Update:  Read through the end of this post for a video message from Tim Ferris to BitTorrent users. Last week, we announced a partnership with Tim Ferriss to help get the word out about The 4-Hour Chef. Yesterday, the book was launched on Amazon. Unfortunately, it probably won’t be at your local bookstore. Want to help…

This week we hung out with Tim Ferriss, and decided to take on traditional publishing. We brought new music from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to your client. We caught a screening of The Bones Brigade: A Documentary (Go. See. This.), and gave back to the Relief Effort in New York. We got to hear what’s good from software…

Engineering is drinking from the fire hose. Software is performance art. This week, we caught up with Robert McDonald: our resident software-developer-slash-tv-producer-slash-coder-slash-clown-academy-grad. Herewith, his story. What do you do here at BitTorrent? I’m a software developer. I write and test code that works on all BitTorrent’s clients, with a focus on embedded Linux systems. I also develop BitTorrent…

Tim Ferriss has been called the Superman of Silicon Valley; the world’s best guinea pig; a cross between Julia Child and Jason Bourne. With bestsellers The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, he broke the traditional rule of great: that success = time spent. We’re working with him to break another rule. This one’s about publishing. On November…

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s 2005 debut was a killer album. (The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth: Still. So. Good.) But it was also a killer moment for Indie rock: a record that proved you didn’t need the traditional Label Machine to get heard. Pitchfork, in their 9.0 review, noted the beautifully rare thing…