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The One True b!X has been featured in the Oregonian

Our very own One True b!X has been noticed by the Oregonian. Below is an excerpt from the story in the Oregonian. If you want

Since December 2002, b!X (pronounced "bix") has published a weblog called "Portland Communique" (http://communique.portland.or.us), an earnest and at times obsessive "experiment in amateur reporting" that touches on everything from near-stenographic accounts of the public involvement standards task force to up-to-the-minute accounts of the latest turn in the same-sex marriage saga.

But unlike most bloggers, who typically link to previously reported material and then offer their own analysis, b!X is unusual because he's going out and doing his own legwork. Armed with a black spiral notebook, a laptop and a homemade press pass, the admittedly shy and soft-spoken Frankonis has become a familiar face at City Council hearings, county task force meetings and news conference crushes, quietly forging something that is one step beyond the Fourth Estate.

The official headquarters of "Portland Communique" is a spartan one-bedroom apartment in Southeast Portland that smells faintly of tobacco and Scully, the delicate tabby that b!X adopted not long after he moved to Portland seven years ago from San Francisco and who mewls sweetly as b!X taps away at his laptop. But b!X, who is skinny with dark eyes, thick and long lashes and the ever-present hat that has the feel of a modern take on the pressman's fedora, spends much of his time at Stumptown Coffee's downtown Portland outpost, where he begins each morning with two mugs of espresso, sweetened with a generous glug of sugar, and the crossword puzzle, which he fills out in ink, all caps.

For the whole story visit this post over at the Portland Communique.