Why I’m Beginning To Like Paper.li

If you’ve never heard of Paper.li, allow me to introduce you. It’s a fairly new website that allows anyone to publish their own news publication. You can become a news curator just by establishing a Paper.li edition, published daily, that republishes tweets – Twitter messages – in a new format.

What I like about it is I can be featured in a Paper.li news publication for publishing links to blogs and websites that I don’t own. And I get “credit” for discovering those news sources. And I don’t even have to be a Paper.li publisher.

Here’s an example of what I mean. Click the link and scroll about a third of the way down the page. You’ll see the headline “How To Get Free Media.” I tweeted that link and the publisher of this news publication on Paper.li (titled The Free Media Daily) republished it, giving me credit for finding the source. If you’ll click the little “i” icon on the bottom right of the “How To Get Free Media” summary, then you’ll be taken to this page on Paper.li.

What you should see is an article profile that includes a summary of the original article with a link to the article at the original source. The original source is the page that I linked to in my tweet, the one picked up by this Paper.li edition.

Below the article summary you’ll see the avatar for the Paper.li edition publisher. If that article had been picked up by more than one Paper.li publisher, then they’d all be listed right there in that section.

Farther down is the link to the Paper.li edition that features the original article, then below that are the Paper.li profiles of the Twitter users who tweeted that article. There’s me and one other Twitter user listed. Click on my avatar and you’ll see other items that I’ve found which have also been published on Paper.li.

So are you starting to see why I like Paper.li? I can be a publishing celebrity without ever once tweeting my own content. But, of course, you all know that I do that.