I just added a group for Bloggers in the Washington, D.C. area on Upcoming.
Democracy in Online Journalism
Now that I am semi-employed, I have had time to catch up on projects and reading that I had been neglecting. This means that not only have I been reading quite a bit more, I’ve finally got around the trying to catch up on my Bloglines subscriptions. Reading through posts from the past couple months […]
Anatomy of a Good Blog Post
This is something I wrote back in 2004. I am not sure if it ever made it up on the blog, but I found it and thought it was worth re-posting. These rules most apply to the sort of civic and news blogs I have been involved with — Arborupdate and DCist — and obviously […]
DCist Happy Hour
We threw together a Veterans’ Day Happy Hour for this Friday at a little bar near Foggy Bottom called 51st State. We’ll be upstairs starting at 6:00 p.m. — stop by!
What’s a blog?
I’ve been asked that question quite a bit. Sounds like in the U.K. at least, blogs have quite a way to go: “Our research not only shows that there is no buzz about blogging and podcasting outside of our media industry bubble, but also that people have no understanding of what the words mean,” Carter […]
Guide to Comments
See Lifehacker’s guide to weblog comments. Read and obey!
Farked!
DCist was linked to today by the popular site Fark for our post on beer pong ending at Dr. Dremo’s. The link just about tripled our usual traffic – far more of a bump than we’ve seen from any single hit previously, including Wonkette.