Academic Torrents

Wow, this is pretty cool -- one of the most direct approaches to open-data that I've seen so far (and the research world is of course in dire need of this kind of open data/connect-the-dots enabling effort)!

I think it would be pretty cool to have trending datasets on the front page (I'm sure you could do a small cron that would find the most-downloaded per-week/per-day/etc)

Also, while not a dire necessity, I think a cooler name would help this project fly farther -- You should be able to make a play on "data torrents", maybe something like datastorm/samplerain/datawave/dataswell/Acadata?

Any way, trivial stuff aside, nice implementation -- bookmarked for when I get the urge to do a data-analysis project!

Excellent! It's far too early to tell, but I'd like to be hopeful that this distribution network could be another nail in the coffin of the old, expensive, dead-tree journals.

thanks for sharing! I shall store in the vault of Hard Drives I keep here in the desert

I remember the old days of DC++ whenever I hear blazing fast speeds.

This is really cool.

I simply wished that the messaging was more clear and told a story that I could tell to my friends who ultimately are "too busy" to think about the value of this product.

Unfortunately "We've designed a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds." Just isn't a story that I can tell to my buddies and get them excited.