We’re looking for bloggers in The Printed Blog network to be a part of a short, fifteen minute, online focus group to chat about our new project Kumbuya.

Kumbuya has a lot of opportunities for bloggers, and we’d really love to hear what you think about the opportunities themselves, and how we’re presenting them.

We value your input, and any advice or opinions will be greatly appreciated! We’ll be using your feedback to help us shape this brand new product; we’d love to hear your thoughts.

I’ll be hosting group chats via WebEx this Monday (July 11th) at noon central, and again at 6pm central, to try and catch people on their lunch break or after work. So if you’re free during either of those times, and willing to help out, email me at hannah@theprintedblog.com with “Focus Group” in the subject line and I’ll sign you up.

Many thanks!

-Hannah
(Assistant Publisher/Community Manager)

On Friday, we’ll announce the editorial / submission calendar for the next 12 months, along with requests for content for the first paid issue of The Printed Blog, so stay tuned… BIG developments are at hand.

-Josh Karp // Publisher & Founder of The Printed Blog

(Source: theprintedblog.com)

The Printed Blog is the only publication that offers photographers the opportunity to publish their content in a beautiful print format, on high quality paper, AND get paid while doing it. Any photographer who is published will get paid for their work—depending on the number of subscribers, this could range from tens of dollars, to hundreds of dollars, or even more.

We need photography of all kinds—from landscapes, to fashion, to studio, to artistic erotica. However, we will rarely publish full nudity, and certainly, nothing explicit.

Photos are only published after we’ve been granted explicit permission to do so, and none of the permission we request is exclusive—you still retain the rights to your images.

Fill out this online form to get involved.

via The Herb Gardner.
“Many herbs are well suited to domestic life and thrive indoors. With some attention to their special needs, you can keep an indoor herb garden that will give you fresh herbs year round.

Indoor Herb Lighting

The biggest challenge to the indoor herb gardener is light. Lighting is critically important to all plants, but herbs seem to be especially sensitive to the right light conditions. If you can just manage to give your herbs effective lighting, you’re 75% of the way to having a great indoor garden.”

Originally featured in the Teaser Issue of The Printed Blog. Be sure to follow Sara Elliott on Twitter for more herb tips.

With Kumbuya, bloggers can make money by putting a badge on their site. Mike N. requested a deal for a summer concert in Chicago (you can guess which one). The deal is going to launch today. If he was a referrer, he’d get $20,522.75 if the deal is successful… Not too shabby! Become a referrer (it’s free) at:
http://www.kumbuya.com/badge.html

-Josh Karp // Publisher & Founder of The Printed Blog

via Laura Hunter-Thomas:
“Any NYC based bloggers out there who would be open to a guest article? I was thinking a WSJ profile-style article on a New York law firm which deals with those involved in the fashion industry (especially fashion designers), with a discussion of recent legal issues pertaining to the fashion world (the Louboutin law suits against other shoe designers making red-soled shoes etc.). Let me know if you’re interested!”

Contact The Printed Blog’s Fashion Editor Laura Hunter-Thomas via Twitter.

via zooillogix.
“All my life I assumed hermit crabs deal with moving house the same way us humans do. When our living space gets a bit too cramped, we find a better-suited one, vacate the old one, and move. It’s a fairly self-centered process and we rarely think about who ends up in our old space.

Well, I was wrong.

Biologists from Tufts University and the New England Aquarium recently published a paper in the journal, Behavioral Ecology, on the use of social networking by hermit crabs looking for new digs…”

Find this in the Teaser Issue of The Printed Blog.

And in other news, it’s now only $24 a year for 12 month subscription. That’s 12 issues over a year. Nifty no? Oh, and we’re getting ready to publish the first issue where we pay ALL of our contributors! Can you dig it?

via The Crazy Baby Mama.
“I haven’t had a cigarette since an hour or so before I found out I was pregnant with M. And, for the most part, I don’t really miss it. But sometimes — like right now — when I’m edgy or tweaking out on the last vapors of exhaustion, I crave a cigarette so much my fingers twitch with the comforting muscle memory of flicking a lighter. It’s more than just the physical addiction - it’s psychological. My mom smoked until the day she died, and as fucked up as this sounds, I used to feel connected to her when I’d light up.”

Like her on Facebook and find her in the Teaser Issue of The Printed Blog.

Photo by Maurizio Camagna.

Featured in the Teaser Issue of The Printed Blog.