“Basically, what it came down to is that we just didn’t find the support of local advertisers,” says the site’s co-editor.

D.C. has decided that using blog comments as part of a new program to grade the performance of D.C. agencies just isn’t worth the trouble.

In a stunning exposé of the Internet folks who chronicle the ins and outs of the District’s diverse neighborhoods, the Post discovered that—gasp!—not every blog lives an eternal life.

It appears as if the Washington Post’s plans to name their new lady-blog “That’s What She Said” has run into a roadblock — namely, some other women, who had already named their blog that.

Naming a blog is an incredibly important thing. It’s the first thing that people see when they come to any given corner of the internet, and a bad name can really get your blog off to a rough start, regardless of the quality of the content found therein.

For those of us who follow local media commentary, today’s a big day — Erik Wemple, formerly of Washington City Paper and TBD (both outlets where he was not shy about criticizing his current employer), launched his Washington Post blog last night.

At 12:26 this afternoon, Arlington blogger of record ARLnow reported that a bomb threat had been called in to the office building at 1100 Wilson Blvd. in Rosslyn, which houses the main offices of WJLA, Politico and the remains of TBD. This was apparently news to local beat reporters working inside.

Friday afternoon, Steve Buttry, TBD’s Director of Community Engagement, emailed members of TBD’s Community Network to let them know about how the changes to TBD/WJLA will affect their relationship (full disclosure, my neighborhood blog is a member of the network). TBD will get rid of the “News Near You” feature currently on their website. They will begin to only link to content that is of interest to the metro region in general, instead of…

Hey, you know who hasn’t done something really stupid in at least a couple of weeks? The Washington R******s! What’s with the stars, you ask? Well, us media types apparently have to be really careful with how often we use the name of Washington’s National Football League franchise, since they informed the Washington Post that they weren’t allowed to use the name in the publication’s team blog. Yes, you read that correctly.

There’s a whole lot of hubbub clogging this editor’s Twitter feed this afternoon about some contest involving D.C. Twitter users, the Washington Post and some kind of vote. Usually, we tend to keep our hands out of such popularity contests, fully content with our unshakable status as the best damn whale cake-eatin’ blog in the District proper. But we couldn’t help but notice that DCist commenter favorite Spike Mendelsohn was one of the Post’s big…