Here’s something you don’t see that often: blog posts of Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian bloggers, gathered around blog aggregator Blogorola, will be assembled and published in the form of a printed magazine. All included bloggers will be able to actively participate in the editing of the 32-page weekly, which will be freely distributed all around Slovenia. Readers will also be able to subscribe to the printed edition and receive it at home.
The authors’ work will be financially compensated, which will probably sound like El Dorado for many of the participating bloggers, who are used to churning pages upon pages for free. This is another proof of the strength of the blogging scene around these parts of Eastern Europe; of course, one cannot be sure that this initiative will last, especially since printed magazines are struggling to survive everywhere in the world. But sometimes going against the grain pays off.
Clever move.