Click on over to www.washingtonpost.com/local to take a look at the new Washingtonpost.com ‘Local’ homepage, which launched in Beta at 4 p.m. this afternoon. Surprisingly enough, the design actually does look significantly different from the regular home page, a far cry from previous WaPo attempts to differentiate between the local and national editions of the paper by offering minor, barely noticeable differences for online readers with local IP addresses. Among the new features are…

In another sign of how the Washington Post is moving to merge its print and online versions, washingtonpost.com changed its logo today to the same one that sits atop the regular newspaper. The old web site logo has been scuttled in favor of reinforcing the Post brand, a decision that strikes us as both wise and long overdue. Fishbowl DC has the internal memo:This recognizes what we all have long known: washingtonpost.com is very…

DCist has been requiring comment registration as a spam-prevention measure for quite some time now, so hopefully our readers won’t be too surprised to learn that washingtonpost.com will begin requiring it on every one of their blogs sometime next week. Steven Goff first mentioned it on his Soccer Insider blog today, and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive spokesperson Molly Gannon tells us that while registration has already been required in order to comment on news stories on the…

Big news in the D.C. blogosphere! Jason Samenow of our favorite independent D.C. weather blog, CapitalWeather.com, just posted an announcement that his web site has been bought by partnered up with the washingtonpost.com. After nearly four years operating as an independent Web site, we are thrilled to announce that we will join washingtonpost.com tomorrow, January 8. CapitalWeather.com will officially become washingtonpost.com’s “Capital Weather Gang” blog. As soon as our area on washingtonpost.com launches, CapitalWeather.com will…