The Newspaper is Dead ... Paper! Get'cher paper right here!

A Pew Research Center for People and the Press survey indicates that the Internet has overtaken newspapers as a primary source for news.  While still lagging television as a primary source of news for most people, the Internet now rivals television among the under-30 crowd.

Some of us get a certain amount of our news and opinion via RSS feeds, usually collected into a news reader like Google Reader or an RSS-enabled home page, like iGoogle or a pre-assembled site like Alltop.com.  In effect, we're piping multiple information resources right to a summary page on our computer screens.  If we want to take that information away from the computer, it's a pain to print out the individual posts.

Now, Tabbloid.com allows us to have our own "newspapers" e-mailed to us in an assembled form ready to read on-screen or to be printed.  You can select the news or opinion feeds of the most interest to you (as long as they're available in RSS format).  In my example, I've taken feeds from marketing guru Seth Godin, designer/marketing professor Garr Reynolds, venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, and several other blogs.  Tabbloid automatically packages the latest posts and e-mails the document at a preselected time and interval.  The service is free.

Drawback?  While it's a nice, easily readable layout, it's not as space-efficient, text-wise as the newspaper.  My example for Dec. 30, using eight moderately active blogs, filled 26 pages. If you've got to print it, you're still killin' trees. (Subsequent tabbloids have run 1-4 pages on the same blogs, so it's possible that just the first one catches up on slightly older posts. - RP)