Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for November 19th:
- Why We Care About 30HourDay, And Why You Need To | The Iterasi Blog
Serial technology entrepreneur (and Iterasi CEO) Pete Grillo is anything but a Grinch this holiday season: "Some of my favorite local media sources have come up with an idea that I flat out love. It is innovative and with the holiday season upon us, also speaks from the heart. These folks are Cami Kaos and Dr Normal, who produce the podcasts Strange Love Live and Crazy Talk, and Rick Turoczy, who’s blog Silicon Florist is the place to go for everything tech in Portland.
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Being innovators that never seem to rest, they came up with the idea to do something charitable for the holiday season. It is called 30hourday and is modeled after the old school Jerry Lewis-style telethon where they stay up for 30 hours straight to raise money for charities like Free Geek, Oregon Food Bank, and Toys for Tots. See the Website for details; it is really cool."Iterasi is now sponsoring 30HourDay (as is OurPDX, fyi.) Could your company sign up as well? Ask them!
- Dwight Jaynes | Can we now please put an end to the whole Brandon Roy-is-a-small-forward thing?
I’m with Dwight here, especially this part: “Get Andre Miller (funny aside — they introduced Miller on the PA last night before the game as the starter at “forward”) at the point full-time where he belongs and Roy back to the off-guard. Get Martell Webster at small forward, get off his tail and see if he can handle it over a 10-game span.
Look — Webster missed an entire season last year. Cut him slack for his inconsistency. He plays hard and he needs just to get comfortable. Nobody was all over Oden when he stumbled around for a good part of the season last year — because he’d sat out the year before.
Why doesn’t Webster deserve the same understanding?”
- Thirty years ago today… | Mercy Corps
Congratulations to Mercy Corps, and do stop by to read the story of their creation. An excerpt: “As the decade of the 1970s came to a close, a horrifying slaughter swept the country of Cambodia capturing the rapt attention of the world in what would come to be known as the "killing fields." The radical communist Khmer Rouge launched a massive wave of barbarism across the stricken nation, killing as many as 2.2 million innocent men, women and children while forcing more than 600,000 refugees into exhile, mostly into Thailand.
Week after week images of the dead and the dying filled the global media. "How could this be allowed to happen before the eyes of the entire world?" I wondered. In November 1979, First Lady Rosalynn Carter traveled to the Thailand-Cambodia border to witness the devastation first hand.
At the same time my wife, Cherry, and I agonized over what we could do if anything….”
- 3 Questions with We Make The Media’s founder | Digital Journalism Portland
Abraham Hyatt writes: "This Saturday, a couple hundred journalists will gather in Portland to talk about a much-ballyhooed topic: nonprofit news organizations. The event is called We Make The Media. It’s an idea conference, a chance to explore what it would take to create a new community-driven news project here in Portland.
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Have you signed up yet? You only have one more day…"
(I'll be there…)
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Thanks for the piece on Mercy Corps. I had heard of them but had no idea of the scope of their work. Starting now I am a regular contributor.
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