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I was late to the game on the Mad Men phenomenon, though quickly eliminated my knowledge deficit by busting through all of Season 1 over the course of a liquor-and-cigarette fueled week (also thanks to Comcast OnDemand for having …

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We enter the 25th installment of “This Week in Logobama.com” with the news that Joe Biden joins the Democratic presidential ticket as the Vice Presidential candidate. I watched some of the news analysis of the VP annou…

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We’ve been in our current location now for almost a year, which can mean only one thing: we’re moving. That’s right, Substance is moving yet again, but we think this time will be the last time for a few years. …

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One of the pleasures of living in Portland, Oregon is the proximity to the Oregon Coast... with the closest points being about an hour away, it's temptingly close, and it's call is hard to ignore. Plus, we've been thinking about the coast for the last few months while working on the new Oregon Coast Visitors Association website, which launched last week.

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Week 24, y’all. Next week is the Democratic National Convention, and we’re wondering why Logobama.com hasn’t gotten a spot on the floor. After all, the site as raised over $770 dollars for the campaign. We’…

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Every year, thousands of people converge on Austin, Texas for South by Southwest, a music, film and interactive festival. Next year it’s being held from March 13 - 22, 2009, with the interactive portion from March 13 - 17. W…

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Coffee with Likemind (Likeminds? Singular? Plural?) is upon us again. This month we’re going to be converging on the awesome Stumptown Ace at 1026 SW Stark (right next to the Ace Hotel). I imagine we’ll be meeting in…

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It’s Week 23. We received a great suggestion from a Logobama.com user about updating the color palette for fall, so we’ll see if we can fit that into the schedule. Besides that, as the campaign begins to heat up, weR…

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A lot has changed in the two years since the Finding Substance blog started... so we felt this was an appropriate time to apply the "do better" idea to findsubstance.com. Time for a refresh.

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Two years ago I created my first post on Blogger. It was a short one, and it started as a challenge: what would I do differently? From August 7, 2006: “Let’s stop talking about ideas. Let’s start talking about change, in…

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