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Robin Good: FlashIssue is a web app which allows you to easily assemble a professional-looking newsletter, by bringing together your best content as well as any article available online.

FlashIssue can read your site RSS feed or for that matter any RSS feed you provide it with and you can pick and select from the stream of items in the feed the ones you want to include in your newsletter.

Not only.

You can search for any topic via an integrated Google Search or provide the URL of a specific web page you want to integrate.

Once done, you can personalize the newsletter with your banner, text introduction and footer and then send it to all of your contacts in Gmail, or to your subscribers lists inside MailChimp, ConstantContact and other mail delivery services.

N.B.: A Google Chrome plugin also allows you to easily clip and grab any content directly from any web page and easily integrate it inside your curated newsletter.

See how it works: http://www.flashissue.com/gmail-newsletters/ ;

Read more about it: http://www.flashissue.com/curated-newsletters-flashissue-launches-for-mailchimp-gmail ;

Chrome plugin: http://www.flashissue.com/gmail-newsletters/ ;

Try it out: http://www.flashissue.com/   ;

Robin Good: Digging back into my article archives I have just run into a special gem, dating back to 2006.

Thanks to the curious and entrepreneurial spirit of Marshall Kirkpatrick, in this short audio interview (6':21"), I get to explain what was my vision then (six years ago) for what we now call "news curation".

Missing any better term for something that had no previous history of practice, at the time I had labelled "newsmaster" the news-curator professional, and "newsradar" the final output (a finely-tuned thematic news channel bringing you the best from many different sources).

The interview had been done for the web magazine NetSquared and you can find more info about this and a full transcription of the interview right here: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/05/24/the_human_news_aggregator_an.htm

Let me know what you think.

Update: Right after I had posted this short story, I went to check a bit how my old friend Marshall Kirkpatrick, author of the above interview, was doing, and headed to his blog... and what I discovered left me startled and enthusiastic at the same time. Read it by yourself: http://marshallk.com/were-entering-a-golden-age-of-news-geekery

Isn't the world amazing?

Robin Good: PublishThis is an enterprise level full content curation and publishing platform allowing news and content discovery, topic monitoring, full editing and curation capabilities as well as social media sharing and monetization options.

It joins Onespot, Lingspot, Daylife, Aggregage, Eqentia, CIThread and a few other ones in the group of enterprise news and content curation tools inside the http://bit.ly/ContentCurationUniverse tools-map.

Alternative "plans"/solutions: http://www.publishthis.com/plans/

(pricing not publicly available)

FAQ: http://www.publishthis.com/platform/faqs/

Register for private Beta here: http://www.publishthis.com/platform/starter-kit/

Requesta a demo: http://www.publishthis.com/platform/request-a-demo/

More info: http://www.publishthis.com/

Robin Good: Paper.li one of the early players in the news aggregation, discovery and auto-curation space has been significantly improving its service which now offers also a $9/month Pro version.

Paper.li allows you to set a number of search queries on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube and to import specific RSS feeds to "aggregate" the most relevant on a certain topic or theme.

You as a curator can "preview" your yet-to-be-published news magazine and can manually pick and decide which "stories" to publish and which ones to drop by simply hovering your mouse on anyone of them.

"Editions" can be auto-scheduled and Paper.li can automatically announce on Twitter and via email to your subscribers when a new one is out.

PRO users get to have the last word before any edition gets published, by way of a "preview before promotion" feature that lets you control when notifications go out and gives you time to make changes, can add promotional banners, standard ads or other marketing materials in a set of predefined hot spots on their news page, and can "brand" their magazine with their own banner, background image and personalized colors.

More info: https://paper.li/learn-more.html

Try it out now: https://paper.li/