Seattle is at the forefront of a wave of independent, local online news and information. It's fun to watch the trends. Political and news online wonkfest Publicola today announced they are hiring an advertising rep.

We'll go them one better. We hired an ad rep on Friday. Meet Eric Kelly eric@instiads.com

Eric will be leading the way in ad sales on the Neighborlogs network of neighborhood news blogs. Drop him a line today if you'd like to have your message associated with truly local community news and information. Eric can get you hooked up across the Neighborlogs network, one any of the sites utilizing our services like SeattlePostGlobe.org or TheSunbreak.com and any of our partner sites.