May 02, 2004
Weblogs Mentioned In Oregon Voters' Pamphlet
We would have missed this curious little item altogether if not for the new weekly email from ORblogs, the first edition of which led us to this post on Ten Years Of My Life -- a site we'd not seen before:
Imagine my surprise when I got my Oregon state primary voter guide today (we are one of the last states to vote) and in the Democratic Party list of things to do, it says "Organize a web 'blog' for your precinct." Now, I knew that weblogs were something special and would eventually get big, but I never envisioned that in 2004 a document would be mailed to every home in Oregon that mentioned them.
Sure enough, we scanned through Multnomah County version of the pamphlet (pdf) and there on page 13 is the same item mentioned -- and photographed -- on the site just linked. Of course, their terminology -- "web 'blog'" -- is a little off, but nonetheless it admittedly is somewhat surreal to see it there at all.
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