Who is the Silicon Lumberjack?

June 9, 2011 by 1 Comment

Today a new voice joined the Portland-area tech/startup news scene: the Silicon Lumberjack.

I think it’s a voice that needs to be heard. Bad news isn’t popular, and critique of pet projects that fail often ruffles feathers. I received quite a bit of grief when I expressed displeasure at the ThrivePDX effort for example. Everyone jumped all over me in comments here and on Twitter, but the event (and the whole effort with the indie techies and SAO) failed in a big way.

Ideally we can have open, honest discussion about not just successes but also failures. And in the spirit of openness and honesty, I’d like to ask the author of the Silicon Lumberjack to identify him or herself. Please don’t be that passive-agressive stereotype.

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Portlander? Going to BlogWorld? Let Us Know!

September 13, 2009 by 3 Comments

I know of a couple other people from the Portland area that are heading down to Las Vegas for Blog World Expo next month. It promises to be a great weekend of all things bloggy (read more on a previous post). I thought it might be interesting to try to gather information on those from the area who were going, find out if we’re on any of the same flights, and so on.

If you’re from the Portland area and heading to BlogWorld, leave a comment below.

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Observation on Portland’s Social Media Groups

September 10, 2009 by 10 Comments
Guess this Means We're Regulars

Observation: there’s the Beer and Blog crowd, and there’s the Social Media Club crowd. And there’s very little overlap between those crowds.

Good? Bad? Doesn’t Matter? Discuss.

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Awesome Friends that Appreciate Railfans

July 11, 2009 by 1 Comment

On a much happier note than the Spearfish Travelodge review that I just posted, while I was on vacation I missed an opportunity to ride TriMet’s MAX light rail trains on a test run down the recently-reopened transit mall in downtown Portland. Fortunately my friends made sure I was there in some form:

Photos posted to Flickr by Igal Koshevoy; I’m not sure who the photographer was.

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