I wish I’d gotten to this sooner, but better late than never. Tonight is the night for the September PDX Web Innovators meeting. Check out the details at Upcoming.org. Would you look at that, we have a TOPIC!! Thanks to Adam for suggesting it. So, all you Portland web people come on out if you can and give your $.02 or just meet some fellow web geeks. To keep up to date with the group, use our ultra-modern web 2.

I think a healthy dose of cynicism is a good thing and I’ve really enjoyed Dare’s blog over the years. In fact RSS Bandit was my first reader and really got me into the whole blog thing. I stopped using it when I realized it was too big of a pain keeping client readers updated and syndicated and switched to BlogLines. Anyway, I about choked on my lunch today when I saw his comment about Web 2.

Along the same lines as the UserPlane founders, turns out Chris DeWolfe, one of the founders of the vaunted MySpace, grew up in Portland (via John Cook), before ultimately migrating south to make it big.

I Discovered MovieTally today (via eHub). It’s a real basic, neat little app that let’s you keep track of movies you watch and ones you want to see. I was thinking of something like this just last week as movies are a common/easy discussion starter around the water cooler and I always seem to forget what I’ve seen recently. By keeping an inventory, it will be much easier to remind myself.

Just a couple months after Oregon State’s run through the college world series, another team from Oregon is making a run. This time it’s Murray Hill (Beaverton) shooting for the little league world championship, having now reached the US final. I actually lived in the area when I first moved to Portland after college and still work just down the road, so it’s a very close connection. I think it’s awesome they’re doing so well.