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June 13, 2009

Oregon Media Insiders 2.0

The sudden and untimely death of Lynn Siprelle's beloved Oregon Media Insiders has catalyzed the wired media addicts around here; we have not one, but two new places to congregate and hopefully get that anonymous gossip that was such the attraction of the the original OMI.

One is designed with the functionality of the old OMI (personal blogs and a blog-like interface). Calling itself Oregon Media Insiders (but as Fairy Blogmother Emeritus Lynn points out, is not an official successor to the orginal), it can be found at http://ormediainsiders.com.

The other, Oregon Media Forum, was the first one up in the vacuum following OMI's abrupt ending. Billing itself as "an OMI expat community", it is more of a message-forum board, rather the opposite of bloggy. Its address is http://oregonmedia.freeforums.org/.

We're checking in on both when we can. Each one as a particular atmosphere that might appeal more to one online personality than the other.

OMI left us but on the fertile ground that the seed dropped onto not one but two shoots sprouted. I think we in PDX who obsess about the media market are very lucky indeed.

Posted by The Chinuk at June 13, 2009 08:18 PM