Month: August 2010

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Paper.li allows you to automatically publish a daily online newspaper with writers recruited from Twitter

My combined love of traditional media, new media & automated publishing has been mightily impressed by paper.li this morning.  Many thanks to @deerwood for pointing it out. In a couple of clicks I published the first LSE Daily, a collection of articles from LSE tweeters.  The paper will now publish daily.

How does it work?

First you choose your writers using one of three methods:

  1. A Twitter list – this is what I did, using my LSE Twitter List
  2. A Twitter Hashtag
  3. Your own username

Then you click Create.  That’s it; paper.li does the rest!  It uses tweets that include links from your chosen source  and displays them in a newspaper format.  I really like the way it embeds media from the sites it links to and the also how it automatically organises the stories into sections.

Plus, for occasional tweeters or those not using Twitter at all there is a daily email alert.

Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjornmeansbear/3740821489/

Thinking Beyond Technology

In October I’ll be speaking at the Future Of Education in Technology conference (FOTE10). I’m chuffed to have been asked but also slightly nervous (Talking to 300 peers, with no software demonstration to hide behind)!

FOTE is a bit more techie than most educational technology events, appealing to IT staff as well as learning technology folk. The conference ‘themes’ are Mobile Applications, Augmented Reality, Geolocation, iTunes U/Podcasting, & iPad/e-Book Readers. My talk, ‘We have the technology, we have the capability… all we need is love’ won’t be however!  I’ve just blogged Beyond Technology on the official FOTE10 blog as an initial introduction to my talk. Comments welcomed!

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