Portland, Ore. – When we began to plan the logistics of our cross-country road trip, we knew we needed a reliable car. But we also wanted to leave a light footprint – on the environment and our wallets.
We read that Oregon State chemical engineering professor David Hackleman recently made the trek to Virginia in an […]

About a year ago, with the success of OhMyNews in South Korea; the sudden birth and just-as-sudden plateau of highly anticipated Backfence and Bayosphere; and the jaw-dropping accomplishments and ensuing controversy of Wikipedia; the term “citizen journalism” began to clog the blogosphere. (Steve Outing at Poynter, Jay Rosen at PressThink, and Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine […]

Welcome to our travel blog, Searching for Common Ties in America.
My name is Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, and I will be filing multimedia dispatches from throughout the lower 48 states. My twin brother James Armstrong will be producing these dispatches, as well as helping out with the reporting and travel logistics along the way.
This is an […]