[wickedchicken]

Sorry Pacific Northwest: the NYT Technology section found you. Expect some really weird and disconnected articles about how you have pull in "the IT sector" or "big data" or whatever analysts from obscure hedge funds think is the next thing. Hopefully we can stem the damage before they notice Austin or Boston.

[InclinedPlane]

I'm a little baffled why the attention is coming now. The Seattle area has been home to Microsoft and Amazon for ages, as well as Valve, Nintendo of America, and many others. Not to mention the sizeable facebook and google campuses which hardly sprouted up over night (google has had a big presence in Seattle for about a decade). On top of that there is also digipen which has been one of the few well regarded trade schools for video game design and engineering in the entire country. And, of course, there is UW.

My working assumption is that the tech press is so massively insular it has a lot of difficulty seeing beyond the silicon valley / NYC scene.