The briefly banned-by-NYT iPad app Pulse, which turns RSS feeds into a digital magazine format, has launched a new 'My Pulse' feature that lets you publish your feeds to a Posterous 'lite blogging' account.
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Add a story to your favourites inside Pulse and, after creating a new Posterous account, stories will post to that site. The advantage is easier sharing, because anyone can read your edited selection of stories (much like our Newsbucket) but you can also post other content to Posterous by emailing links and ideas. It's a like a digital scrapbook, and incredibly fast to post. Filmgirl at Mashable shows how it works.
On the downside, Pulse only lets you follow 20 new feeds which is simply not enough for us RSS addicts. I have 34 core feeds and that's after battling to keep the list down. Pulse is supposed to be fast to browse, but nothing will be faster than a list of headlines, which is what I get at the moment on the Bylines app.
But the customised, digital magazine idea is enjoying a moment in the spotlight. For a more leisurely interpretation of your daily news package, this is the best I've seen and the idea of repackaging the news that interests you takes this a stage further.
