While most print media has rapidly eliminated its paper component in favor of a total online presence (or no presence at all), a company has decided to take blogs and reapply them to paper.
The Printed Blog takes posts submitted by local bloggers and turns them into a newspaper form, allowing blog reading to be both portable and tangible. A free newspaper, The Printed Blog has started distribution in Chicago and San Francisco. Their ultimate goal is to make the paper a twice daily publication, with readers determining which blogs will make their way to the paper through popular vote. Critics point out that most people can take their blogs with their through iphones, etc. and that printing blogs on paper is not very environmentally friendly. I think it is an interesting concept, but ultimate do not see it going very far. What say you?
Well, it’s an interesting concept — sometimes it is easier to read off paper than a screen — but part of the success of blogs is their usefulness as a time waster! You know, when you’re sitting in front of a computer screen, supposed to do work…but it’s easier to browse blogs instead! If I had all those blogs printed out on a broadsheet, it wouldn’t quite work the same way!