While the Post has been busy throwing blogs at pretty much every issue out there (their most recent addition being Bench Conference, a legal blog), one blog seems to be losing momentum, and fast.

Though D.C. Wire, the Post’s blog on local politics, launched in early February, it just hasn’t seemed to gain much steam since. Posting has been sporadic, so much so that the blog has now gone almost three weeks without an update, prompting a frustrated reader to write the following on May 11:

…isn’t it about time the DC Wire post another blog entry? There is more than a little going on in our city and this entry sitting here since late April is absurd!

So why the dearth of content? It could be that Post reporters are legitimately too busy with their reporting duties to bother with crafting posts (one reporter called the whole thing an “annoyance”). Or that they are faced with the difficult job of balancing the required blogging snark with their journalistic objectivity and professionalism, never an easy task. Or, as the City Paper uncovered recently, that they simply aren’t getting paid anything extra to bother with blogging. Or maybe that the comments on virtually almost all of their posts are quickly hijacked by Ward 3 candidate Jonathan Rees’ partisans and detractors (one post featured 215 comments, the majority going back and forth between the Rees’ alleged supporters and his dedicated enemies).

Whatever the reason, D.C. Wire seems to be dying a slow death. We’d be sad to see them go — given the talent of their Metro writers, the blog’s potential was quite high from the get-go — but if they do, could they send some of their tips, leads and sources our way?