Comments on: Goodbye, Printed Blog

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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:16:53 +0000

[...] fehlender Investitionsgelder eingestellt – Trotz User-Generated Content war Produktion zu teuer ( TechCrunch ) – Im Eigenblog : Announcement From The [...]

By: Modelos de interacción entre la Web y el papel « PriXmA

Modelos de interacción entre la Web y el papel « PriXmA — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:15:28 +0000

[...] en formato blog y después se bajaba al papel. Ese no parece un modelo configurado puesto que algunos cerraron, aunque los diarios en la Argentina recurren a la participación ciudadana para [...]

By: As one blog newspaper dies, another one rises: theblogpaper Q&A | Online Journalism Blog

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:23:58 +0000

[...] week The Printed Blog – a US experiment in printing a selection of blog entries as a newspaper – gave up the ghost after 16 issues. Around the same time I was contacted by theblogpaper, a blogging community website [...]

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The Printed Blog…. murió | Sicrono — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:24:10 +0000

[...] algunos posts seleccionados de varios blogs al papel llamado The Printed Blog? Bueno, parece que se despide definitivamente… Sniff… Esta entrada fue publicada el 13 de Julio de 2009, fue [...]

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The Roundup July 11-12 What They’re Saying Edition | — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:50:59 +0000

[...] Printed Blog, The: “It seemed like a good idea until you actually thought about it.” Six months ago, Josh Karp started up The Printed Blog to breathless fanfare from the national mainstream media, including people who should know better, like the New York Times. The idea was to collate all the best blog posts of the week, print them in a newspaper, and then give that newspaper away (and make money from advertisers). Somehow, for some reason, nobody noticed that giving something away for free in an expensive medium when the exact same content is already being given away for free in a costless medium probably isn’t a long-term sustainable business strategy. Turns out, in fact, it was not even a six-month sustainable business strategy. [...]

By: Fivefilters und “The Printed Blog”: Warum gedrucktes Web nicht funktioniert | freshzweinull +++

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:54:02 +0000

[...] Woche geisterte eine Meldung durch Online-Magazine und Blogs, dass “The Printed Blog” eingestellt wird, der Versuch [...]

By: joe

joe — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:58:05 +0000

Don’t blogs just write short blurbs about actual stories from newspapers. So in essence he was printing 3rd hand stories

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» LINKLOAD vom 08.07.2009 [UPLOAD Blog] — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:17:12 +0000

[...] Ausgedruckt: “The Printed Blog” ist gescheitert. [...]

By: Moova! News on the Move » ‘The Printed Blog’, el fin de un extraño modelo periodístico

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:16:20 +0000

[...] periódico de papel cuyos contenidos se circunscribían a republicaciones de posts de varios blogs ha cerrado sus puertas. Su andadura apenas ha durado unos 6 meses, con un total de 16 ejemplares (su [...]

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‘The Printed Blog’, el fin de un extraño modelo periodístico — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:00:14 +0000

By: Medial Digital – Medien, digitale Medien, Medienwandel, Journalismus, Internet, soziales Internet, Social Web, Web 2.0» Blogs Zeitungszukunft » The Printed Blog – Das Aus für eine rückwärtsgewandte Idee

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:17:28 +0000

[...] die Einstellung des Printed Blog berichten auch The New York Times, Techcrunch und [...]

By: Malcolm Lloyd

Malcolm Lloyd — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:32:00 +0000

I noticed yesterday morning while on the L, the first time in a few months, that it’s odd that I’m the only person reading the web on a mobile device, everyone else consuming the news was doing it via ‘traditional’ newspapers, mostly Redeye and other small format papers. And the thought occurred to me that it would be a great business opportunity if these people could get content from the web in a printed, small format package, similar to the Redeye or other free, ad-supported morning commute newspaper.

Now I find out that someone had actually done this already and was based in Chicago and I never knew about it. Amazing. I still think it’s a good idea that would find a great niche if it’s marketed right and edited nicely.

