Pacific NW Portal: Netroots in Action on the Local Level
Adapted from an original post to Daily Kos
Daily Kos is booming.
With an average of 810,234 visits and 937,537 pageviews every day now (according to SiteMeter) Daily Kos has undoubtedly become the anchorweight for the national progressive blogosphere. It is a thriving community, home to thousands upon thousands of caring, patriotic Americans. [It has also spurred the founding and growth of new national, wonderful communities – like Booman Tribune].
This site has served its national audience well. But there is one huge area of the blogopshere that Kos does not serve very well – and that is politics at a local level.
Just nine months ago, a team of people, including myself, realized that we in the Pacific Northwest needed some kind of progressive counterbalance to local conservative megasites like Sound Politics (great name, bad logic).
We set out a vision and a blueprint to create an entirely new website to serve the regional progressive community. After just two or three weeks of development, we launched Pacific Northwest Portal, and announced its debut on Kos and a couple other sites, not knowing what to expect.
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