Posts Tagged ‘blogs’

WTOP Picks D.C.’s Best Blog

City Desk may as well hang it up now; we didn't finish in the top three in WTOP's "best local blog" contest. The radio station has been running a "best of" poll all summer; last week, they declared Ichiban, in Bowie, to be the best sushi spot in the region.
The winner of the blog contest, [...]

Washington Post: How Many Blogs Are Too Many?

One of my favorite spots on washingtonpost.com is the blog directory. There you'll find the cob webs of the paper's site—all kinds of niche blogs, stale blogs, and this blog: "Friday Follies: Totally random polls."
Well, the Post is now thinking that its 90-odd blogs are just too much for one newspaper Web site.
Good thinkin'!
Check [...]

WaPo: No More “Freelance” Pay for Staffers

The belt keeps tightening around the newsroom budget of the Washington Post. Following a stretch that featured the killing of the Sunday Source and Book World, newsroom administration on Tuesday announced perhaps a bigger no-brainer: Staffers at the paper will no longer get paid extra for doing chats and blogs on washingtonpost.com.
Thus comes to [...]

Cry With Me

I just lost a seriously linked, seriously considered, seriously serious blog post about the ice problem in D.C. Poof. Gone. It had a photo. It had actual quotes from an actual DPW spokesperson. It had a point. While you are busy not caring, check out Fuck You Penguin: A Blog Where I Tell Cute Animals [...]

This Year-End List Will Make You Fat–Read It Anyway

Ok, so maybe PC Mag's list of 100 best blogs by itself won't make you fat, but it might inspire you to spend an extra hour or two in front of your computer, perusing these great blogs. And that's time that you could (should?) spend on a treadmill, digging spandex out of your crack and [...]

Help, Media Saturation

Two hundred and ten billion e-mails are sent each day.
There are more than 70 million blogs and 150 million Web sites today, expanding at a rate of approximately ten thousand an hour.
But are we really more informed? Are we getting a wider range of news?

Sexy Time at the City Paper

Dearest Readers,
Does Fuego/Frio leave you cold?
Have you found yourself wishing that Loose Lips meant something a little bawdier?
Is City Desk, for all its inimitable accomplishments, a bit...well, flaccid?
Then cower no longer 'neath the sterile quilt of sensual deprivation! The Sexist, our new sex & gender blog, is here to fulfill all your procreative blogging [...]