So I jokingly posted a tweet this morning about wanting to start a newsletter. You know those things that people used to print out and mail? Joke aside I kind of really wanted to do it. I don’t know why. I don’t even know what I’d write about that would be better suited for print than a blog.
Sure I may get analog with my note taking but read print? I still like books in print but that’s because it’s something permanent. Books are something I want to keep. I always wanted to grow up and have a whole room that was a library. Of course I also wanted to grow up and be an astronaut.
Then I saw this post from TechCrunch about The Print Blog heading to the recycle bin. And instead of making me toss my idea aside it kind of made me want to go through with it. I don’t know why!
Remember 009f00; font-weight: bold;" href="http://theprintedblog.com/" target="_blank">the Printed Blog? It was a newspaper – on actual glossy paper – that would syndicate posts from the Interwebs. 009f00; font-weight: bold;" href="http://blog.theprintedblog.com/" target="_blank">Josh Karp founded it six months ago and he ran through 16 issues and 80,000 copies – all on his own dime. And now it’s dead.
Maybe it’s some kind of weird nostalgia from my college days of printing a ‘zine. (Mine was called Pinion and was the normal drivel you’d expect from liberal arts majors: ranting opinion pieces and bad poetry submissions from me and my friends) Maybe it’s because this was such a point of interest at my last employer HP. Maybe it’s just the contrarian in me that wants to swim up stream. Maybe it’s because I want to see if there is any value in print.
What do you think? Is there any value in print? What would you want in print that you wouldn’t want online?
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