Other Notable Blogs

Cafe Unknown
Travel, History and Portland Oregon by Dan Haneckow

Jack Bog's Blog
By Jack Bogdanski of Portland, Oregon. (Like he needs any other introduction by now? -- A.B.C.)

For Portlanders Only
"Why buy a mattress anywhere else?"

Good Stuff NW
Featuring stuff that is good in the NW

LOST Magazine
LOST Magazine is an online monthly magazine that combines elements of many other literary, online, and national magazines with a singular mission--to reclaim in writing lost people, places, and things.

Mapes on Politics
Way West of the Beltway

Outside Is America
A journal about photography, roadtrips, trains and life, with occasional detours into movies, baseball, music, family and more.

The Photographers' Railroad Page
Good photos usually have good stories to go with them.... The goal of The Photographers' Railroad Page is to provide an outlet for top quality photographs and their story.

Portland Food & Drink
Throwing Ourselves on the Grenade of Bad Food to Save You

Portland Transport Blog
A Conversation About Access & Mobility in the Portland/Vancouver Region

PowellsBooks.Blog
Authors, readers, critics, media -- and booksellers

Rambling West
The musings of a farmer with a typewriter and camera

Stumptown Confidential
Documenting Portland, Oregon architecture, history, and culture through photos, postcards, and words.

The Unauthorized Observer
Observations on faith, photography, trains, baseball, the city where I live (Fullerton, Calif.), anything that I find funny (a lot of things) or irritating (some things) and various incidents involving friends and family.

Under the Weather
...the open road, fatherhood, family life, music, railroads, photography, popular and unpopular culture, sex, violence, religion, the oppression of consumerism and capitalism and the general bullshit that makes up modern life.

Urban Planning Overlord
A blog to counter the myths, lies, and demagoguery others use against sound city planning to further their own ends, fair and foul - but also to urge the profession itself to pull back from the occasional wretched PC exces.

VanPortlander
Living in Vancouver; working in Portland. I have some thoughts.

Whiskey, Texas
...life and experiences in Texas and the Southwest. Recurring themes: Photography, railroads, fading ads / ghost signs, fallen-flag railroad logos, boxcars, bicycling, Texas music, pop culture, sports, road trips, literature, kids and family.

World Scott
The Travel Writing and Photography of Scott Lothes

Blegs & Bargains

 Amazon Book Wishlist

 B&H Wishlist

 My eBay Listings

 Powell's Books Wishlist

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Chris Crook, a photojournalist in rural Ohio, has started a blog on the experience. It's an interesting and fairly unique read for those interested in the "supply side" of media.

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Wikipedia, the world's largest participatory encyclopedia project, is coming under closer scrutiny by established media sources. In an Online Journalism Review article, blogger Ray Grieselhuber takes a critical aim at Wikipedia, and suggests six "solutions".

While Ray has some interesting points, I couldn't help but feel that some of the suggestions were highly impractical for implementation on what is, to a great extent, an open source project. Here's part of my response:

"There's a couple of things going on here to pay attention to. In a broader sense, it's a darwinistic approach to an encyclopedia, relying on the numbers to correct the mistakes and inaccuracies. As a very, very minor-league Wikipedian, I can say that the "sofixit" response is indeed the best, only, and most successful one. It relies on no centralized control, but instead on *us*. That's one of the basic premises of Wikipedia -- harnessing the network of users across the globe, instead of a central hierarchal editor pyramid. If you don't like open source, then don't use Wikipedia, because that is the very heart of its concept. Go use Britanica.

"Sofixit" is, in fact, the only reason I started posting to Wikipedia -- I spotted some articles in fields I am knowledgeable in that were egregiously wrong, and corrected them. It was either that, or complain about inaccuracies -- I put my money where my mouth was. Why is this too much to ask of, well, in this case, the entire World?"

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