I’m kind of enamored with this idea. From their site:

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 comments.

The web has done amazing things for networks. If I’m an architect in Minneapolis I can instantly connect to a network of architects all over the world. This is awesome, no doubt about it. But how much direct effect will it have on my day-to-day practice in Minneapolis?

You know where it’s at right now? Using the same web based social tools to strengthen connections between the people in your city, your neighborhood, even your block. Then, if you can couple that with reasons for these new local networks to come together on a regular basis, actually connect face-to-face, I think that you can activate those connections to actually make change happen on all of those scales.

Anyway, that’s what Troy and I are working on right now with STC.