Last week Heather and I launched TriMet Diaries. We knew, in our Portland take on Muni Diaries, we had something good, but the interest and attention has been overwhelming!
PortlandAfoot‘s Michael Andersen started things off with an enthusiastic comment on the launch announcement post, and a flattering blog post soon followed: Awesome new transit blog: TriMet Diaries.
We also received an encouraging comment by Christian, proprietor of TriMetiquette, on the launch post. And Punkrawkers blogs on and Bojack have also blogged about the site.
Last Thursday we posted F*ck You TriMet: A Love Story, a short film by Sam Brosnan. This beautifully shot but confusingly plotted video that takes a lot of geographic liberties piqued the interest of some of our more, uh, persnickety, readers. Analyses of the film soon appeared on MAX FAQs and Hard Drive.
Heather and I have a stash of Portland transit related posts on our own blogs to mine for TriMet Diaries (Heather’s are especially amusing!), but the point of the site is to provide a forum for Portland transit riders to contribute their own stories. Thank you to William Reagan (TriMet Vignette) and Torrid Joe (Short Bus, Short Fuse) for already sending in stories! We’ve also been promised enough reader contributed stories to last for months – please send them in!
And just this morning Thrillist featured our humble site: TriMet Diaries: Like The Princess Diaries, with less Hector Elizondo and more public transportation. Thrillist, for you philistines [which I was a member of until late last week] is an online digital lifestyle publication which recently expanded to Portland with Patrick Alan Coleman, formerly of the Portland Mercury, at the reins.
Thank you all, and keep reading, linking, and sharing!
You can follow TriMet Diaries on Twitter, and subscribe to the TriMet Diaries RSS feed! A Trimet Diaries Flickr or Picasa photo pool is in the works too!
So I’m assuming it’s cool for us to send in Streetcar stories, even though the Streetcar isn’t technically TriMet?
Devlyn – Oh yes! Streetcar, tram are both good! PortlandPublicTransitDiaries.com would have been more accurate, but TriMetDiaries has a better ring to it 😉
That’s a lot of links in that there post! I’ll need at least an evening off to wade through them in full. Good thing the lady is out of town for the week. I’m liking the site and hope to have a story to you sometime in the future.
Hello Dave,
I just found out about your blog and also heard about Trimet Diaries and I will be keeping close watch on both.
Sincerely,
Benjamin
BeaverJournal.com