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With zinepal.com you can create a targeted magazine in no time flat

The Scenius set, set in motion by Teri Lussier, has been playing with a clever little web app called zinepal.com.

It’s a further elaboration on the kind of feed games we’ve been playing for months, but zinepal takes us into the world of atoms.

What does it do? Working from RSS feeds you feed to it, zinepal makes a newsletterish kind of magazine, saving your selected content as a PDF file and also as Kindle tinder.

What can you do with it? Teri saw zinepal as a physical magazine, and Brian Brady wanted to take it to every barber shop in town.

Brad Coy saw it as a way of promoting $800,000 starter-condos to impoverished San Franciscans.

I don’t care a lot about paper documents, but a PDF file is much better than formatted HTML for communicating print-like ideas in email. And if the person on the other end wants to print — or forward — your content — shazam!

Other folks had other ideas, and they can speak for themselves.

But what can you come up with? Take yourself to zinepal.com and see what you can put together.

I traded email with the developer today. He’s eager to improve the product, and there ain’t nobody with publishing needs like Realtors and lenders.

In support of zinepal, I implemented feeds in Scenius scenes today. That way, you could use a scene to aggregate content from multiple sources, then pass that one feed along to zinepal.

This is a cool tool. It could use more graphic control, and you can paint yourself into some unsightly corners. But for a quick and dirty tool for turning blog-based content into (real or virtual) dead-tree content, zinepal rocks.

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