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I was nosing around the Belgian government's website this evening (note to government: information architecture) and started reading up on thenational electronic ID card.

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The BBC’s Click Online isrunning a story about Zipcar, a car sharing outfit in the US. The concept is simple: you reserve, then collect the car from one of the pick-up points spread around the city, your membership card unlocks the vehicle and, from that point on, you only pay for time used and distance covered.

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The people behindDownhill Battlehave announced a new project within theirParticipatory Culture Foundationallowing viewing and distribution of high quality, full screen video by anyone over the net using the BitTorrent protocol. It’s basically podcasting with video, on steroids, and with direct delivery from individual to individual.

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Yet more arguments for symmetric network connections at the edges: Vint Cerf mentions the concept of P2P was part of the original design of the internet protocol. And nowadays we’re pushing just as much data as we’re pulling, so why are residential broadband connections so download-heavy?

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I’ve received quite a few emails from people who visit this site from abroad asking for more information about the structures that populate the Brussels skyline pictured in the new one.point.zero header.

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In a previous post, I talked about content living at the edges of the network and how the current broadcast model of one-to-all was missing an opportunity.

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