The Google algorithm is telling me it is almost time to talk to these guys, and since the projection is being made in my email communication space interface, they are saying they want me to talk to or talk about these guys. Luckily, one of the guys in it and I were babies together, supposedly. Or so the story goes. I only dimly remember something about lima beans. It is not this guy, it is another guy, the esteemed other gentlemen from Worcester County.

Most software entrepreneurs’ ambition is to sell out for a huge wad of cash, or maybe go public for an even bigger pile. Not so Nicholas Reville: He wants to overthrow the television industry, and he doesn’t care if he gets rich. In fact, as executive director and co-founder of the Participatory Culture Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Reville is unlikely to make much money at all.

Reville oversees the PCF’s core project: a free, open-source video player called Miro. Formerly known as Democracy Player, Miro is a desktop video application that lets you search and view videos. It uses RSS, BitTorrent and media-player technologies.