Portland: The city council that blogs
With the launch of Portland Mayor Tom Potter's blog, three of the five members of the Portland City Council are now blogging - each with full comments turned on.
It all started in July 2004 with Commissioner Randy Leonard, who joined the crew over at BlueOregon and continues to post his ruminations -- politics, policy, and personal -- on a regular basis.
Then, in early 2005, Commissioner Sam Adams launched his own blog at CommissionerSam.com - with everyone on his staff posting updates, announcing policy decisions, and more.
(Of course, embarassingly enough, the other members of the council - Erik Sten and Dan Salztman - are both our clients. Not to worry, they'll start blogging regularly soon enough. Things really are changing in Portland.)
Kari Chisholm | April 12, 2006 | Comments (3) |
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Yeah, but how about that URL? portland blah blah slash mayor slash crazy characters and a five-digit code?
Someone (hint, hint) should register tompotterblog.com or the like (which is available - http://whois.domaintools.com/tompotterblog.com ) and just set it up as a redirect to the portlandonline.com site.
It sure would make it a lot easier to remember how to get there.
Posted by: Josh Berezin | Apr 13, 2006 11:11:31 AM
So, how do you convince your local leaders that blogging is a good idea? Especially after they've had some bad experiences.
Posted by: Emmett O'Connell | Apr 16, 2006 6:40:24 AM
Seriously Kari, Get Erik to put a blog on his site.
I just heard the Ginny Burdick radio ad bashing Erik for publicly supported political campaigns and I looked up Ginny Burdick's contributors on followthemoney.org.
I just wonder how many radio listeners realize that Phillip Morris and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde were among her top $upporters?
Posted by: Neil | Apr 26, 2006 2:21:51 PM
