I started using the service earlier this year (15 weeks ago) and think it is a great idea. I even made a webzine for every high school in town and made feeds for each too. Now others can use my feeds to create their own magazines as well. Most of school's are called "School Name" High Noise. For example, checkout Stockdale High Noise HERE.
Now I just started these without any idea of anyone would read them but I guess someone did because I sort of made the New York Times, "About 250 magazines have been created since Printcasting was introduced in March. A runner in Bakersfield blogs about high school track teams and then prints his posts to hand out free at meets." Once again, I made a national publication but did not get named directly.
A few years ago, Rolling Stone writers came to town and wrote an article on Ed Jagels and the Lords of Bakersfield. I got interviewed at Dagneys for an afternoon and ended up getting mentioned briefly. I was referred to as a record store owner who put out shirts and stickers with the "Lords of Bakersfield" and "Ed Jagels Hates Me Too" on them. They did not mention Andy Noise either.
But anyways, at least I sort of got mentioned. This week I got to have a meeting with "Dan Pacheco, the senior manager of digital products at The Bakersfield Californian newspaper, who founded the start-up." We talked about printing my AndyNoise.Com webzine and distributing it at the Wolf Pack Invite. So if you have content for me to publish or want to place an ad checkout Printcasting.
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Thanks for the mention! And for the record, when The New York Times called me and asked about good examples of Printcasters, I not only mentioned Andynoise.com but mentioned you by name (or at least by the name everyone knows you by). I can't control what a reporter chooses to put into a story.
ReplyDeleteI will be posting something on this PBS site soon: http://pbs.org/idealab
Since I have total control over what I blog there, I can guarantee you that you'll be mentioned by name. And I'll even put in your picture if that's OK with you.
-Dan Pacheco, Founder, Printcasting.com