ORblogs.com
Title
ORblogs - Oregon's Independent Weblog Community
Description
ORblogs is a running stream of Oregon news, commentary, and photography from local weblogs.
ORblogs gathers details and posts from over a thousand blogs that are based in Oregon, and puts them all in one place. You can use ORblogs to quickly scan and see what people across the state—or in a specific Oregon city—are discussing right now. Or you can use ORblogs to find Oregon-based bloggers who are writing about topics you're interested in.
Languages
English
Address
- Corvallis OR 97333 US
Contact
- Paul Bausch
Additional Information
On September 4th, 2009 Pau Bausch announced on the ORBlogs.com homepage that he would be closing down the site. At that time, no new blog posts were being displayed but the directory of blogs would be available for 30 days. The full text of Pauls letter can be found below:
- ORblogs is Closed
- Thank you for reading and contributing to the site. ORblogs has stopped gathering post excerpts from Oregon blogs, though the current weblog directory will be available for another 30 days.
- When I started ORblogs in March 2003, there weren't many good ways to find bloggers living in a particular area. And because I had recently moved to Corvallis, I wanted to learn what I could from people living near me. The site personally put in me touch with bloggers across the state, taught me a lot about Oregon and its cities (including Corvallis), and I hope the site did the same for others. I feel ORblogs served an important role for Oregon blogging by gathering independent voices across all spectrums into one place where everyone shared a common geography.
- I'm shutting ORblogs down now because the site continues to grow and the job of maintaining the site at the level I feel is necessary to keep it valuable has grown with it, putting it out of the bounds of a hobby. I wasn't able to make ORblogs self-sustaining financially (let alone turn it into a job), and I can no longer devote the time to the site that it needs to grow. Blogging has changed significantly in five years, and blogging is no longer a hobby for many—it's a job. Commercial blogging isn't as interesting to me as the personal web and that factored into my decision as well.
- Thanks again for making ORblogs what it has been over the years. Please take a last look through the directory, find your favorite Oregon blogs, and subscribe to them in your newsreader if you haven't already. There are some spectacular voices in Oregon blogging that I will now have to read another way. I still believe it's important to read locally while I read globally, and I hope you agree and continue to make the effort.
- — Paul Bausch (9/4/2008)
Related Domains
External Links
- Alexa: OrbLogs.com
