become increasingly obvious that The Names
    > You've Gradually Grown To Trust (like NYT) are
    > less and less worthy of that trust...

    No they haven't. They were never worthy of the trust you put in them.
  • by Xeger ( 20906 ) <slashdot@tracAAA ... inus threevowels> on Tuesday December 10, 2002 @07:35PM (#4858614) Homepage
    The way I understand the system, you control the rate of trust decay by assigning weights to each of your friends in the network.

    If you trust everyone with weight 1.0 (implicit total trust), then your node will not contribute to decay.

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