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- Seems that everyone wants to get into the lucrative world of fame and fortune that comes with neighborhood blogging. Following news earlier this summer about the P-I’s foray into the microlocal brings news that KOMO is dipping their networked toes into the waters, too, with a doubling (from what baseline, I don’t know) of their online and blogging staff. [publicola] The always-enterprising Tracy Record from venerable hyperlocal powerhouse West Seattle Blog made some lucky guesses and determined the URLs for some of these sites [twitter] and found that likely coverage will include ballard, capitol hill, & west seattle with Drupal-powered [twitter] blogs, business reviews, and forums. Of course, this sleuthing resulted in a takedown of all of the nascent sites by early evening; so hope you saved your screencaps.
- A poll by the University of Washington shows that just about anyone could make it out of the primaries to face Greg Nickels in the general election. Disappointingly, it also looks like the chemical interests will have their way with our bag fee. [postglobe]
- There is an honest to goodness war, I tell you, above the fold, bold type, exaggerated point sized typeface worthy war, on the seagulls of our fair city. [times]
- Before his early demise, Heath Ledger conceived and began to direct a trippy gory animated video for Modest Mouse‘s “King Rat” to raise awareness of illegal whaling off the Australian coast. [vulture]
War, huh?
What is it good for…. absolutely nothing.
I’ll say it again now: War. Good god, y’all. What is it good for? Abso*lutely* nothing.
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