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Last Chance to Submit Your Talk Ideas for IP4!

2008-10-13T17:29:36-07:00

Via the Ignite Portland blog "There’s only 1.5 days left to get your Ignite Portland 4 talk idea submissions in. The window officially closes at 12:01 AM Wednesday 10/15 (that’s the hour after 11PM on Tuesday night 10/14, just to be clear). If you’ve got a talk idea you’d like to share on stage at Ignite Portland 4, now is the time to get it in."

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PortlandTechTwitter - AboutUs Wiki Page

2008-10-13T15:09:51-07:00

From AboutUs "Portland is extremely well-represented on Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform. The following is a list of some of the most interesting citizens in the Portland Twitterverse. Feel free to follow them, ask them for advice, or run into them at the many local Portland Tech Events."

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A Field Guide To Coffee Shops Around Northwest Portland, Particularly The Pearl District Neighborhood

2008-10-13T00:12:17-07:00

Bram Pitoyo writes "ut, first things first, let me clarify that this post serves to answer one question (and one question only): Which coffee shop is appropriate for which occasion? Now, having spent adequate time in various coffee shops around this area in specific, and Portland in general, I feel that I am able to identify some factors that are present in most, if not all of them."

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Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org

2008-10-11T00:22:39-07:00

Andy Baio writes "With the help of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, we used a recommendation algorithm to score every blog on Memeorandum based on their linking activity in the last three months. Then I wrote a Greasemonkey script to pull that information out of Google Spreadsheets, and colorize Memeorandum on-the-fly. Left-leaning blogs are blue and right-leaning blogs are red, with darker colors representing strong biases. Check out the screenshot below, and install the Greasemonkey script or standalone Firefox extension to try it yourself."

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Tags: siliconflorist, share, portland, oregon, andy baio, politics

Quick update | Oregon Blogs

2008-10-10T23:42:55-07:00

Via the Oregon Blogs blog "There are at least 4 people looking at the codebase, including me. This is a good sign because, although it’s complex and feature rich, it’s relatively clean and Patrick (@plightbo) has graciously provided a script to grab the dependencies, meaning going from 'broken' to 'not broken' is relatively painless."

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Tags: siliconflorist, share, oregon, orblogs, orblogs 2.0

Shizzow Blog · Using Shizzow RSS: FriendFeed, Widgets, and More

2008-10-10T23:33:13-07:00

Via the Shizzow blog "A few weeks ago, we turned the switch to make the RSS feeds for shouts publicly available. While we have a few people using them for something interesting, the rest of you slackers haven’t done squat with them. Here are a couple of ideas to get you started."

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Saturday Dinner and Hackathon - WhereCampPDX Blog

2008-10-10T23:15:06-07:00

Via the WhereCamp PDX blog "After sessions on Saturday, the 18th, we'll be heading over to Old Town Pizza for dinner and hacking. We're asking attendees to RSVP and pre-pay for dinner with the form below. Join us to continue talking about ideas from the day's sessions, and collaborate on projects."

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GOSCON: Government Open Source Conf in PDX at Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media

2008-10-10T21:51:29-07:00

Dawn Foster writes "I was just talking to Deb Bryant about the upcoming GOSCON event here in Portland Oct 20th - 23rd, and there are some very exciting things about the event. For anyone unfamiliar with GOSCON, it is focused on providing 'forums to explore both the business case and real-world applications for open technology to deliver the next generation of government services.' This is the fourth annual GOSCON event."

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Three Billion Steps

2008-10-08T20:29:57-07:00

Via the Walker Tracker blog "October 3rd marked crossing 3 billion collective steps. Now, that’s a long way from the 700 billion needed for the bailout - but were steps = dollars, we’d all be doing rather nicely! And indeed, I would claim that we’re all a bit better off for it."

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Breakfast Tweetup/Shizzup at Fuller's Restaurant

2008-10-08T20:27:55-07:00

Via Upcoming "The Portland community is one of the highest-ranked communities on Twitter. Those of us who've used the service have vastly expanded our connections, friendships, and experiences. However a lot of Portland Tech events happen in the evening."

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It's Here! Revelation Project Version 2 launches | Revelation

2008-10-08T20:21:32-07:00

Via the Revelation blog "Revelation will always need to be able to adapt to respond to wherever our customers would take us. V1 had served us well, but we realized the imperative for this V2 release was to create a foundation that would let Revelation scale, adapt and grow."

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The Stumptown Redesign, Part Two

2008-10-08T20:16:22-07:00

Via Needmore "This is day two of four, in which we’re writing about our experiences redesigning the Stumptown Coffee Roasters website. This is a description of 'round one' of our site mockups, and some of the thought process behind them."

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The Stumptown Redesign, Part One

2008-10-08T20:15:17-07:00

Via Needmore "This is the first of several posts, in which we’re writing about our experiences redesigning the Stumptown Coffee Roasters website. This is an overview of the project as a whole, and some ideas we had and things we learned along the way."

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Tell a Story in Five Minutes or Less… | Our PDX Network

2008-10-08T19:59:36-07:00

Betsy Richter reminds us "You have less than a week to submit your presentation idea for Ignite Portland 4! (Submissions are closing at midnight on 10/14; presenters will be announced on 10/20.)"

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Discovering Portland’s Tech Community by Analog and by Twitter | Hazelnut Tech Talk

2008-10-07T20:28:50-07:00

Amber Case writes "Thankfully, I’m going to have a greater ability to show the world how amazing Portland is. Beginning November 1st, I’ll be blogging for the Discovery Channel –> on Portland. Hopefully I can do it justice. Please don’t hesitate to point out my inefficiencies, writing incapabilities, and lack of refined blogging skills along the way. The Silicon Forest has amazing voices already, I only hope to approximate a percentage of their awesomeness."

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Reflections: Notes from Running WordCamp Portland

2008-10-06T22:12:55-07:00

And Aaron Hockley writes this as well "Last Saturday was WordCamp Portland the first WordPress blogging conference in Oregon. I led a team of volunteers to produce and manage the event, based somewhat on other WordCamps I’ve read about along with other tech events in our area. This is a writeup on some things to consider for other similar events."

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Don’t Make Your Blog an OpenID Provider

2008-10-06T22:08:43-07:00

Aaron Hockley writes "One of the new features in Will’s plugin is the ability for a WordPress blog to act as an OpenID provider. I know there’s some logic behind this feature, but it’s not for Joe Blow with a Blog to take over the word as yet another provider. My buddy Adam wrote a piece at Webmonkey titled Make Your Blog an OpenID Provider, but I respectfully disagree with that proposition."

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Obama '08 iPhone App Launch Party and Presidential Debate Party

2008-10-05T23:32:11-07:00

Via Upcoming "Bring friends and join us to celebrate the launch of the official Obama '08 iPhone application. We'll screen the presidential debate and then show highlights of the Obama '08 app and meet the Portland members of the development team."

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WordPress OpenID v3.0

2008-10-05T23:29:31-07:00

Will Norris writes "I’m happy to announce that version 3.0 of the WordPress OpenID plugin is now available. As previously mentioned, there are a lot of new features in this release."

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Wi-Fi antennas will winter in Oregon - Silicon Forest

2008-10-05T23:22:02-07:00

Mike Rogoway writes "MetroFi's 600 abandoned Wi-Fi antennas will stay up at least through April 2009, as the city waits for the gear to be legally forfeit."

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