To celebrate their first birthday, SeattlePI.com did a nice round-up of a bunch of local online news start-ups, including the Cola. They also take note of neighborhood heavyweights like West Seattle Blog , InvestigateWest (a couple of ex-PI reporters who do long-form investigative journalism and then sell the stories), and Crosscut and their "persuadable center" journalism model.

Here's some of what they say about us:

How's it going? It has four full-time employees and a large group of freelance "nerds." The site hit 10,000 unique daily visitors in February.

PubliCola started humbly enough last January, when "Seattle's news elixir" was little more than [Editor Josh] Feit and his laptop covering state politics after a couple of notable reporters—including the Seattle Times' David Postman—left Olympia.

But the site was never just about politics. An army of "nerds," paid freelance writers covering beats as diverse as bars, real estate and tech, supplement the political coverage.