March 07, 2005
(Updated) Help Us Add 'Related Sites' Links To Our Category Archive Pages
A Spring Doldrums Exercise
Note: This post has been updated. Any and all updates appear at the end of the original post.
We want to put into place something we started to do several months ago but then abandoned. To do so, we're calling upon the knowledge of our readers.
On each of our category archive pages, we're going to be adding links to other sites that are relevant to each respective category. While the few we've put in place so far are blogs, we're thinking it might be better to not limit it to blogs, and instead try to turn each category page into a slowly-growing list of relevant resources.
So if our readers would be so kind as to look at our list of categories and then post a comment to this item with your suggestions for resources to which we can link from them, we'd be greatly appreciative.
Meanwhile, we do recognize that things have been a little off here lately, with the balance shifted far more towards commentary and far less on getting our ass out to report directly on things. Our calendar is beginning to fill up again, so that should change. We're chalking it up to the usual listlessness which hits us during the annual shift into Spring weather.
At any rate, please give some thought to resources to add to a list of links on each category archive page.
Update
Also, on the subject of listlessness, we should also mention that March 3 was the 8-year anniversary of our moving to Portland in 1997. That, we believe, also factors into the mental distraction side of things.
Comments (2)
Jonathan Singer on 08 Mar 2005
For the interview section, I might suggest my blog Basie!, for which I have interviewed people like Vice President Walter Mondale, former Senators Gary Hart and Birch Bayh, former Oregonian reporter and current New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, and others.
allehseya on 10 Mar 2005
For Media I suggest: The Free Press website (http://www.freepress.net/projects/)
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