The District is a place for the ambitious, the intelligent and the people who don't seem to respect their matrimonial bonds. more ›

One Ward 4 D.C. Council candidate and a few local websites joined in a day-long protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act by blacking out his campaign website for the day. more ›

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

If George Orwell and Steve Jobs joined forces, they likely would have come up iWatch, the new anti-terrorism initiative rolled out this week by the Metropolitan Police Department. more ›

In one of DCist's earliest jazz posts, we lamented that local jazz artists and venues were lagging behind other parts of the D.C. arts scene in getting information on the internet. Things have changed for the better during the past four years. In 2010, CapitalBop emerged as a welcome addition to the District's jazz community. The site is as much a venture in advocacy and activism for this music as it is a foray into jazz journalism, making it as comprehensive an online resource as this city has ever had. more ›

Is this the best website in the city? Simple design, topical, hilarious, perfect for afternoon time-killing: if we're being honest, we can only think of a but a few that would really give How To Use An Escalator In DC a run for its money. Go, click, laugh. more ›

Next week. That's when TBD -- which is focusing all efforts on pulling up an ergonomic rocking chair to the stiff-backed Washingtonian media table -- will make its much-hyped, multi-platform, eagerly-anticipated launch. So what can you expect from this thing that you've been hearing about for what feels like forever? more ›

We noticed for the first time today that popular 9th Street bar and live music venue DC9 has totally redesigned its web site. The previous iteration looked a lot like the sites of sister venues Rock and Roll Hotel and The Red and the Black, but now, it's got a cleaner, easier-to-read layout, which booking manager Steve Lambert said was meant to "focus more on the artists and events we have coming through." The change is certainly welcome by those of us who regularly consult the web site to discover what shows have been added to the schedule, but we'll admit the all-white background and Facebook-esque aesthetics are slightly jarring when considering the actual dark ambiance of the bar. We'll also kinda miss seeing bartender and RnR manager KT Robeson's smiling face every time we land on the home page. more ›

On the eve of last night's Top Chef season finale, Bryan Voltaggio told DCist to look out for plans for a collaborative project with his brother Michael. Just hours before the show's airing, which featured the brothers as two of the three finalists, Bryan told Washington Post food chatters that while no new restaurants are in the works, fans could check out a new web site, www.voltaggiobrothers.com, to see what was in the pipeline. more ›

The D.C. Public Library launched a redesigned web site today, and it appears to a substantial upgrade from its previous version. Check it out for yourself at www.dclibrary.org. more ›

In another sign of how the Washington Post is moving to merge its print and online versions, washingtonpost.com changed its logo today to the same one that sits atop the regular newspaper. The old web site logo has been scuttled in favor of reinforcing the Post brand, a decision that strikes us as both wise and long overdue. Fishbowl DC has the internal memo:

This recognizes what we all have long known: washingtonpost.com is very much part of The Washington Post, complementary and in some ways distinct, but an absolutely central part of who we are. As we rethink how we present our journalism--whether it emanates from the paper or from the web--we wanted to signal that clearly to all our audiences.

As promised, WMATA launched a redesigned web site today, accessible either from MetroOpensDoors.com or www.wmata.com. It's certainly a step in the right direction as far as giving Metro the appearance of being a part of the 21st century goes, though for longtime Wmata.com users, it'll take some getting used to. more ›

Last month we got excited that the D.C. Council's famously 1997-era web site was finally being redesigned, and today we noticed that the new site is now live. Compare what it looks like now to what it looked like before. Much better, right? more ›

We wouldn't have believed it had the City Paper's Mike DeBonis not posted photographic evidence. The D.C. Council has apparently finally redesigned its hopelessly out of date, circa 1997 web site, complete with screaming hot blue and pink color scheme and blinking text headlines (pictured right). What has long been the laughing stock of the local government web world should soon actually look pretty good. more ›

Ever been frustrated trying to locate the local news stories on the Examiner web site? OK, maybe that's just us, since it's our job to read them. But if you had ever tried it, you would have discovered that you have to first go to the "News" section, and then make sure to select "Local News" in the drop down menu, as opposed to the tauntingly named "District of Columbia" section, which contained national politics stories. So we were sure glad to get the word from the Examiner newsroom this morning that they've launched a brand new site, dcexaminer.com, which puts the local Examiner news stories right on the home page. The top menu bar has been simplified and made larger, and so far we've found the whole thing considerably easier to navigate. more ›