Here’s something cool that we just discovered: the City of Bend website hosts audio MP3 recordings of all City Council meetings, going back to 2005. That’s rather progressive and tech-savvy. No video yet, though. Which is a shame, since the meetings are recorded for COTV on channel 11. They wouldn’t … Continue reading
Wow, there’s spam blogs, and then there’s just… wrong blogs. When the Round About Bend "blog" first appeared on my radar, it almost looked like a spam blog… you know, the kind of blog that just posts canned (and often lifted from other sites without telling) content to get the … Continue reading
The Source is trying something new: they’ve created a Flickr group called "Light Meter" for use as a community photo album: Welcome to Light Meter, the Source Weekly’s interactive photo feature. Here’s how to participate: 1. Join Flickr, if you haven’t already. 2. Join the Light Meter Flickr Group. 3. … Continue reading
Especially when everyone else is doing it for me, and I’m going to point to them! The Bulletin: Readers’ choice top stories of 2007 The Bulletin: Most clicked articles online Bend Restaurants: Best of 2007 That’s what I see for now… more pop up, I’ll point to ’em. Happy New … Continue reading
The Bulletin announced today that they are offering free music downloads on their site: an album’s worth of music from local bands, and an album’s worth from national bands (15 each). For anyone who’s familiar with the usual online offerings/technical abilities of the Bulletin, this is a Big Deal—the web … Continue reading
So I’ve been loosely following the "Real Winter" story/project that the Central Oregon Visitors Association has been promoting; it started with this story in Sunday’s Bulletin, and there was a bit on KTVZ last night about it. The gist of it is, it’s a new ad campaign promoting winter tourism … Continue reading
After blogging about the Bulletin letter forum yesterday, I wondered about how many other online forums/bulletin boards there are out there dedicated to Bend. There’s a few I know about, and others I’ve dug up via search; I don’t know offhand how active any of these are (other than if … Continue reading
Dean Harris writes: I just wanted to alert you to an online community forum launched this month. BendBulletinBoard.net is a community forum for Bulletin readers who need an alternative outlet to the newspaper’s tiny letters to the editor section for interacting with their fellow readers. I invite you to check … Continue reading
I received a phishing spam the other day that reminded me of the Bank of the Cascades scam that Jake first reported. The email claims to be from "Oregon Community Credit Union" and it says: Oregon Community Credit Union temporarily suspended your account. Reason: Billing failure. We require you to … Continue reading
Jake points out tonight that KOHD‘s new website has gone live. Much better than it was before. Jake didn’t like the video auto-playing on the front page, but that didn’t happen to me, so I guess they fixed it? Anywho, yet another source of local online news, which is always … Continue reading