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What’s with the newspaper links on Twitter?

by techcommdood on August 24, 2010

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By now you’ve seen a bunch of newspaper links (”_____ Daily”) links from me on Twitter. Perhaps you’ve read them. Perhaps you’ve retweeted them (thank you!). Allow me to explain what you’re seeing.

The papers are generated automatically using paper.li, a Twitter aggregator that takes a daily compilation of hash tags (or however you configure it) and presents them in a newspaper format. Any links are translated into linked stories with teasers. The paper also runs a loop of non-linked tagged tweets.

What I really like about the paper is that if I miss anything in my timeline (easy when you’re following over 700 people) I can catch it in the paper the next day! You also find new and interesting people to follow!

Anyone can create a paper, and anyone can promote a paper. Give it a try!

Papers I promote through @techcommdood:

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Measuring your Online Influence: Metrics

August 9, 2010 Social Media

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As I indicated in my last post, I wanted to learn a bit more about the various metrics used in measuring blogger influence. I still say the best means of measurement are the comments, emails, Tweets, and IMs you get from people thanking you for sharing information or helping them answer a question [...]

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Honored to be considered one of 25 techcomm MIBs

July 29, 2010 Social Media

I’d like to take a moment to thank mindtouch and Mark Fidelman for even considering me in the evaluation and ranking of influential technical communication bloggers. I am honored with the distinction of being placed in the top 25.
I’ll be following up at a point when I have a bit more time with a related [...]

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Should STC Summit adopt social media event tools?

July 13, 2010 Conferences

I’d posed this question in a few circles to mixed feedback. While some agree it is more than time for STC to step up and employ more interactive/informative technologies, others seem averted to the idea, in some cases seeing it as an attack on those who aren’t riding the tech/social media trend.
The idea is simple: [...]

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Putting names to faces at Tweetups

March 26, 2010 Conferences

By now I’m sure most if not all people who will read this blog post are on Twitter, and many have likely attended a local Tweetup or planned to meet some of their friends and followers at a conference or trade show. The awkward part is that many times you have no idea what their [...]

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What’s your opinion of Google Buzz?

February 11, 2010 QOTD

One thing’s for certain, there’s a lot of buzz about Buzz right now. I find it amusing that most of it is on Twitter. There are many strong opinions on both sides of the Buzz… Some love it and are telling people to hold tight, and others very obviously hate it for a variety of [...]

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Buzzkill

February 11, 2010 Social Media

Undoubtedly like many of you, Buzz was enabled in my Gmail account yesterday. At first I thought nothing about turning it on, thinking it’d be cool to check out the latest offering from Google. I started seeing things people were posting, and it was okay.
As I commented on others’ posts and had more of my [...]

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Are social media and online collaboration tools intimidating to the technical communicator?

February 10, 2010 Content Development

Lately I’ve been hearing from quite a few technical communicators (technical writers, editors, illustrators, etc.) that they are either intimidated by or otherwise uninterested in social media tools and online collaboration tools. Rather than use a dynamic scratch pad like Wave to brainstorm they’d prefer a phone conference. Rather than use threaded forums they’d prefer [...]

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Regarding friend-finding Twitter tools

January 22, 2010 Social Media

I just read Rich Maggiani’s blog post Effectively Managing Twitter and aside from being many months behind all the other hundreds of “use these tools to find people to follow” articles out there, I really think the post misses the mark. I firmly believe Twitter is a social media tool, something that I think most [...]

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Regarding the many online tools STC communities are employing

September 14, 2009 Social Media

I posted this to a STC listserv, but it applies to all STC communities. Sorry in any of the crudeness used in making my point offends.
Context: A new STC Community extended an invitation to join to several STC mailing lists, and the discussion quickly turned to “Oh jeez, another tool? (Google Groups) How many is [...]

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