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8 of Seattle's 'Top 75' media sites powered by Instivate

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A Seattle neighborhood news site is out with its second annual look at the top Web media properties in Seattle. Like any good ranking system, there are plenty of holes to point out in the methodology combining Quantcast, Alexa and other rankings in a 'secret sauce' recipe but Belltown Dispatch's list is fun to dig into nonetheless. Instivate, the Seattle start-up behind Neighborlogs, is proud to point out that we power eight of the top 75 sites in the rankings. Not bad when you consider we're up against media behemoths like Hearst, Fox and, the #1 online Seattle media property, the Seattle Times.

Here's a table showing the rankings with markings highlighting sites powered by our technology as well as the sites involved in a local news partnership with the Seattle Times which we feel should be a model for big media + little media collaboration. We've also marked the kinds of sites Neighborlogs loves most -- online-only indie neighborhood news sites -- in red. And, oh, by the way, we also power the Belltown Dispatch!

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posted on Tue, Nov 03, 2009 02:55 PM
last updated on Tue, Nov 03, 2009 02:58 PM
Unfortunately, the list is poorly sourced. bywendi4 months ago ( report abuse ) ( reply )
I wouldn't be too proud of that list. Check out the comments on the post. They left out the Beacon Hill Blog, for example, because he doesn't like our URL. (We have beaconhillblog.com. We choose not to promote it, in favor of beaconhill.seattle.wa.us. Which we like. He seems to think it is non-professional and is disregarding our legitimate traffic because of that.) Other sites were inexplicably left out, too.

Sadly, I think this Top 75 list is worth less than what we paid for it.
Follow-up byWendi4 months ago ( report abuse ) ( reply )
I should add that it's not because of the BHB being left out that I think the list is poorly done. That is what drew my attention to it, yes -- but many of the positions in the list just don't make sense, lots of sites were left out in favor of sites that get almost no traffic, and the compiler has responded rudely to people's comments in the comment thread.

The Neighborlogs-powered sites definitely belong on any legitimate top 75 list, though!
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