http://portland2007.aan.org AAN convention community blog • June 14-16 2007 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:50:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Representing 90 AAN member papers and many non-members as well, 588 alties converged on Portland for a rousing 30th annual AAN Convention. There were senators, strip club tours, former US attorneys, marching bands, scores of informative sessions, and, of course, parties galore. Check out convention pics on AAN's Flickr account. ... http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/24/convention_wrapup/ Arve Overland and Leo Chung of Overland Agency, Inc. gave an informative session called "How to Sell Your Website to Advertisers" during the 2007 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) Convention in Portland, Oregon. Overland and Chung walked the room through the job of a media buyer; the intermediary responsible for purchasing ... http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/24/selling_website_advertisers/ This article by Bruce VanWyngarden originally appeared in the Memphis Flyer. It had been a long flight. I dropped my bags on the floor, walked into the hotel bathroom, and snapped on the lights. There was a brief flicker, and then the room was illuminated. I looked at the lightbulbs. ... http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/22/vanwyngarden_onportland/ This article by Ralph Routon originally appeared in the Colorado Springs Independent: Ron Wyden isn't running for president, though some of his constituents wish he would. To most of America, Wyden obviously doesn't stand out, even after 15 years in the House and 11 in the Senate. At 58, he's just ... http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/21/routon_ronwyden/ And in perhaps my most-favoritest bit of bloggery regarding the Convention, Hank Sims of the North Coast Journal (Humboldt County, CA) blogs the paper's acceptance to the illustrious organization that is AAN: "Yours truly was left to hold down the fort last week while the rest of the staff decamped ... http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/21/northcoastjournal_joinsaan/ San Diego Citybeat's David Rolland blogs on LastBlogOnEarth.com: "When it came time to ask questions, I hurried over to the mic and asked about Carol Lam, the former U.S. Attorney from San Diego who also got yanked. In his opening remarks, Iglesias had invoked Duke Cunningham - the former congressman ... http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/20/rolland_igelsias/ Kevin Allman continues his bloggings on Kevinallman.typepad.com, this time with musings on the state of cartoons in the alt industry: "At the Tugboat Brewing Company party on Saturday night, I ran into Shannon Wheeler, creator of the strip "How to Be Happy" (formerly "Too Much Coffee Man"), along with his hilarious ... http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/20/cartoons/ Portland Mercury's Matt Davis reports on Blogtown.PortlandMercury.com: "[Rumor excerpted] ... Meeker lives on a street that runs right underneath Portland's silver goddesses [sky trams]. However Meeker, with a publisher's keen sense for turning lemons into lemonade, agreed to allow Widmer Brothers to plaster a huge beer ad on the roof of ... http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/19/merc_widmerdeal/ Have Trade Show Pics? Add your pictures from the golfing to this slideshow by emailing your pictures to photos@aan.org with "tag: aan07tradeshow" in the body of your email. ((Photos@aan.org is a branded redirect for our upload-to-Flickr email address.)) http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/19/tradeshowpics/ Arkansas Times' Lindsey Millar posts her take on the the David Iglesias interview at Arkansas Blog: "More from the city of roses: David Iglesias, the former US Attorney for New Mexico, spoke candidly today to AANers at a lunch talk. He kicked off his speech with some quips about being ... http://portland2007.aan.org/2007/06/19/millar_oniglesias/