About once a week, an original story on MyBallard.com or one of our other neighborhood sites is covered by a newspaper or TV station. Like this story of people getting tattoos of Edith Macefield’s house (the 85 year-old woman who turned down $1 million to move, so developers built a 5-story building around her tiny home.) Within a few hours of posting the story, three TV stations were on it.

Of course, the vast majority of time, the local media companies who follow our original stories don’t bother to credit us, even in their online versions. That’s why we’re happy to see that SeattlePI.com linked this story directly from their home page — something they’re increasingly doing now that they’ve switched to a web-only operation.