Oy, the echo chamber!<p>This tempest in a teapot started when the New York Times wrote a rather comical article on how Seattle is the new silicon valley:<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/technology/08nation.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/technology/08nation.html</a><p>The entrepreneur blogger at the Seattle PI picked this up, and started a debate:<p><a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/131378.asp" rel="nofollow">http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/131378.a...</a><p>In response to this debate, Kelman wrote a long post enumerating the ways that he thought Seattle was better than the valley:<p><a href="http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2008/02/the_next_silicon_valley.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2008/02/the_next_silicon_valley....</a><p>And now, we have this.