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<p><b>No Agenda Show for Thursday July 5th 2012</b></p> <p><b>Wonderful Marinade</b></p> <p><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.dvorak.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/playersingle.swf" id="mymovie" name="mymovie" quality="high" flashvars="autoPlay=no&soundPath=http://static.curry.com/NA-MP3S/NA-423-2012-07-05-Final.mp3&overColor=#ff0000" height="80" ></embed></p> <p><a href="http://static.curry.com/NA-MP3S/NA-423-2012-07-05-Final.mp3"><img src="http://blog.curry.com/images/2012/07/05/NA-423-Art-SM.jpg" width="256" height="256" border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named NA-423-Art-SM.jpg"></a></p> <p>Direct [<a href="http://static.curry.com/NA-MP3S/NA-423-2012-07-05-Final.mp3">link</a>] to the mp3 file</p> <p><b>Wonderful Marinade</b></p> <p>Executive Producers: Sir Bill Hertha</p> <p>Associate Executive Producers: Sir Anonymous</p> <p>423 Club Members: Sir Bill Hertha</p> <p>Become a member of the 424 Club, support the show <a href="http://dvorak.org/na">here</a> <a href="http://dvorak.org/na"><img src="http://scripting.com/images/leftArrow.gif" width="11" height="9" border="0" alt="Permalink."></a></p> <p>Knighthoods: Bill Hertha</p> <p>Art By: MartinJJ</p> <p>ShowNotes Archive of links and Assets (clips etc) <a href="http://423.nashownotes.com/"> 423.nashownotes.com</a></p> <p>Fanscribed Transcription: <a href="http://423.readnoagenda.com/">423.readnoagenda.com</a> (Pitch in!)</p> <p>New: Directory Archive of Shownotes (includes all audio and video assets used) <a href="http://nashownotes.com">nashownotes.com</a></p> <p>The No Agenda News Network- <a href="http://noagendanewsnetwork.com/">noagendanewsnetwork.com</a> <a href="http://noagendanewsnetwork.com/"><img src="http://scripting.com/images/leftArrow.gif" width="11" height="9" border="0" alt="Permalink."></a></p> <p>RSS <a href="http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/feed?u=d0e55f3197099944345708652&id=6ccb3b7d9e">Feed</a> for the newsletter</p> <p>Get the <a href="http://nanewsapp.com/">No Agenda News App</a> for your iPhone and iPad</p> <p><a href="https://bitlove.org/adamc1999/noagenda">Torrents</a> of each episode via BitLove</p>

<p>The recent <a href="http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/06/30/developers-bracing-themselves-for-twitter-api-retrictions-call-todays-post-ominous/">policy changes</a> to twitter's API have not gone unnoticed with developers of clients for the micro blogging service.</p> <p>The writing is on the wall. The months, if not years of your hard work are slowly being subordinated by twitter's inherent need to control their environment to make money.</p> <p>Nothing wrong with making money, but the tea leaves say you won't be on the receiving end forever.</p> <p>RSS pioneering developers <a href="http://inessential.com/2012/06/29/matthew_on_twitter_restrictions">Brent Simmons</a> and <a href="http://docs.reallysimple.org/">Dave Winer</a> both see the risk and the opportunity here, as do I</p> <p>I've been hedging bets on my microbloging for years by maintaining a copy of my tweets in <a href="http://adam.curry.com/twitter.html">html</a> and as an <a href="http://adam.curry.com/twitter.xml">RSS feed</a> by using <a href="http://server.opml.org/">free software</a>. I also have a <a href="http://adam.curry.com/linkblog.xml">second feed</a> that I don't feed into twitter, since I don't know what they do with my information, and I cocnsider that too risky</p> <p><b>To all developers of twitter clients some free advice, take it for what it's worth:</b></p> <p>Add RSS capabilties to your client</p> <p>Allow users to 'follow' RSS feeds [in app subscription is at YOUR fingertips]</p> <p>Use the <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#hrelementsOfLtitemgt">'source'</a> element to enable in-app following of new feeds that users discover from other feeds they follow</p> <p>Make use of <a href="http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html">OPML</a> to maintain [portable] subscription lists</p> <p>Use <a href="http://rsscloud.org/walkthrough.html">rssCloud</a> to create a real-time experience</p> <p>Start creating an RSS shadow feed of their tweets like I do, as an archive and 'Plan B' scenario</p> <p>Implement the proposed RSS <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2012/02/03/aStandardForRting.html">Re-Tweet standard</a></p> <p>Have a look at the <a href="http://microblog.reallysimple.org/">microblog namespace</a></p> <p>The first Twitter client with RSS feed aggregation out of the gate will have a huge first mover advantage. Who wouldn't want to be able to have feeds [and even podcasts] inthe same UI as their tweets? I know I would.</p> <p>Here's an <a href="http://curryriver.com/">example</a> of what I would like to see in an app, running on my own server. See how This is also where I get my incoming twitter stream? </p> <p>Imagine the possibilities...</p> <p>[<i>postscript</i>] Developing an aggregator is not trivial, not all feeds are created equal (although they should be), but at least the core format has been consistent for over 10 years now.</p>