1. An automated method for formatting data into a personalized newspaper from at least one hypermedia document, comprising the steps of: an accessing step to access the at least one hypermedia document; a traversing step to traverse selectively links in the hypermedia document; a retrieving step to retrieve data from the hypermedia document and/or traversed links into an extracted data tree, wherein the data is retrieved based on a structure of the hypermedia document and/or links in the hypermedia document; a flattening step to flatten the extracted data tree into a linear document; and a formatting step to format the linear document into a formatted personalized newspaper consisting of text and/or images, wherein a number of links traversed in the traversing step can be limited to a predefined number of links.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said hypermedia document is located on an intranet.