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PortlandWiki is a collaborative community information resource for Portland, Oregon that is powered by you. We welcome your knowledge and creative input! Our aim is to represent the Voice of Portland by providing a citizen-generated news, information resource, knowledge hub and historical archive for Portland, Oregon and surrounding region. Go ahead; be bold! Get involved with PortlandWiki! We Want Your Opinion Take our survey! Hey, PortlandWiki fans... Help improve PortlandWiki by taking our survey. We'd love your thoughts on how we’re doing as a collective or what could be better. The survey is open until August 31st and takes only a few minutes to complete. PortlandWiki runs on your ideas! Featured Articles Amber Case, Portland native and one of Fast Company's 2010 Most Influential Women in Technology Portland Broadband - All welcome to attend the upcoming City Council Work Session on Portland's draft Broadband Strategic Plan, Connecting to our Future on July 26, 2011 at 9:30 am, either in Council Chambers at live stream on cable CityNet 30 [1]. Presenters include Anthony Townsend from Institute of the Future [2], and Portland's own Amber Case, cyborgathropologist and co-founder of Geoloqi [3]. Local blogs - Portland's diverse and interesting web logs identified here. Please add to this list! Bicyclists are lovers. Bicycling Etiquette - Handy bicyclist tips to win friends and influence motorists. Shelter is a place for people to find refuge from the elements. It is one of the primary components critical to survival for every person: water, food, safety (shelter). Iraq Veterans Against the War - Oregon Chapter - To hell with war, and to its demonic mongers. Cascadia is a proposed independent nation in the Pacific Northwest, usually composed of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, that would be formed by seceding from the United States (and Canada). Cascadia subduction zone , off the Oregon Coast, is home to the Juan De Fuca Ridge, where one tectonic plate moves under another. The Ocean Observatories Initiative landed in Pacific City on July 12th, beginning a new era in oceanography. Green industry - In Portland it's easy being green. Horse rings - The small brass rings attached to curbs don't tether horses anymore... unless they're small plastic ones. Personal Telco - Portland's answer (so far) to "Internet as public utility." Yellow Bike Project - (Pictured here in black 'n' white.) A community cycling "first." Charles Olds - Olds shot a man "just to watch him ...uh... succumb from injuries suffered as a result of an act of manslaughter." CivicApps - An open data / open source project sponsored by several Portland-area government agencies. Portlandia - The second largest hammered copper statue in America! (The largest is the Statue of Liberty.) East 82nd Avenue - A major North-South arterial on Portland's Eastside. Gateway to Felony Flats. Things to see in Portland Horse spotting! Just one of many fun activities you can do in Portland! Check out Ground Kontrol, a classic arcade and bar. Ground Kontrol is all-ages from Noon - 5pm daily, and 21+ only after 5pm nightly. Drop by the Living Room Theater to check out a show. If you are not into movies and want a cool hangout, drop by Backspace. Art! The first week of the month offers First Thursday. Browse through the many art galleries throughout gritty Old Town and the shiny and plasticine Pearl District. Meander through the Portland Police Historical Museum. Walk through the South Park Blocks, which run through the Portland State University campus. (more) Places to go near Portland Long Beach, Washington: Convenient Portland getaway and home to the "world's largest frying pan." Visit beautiful Timberline Lodge, a National Historic Landmark. The lodge was constructed in the late '30s as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project during the Great Depression. Ski the slippery slopes of Mt. Hood. Explore the active volcano at Mt. St. Helens. Meander along the Pacific Coast, less than a two day power walk from Portland. During Cascadia's wet months, succumb to a weekend bender in Bend, where the sun do shine most o' the time. Spend the July 4th holiday in Long Beach, Washington, a pinnacle of patriotism and home to the World's Largest Frying Pan. Find your perfect Halloween pumpkin at the Pumpkin Patch! And don't forget about Oxbow Regional Park. According to PortlandWiki News, it's "a wonderful place to raise your homeless family"!

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targ=n }} More from Ignite Portland Kotra, Mark and Ward wrangle wild wikis at Backspace Cafe. Things to do in Portland Contribute to PortlandWiki! Go see the new Baby Cougar at the Oregon Zoo. Solitary advice: Do something yourself. Chug a barrel o' locally brewed microbrew. Gargle some holy water. Single bowl Benson Bubbler on corner of NW Couch St & NW 18th Ave. Near entrance of Saint Mary's Cathedral, Portland. Lasso unruly bookworms at Powell's Books. Entertain the wildlife in beautiful Forest Park. Walk around Old Town. Bike along Waterfront Park. Stage a peace rally at Pioneer Square. Skate on thin ice at Lloyd Center's Ice Rink. Make your way through town riding the MAX. Risk your hide in Portland's naked bike ride! Waive your hands in the air "like you just don't care" at a live concert. Get religion by becoming a "Blazer Believer." Shamelessly show off your naked feet by hiking barefoot with Portland Barefoot Hikers. (more) News Go to news archive >>>