Yes, we are a blog commenting on articles about blogs, but we haven’t yet had our coffee this morning and we’re feeling a little meta. Plus, it’s a slow Sunday in the blogosphere.

The Post apparently decided that this weekend was the weekend to tell everyone how to blog and where a couple good blogs are, despite the fact that a) they’re a newspaper and b) they obviously don’t know where the good blogs are, because they somehow failed to mention DCist! But we’re not bitter or anything … (But we are quite grateful of course for Leslie Walker’s mention of us in the Post’s Web Watch column when we officially launched back in September.)

First up is a Sunday Source article, “How to Start a Winning Blog.” Their insightful tips? 1. Register with Blogger or Typepad. 2. Write stuff. 3. Write stuff a lot. 4. Write stuff that is good. Well, folks, that’s it. The blogging secret is out. We may as well throw our hat in the ring now because all the plebians are going to be getting up in our grill.

The second article, published in the Travel section, is more specific and informative: “In Blog We Trust?,” a piece about navigating the various travel blogs that offer up everything from advice on airfare bargain hunting to where to find a bagel shop in Spain. The author cautions, however, that “the great majority of bloggers are amateurs and, more often than not, training tells,” and “[y]ou may happen upon a nugget of wisdom after only a few minutes’ search, but you may also feel like you’ve fallen into a bottomless, inane abyss where someone blathers in less-than-fascinating detail about how hung over she was in Barcelona — without even revealing which of the latest hip bars she visited to contract the condition.” Which is code for don’t you dare disregard the professional journalists who actually know what they’re talking about, or else you will fall into great peril and be led astray by these “blogger” people.

Even though we think the Post may seem to approach blogs like some sort of bizarre and possibly flesh-eating specimen in a petri dish, at least they’re writing about them! At that, we think, is a pretty good thing.