Let Paper.li Create A Newspaper Tailored For You
Hat tip to Jane Friedman for today's post. I found this nugget in her newsletter, There Are No Rules. In her last post, The Evolution of How I use Twitter, I learned about a very nifty tool called Paper.Li. I highly recommend you subscribe to her free newsletter if you have not already don so.
Paper.Li is a tool that looks through the tweets of the people you follow and pulls them together into a very cool and easy format for you. It literally creates a newspaper that features the info in those tweets and categorizes them by subjects.
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You can see by the pic that the format is laid out like a newspaper. The page scrolls down seven times with the first few sentences of many articles and a link to the article. Many sections have more than one page, depending on the tweeting activity of the people you follow. At the top, you will see sections of the newspaper like Business, Technology, Arts and Entertainment, Politics, etc...
This newspaper should be tailored just for you since you are the one who followed the people you did on Twitter. If you are not getting the type of news that you are looking for, then maybe it's time to prune the list of the people you are following. (Jane's posts makes a strong case for doing just that).
You can choose the title of your newspaper (though it will default to one like mine) and you can choose the frequency of updates: daily edition, morning and evening edition, or weekly edition. There are also some other customizations, but these are the basic.
The company that created this tool is working on a Facebook edition as well, though it does not appear to be as developed and robust as the Twitter version.
Another cool thing is that you can share your newspaper with others. Go ahead and check out The Tony Eldridge Daily. There is even a subscribe on that page for people who want to know what your followers are saying too. They will also get the updates of your newspaper.
The biggest reason I like Paper.Li is that it takes the stream of tweets flowing through my Twitter account and attempts to make it manageable to digest. In my opinion, it's really worth taking a look at in order to help you manage your Twitter stream as well.
Paper.Li is a tool that looks through the tweets of the people you follow and pulls them together into a very cool and easy format for you. It literally creates a newspaper that features the info in those tweets and categorizes them by subjects.
(Click the pic to enlarge)
You can see by the pic that the format is laid out like a newspaper. The page scrolls down seven times with the first few sentences of many articles and a link to the article. Many sections have more than one page, depending on the tweeting activity of the people you follow. At the top, you will see sections of the newspaper like Business, Technology, Arts and Entertainment, Politics, etc...
This newspaper should be tailored just for you since you are the one who followed the people you did on Twitter. If you are not getting the type of news that you are looking for, then maybe it's time to prune the list of the people you are following. (Jane's posts makes a strong case for doing just that).
You can choose the title of your newspaper (though it will default to one like mine) and you can choose the frequency of updates: daily edition, morning and evening edition, or weekly edition. There are also some other customizations, but these are the basic.
The company that created this tool is working on a Facebook edition as well, though it does not appear to be as developed and robust as the Twitter version.
Another cool thing is that you can share your newspaper with others. Go ahead and check out The Tony Eldridge Daily. There is even a subscribe on that page for people who want to know what your followers are saying too. They will also get the updates of your newspaper.
The biggest reason I like Paper.Li is that it takes the stream of tweets flowing through my Twitter account and attempts to make it manageable to digest. In my opinion, it's really worth taking a look at in order to help you manage your Twitter stream as well.
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