Do your homework early. Wikipedia is going dark on Wednesday as part of a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. more ›

As we know all too well, the District is a divided city. Those divisions exist even in the world of bits and bytes, unfortunately, with access to broadband services reaching 97 percent in Ward 3 while barely hitting the 40 percent mark in some communities east of the Anacostia River. Last week, the city started trying to do something about that. more ›

It's encouraging to see that the Post has decided to extend its local coverage more digital inches on its national homepage. more ›

Well, I hate to say I told you so. more ›

Yesterday, we reported on one of the most exciting additions to the District's Twittersphere -- Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8). more ›

I can find no reason to believe that this won't be one of the greatest things ever. more ›

Last week, we theorized that, given the data, our favorite Post columnist who hates Twitter despite having a Twitter account would probably be best suited to a job anywhere but New York or Los Angeles. Or maybe not! more ›

Who better than the man behind all those theories about the "high bohemians" to tell us where the myopic little twits are? more ›

Google sure has made some controversial choices over the last few weeks, but here's one we can fully get behind. more ›

This morning, the D.C. Council launched a shiny, brand new and significantly more user-friendly website. more ›

Amtrak has announced a "major expansion" of its on-board Wi-Fi service, moving it beyond the Acela train and on to a number of more widely used and affordable alternatives. more ›

Protesting appears to be all the rage these days. That said, we can't say we're surprised that a demonstration has been planned this afternoon aimed at protecting the public's inalienable right to an unchanged Google Reader. more ›

As we've recently reported, Capital Bikeshare is expanding, with new stations planned for the District and Arlington. (Alexandria is even getting in on the act!) And the locations of the new stations are to be picked by a select group: everyone. more ›

Alright, I'll admit it. I wasn't maniacally refreshing the Washington Times website early this morning. Fortunately, the folks over at SocialStudiesDC were, as they were able to catch this headline gaffe of massive proportions. more ›

Right now, the District's firefighters are responding to the scene of a motor vehicle accident at North Capitol Street and New York Avenue NE. The accident involved a Metrobus and injured at least six people. Of course, if you're only following the official D.C. Fire and EMS Twitter feed -- previously the city's go-to source for this kind of breaking information -- you had no idea. more ›

So says the Beeb, which notes that Washingtonians should now have "fully restored" service on however many devices they haven't been able to obsessively tap on of late. more ›

No, really, officials from the D.C. Lottery now say they are finally ready to answer your questions about the intranet gaming system which the D.C. Council quietly and controversially approved earlier this year. more ›

If you want a chance to replicate your best memories of long nights spent boozing at the Hawk 'n' Dove at home, you've got 15 minutes to mosey on over to the online auction and pick up your favorite piece of Stuart Long's legacy. Go, go, go! more ›

This morning, many Washingtonians were pretty surprised to get some big, breaking news from The Onion's Twitter feed. more ›

Hey, we're not the only ones enthralled with the adventures of Pat Collins. A recent Pew survey shows that television news remains the way that most people get their local news. more ›

After completion of a pilot program which included 150,000 customers, WMATA announced today that all riders will now be able to reload their SmarTrip balance online. more ›

* And of course, by a "large majority of people," I mean "a large majority of Washington Times readers -- a sizable number of which are people who were encouraged to stuff the ballot by people who don't live in the District of Columbia, but really like playing online poker -- approve of legalizing online poker." more ›

In yet the latest sign that newspapers are slowly going the way of the buffalo, George Washington University has put an end to its Collegiate Readership Program, in which students got free daily delivery of the The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today. more ›

Mayor and DCist commenter Vince Gray has never been afraid to dive headfirst into the (occasionally shallow) social media pool. So it's hardly surprising that the man who is using the dedication of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial as an excuse to drive hard to the hoop for voting rights is asking Facebook and Twitter users to join in. But we would have figured that a simple hashtag would have sufficed. more ›

D.C. residents angry about the lack of public input involved in the legalization of online gaming will have to wait longer to publicly vent such frustrations -- the D.C. Lottery and city officials will postpone a slate of ward-by-ward meetings in an effort to “reach the largest number of D.C. residents.” more ›

Remember Zach Houchins? He's the Nationals draft pick who, after being selected in the 15th round by the team, had to delete his Twitter account after posting some revoltingly vulgar racial epithets to his long-since-deleted Twitter account. more ›

Being the documenter of as much local political minutiae as possible, we couldn't help but notice a new image of the Mayor greeting us at the top of the District's official website this morning. more ›