February 2008
The Archives
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02.29.08Thoughts on BitTorrent distribution for a public broadcasterA while after we did our successful experiment with BitTorrent distribution for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation I was interviewed by the German news web site www.tagesschau.de The article is in German, but my original conversation with Mr. Wulf Rohwedder is in english. Because it reveals some of my thoughts about this project I decided to share it here: - Peer to peer networks have a bit of an ambigious reputation, especially due to the use for pirated footage and othe rillegal content. Has there been any reservations or resistance against the project? - Less resistance than the project initially feared. But we thought ...
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02.27.08I’m still hereRegular readers have noticed that this blog hasn't been updated since the 11th of February. Usually I update eirikso.com a couple of times a week. I've had busy days lately. And have been working on some technical changes to this blog as well. And as you can see - I'm experimenting with a new theme. Hope you like it. Thanks, Kim. And why are you so freakin' busy? - My day-job... Lots of exciting things happening over at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). The people that master the strange language of Norwegian can follow some of the stuff we're working on over ...
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02.11.08Register more than your domain!I just finished a post (norwegian) about the fact that we registered the name of our Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation tech blog "NRKbeta" on a lot of social networks and places around the web. We did that the second we decided on that name for the blog. And I think that is becoming an important part of your marketing strategy. I try to be pretty fast on registering "eirikso" on the different services popping up around the net. You never know who's gonna strike big, and right now it is quite nice that addresses like youtube.com/eirikso, twitter.com/eirikso and flickr.com/photos/eirikso takes you to ...