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Willamette Week Films Intern Stealing Bikes, Posts Video on YouTube

Inspired by a popular YouTube video in which a man "steals" his own bicycle in broad daylight to see if anyone will stop him, Willamette Week sent 22-year-old intern Josh Silverman onto the streets of Portland, Ore., to investigate residents' reaction when a man uses bolt cutters to hack through a bike chain. According to Ian Demsky's Aug. 23 cover story, Silverman stole his own bike in public at seven different locations, and the only person who interfered actually helped him operate the bolt cutters. Willamette Week also posted the video below of the "thefts," complete with music and intertitles, on YouTube.




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Former Alt-Weekly Writers Dish the Seattle Media Scene

Geov Parrish, former staff writer for Seattle Weekly, and Sandeep Kaushik, ex-writer for the Stranger, last week participated in a "Podcasting Liberally" panel about "the fate of the post-purge Weekly in Seattle’s tech-savvy, blog-heavy media market." Parrish worked at the Weekly for eight years before resigning last week, and he doesn't pull punches when describing his differences with the new Village Voice Media management, especially his feeling that they "don't get" online content. Other panelists, however, argue that the Weekly is "oppressed by the weight of its own history" and the VVM changes may bring a younger audience to the paper. The panel also discusses Slog as guilty pleasure and Skip Berger's resemblance to Jerry Garcia. The complete podcast is available for download here.
08-18-2006  12:12 pm  |  Industry News

Study: Users Judge Web Sites in the Blink of An Eyenew

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