A tweet arrives. It contains a URL.
– is it useful? am I sold?

I click the link.
Which opens Chrome.

Was it blocked at the host level?
– (if it’s on business insider, nyt, wall street journal or a gawker site, I see this)

Have I already read it?
– Great! Close the window, consider sharing, or converse with the person who just tweeted the link.

Is it something I might read later, but cannot read now?
– Click “posthoc” to send to ReadItLater/Pocket, which is automatically scooped into Pinboard with one fewer step and an additional layer of redundancy. Sometimes it’s nice to skim Pocket to see what’s in there, especially while knowing it can all be archived/deleted with no worry.

Is it ugly?
– Reformat with Readability’s “Read Now”. * extraction

Or… do I find I’m already a paragraph in?
If so, I tap “Reading“. An API call is made:
* Reading adds the link to my reading log on Reading.am
* Reading posts a tweet on my @maxisreading twitter
* Reading sends the link to Pinboard, which keeps an archive of the the text and is my starting point for re-discovering/re-finding something I know I’ve read before.

While reading, if a quote stands out, tap Findings bookmarklet.
* This inserts a highlighting system into the page that makes it easy to clip a quote and posts that to findings.com/maxfenton.
* Everything I post to Findings this way is automatically pulled into a tumblr: notebookof.maxfenton.com
* Other users of Findings can discover that quote and follow the trail back to the article, or clip the quote however they wish. I think that’s what Findings is built for.
* Everything posted to this tumblr also gets pulled into Pinboard, so I get a double-up of the source article and the linkable quote URL.

Now, all the way back at that tweet. If in a hurry when seeing the link, or seeing something already read, but shared by someone kind and kindly: Star the tweet and send it through the RIL/Pocket » Pinboard process described above.

What else?

• Sharing
• Marginalia
• Books/EPUBs

Those are the empire’s border-states; for another conversation.

Reference:

Today I learned some things about WordPress, CloudFlare, AWS, Markdown, wordpress cache, first drafts, second drafts, thinking aloud, revising in public, and getting back on the horse with help from:

* @everyplace
* http://sachagreif.com/modern-wordpress-development-in-2012/ (via @justincharles)
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/
* http://codex.wordpress.org/
* http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/markdown-on-save/

and this via @leppert