Nov 22, 2004
DCist Featured in Washingtonian
This website was featured in Washingtonian magazine’s “Best of Washington” feature in their December edition, now available at newsstands. Describing us as collectors of “tidbits of political and cultural arcana,” they mention our posts on Keri Strug’s armoire and our obituary of Au Pied du Cochon. Other D.C. blogs mentioned include food message board Chowhound, D.C. Foodies, Capitalweather.com, Why.i.hate.dc, ScrappleFace, and political bloggers Duncan Black of Eschaton, Andrew Sullivan. Interestingly, Washingtontonian seems to have…
Aug 20, 2004
Blogging the Weather
Last Sunday’s Post profiled local site CapitalWeather.com, the first D.C. weather blog:While an earlier generation of “weather weenies” will be stuck in front of the TV, Samenow will not be idle. No, a storm hits and he drives toward it, from his apartment in Van Ness to the maelstrom in Virginia, to collect evidence for his weather blog. He checks out Doppler radar, dew points, jet stream winds, satellite images, vorticity maps and convective parameters,…