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Musician and producer Dan Kaufman didn’t start cycling until 2003. Since then, the 38 year-old Brooklyn neighborhood resident has become a “cycling evangelist.”
Last year, he and his wife Kirsten launched PDXK Productions and decided to pursue Internet television. Dan thinks the future of TV will consist of independently produced shows distributed via the web.
[Update: The Police Bureau has just debuted their new web page for bike safety and theft info.]
This week has been good and bad for bike theft.
First the bad news. In the last 7 days there have been 39 new stolen bike listings (I haven’t published them all yet).
That’s a record for this site.
Now, the good news. The visibility of the listings is at an all-time high. More visibility = more bikes listed = more bikes recovered. This visibility is due in no small part to some recent prime time media coverage on our local FOX TV station (KPTV).
This coverage follows a nice feature in the Willamette Week a while back, and before that, another prime-time news story on local NBC station, KGW.
The funny thing about all this is that I am now getting phone calls from people without web access but who desparately want to list their bike. Yesterday a woman called me sobbing profusely, barely able to speak as she described her beloved lost steed.