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“Providing Local News Through Collective Intelligence”

“Where you Live, What You Think”


WHAT IS 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 input.

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, and publish the information they ask for. 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.

With this being the case, we want you to submit your photos to us, so that we may publish them in our paper.

Please take the chance to explore, become familiar with, and join our groups that we have created for The Printed Blog. Since we will be putting out many different issues, we have created a short series of different themed groups that we would like photographs for. Like I said, take a look and feel free to add as many photos to as many of the groups as you would like; it's greatly encouraged, and remember, your name and work could be published in our Chicago circulated paper!!

Thanks so much for your interest in our project. We really appreciate it.

For your convenience, here are the links to our groups:

www.flickr.com/groups/newbeginnings/

www.flickr.com/groups/brighthope/

www.flickr.com/groups/weirdstrangeunique/

www.flickr.com/groups/wildside/

www.flickr.com/groups/lastnight/

www.flickr.com/groups/obamaexperience/

www.flickr.com/groups/wheredoyoulive/

www.flickr.com/groups/showoffthatstyle/

www.flickr.com/groups/cityculture/

www.flickr.com/groups/capturemusic/

www.flickr.com/groups/goteamgo/

www.flickr.com/groups/whatdoyoulove/

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or concerns - please feel free to email me at wfaile@theprintedblog.com.

-Whitney Faile, Photography Editor, The Printed Blog