Seattle.blogmob.org is a portal for weblogs located in and around Seattle, Washington. It has both a list and a map of Seattle weblogs, and uses both TrackBack and RSS to aggregate posts from these weblogs. (To keep up with site updates, see the Site News page.)

• A weblog (or often just "blog" for short, as in the name of this site) is a frequently updated web page made up of typically short posts in reverse chronological order, usually with links to cool and interesting finds on the Net, or diary entries about someone's life, or often, a little of both.

  For more information, see the essay weblogs: a history and perspective from Rebecca Blood, Seattle expatriate and author of The Weblog Handbook ; or Anatomy of a Weblog, by Cameron Barrett; or read what several webloggers had to say about blogging at powazek.com.
  
  

• Founded in 1869, Seattle is located on the shores of on Puget Sound, just 113 miles from the Canadian border. We're surrounded by mountains and water and trees, with gorgeous views everywhere you look. People claim it rains all the time here, but we actually have a mild climate, with an average yearly rainfall of just 36.2 inches.

  It's a major port city for Pacific and European markets; we've also been a center of Internet commerce and development, being home to companies like Amazon and Microsoft. Half a million people live here, and we've got great restaurants, shops, museums, theaters, zoos, all kinds of outdoor recreation, and more.