The -ist empire is expanding. It took a few blogger beatdowns to establish our presence, but we’re now officially the only real blog in College Park, Maryland.

Kidding. We totally got beat to that market.

This morning we were tipped off to a new blog that will give the same attention to College Park that we give to the District and its environs. The College Park Site, in its own words, is:

…a news and information site centered mainly around student life in College Park, MD at the University of Maryland. It is owned and operated by current students and recent alumni. Some people will call it a “blog,” others will call it a “weblog,” still more will call it “awesome” or “spectacular.”

Indeed they will. And we’re only now getting in touch with our corporate takeover lawyers. Soon College Park will merely be another online suburb of D.C., much like Arlington, Bethesda, Rockville, Baltimore, and West Virginia.

Seriously though, welcome to the neighborhood.

Update: We would be absolutely remiss in not mentioning the College Park blog of our very own former editor, Rob Goodspeed. Rethink College Park is the exact type of place you want to be if you want to explore and understand how the college-town-that-isn’t can become a little more, well, college towny.