February 01, 2005
Anyone Else Run Across Sam Adams' Proto-Blog?
Commissioner Chronicles '100 Businesses In 100 Days'
Back in December, we confirmed a report that Commissioner Sam Adams had plans to start a weblog, a move which would make him the second sitting member of City Council participating in the Portland blogopshere beyond the posting of reader comments.
We haven't heard anything new on this in some time, but while doing our semi-regular sweep of Council members' pages on the City of Portland website, we ran across a subsection of Adams' news page entitled 100 Businesses In 100 Days.
Adams had pledged to meet with 100 businesses in his first 100 business days in office, and unbeknownst to us, he's been keeping a record of these visits in a journal-like form.
It's not the weblog for which many of us having been keeping our eyes peeled (or at least we presume it's not because it doesn't fully meet the standard set of criteria), but it likely offers something of a preview of what we might expect. At the very least, it does have the clear sense of being written by Adams himself, not ghost-written by a staffer -- criteria one, as far as we're concerned, for any elected official seeking to blog.
Whatever the potential timetable for the creation of his blog proper, Adams' "100 Businesses" pages at least provide an early indication of possible things to come.