You can learn more about Next Door Media and Seattle’s competitive blog scene in a story that appeared today in NYTimes.com, PCWorld.com and CIO.com. “Next Door Media’s five Seattle neighborhood blogs are at the forefront of a hyperlocal news boom in Seattle that has grown just as traditional media — including the late Seattle Post Intelligencer — has busted,” wrote Nancy Gohring, who called the Next Door Media site PhinneyWood “a truly local phenomenon.”