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David Burn / September 23, 2008

My Welcome To The Silicon Forest

Portland is a city full of friendly, interesting people, so it’s natural that web sites would spring up from this fertile land to support that fact. One is Portland On Fire, a site that profiles a different Portlander each day. The site is currently inactive, but there may be work happening behind the scenes to bring us more profiles.

Raven Zachary created Portland on Fire. I saw Raven present a slideshow on the iPhone at Inverge 2008, earlier this month. He seems like a super smart guy.

Why 2008 changes everything (in mobile tech)

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Another site I took note of is Strange Love Live, a podcast series featuring local tech persons of interest produced by Cami Kaos and Dr. Normal. I’m looking forward to the show’s next feature on local photographer, Mark Coleman. Mark and I met at Beer and Blog two Fridays ago.

Also at Beer and Blog, I bumped into Dawn Foster. Dawn is profiled on Portland on Fire, as well. Since meeting her, I noticed that another Portlander (one I have not yet met), Marshall Kirkpatrick, named her an up-and-coming social media consultant on ReadWriteWeb. Dawn gave me an invite to Shizzow, a Dopplr-like site that helps friends connect in real space and time.

I also met Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo at Beer and Blog. They’re working on organizing the first annual CyborgCamp, among other things.

This post is not conclusive, it’s just a run through of some of my preliminary findings in the tech and social media communities here. I’ve also had coffee with a couple of ad guys, and gotten to know someone working at Wieden + Kennedy. The someone at Wieden mentioned her frustration that the tech and ad communities are not better connected. It was an interesting observation, and by no means a situation exclusive to Portland.

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David Burn

Poet, critic, and storyteller.

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  1. CamiKaos says

    September 23, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Thanks for the mention, we’re really looking forward to having Mark on our show!

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  2. CamiKaos says

    September 23, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Thanks for the mention, we’re really looking forward to having Mark on our show!

    Reply
  3. Justin Kistner says

    October 2, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Beer and Blog – Bringing people together since February.

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  4. Justin Kistner says

    October 2, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Beer and Blog – Bringing people together since February.

    Reply

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