We are all aware of the newspapers and printing world are haemorrhaging jobs on a daily basis. Well how is this for a cool idea. The Printed Blog are now using these newspaper skills to take user generated content and provide a printed newspaper.
Just imagine your blog, your picture, your music or anything you have created could make it onto The Printed Blog.
I think it is a wonderful idea and I will support this in anyway that I can. I hope that it will take off all over the world.
Don’t take it from me look at what The Printed Blog say in their own words below.
The Printed Blog
The Printed Blog
Is changing the way people read and consume news and other information. We hope to play a vital part in reversing the fortunes of the newspaper industry with this new media project… but we need your help. This website, in conjunction with major social networks, is your hub for providing us blogs, articles, photographs, music, events, and tons of other content, for real publication and distribution in the twice daily paper.
About The Printed Blog
The Printed Blog is an independent media outlet that aggregates user-generated content from the Internet and publishes it twice daily via print. The result is a revolutionary newspaper that reads and functions like a web feed – yet can still be enjoyed on the train or spread across the breakfast table, for an uninterrupted, pleasurably tactile experience.
The selection of content in The Printed Blog is based solely on the votes of readers and their geographic location. In such a way, The Printed Blog revolts against the top-down, ‘one size fits all’ model of newsprint, as we know it. Instead of one paper serving hundreds of thousands of people, as is often the case, The Printed Blog publishes hundreds or even thousands of highly-localized editions based on what a community declares is important to them. The papers are distributed to neighborhood pickup points in A.M. and P.M. editions, and will incorporate rapid turnaround reader comments.
We at The Printed Blog believe that there will always be a readership for off-screen, printed media- but in order for that media to survive, it must leverage the best information technology has to offer. Through the integration of online social networks and web-based syndication technologies, The Printed Blog is tapping into the wellspring of brilliant bloggers that has revolutionized collective media. As our society moves towards individualized information, The Printed Blog has the courage to respect our readers. We recognize the value of what individuals have to say, we publish the information they create, and provide them with the information they demand.
Why rely on a handful of outmoded sources, when you know there is great content out there? We know you are writing, learning, DIGGing, and sharing – this isn’t about the newspaper, this is about you.
The Printed Blog
Great post! Thanks for spreading the word