The story about Facebook losing users has been whipping around for a couple days, and everybody’s all “Is this the end of Facebook?!?,” and what happens next?This isn’t the end of Facebook. Not even close. It’s tempting to treat Facebook as just the current incarnation of sites we’ve seen before: Friendster, MySpace, Geocities, Compuserve (which […]
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Thanks for Less More Than Half of One Percent of Your Time!
Media analysts (and investors) are shitting bricks sideways over a new report that says that local news outlets receive less than one half of one percent of the average person’s page views. (Hey, thanks you guys!) According to the report, “The big picture is that there is little evidence in this data that the Internet […]
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Dave Miller Replaces Emily Harris as Host of Think Out Loud
It’s official, Blogtown: We can now retire the Emily Harris drinking game. While the daily format of OPB’s morning show Think Out Loud ensures a valuable range of local news and arts coverage, host Emily Harris had an on-air persona that was frustrating at best, unintentionally hilarious at worst. Her sidekick Dave Miller, on the […]
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Deep in This Pear
Oh joy, another new Portland food blogger to crush on (there’s been a rash). I love Deep in This Pear mainly for Megan Howse’s hilarious writing. Although she goes into long and frank detail when it comes to the recipes (first sample quote: “I’m going to include the measurements in the body of the walk-thru. […]
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Preparing for the Palin E-Mails
A “streamlined” (read: stripped-down) media prepares to read 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails by, ugh, “crowd-sourcing.” Chris Cillizza and The Fix are asking readers to help analyze, contextualize and research those e-mails alongside Post reporters over the days following the release. The Post is limiting this to 100 spots for people who will work collaboratively […]
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Fox News Illustrates Palin News Story with Pic of Palin Impersonator Tina Fey
Read the full, amazing report over at Mediaite.
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Blog Crush: La Kitchenette
It takes a certain degree of ballsiness to start up a food blog in the already-crowded Portland market, but Jenn (Armbrust, who you may have met dispensing free advice at Nationale, or recall her long-gone store/gallery Motel, which arguably kickstarted Portland’s now-booming community of young, arty boutiques) and Jen (Davison, freelance graphic artist, long ago […]
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Portland’s Very Own Young Conservative Crank!
I hate to shine a light on such things, but, hey, what the hell… Ethan Epstein, Portland’s very own youngish conservative grumpus, is at it again, taking to yet another national right-wing publication to peddle the standard stereotype of the Rose City as another haven for soft, pabulum-fed, vice-enabling hippie elites who couldn’t fart their […]
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Oregonian Commenters Remain Terrible
Mayor Sam Adams’ office today gave the Oregonian first crack at his new plan, up for a vote next week, to have city insurance cover sex-change procedures for city workers. Portland would join Multnomah County and the city of San Francisco in offering the coverage. Anyway, this is the thanks the mayor’s office got: The […]
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Grand Rapids: Not Dead Yet
Somebody is sensitive. In response to a list of “dying cities” published by Newsweek in January, which placed Grand Rapids, Michigan at number 10 (New Orleans was number one, followed by Vallejo, CA—save the Marine World wales!—and a bunch of other likely suspects like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Flint were listed), the city banded together […]
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Say Hello to Eleven PDX
This is not their logo, it’s just the number eleven. There is a new publication joining the highly lucrative and totally-not-irrelevant world of local print journalism, Eleven PDX. My fingers hurt from counting all this money I make, so take it away press release: Portland, Ore. — Eleven West Media Group announced toady that the […]
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Buy Vancouver’s Newspaper
Vancouver’s twice-monthly alternative newspaper is for sale. And it’s only $75,000! Think of the possibilities! For the cost of two Hummers, you could own an entire newspaper. Remember, this is the paper that broke the news that last year’s Bethany Storro acid attack was a con. You could do a historical exposé on why Esther […]