Now every Tweet will read something like “Road Rage in the Valley leaves one dead brought to you by NAPA Auto Parts.” And I still have 67 characters left.

Good work.

I can’t believe I’m going to be the voice of caution here… but here goes: Twitter has been SO gnarly of late (yes, I said gnarly) that I would just keep that in mind. Not a reason not to do something. But they have a nasty habit of crashing at the busiest of news times. So when your audience becomes dependent on you — poof - there goes Twitter.

And I’m one of its biggest fans. I certainly hope they’ll pull it out.

It does raise the interesting question of what would happen if we were all dependent on a major system and it were to go away. Free, paid for or otherwise.

@Everyone else - Well I own webproducer dot tv and have access to a lot of bandwidth and space on a personal web server of mine. If y’all don’t want to use Circuit for a WN group, I’d be more than happy to setup and host a PHPbb board on that domain.

@ Don - Actually, using The Circuit might be a good place for WN users to discuss issues if it’s OK with you guys. I’ve been looking for a place where I could collaborate with other end users who face similar challenges.

@ Barney - I’m up for it. If we can do it in The Circuit with these guys’ blessing great, if not I’m up for a neutral location where we can talk about stuff.

I was about half kidding. I\’m not a WN customer, but know lots of folks who are (and have heard lots of… misgivings). I\’d be happy to help point LR folks to something if the ball gets rolling.

A good place to start might be Lost Remote\’s The Circuit

Don’t look at me…I’m just an IT geek fascinated with the media world and full of crazy ideas and visions on the web, media and the know-how to implement them - not a web producer associated with any particular media group

Only thing I know about WorldNow is what I’ve gathered from poking Rob’s site with a stick to figure out its limitations on adding widgets. Couldn’t even tell you what WorldNow Producer even looks like.

Though I would suggest invading wiredjournalists dot com if you really want to set up a WorldNow group. They appear to have groups for news widgets, CMS’es, et cetera already - WorldNow would fit in over there.

Back onto the Twitter subject - click my name, I have an actual WorldNow RSS feed being fed into Twitter (just a test site that may go away if I think of something new to use that account for of course).

It could even be a forum, maybe via Yuku, like I created because KickApps (Yuku’s parent) is a WN partner.
Whatcha think, Don, Jeff, Rob, Amanda? Or were you just joshing?

Dudes, just parse and reformat your WorldNow feeds so you have the PubDate option inserted into the proper place in the feed (The story timestamp is included in the guid variable)

Click my name for a quick and dirty example.