Good luck with the project!

Not sure if you’ve seen feedjournal (http://www.feedjournal.com/) miight be of use?

I see the relevance though with the newsletter idea – that people could print them off in various languages & so the rss-newsletter thing would also need to be multilingual.

The MultiKulti site hasn’t got rss though which is something to consider with the mac widget thing which doesn’t need rss – I’ve no idea how it works but if was possible to replicate getting information from sites without relying on rss alone it would be much more useful/flexible

Thanks for the input

Just had a look at MultiKulti – what a fantastic tool…

Gets me thinking about the importance of community translation of the social web as well…

Tim

it feels like a long time since i’ve thought about paper but your final point hits home i.e.
“…asking them to learn to use social media spaces is not the only solution.”

i remember that the indymedia london collective used to print newspaper of the website’s feature stories, to hand out on the streets.

and then there’s the use-case of intermediaries – when i created a web project called Multikulti, with multilingual advice for refugees, we knew that a lot of time advice workers would be printing it off to give to clients…

dan

Yep the print out is key – also the option to send a formatted email would be really useful too – kind of like a personalised email with daily/weekly headlines that could be printed off

What I’d love to see is something that makes it easy to create a well formatted print-out as well. Whereas lots of equally sized boxed of links works well on screen – on paper the ‘Newspaper’ style format of large ‘headline’ stories, and smaller snippets would, I think, work best.

The safari browser has a cool new feature that allows you to take a ‘clip’ from any web page – you select the part of the page you want to keep updated on and it pastes that selection into the mac dashboard and its updated ‘live’ – so you can have a collection of just the most relevant parts of certain websites.

What you can’t do (that I know of) is then print these off – but its a good model and allows more flexibility than relying on RSS feeds which don’t always give you the actual info you want (depending on how they’ve been set up (if at all!))

I guess the simpler option is something along the lines of igoogle/netvibes and perhaps having something that people can set up but print off from their browser.

Having said that this still wouldn’t be that simple for complete technophobes and I assume thats who you’re aiming?! – maybe you should set up a ‘Speaking Web’ service where people phone up and get read a load of RSS feeds (for about £1.50 a minute)