Further to yesterday’s post, I’ve been messing about Bittorrent Sync. As someone who is avowedly Web-centric, I’m used to a world where files sync via the Web and one signs up to services via email. There’s none of that with Bittorrent Sync:
As a lover of Dropbox, I’m investigating Bittorrent Sync as a way to augment the way I currently sync files across machines.* I mentioned above that there’s no Web component involved. Instead, files are synced directly from machine to machine via a secure and encrypted process that isn’t available to other Bittorrent users – just the people with whom you’ve shared a ‘secret key’.
If you’d like to give it a try, download the software for your computer and enter this ‘secret’ key, giving read-only access to my BTSync folder: RCFZPEYBNV4MGZTQEO2ITOANGEZNF42WF
Of course, it’ll only work when I (or someone else who has synced the files) is online! There must be a way to install the software on a server so it can act as a node?
* This would be an awesome way of sharing learning and teaching resources en masse!
It’s good to have outliers in your Twitter stream and other social networks. The following conversation between @leashless and @mmaaikeu really made me think today, especially about literacies for the Web being predicated upon viewing it through a browser with built-in affordances, etc.
If the Storify embed doesn’t appear below, the full conversation (including tangents) can be found in my Flickr photostream or on the Internet Archive.
[View the story “Anarcho-syndicalist critique of browsers” on Storify]
I welcome the pushback to the work I’m doing that’s implicit in the conversation above. It’s always good to keep stuff like this in mind!
This week I’ve been:
- Planning and then delivering (with Tim Riches) an Open Badges workshop in Glasgow.
- Meeting with people representing organisations who want to integrate with the OBI.
- Hosting this week’s Web Literacy Standard community call.
- Meeting with colleagues at the Mozilla London office.
- Launching the first draft of Mozilla’s Web Literacy standard.
- Teaching kids how to ‘hack’ their school website with X-Ray Goggles at Maker Faire in Newcastle
Next week I’m in London to do some judging for some funding Mozilla’s involved in, but I’ll be taking it a bit easier after travelling the length of the country this week, working an extra day and launching some work!
