Local blogs

Portland, Oregon, is a place where many individuals utilize the Internet to share what's going on in their communities, and blogging is a big part of that. Below are some interesting weblogs from the area. Please add to this list!

• AIGA Portland - The Professional Association for Design
• AboutUs blog - a Portland-based blog on musings of the web
• Active Right of Way - a community of advocates, activists, and professionals dedicated to safe, equitable and responsible use of the public right of way in Portland, Oregon
• Alt Portland - the eastside, up close & personal
• Another Portland Blog - Another blog. About Portland. And other stuff too.
• Around Portland w/ PDX Guy - News and everything weird around Portland
• Around the Sun - A guide about saving money in Portland
• Back Fence PDX - Storytelling and Entertainment for the People of Portland
• Bar Camp Portland
• Beer & Blog - Bloggers helping bloggers over beers
• Bike Portland
• Blue Ruin - A Portland photo blog
• Burnside Writers' Collective Blog
• Calagator blog - Calagator Portland tech calendar
• Cami Kaos - Portland tech scene blogger, weekly podcast host
• Concordia Neighborhood Association
• Crappy Indie Music - The Blog
• Culture Mob Blog
• Dave Knows Portland
• davydog | It’s a doggy’s life. - Commentary, gallows "humor" and snide remarks
• Describe the Ruckus - unique content about life and culture in Portland
• East Portland Blog - A Rose City Juncture of the Popular Arts and SuperDeep Thoughts
• Eater PDX - Portland restaurant, bar and nightlife blog
• Ether Bomb - Portland Oregon Indie Music Blog
• First Friday - Portland's Eastside Galley Guide
• Food Carts Portland
• Girl Parties PDX - Portland live art and burlesque shows
• Heard in My Cab - The Fare City of Portland, Oregon, blog
• Hungry Eye Ball - Portland art scene blog
• I Heart Art: Portland - Advocacy, Education and Support for Portland's Vibrant Community of Makers
• I'm In Your Water - "a personal web oubliette and a look at internet media and all kinds of art/culture"
• Ignite Portland
• ignOregon - Oregon blog aggregator
• Jack Bog's Blog
• John's Other Blog - "Ramblings of the not quite sane"
• Laura Lawrence blog - "I like Portland, Oregon – Don't you?"
• Light and Sound - blog on E-Rock music, posters and DJs
• Lost Oregon - documenting the disappearing Portland and Oregon of recent past
• MLK in Motion - a photorecord of a street in Portland undergoing dramatic change: Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
• Make Me Some Pie - A Pie Blog in Portland, Oregon (mmmm!)
• Mama & Me from PDX - A blog from Jackson, MS, to Portland, OR
• Marshall Kirkpatrick - Technology Journalist
• My Whim is Law - "where a single parent in Portland still believes that wishing will make it so..."
• Open Source Bridge - "The conference for open source citizens"
• Oregon Independent Film - Independent filmmakers in Oregon and Portland
• Oregon Startups - Information for startups
• Overheard in PDX - eavesdrop in Portland, Oregon
• PDX Building Ads - a collection of buildings with faded lead-paint-on-brick advertising
• PDX Comedy - The Blog - "This blog is about Portland Oregon comedy. This blog isn't necessarily funny."
• PDX Cycling - Cycling routes, Portland bike culture
• PDX Direct Links - Free food stuff fashion fun in Portland
• PDX Pipeline: Portland Events - Music, Arts, Entertainment, Sustainability
• PDX Ren - Portland Oregon: A Window on the World blog
• PDX Web Innovators
• Parkrose Gateway - neighborhood blog
• Pedal Nation Events Blog
• Piedmont Neighborhood Blog
• Portland Acupuncture Blog - a community resource to learn about acupuncture & Chinese medicine
• Portland Afoot - A monthly newsmagazine about and an editable online guide on low-car life in Portland, Oregon.
• Portland Art - discussions and info through a lens of Portland
• Portland Bar Fly - Guide to Portland bars
• Portland Beer Blog
• Portland Center Stage Blog
• Portland Dude: a blog about Portland
• Portland Fair Trade Blog
• Portland Fire & Rescue: Fire Blog
• Portland Food and Drink
• Portland Ground: Geo-Photo-Documentary - allows use of its Portland area images for non-commercial blogs
• Portland Hamburgers Blog
• Portland Housing Blog
• Portland Mercury Blog
• Portland Metro Blog
• Portland Monthly Magazine Blogs - Eat Beat, Bar Pilot, Culturephile, Plantwise, The Muddy Boot, Shop Talk
• Portland Neighborhood
• Portland Octopus - Everything Portland
• Portland Opera: Operaman's Blog
• Portland Oregon Backyard Birds - A blog devoted to all things birds
• Portland Oregon Blog
• Portland Oregon Daily Photo
• Portland Parks & Recreation: Park Talk Blog
• Portland Playground - Is a creative music/culture blog based in Portland, Oregon
• Portland Show Guide blog
• PSU Library "What's New" Blog - Portland State University Library
• Portland Things - perhaps the unofficial authority on blogs in Portland!
• Portland Transport - discussions on access & mobility in the Portland/Vancouver region
• Portland Water Bureau: The Water Blog
• Portland's Finest Restaurants Blog
• Portland's Search Marketing Blog - home of Portland's SEM community
• Portlanders blog
• qPDX - Queer news, views and events for Portland
• Rantings of a TriMet Bus Driver -
• Rose City Journal - Portland Oregon news and opinion blog
• SCRAP - School & Community Reuse Action Project
• Silicon Florist - covering Portland startups
• Slow Food Portland
• Slowly But Surely - "A 30 year old woman trying to get healthy, one meal and one workout at a time!"
• Street Roots - Blog and online community on homelessness and poverty in Portland
• Sunnyside Swap Shop - "a co-op that offers an indoor play space during the yucky, rainy months, a time-limit-free library, a free toy and clothing exchange...and an after-school program for teenagers..."
• Swap n Play - a cooperative community sharing space in North Portland for families to build intentional community through play and the sharing of resources
• Things About Portland That Suck
• TriMet Diaries - a place to share the inevitably amusing, amazing, and horrifying tales gleaned by riding public transit in the Portland metropolitan area
• TriMet Transit Antics - formerly the Rantings from a Regular TriMet Rider blog
• TriMetiquette - TriMet & Portland Public Transportation Riding Etiquette Blog
• Uniquely Portland Oregon - "A Compelling Look at a Special City"
• Urban Honking - "is a community of writers, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and other great humans"
• Urban Weeds: Portland Street Style
• Weird Turned Pro - Portland law blog
• Where Camp PDX - unconference for anyone interested in geography and technology
• WikiProject Oregon - has frequent posts from Portlanders
• Willamette Week - Portland news, movies, music, restaurants, arts

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