Downhill Battle has released a preview version of Blog Torrent, an effort to create a simplified interface for using BitTorrent to host large files on weblogs. As the page for the preview release version notes,
[Blog Torrent’s mission is] making it easy to blog large video files means that peopel can share their home movies the same way they share their photos or writings. It lets people create vast networks of truly peer-to-peer video content — video that was made by individuals and shared with individuals, no bandwidht budget or distribution deal needed> Does this mean that we can do for television what blogs have done for news? Let’s find out . . .