Update – the article was later deleted.

It lasted longer than many thought it would, but it looks like the Printed Blog is no more.. after just 16 issues.

The idea was that the freesheet – which brought together the best of the web – and would be distributed at major urban locations across America with local advertising spots being sold in each region.

When the project began in January The Printed Blog was only handed out in Chicago but that soon grew to include cities like New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Despite being backed by founder Joshua Karp (and several credit cards) he says they were unable to reach the next stage of development.

Speaking on blog.printedblog he said: “16 issues, 80,000 print copies distributed, another 100,000 or so copies downloaded, and countless new friends, fans, and collaborators all around the world later, I may still be nuts, but I have zero regrets.”

Disclosure: Despise claims from The Printed Blog that that brought together the best of the web they also included a number of my articles.

A few of my articles for NewsLite.tv have been used in the latest issue of The Printed Blog. If you don’t know what TPB is I will let them describe it for you.

“The Printed Blog is an independent media outlet that aggregates user-generated content from the Internet and publishes it once a week via print.

“The result is a revolutionary newspaper that reads and functions like a web feed – yet can still be unfolded on the train or spread across the breakfast table, for an uninterrupted, pleasurably tactile read.”

TPB is currently distributed in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

When Neil Berrett handed in his resignation he knew it wouldn’t leave a bitter taste in the mouth of his employer … because he did it with cake.

The radiological data analyst had decided to write his resignation letter in icing on a giant one metre by 60cm cake.

Blue icing spelt out his intentions to leave Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, but added that he had enjoyed working there for the past three years.

A computer programmer who lost his ring finger in a motorcycle accident has had it replaced … with a USB drive.

Jerry Jalava has built a special prosthetic finger which contains computer storage for photos, movies and other useful files.

While the prosthetic looks like a normal finger Jerry can peel it back from the ‘nail’ and plug it into the USB slot on his computer.

Do you see what I did there? Good isn’t it? The BBC have finally allowed the embedding of their videos in other peoples websites.

The third-party service does what you would expect and gives you the basic html code which can be slapped into most any website …  just make sure you have read the terms and conditions.

Embed-able BBC videos (which are starting off with the Tech news section) can only be used onpersonal sites and the Beeb warn that due to licensing  issues they ‘may’ not bew viewable to people outside the UK.

The usual ‘not a BBC endorsement ‘ and  ’Don’t put this content on sites that contain illegal or offensive material’ are also there.

As you can see below the implementation of getting the code is to the BBC’s usual standards, nice, clean and simple but I don’t know how keen I am on the box under the video (above) with the headline, link and top paragraph of the article.

It makes the embed object quite big and doesn’t  ’do’ anything that couldn’t have been done with a hover over the video. My biggest gripe with it is that it makes it look like something from Voxant Newsroom, and that is never a good thing.

BBC videos, now on your site.

For example UK sites BBC News, guardian.co.uk, telegraph.co.uk and the Daily Mail all feature in the top 20 of what is otherwise a pretty US centric list.

Also while the ‘Technorati Attention Index’ lets you compare the links in to the more traditional media sites it would have been interesting to see how their Technorati Authority compared with the likes of Engadget and Boing Boing

Technorati Weblog: Since You Asked: The Technorati Attention Index.

The Daily Mail added some rather nice little video adverts for themselves today saying ‘Celebrate Daily’ ‘Smile Daily’ and ‘Scream Daily’ … I don’t know about you but reading the Mail only make me do one of those things ;)

While I am not a fan of any auto-playing video on sites (especially adverts) they didn’t slow it down too much and even prompted me to click on one.

I half expected it to be a subscription drive on or offline, but I didn’t expect to end up where I did, at example.com. The reason for this is I have only ever clicked links to example.com while in the process of setting up websites.

Lets see how long it takes for someone to spot the error.

UPDATE – Thurs 19th – The links have finally been corrected and now got to the main DailyMail.co.uk homepage.

Okay I am feeling a bit like a Twitter correspondent, this is my second freelance article this month to be based on Twitter.

I first saw this story back in December when few news editors seemed to know what Twitter was, as a result it was too hard to explain to non tech-savvy readers.

But since then the @wossy and @stephenfry revolution has taken place and even my Gran probably knows what Twitter is all about (I must do a search for her in case she has joined)

Suddenly a baby twittering from the womb makes perfect sense and as luck would have it ‘the world’s youngest twitterer’ was born last week … they probably heard Phillip Schofield had joined.

Metro – Workers face inbox of 3,000 spam emails

‘Experts’ reckon you could have over 3,000 emails waiting in your inbox when you go back to work in the New Year.

Well actually they say heavy internet users could have 3,000 emails while most will have amassed around 450 emails.

Of these they think 70 percent will be either spam or unwanted messages which sounds a bit optimistic to me, it feels like 90 percent of the messages I get are either offering me viagra or a fake rolex.