The weekly Ist wrap-up is written by Seattlest editor Dan Gonsiorowski. After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist, DCist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this… Austinist read a book about Olympian Bode…

Although all the talk last week might have been about the layoffs over at DC-area-based AOL, the company has also been in the news for a major technical snafu. Last week, thousands of users of AOL’s Instant Messenger service (Including this DCist editor) found themselves blocked out of the service. Apparently the problem arose when regular users were included in a routine purging of unused screen names. Blocked users who attempted to log in received…