May 01, 2006
Express Launches New Blog
The Post has a blog for pretty much everything, the City Paper recently kicked off their own blog, and now the Express is joining the fold. Friend and former DCist editor Mike Grass — who was wooed away from us last year by the Express — has been putting his blogging talents to the test with a new blog launching this Wednesday, FreeRide. The blog will feature news, arts, music, food and sports from a…
Mar 27, 2006
City Paper Launches Blog
It was just a few weeks back that the Washington City Paper completed a long overdue overhaul to their website, and now they have followed many a mainstream media mainstay before them and jumped on the blogging bandwagon. It wasn’t long ago that the CPers were complaining about the prospect; in a March 17th piece on Washington Post blogging requirements without additional pay, City Paper editor Erik Wemple noted, “Full disclosure: The Washington City Paper…
Mar 26, 2006
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse
Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah’s Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. Shanghaiist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named “Snatch” and Mike Tyson is scheduled to…
Mar 24, 2006
Breaking News: Domenech Resigns
In a post just published at the post.blog, Jim Brady, WashingtonPost.com’s Executive Editor, announced that Ben Domenech, who on Tuesday launched a conservative blog on the site, has resigned his position. His resignation comes on the heels of multiple accusations of plagiarism. Since his debut earlier this week, both Domenech and the Post had come under fire for the content of the blog and the qualifications of its author. But as the week went on,…
Mar 22, 2006
Post Critics Seeing Red
The liberal blogosphere is atwitter over the recent debut of Red America, a blog unabashedly aimed at educating us decadent coastal types on the finer points of mid-American wisdom. The general point of view among the technorati is that the blog, authored by Ben Domenech, is a response to criticism the Post has received over a perceived liberal bias, specifically in the blog written by Post journalist Dan Froomkin. Froomkin’s White House Briefing focuses on…