PDX developer Ryan Williams of Web Things Considered unveiled his local news aggregator Local Signal a few weeks ago - and it’s worth a look…or two…or three.

Williams bills it as an ‘evolving project’ - but he’s pulling in a wealth of news and information sources, from local dead tree info providers (Trib, OLive, WWeek and more) to local slices of larger news providers (Google News, Topix, Newsvine and Goboz (another local site - more about them in a future post.) He’s also pulling in local blogs (yep, our headlines are there), events (via Upcoming, Eventful or Zvents), and even AskMetafilter posts tagged with Portland. Flickr pictures? YouTube videos? They’re here as well.

Short version? If it’s online and Portland-centric - it’s probably aggregated here. Or will be soon…

I foresee myself spending several more hours in front of my monitor checking it all out.

(Belated hat tip to Silicon Florist for the heads-up here…)