February 2, 2008
Building our newspaper together
I’ve been playing with Instapaper.com a little, and liking it a lot.
It’s a free site built by Marco Arment, who works at Tumblr (if I’m reading this right). You put the Instapaper “Read Later” button in your button bar, and click it if you’re on a site you want to read later. Go to Instapaper.com and you’ll see a list of what you’ve clicked. Simplicity itself.
There seems to be just one more feature: Any text you’ve selected on the page your instapapering is taken as that page’s description.
That takes care of my temporary bookmarking needs, a feature I’ve wanted for a while. But I wonder what would happen if my instapaper page were public and pointable. Could we start to use instapaper to build a collaborative newspaper that pulls together the recommended reading of people you respect?
