CASTING CALL: Local director Garrett Bennett is looking for extras to cast in his independent film The Spy & the Sparrow. more ›

--Seattle Podcasting Network infiltrated Fisher Communications on election night. more ›

-This item has musical accompaniment, but it's going to have to be user supplied. Hum "Taps" while you read. Today's issue of the Seattle Weekly will be the last from the intrepid Knute Berger, Chuck Taylor, George Howland, Geov Parish team. more ›

Ok we all know that the Ricky Gervais podcast is the greatest thing to ever appear on the internet and everyone has a favorite random cast that they subscribe to, but what are the best Seattle-focused podcasts? We’ll give you a list of our favorites, but we’re willing to be turned on to any others. more ›

Seattlest has another podcasting event we want you to attend. We really want to hear you out there, apparently, so if you produce or know of a podcast that's Seattle-related in content or dialect you should post it in the comments or email Seattlest. Our all-seeing eye is currently sweeping the internets for some new additions to our links section and we want to make you famous. more ›

The eyes of the internet were on Seattle for three days over the weekend as the "unconference" Seattle’s tech elite cooked up raged on the waterfront. At Technorati the current number one search is for "Gnomedex." That in itself is a noteworthy event and we’ll be slightly saddened when "Tom Cruise" returns to the top slot sometime soon. Flickr has over 2000 images tagged with “gnomedex” and that number will probably get a lot larger as the slow and lazy get their pictures loaded and tagged (ours aren't up yet). more ›

We aren’t over the fact that Portland’s Willamette Weekly won a Pulitzer Prize last week. It’s just so damn impressive, we have to take a moment to dwell on it just a little bit more. The WW is putting on a very good show of playing the whole thing down--it takes a magnifying glass or Google to find any mention of it on their site. Seattlest hopes that somewhere in the background Nigel Jaquiss and company are whooping it up, though. more ›

Seattlest loves Vancouver. It's got a feel up there that's almost, you know, urban. We could sit here and list all of the things we like aboot our northern neighbor, but we're sure you have your favorite activities north of the border as well. Instead we'll just give you one extra reason to load up the car and dig out the passports this weekend: The vibrant Vancouver blogging community is throwing itself a little conference at UBC's downtown campus Saturday. more ›