Saturday, April 7, 2007

And We are Off

A friend happen to notice that the fine folks over at www.northwestnoise.com have written an article about www.theportlander.com . I have to say we were not expecting a response this quickly from others in the community this quickly. We hope that this is the first of many articles "hopefully positive" about theportlander.com . Below is a link to the article as well as a copy of it.

Article :The Portlander

Following the success of online, voted-on news web sites (a la Digg, and Reddit) web-savvy and smart Portland locals have launched, from what I can tell, the first user submitted, Digg like news site just for Portland, OR called The Portlander. Northwest Noise was added to their Portland Podcasts section; so I’m now going to ask you to vote for Northwest Noise, if you like us ;0

I’ve always found local web sites to be really helpful in finding news or interesting discussions that are absent from The Oregonian. Setting aside the tendency for user submitted, social news web sites to be SPAMMED constantly, I feel there’s still something tangible and real about the masses voting on interestingness.