An outsider's flawed view of Silicon Valley

Oy, the echo chamber!

This tempest in a teapot started when the New York Times wrote a rather comical article on how Seattle is the new silicon valley:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/technology/08nation.html

The entrepreneur blogger at the Seattle PI picked this up, and started a debate:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/131378.a...

In response to this debate, Kelman wrote a long post enumerating the ways that he thought Seattle was better than the valley:

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2008/02/the_next_silicon_valley....

And now, we have this.

That's exactly what I imagine SV looking like.