As we reported last week, the Post has finally come around to the ugly reality that online comments are not all peaches and cream. And today the Post is inviting some notable bloggers to discuss how it can better handle comments on its increasing number of blogs and, by extension, explore the issue of online ethics and interactivity. The online chat starts at 1 p.m. and will feature Jeff Jarvis from Buzz Machine; Jane Hamsher…

We may not have as cool a city, but we now have a better hometown newspaper than our northern neighbor. Yes, it’s official — the Post rules supreme over the once veritable New York Times, or so says media junkie and academic Jay Rosen: Just one man’s opinion, but now is a good time to say it: The New York Times is not any longer — in my mind — the greatest newspaper in the…

A former employee of WashingtonPost.com is planning to launch a new local news website for the Washington area in early 2005. Mark Potts, a former reporter and new media editor for the Post, emailed Jay Rosen, author of the popular pressthink blog, some details about his idea:Our vision is for extremely local coverage, written almost entirely by the readers, using blogs, wikis and other formats to allow people to share community news and information with…