Sietsema responds, sorta Last week, we asked Tom for a clarification of the star-rating system. During his Dining Guide chat, he linked to his ratings code, which he posted this past Monday. One of the chatters had the same questions we had, “Have you ever considered a different system for your ratings? So often you will write a review where you rave about the food but mention something else (service, appearance) that you didn’t like,…

A note to all D.C. Bloggers: Feel like getting up early tomorrow? DCist will be over at Busboys and Poets right around sunrise (thank you, Daylight Saving Time), drinking all the free coffee Fox 5 is willing to pour out at their Blogapalooza. Hard as it may be for us to believe, apparently there are still some folks out in TV Land who just can’t quite get a grip on what this whole blogging thing…