The frontier is no longer safe
Crossposted from my Portland Community Media blog. Read comments on the original post. Trolls? Not of the gnarled faces and belly gems variety. Good Magazine’s Mattathias Schwartz recently wrote a...
View ArticlePick-a Pick-a!
Crossposted from my Portland Community Media blog. Read comments on the original post. Every now and again, Tim Rooney will waltz into our office with his mandolin, plop down in the corner and say,...
View ArticleNothing but links
Crossposted from my Portland Community Media blog Not much to report this week. Jacob and I both had disappointing burritos from Cha! Cha! Cha!, but I’m not giving up! Some wondrous day I will discover...
View ArticleDigital storytelling: The wonders never cease
Crossposted from my Portland Community Media Center blog. Read comments on the original post I’ve had the privilege of being part of two digital storytelling workshops at Portland Community Media: once...
View ArticleWhy young people don’t vote
Crossposted from my Portland Community Media blog. Read comments on the original post. I was leaving PCM last night when I was accosted by Baby Boomers Andre, Pat and Christopher. “Have you voted yet?”...
View ArticleA crash course on citizen journalism
Crossposted from my Portland Community Media blog. Read comments on the original post. Or participatory media, as I like to call it, for more inclusive reasons. One of my favorite quotes about...
View ArticleMy Portland romance
It took a big hit the other day, my romance with Portland. I've been here about a year now, and for the first time ever, I really understood how Portland's progressiveness might be a tall tale. It was...
View ArticleAirplane thoughts
On average, I've gone out of town every other month since the year began, and all of this has led to some airplane thoughts.
View ArticleYummers
There are lazy Saturdays when I don’t want to walk allll the way to PSU‘s farmers market. Then I think of Gabriel’s Bakery and their soft, Q-ey (Mandarin descriptor) bagels essential for my open-faced...
View ArticlePortland, my Portland
I know, I know. This blog has laid dormant for a month. It might as well be extinct! Buuuut, it isn’t. I was on vacation, and there’s no better way to feel like you’re on holiday than to take an...
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