[1] Published monthly,[1] It offers a wide range of content from the web, chosen by a team of staff and guest editors active in the fields of blogging and photography.

[2] If it's on the internet, you can find it in The Printed Blog which means that content ranges from music, to sex, to politics, to humanitarian issues, to pop culture commentary, to anything in between.

Working with interns to gather and assemble the content, Karp pressed on with the hope that the unique publication would soon attract enough advertising revenue or venture capitalist funding to continue.

The Printed Blog 1.0 was launched in Chicago and San Francisco in January 2009, and was originally modeled to be a free, advertiser-supported publication distributed at train stations.

[4] With the hope of eventually increasing the production to twice a day, Karp and his team aimed to create a hyper-local reader experience — one where the content of the issues would be targeted even more specifically to focus on individual neighborhoods within the distribution cities.

[4] The first issue appeared January 27, 2009, with the front page of the publication featuring a bondage-themed photograph below The Printed Blog logo and slogan "Tagline Would Actually Be Nice Here.

"Despite a significant personal investment on my part, and the additional support of six or seven credit cards, we were unable to raise the minimum amount of money required to reach the next stage of our development," Karp said."

[14] Notable Guest Editors who have participated in the construction of The Printed Blog include Robbie Woliver, a former reporter for The New York Times, Neal Boulton, former editor of Men's Fitness and owner of the blogs BastardLife and HeroinLife, Francesca Biller-Safran, winner of the Edward R. Murrow award, Ari Costa, filmmaker, and Stuart Goldman, former critic for The Los Angeles Times.

[18] In May 2011, Joshua Karp and the team behind The Printed Blog launched a deal-making site called "Kumbuya" which allows users to generate their own discounts for the businesses and products they wished to promote.