July 27, 2005
We're A Leftie What?!
'WW' Picks Editor As A 'Talking Head' And 'Media Maven'
We really did not intend for such a slowdown here, although we finally figured out why we still don't have the lobbyist registration item up: When there isn't much going on, without the pressure of needing to finish one write-up before some other meeting or event comes up, things get written very slowly.
In the meantime, a random piece of self-promotion, since we appear on page 136 of Finder, the guide to Portland published by Willamette Week, at the very top of the "Talking Heads" section.
We're not sure what "whackers" are (It describes our "perfect audience" as "hackers, slackers, and whackers"), and although we really ought not to complain when someone pimps our work for us, our eyes always bug out a little when someone uses the term "Matt Drudge" to refer to what we do, even if they do adjectivize it with the modifier "leftie".
But at any rate, odd company as well, since the other "Talking Heads" on the page are Famous Mysterious Actor, Ed Whelan, Margie Boule, Lars Larson, and Daria O'Neill.
Also, we'd be remiss if we didn't give a credit for the photo of us used by Finder, which was taken for us by one of the owners of Floyd's Coffee Shop (you can sort of tell by the yellow of the wall behind us) back when Willamette Week told us they needed a picture.
Comments (4)
Jeff on 27 Jul 2005
Whenever anyone asks me what a blog is, I tell them, "well, you should go check a few out. Like that Portland Communique, which is basically a leftie Drudge for Portland politics."
Bizarre. Maybe you oughta start wearing a fedora.
The One True b!X on 27 Jul 2005
Yeah, they used it on Oregon Crossfire, too. And I understand why: More people will know the name "Matt Drudge" than of any blogger. It just always leaves me thinking, "When's the last time you saw Drudge say that he himself just spent five hours at a public meeting and report on what happened?" People just leak him advance copies of other people's news reports.
Mick on 27 Jul 2005
I'm not sure what a 'whacker' is either, but it doesn't bring up a good mental image...
Tenskwatawa on 27 Jul 2005
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Sometimes I explain 'Communique Portland or Us' to people by saying it is Willamette Wonkette, without the '-ette.' There is nothing to get, but to people who think there is something in it they don't get, I explain that 'wonk' spelled backwards is 'know,' and that's where it came from. Usually the ones that don't get the first one also don't get the second one. I think it's right that they should stay in practice.
The people who wonk what Knowette is, when it's my turn to speak I ask them what they're vlogging lately.
From the site www.unmediated.org
Re A Guide to Blog Power - Forbes.com
"In reviewing the entries for this guide, I was especially struck by the growing movement of video bloggers, or "vloggers", online. More and more people with digital video cameras are easily creating mini-documentaries, newscasts, parodies and "television-like" reality series on their own. One New York City vlog, Rocketboom, reports the "news" every morning at 9 a.m. for three minutes in an irreverent, but endearing style. It has formed alliances with other vloggers so that it effectively has correspondents in Minneapolis, Boston, LA and Switzerland."
"Elsewhere online, there are video directories forming so that one day soon you will be able to click onto a "guide" and watch whatever you want, whenever you want. Sound like Tivo? So just as 500-channel cable television disrupted the big powerful networks, thousands of vlogs could one day challenge now-thriving cable channels like MTV or CNBC."
FCC ALERT: amBUSHing THE FCC
Reuters reports:
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