Malcolm Lloyd

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:26:59 +0000

I think sites like this will die if they dont have a proper business model I see many sites which just have Google Ads. I think if you are running a site you have alot of expenses which just cant be met up with just google ads becaus emany people will come to your site and wont even click these ads.
e.g. http://www.hous...ngnewslive.com/
If you see this site, they just have Google Ads. I dont think they make a lot of money out it.

I have seen these days people have moved to get Donation on their sites to survive. They display contant by doing some kind of a aggregation and make some money through goole ads but they also need public money either though donation feature or some other thing.

By: Will Seberger

Will Seberger — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:41:20 +0000

Did you get the check paying you to write it?

By: Casual

Casual — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:14:16 +0000

It actually sounds like a really cool idea. I would definitely love to see my blogs in printed form. Perhaps if there was a service that printed out blogs for bloggers in a nice format, and bound them into a book, they would have something.

By: Tony Casson

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:52:31 +0000

Contrarian ideas aren’t always to be dismissed so easily. When everyone was all about figuring out how to stream content to you, Netflix delivered it to your mailbox. What they hit on was a combination of the fact that old ways die harder than people think and that the internet wasn’t ready for downloaded or streamed DVDs. Content delivered to you on paper isn’t dead yet either. The current business model and presentation is what is going through the crucible.

By: The Print Blog will no more be printing | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:45:12 +0000

[...] Printed Blog will be in prints no more. Josh Karp had a brilliant idea to syndicate blog posts on the traditional magazine format, perhaps [...]

By: Puranjay

Puranjay — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:36:32 +0000

True true true. Most of us don’t really care for “breaking news”. How the hell will it matter if I get to know right now, or tomorrow morning about some Iranian protest?

The only breaking news I care about are sports scores.

By: Puranjay

Puranjay — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:31:50 +0000

I’ll add some – do you people have an idea how good vinyl sounds? It’ll blow any CD, mp3 out of the water.

By: James Whelan

James Whelan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:09:20 +0000

I find all of these criticisms to be somewhat bizarre. There is clearly an appreciation within the article for the printed word, but also the more abstract and more enjoyable notion of giving a permanence to an evanescent medium. Indeed, this wasn’t the most brilliantly put together business, with the man himself taking a lot of responsibility for its downfall.

However, there seems to be more value in the product than its being given credit for. Obviously, there is no need for anybody commenting on this site to be educated about what exists on blogs. However, mobile internet does not necessarily mean that everyone is going to spend all their time reading blogs – or vastly increase the variety of blogs read. The internet is so ephemeral and vast that even as a full time job it would be impossible to keep up with all interesting blog posts in one hour. Isn’t it also possible that we don’t know all the best writing on the internet, or that there are people out there who aren’t so proficient with feeds etc. Whatever happened to curiosity, and the desire for new things?

By: KidCroesus

KidCroesus — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:54:30 +0000

This remind anyone else of some lyrics from a Chorus Line?

Six months later I heard that Karp had died.
And I dug right down to the bottom of my soul
and cried
cause I felt Nothing.

By: Anti Matter

Anti Matter — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:49:12 +0000

Well that is your view. But I still think you are all idiots

By: Amit Bhawani

Amit Bhawani — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:47:00 +0000

It would have been a good business plan if they would have been into focus of their main printing work and tried for VC’s for few more months rather than giving up. May be they should have sold some advertisements on the printed versions and got money to run the whole setup.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:37:53 +0000

Dave Winer summed it up best Anti Matter:

“Somehow I never heard of The Printed Blog until today, when it shut down. You were all spared my derisive laughter.”

It was a RIDICULOUS Idea! Can’t you see?

By: Anti Matter

Anti Matter — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:22:50 +0000

Think of it this way. The print newspaper is +not +just dead because they lack real time story. They are dead because they are not alive. Very little user comments etc. Thus a Printed blog would be a cool product to read as it would be a combination of a mag, a newspaper, and a blog, but with real people input, not some staff. You all are idiots.