Just a scant 11 days after some great press, it looks like Kelly Ann Collins has shut down the Washington Socialites. No specific reason is given; Kelly Ann states that she’s shut down her blog “to free myself up for life’s next adventure.”

The Washington Socialites blog created both positive and negative buzz on the blogosphere and beyond. It landed Kelly Ann and former associate Windy on Z104’s Matthew Blades Program but also brought on a spate of plagiarism accusations — probably no fun for Kelly Ann.

So what does this mean for the D.C. blog scene? Will the Cleveland Park Men’s Club pick up the gossip slack, or will some other blog (Pygmalion in a Blanket?) swoop in? What of self-professed Kelly Ann fans the Athens Socialites, who were coming to D.C. this summer partly because of their Socialites fandom? Answers are sure to emerge quickly in the blog world. One thing’s for sure: the velvet rope scene so beloved by Kelly Ann and friends will continue, unabated. And we’re sure Kelly Ann wouldn’t want it any other way.

>> In a related note, Matthew Yglesias’ blog on politics is shutting down as he has been absorbed into a new blogging consortium brought to us by Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo.

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