A lot of us and many other out there are still trying to figure out what twitter is and how we can use such a huge amount of information that constantly gets updated and repeated in real-time. If you are following a few hundred people who are very active and tweet very frequently, your twitter stream just becomes a (vertically) rolling news ticker and it becomes frustrating to follow what's going on.
Many start-ups and entrepreneurs are trying to make sense of that information and put it together in a way that can be useful to everyone using the tool, not only to the marketers and self-promoters.
One such effort is http://paper.li
paper.li is a user-created online newspaper that gathers news from the topics or people one follows in twitter. It takes into consideration who is tweeting which story and the popularity of each story and the person who is tweeting it.
While trying to create my own newspaper, I tried to follow Professor Venkat and the website generated this: http://paper.li/nvenkatraman . Check this one out.
Now, it's not a complete newspaper and may not comparable to some other big real newspapers. But this definitely is a step towards how things are changing in the newspaper industry in ways no one ever thought of.
This is cool stuff. I find it fascinating that earning a positive reputation in news delivery has gone being the first company/reporter to break a story, to being the first person to share a story with his/her network, to now having the best network that aggregates the most interesting stories. Is there an opportunity for the big publishers who have a lot of followers to add some value here? (http://paper.li/huffingtonpost; http://paper.li/GlobeMetro) Or, are their audiences to broad have dedicated niche followings needed for success?
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