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Saturday
Nov132010

My own Twitter "newspaper"

I stumbled across a new site called paper.li that allows anyone to create a "newspaper-style" digital publication from a variety of Twitter feeds. The process takes a few minutes, and offers some interesting prospects.

The tools are in alpha, so things are raw and can change at a moMy customized paper.li "newspaper"ment's notice, so my descriptions are based on what I did today.

There are three options for your publication by:
1) Pulling your feed plus those of the people you follow.
2) Pulling a feed from a designated #hashtag
3) Pulling a feed from a Twitter list

I created two: "The Logan Molen Daily" based on my @lmolen handle and the 253 people I follow and "The journoinnovation Daily," based on Steve Buttry's @journoinnovation list, which pulls in my Tweets.

The paper.li "pagination" process takes a few minutes and creates a publication pulling in posts sorted by topic categories.

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