I just found out today that The Redmond Spokesman—Redmond’s local weekly newspaper—has a blog, where they seem to be posting both bullet-point summaries of their news and longer articles. Good deal; they actually have a domain name but no site or other online presence out there—nice to see they’ve set up something. And, their blog gives them a leg-up on the Bulletin, too—they have an RSS feed so their content can be syndicated and read … Continue reading →
Pointers to a couple of dead-tree (yet online) articles I thought were good: The Town That Doesn’t Want to Bend: Walla Walla citizens see Bend as a model of how not to grow: The Source Weekly‘s cover story this week. It’s less about Bend than Walla Walla, but at the same time it’s an interesting mirror to hold up to Bend. Imagine that the article is about Bend and it’s the late 80s, and you’ll … Continue reading →
Chalk this up to another Shannon find: The Source Weekly’s website, in addition to finally being updated and looking like something 2002 2006 would offer, has blogs too! You can get to them here. Honestly, though, they’re a little confusing, even to a seasoned (ha) blogger like myself… the listing format is a bit weird, but they at least allow user comments on a per-post basis, and even a form for users to rate a … Continue reading →
When Simone broke the news about the new free newspaper, the Bend Weekly, I guess I had it stuck in my head that it was an online-only thing. Nope! I saw the actual paper in a newsbox along side all of our other local publications, and picked one up. It appears to be about half-and-half of local content and boilerplate columns syndicated from other sources; and the introductory "welcome" article on the front page reads … Continue reading →
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