I've decided to learn Python, Qt, and related technologies because they make the most sense for where I am going.

I want to start with a web service since I will need to get up to speed on wsdl, etc, fairly quickly for work. (EDIT: see note below)

I'll sketch out my idea here first because I want to capture thoughts in a place I almost live () but second because I want to expose the idea in case others are interested in participating.

The basic idea of Beaker is a twitter web service that could be integrated into discussion pages. The program would capture lengthy post content, partition it into 2 or more twitter-length chunks that include key metadata and then submit the tweets.

Chunks would be prefixed by "x/y" whereas "x" is the number of the chunk from first to last, and "y" is the total number of chunks. Chunks would be suffixed by a bit.ly url pointing back to the original comment, article, etc.

I'm fairly adept at building logical parsing engines in general so I can model this easily-- but I'm very new to Python and related tools so it will take me a while to get going on implementation. Again, I am not opposed to anyone stepping in for that BUT in a transparent way that will help me (and others) learn.

Later I will write up some pseudo code to get the modeling underway.

EDIT: it occurred to me it makes more sense to do this in javascript I think...