Paper.li is a content curation service that allows users to create their own newspaper by choosing seemingly any topics that exist on the internet—essentially any topics that exist—and present fresh material to readers daily based on those topics.
Paper.li allows users to name their own newspapers and then search out the content they want to share in the publication. After the topics have been chosen, users are able to create a unique design for their newspaper. Fonts, color schemes, and basic presentation options help the user make the site unique.
Because I work for a distilling company, I chose moonshine and distilling as a topic for my Paper.li newspaper.
After the page has been designed the website organizes relevant articles and presents the curated information in a fashion similar to mainstream online news websites.
It automatically chooses articles to highlight and separates the content into categories like; videos, photos, leisure, business, etc.
The user gets to play the role of editor if he/she is not satisfied with the content that appears on the homepage. By clicking the edit button in the top, right corner the user is given the opportunity to refresh the content or simply reposition the content already on the page.
The user can also change the content of their Paper.li site any time by choosing new topics for Paper.li to pull from. The user can also add or remove places for Paper.li to search for material.
In the free version of the site the user can update the material on their newspaper once a day. The update can be done either manually or the user can set a schedule and the material will automatically be updated.
Users can also promote their own page through newsletters and posts on social media.
Paper.li is a user friendly way to curate materials for an online website. Here is a link to my simple newspaper created on Paper.li
Jay Michael Miller 