This sounds very similar to RSS feeds and aggregators. It uses http/ rpc to fetch news items and you can optionally mirror them on your server. You can then filter them with keywords.
There are problems with this with regards to censorship. 1. XML is unencrypted. And easy to use deep packet inspection on (which I have learned participating in the Iran proxies). 2. HTTP is easily blocked on a port. 3. It is easy for an organization to block access to the servers you are accessing. There is no distributed connection feature. Basically you would be reimplementing Freenet with RSS feeds. On Jul 18, 4:49 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > Another killer app I would like to see it this: > > A p2p news app. > > Imagine installing web2py and an app that allows you to select > keywords of interest. the app connect to other apps of the same tipe > via xmlrpc fetches recent news items that match your interests and > serves them locally. You can block individual news and/or post more > news. Visitors can comment and vote. Comments stay local but upvotes/ > downvotes affect propagation of the news. The layout could be > customizable. > > I am very concerned about governments censoring information. This > system would create a worldwide news network without a central point > of failure. A particular item propagates as long as the readers find > it interesting. > > Technically it is not so difficult to implement. > > Any taker? > > Massimo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
