Paper.li: The “Your Name Here” Daily Posted on April 14, 2011 Post a comment

You’ve probably tried all sorts of social media dashboards—Hootesuite, CoTweet, Seesmic, Tweetdeck—the list goes on and on. And there are plenty of articles out there discussing which tool is the fastest, best, or most comprehensive way to manage your social media hustle and bustle. Heck, just Google it and you’ll see. Well, today we’re talking about something completely different. So pour yourself a cup of joe, prop your feet up and enjoy the rabbleandrouser Daily.

Paper.li, a fresh take on the changing media landscape, offers to organize “links shared on Twitter and Facebook into an easy to read newspaper-style format.” You’ve already done the work by following your interests, friends, and applicable content across the web, but now Paper.li can be the editor for the mess that ensues.

It took me about five minutes to navigate the printing press setup, which gives you a few different options from where to pull your paper’s content. I chose to create my daily from the links posted in the previous 24 hours by @rabbleandrouser and the twits that @rabbleandrouser follows. Now, every morning a well-designed newspaper is tossed on my doorstep in my email inbox.

The best part is that the service lives up to their claim. The clean layout of categorized articles with abridged content and headlining photographs presents “a great way to discover what matters to you.” It’s certainly more engaging than the bitlys or tinyURLs that taper off at the end of each tweet in our stream. In fact, as I’ve been perusing the pages of the rabbleandrouser Daily over the past week, I’ve taken notice of just how techie we are, how socially and health conscious we are, and how gosh darn Colorado cool we are (Go Nuggets!). And by “we,” I mean all you twits out there whom we’re following too. So let us know if you have something new to say, because with Paper.li, we’ll definitely get the message.

Sources
Paper.li website, http://paper.li/, accessed for quotes 4/13/11.