Local blogs

Portland is a place where lots of people post information on the best (and worst) of the City. These blogs cover food, beer, bicycling, neighborhoods, photography, news, history, culture, art, gossip, music, technology, advocacy, personal musings and more. Please add to this evergrowing list of weblogs.

• 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
• Blog For Oregon - A real estate blog for people considering moving to Oregon.
• 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
• Daily Wireless
• 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
• Dining out in Portland - "Eating my way across Portland, OR."
• 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"
• JMA Properties Blog - JMA Properties real estate blog.
• 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
• Milan Cole - Personal musings and Internet marketing blog.
• My Whim is Law - "where a single parent in Portland still believes that wishing will make it so..."
• the Nature of Portland PortlandWiki page PDX Nature Nut user page - "A blog about all things related to the natural side of Portland."
• 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 - "to create the ultimate guide to Portland Oregon!"
• Portlandize - Cycling for everyone, here in Portland, Oregon.
• 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