@RikMende I'm curious about your #readlater and #readinglist hashtags. Do you revisit your site with a search for those and change them after you've read them? Do you have an alternate exterior workflow for reading later?

I usually use the "like/favorite" functionality on Twitter to "highlight" things I want to read with an IFTTT.com recipe to save the URLs from Twitter to my Pocket account for reading later. Pocket allows me to download the data from my account, so I can technically "own" it, but I'm always looking for a better workflow for this.

Curious what others use/do for this kind of work flow...

#indieweb

On discovery of (good) content from the interwebs.
A short reply to @anildash @kylewmahan @tinokremer et. al

Tino, your note reminds me of Dave Winer's http://podcatch.com/ service which he built to be able to have access to interesting podcasts at any time without having to sync his phone. Sadly, I think it's a static source and not quite the tool that even https://huffduffer.com/ is and even that requires some user set up to find great material.

I remember early web efforts like Digg that were interesting for a while, but sadly services like this regress to the mean and one gets the fluff that appeals to Harry and Mary Beercan.

My favorite discovery engine lately is the Nuzzle News app from Jonathan Abrams (http://nuzzel.com/) which plugs into my social feeds and gives me articles from friends/influencers that have been mentioned several times. The value of the site is the ability to easily plug in well curated twitter lists on particular topics which then finds articles tweeted about multiple times by people I trust. I find that most of what the app uncovers is worth reading and thinking about. Rarely does it surface fluff, though I find that the articles in the friends of friends category are things that I don't care that much about.

If only we could get Nuzzle to partner with Huffduffer?!

Pocket also has a recommended tab (https://getpocket.com/a/recommended/) which is relatively useful, but it really isn't far from the simple algorithmic approach of Digg in the past.

Also, can someone please build an internet-wide filter to get rid of #listicles and the joke and fluff emails with the 1000 forwards from 1998? We'd all be a lot better off. #PanemEtCircenses

+Mark van Walraven To strip cruft (ads, widgets, and other distractions) off of blog articles and general web pages for a cleaner and easier reading/concentrating experience, you might consider using Readability, which has a handy bookmarklet that you can put in your browser toolbar for quick and easy use: https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets. If you're an avid Evernote user, they have a product called Clearly that's pretty good as well: https://evernote.com/clearly/. Similarly Pocket and Instapaper have this type of functionality (with bookmarklets as well), though they typically require one to save articles to one's account first prior to reading, though this is rather handy when skimming through G+, Twitter, and Facebook feeds for interesting material one wants to read later.

+John Baez For RSS, the heir apparent to Google Reader's old product is Feedly (http://feedly.com/). There are certainly a small handful of others, but I suspect most would say that Feedly is the clear winner. They use a freemium model in which they give the majority of their useful functionality away for free and charge a small and reasonably modest subscription fee for a set of advanced functionality that most probably don't need or use. If you want to add a simple Feedly button to your blog siderail (via widget), you can find details and instructions here: http://feedly.com/factory.html

In a past life and as a side hobby, I spent several years running and building a large portion of social media for Johns Hopkins, so I've played with nearly every platform in existence. I've been pecking away for a while at blog post describing how researchers and academics can best use blogging and social media presence to improve their work & speed up their workflow - a topic that could actually be a reasonable sized book. Some of the commentary here has motivated me to get back to it presently.