The One True b!X’s PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE is the current incarnation of b!X’s weblog, which for the past year and change has been a gem of local content, obsessively chronicling the minuta of Portland politics. On Monday, the Daily Oregonian profiled b!X and his pioneering experiment in for-real blog journalism.

I have kept an eye on b!X’s doings since about the time I started this site, just over two years ago. He was the first person to notice the IOCNM link in the right column, as I recall.