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Portland Communique seeking support
The One True b!X has been plying the waters of grassroots citizens media for some time now, offering valuable insights and contributions to the conversation even as he's been covering the local Portland city scene for the past two years.
Now, he's looking for some financial support.
The local Portland newspaper Willamette Week has included b!X and his Portland Communique in their annual give guide (under "community").
b!X has already announced that he may have to shut down his Portland Communique weblog at the end of December unless it begins to generate some revenue. The Communique – an experiment in amateur journalism and hobbyist reporting – has become a fixture in the local media scene, read by City Council members, City Hall staffers, local political reporters and columnists, and general local political junkies. Willamette Week (and its readers in a separate poll) named it best local weblog, and The Oregonian published a front-page profile on him and what he does with the site.
He's not looking for Andrew Sullivan-type dollars. A few bucks here or there would help. Give, if you can spare anything, to support this worthy effort in grassroots journalism.
November 27, 2004 at 01:56 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Of course, if some eccentric rich person out there wants to give me Sullivan-like piles in one fell swoop, I'd hardly complain.
Thanks for the pointer. In my last-gasp run at rescuing the site, I've abandoned any pretense to shame, and am hoping the good graces of the weblogs-and-journalism community will help out via the WW's "Give Guide" thing, which is tallying contributions made through it to each recipient, and then awarding extra $1000 bonuses to whoever hits the highest level in various categories -- total number of donations, highest dollar total, etc.
Posted by: The One True b!X at Nov 27, 2004 9:39:01 PM
