I wrote something several months ago about a city of Portland initiative that really got my hackles up. They are basically crowdsourcing the redesign of PortlandOnline.com, but not offering any compensation to the designers (other than the infamous “site credit”). This is particularly offensive to me in the current economic situation many designers now find themselves in.

When Kristin Rogers Brown -- Portland-based art director for the global consulting firm, Oliver Wyman -- began looking for ways to make her company's operations more sustainable, she knew there would be questions.