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Matt Rosenberg scores big (again) with this spot-on run down of blogs as a growing alternative media - particularly with regard to how it is setting up to influence the broader culture in the Puget Sound region:

Puget Sound Blogosphere Expands

There are more and more folk jumping into the blogosphere from in and around Seattle these days. Time for a shout out, and some links (with blogroll additions coming soon).
As in my feature article on Puget Sound bloggers for the December issue of Seattle Magazine (which I hope will be posted online at their web site next month), my focus here is primarily on bloggers who highlight politics or elements of culture apart from geekdom.
Goodness knows I'm fascinated by evolving technologies, and (both here and in my 4/01 to 5/04 regular guest op-ed column in The Seattle Times) have written about the intersections of technology with popular culture and politics. It's a ripe, fascinating area to explore, and changing every day. I admire geeks a lot, especially those who are plugged into politics (my bias, I guess). But if you're evangelizing blogging to the 96 percent of Net users not yet familiar with the medium, (and that's part of my ongoing focus) "inside baseball" techie blogs aren't where you'd want to send them first.
So here are a few more humble "underbloggers" like myself, that I'd like to "tug on your coat about," as Tom Waits would say.
Skor Grimm is a frickin' hoot. This guy is poised for blogosphere stardom, seriously. Give him some love, and comments. OK?
Check out Seth Cooper's Sharks With Lasers.
Here's the Live Journal page of Mark Atwood, a gun-friendly geek with an eye for the intersection of politics and popular culture. He says he's worth $2.9 million. Almost enough for private schooling your kids in Seattle these days.
David Keenan's Seattle Sense hits the spot. Another Seattle Conservative. Damn, we're gonna have to have a Pride parade or something.
In classic blog fashion, Pajama Jihad was created so the author could make sure his letter to the editor got aired publicly, just in case it didn't get printed. He has kept going, with a focus on regional and national politics.
Josef has a blog, too.
Bainbridge-based blogger, scientist, writer, thinker and mom Julie Leung's Seedlings and Sprouts is a good read. She was featured, along with several other West Sound bloggers in a recent piece by The Bremerton/Kitsap Sun. Nice story; the online version includes URLs of a number of West Sound bloggers, but no live links (huhhh?).
Fortunately this post by Julie on her 15 minutes of local MSM fame does include a number of such links (at the bottom), so explore.
And of course, Daily Recycler is already famous.

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The Rosenblog an 'underblogger'? I think not. More like Uber Blogger! That Matt, he is one smooth Populist!