In the process of writing up #227<https://melkjug.openplans.org/trac/melkjug/ticket/227>, I realized it might be cool if instead of linking directly to the original source of the article being shared, we linked to a view of the individual article from within Melkjug. That is, Melkjug would provide a melkjug.com-based permalink to each article, visible of course to anyone. If whoever the article is being shared with hasn't checked out Melkjug yet, when they go to read the article they'll get to check out Melkjug at the same time.
The permalink view could eventually have some smarts to it: "users who've starred this", "articles with a similar set of tags", or something like "if you like this article, here are some other articles/feeds/users you might like", where each of these would link to a jug that would be automatically populated with relevant feeds and filters. This builds on the idea of the anonymous reader, giving anonymous users a seamless path to getting stuff in a jug without them even having to know what a jug is. Wei wu wei, and shit.* Josh *apologies, quicksilver
