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Here is a good example of why you should read D.C. Baseball History every day:
April 4
1948 Prior to an exhibition game in Orlando between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Senators, A’s owner-manager Connie Mack, age 85, and Senators’s owner Clark Griffith, age 78, stage a footrace. After entering the field in an ambulance, Mack and [...]

Today, we discovered that a Turkish Web site has paid homage to USAToday.com’s fall 2012 redesign:
aksam.com.tr

usatoday.com

Same design firm or just lifted? Based on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, aksam.com.tr changed designs within the last few weeks.

Google Reader was wonderful. The feed reader made it easy to keep updated with RSS, share/like favorite posts internally (with other users) and externally (via blog widget). In my experience Google Reader gave blog updates a longer shelf life than Twitter does. Plus, it was easy to organize feeds via topic. Unfortunately, Google didn’t seem [...]

A long-time WWN reader passes along that Weber Shandwick is hosting a panel calledSocial Media in Sports and How It’s Changing The Game tomorrow evening. Some details:
Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Weber Shandwick Event Center
733 10th Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20001
We’ll explore topics such as the business incentive for a [...]

Launched in January, Ghosts of DC quickly became a must-read local blog. I recently asked the creator of Ghosts of DC, Tom, about why he is motivated to share the history of Washington and its surroundings, how he does it and of course, about the patron saint/badass of his blog, Officer Sprinkle.
WFY: You mention in [...]

UPDATE 08.05.2011: It appears this has been corrected. Sorry I didn’t get the screencaps…
Google Maps is imperfect. For example, for last year all of US 30 had an extra label – Quebec Route 366 (Map of the Week). Closer to home, I noticed another transcontinental route had a labeling problem while looking for local directions:
View [...]

Remember when Ted Leonsis was really excited about the Washington Capitals browser theme about 5 years ago? The Washington Nationals have caught up and now offer a browser theme as well.

Like all BrandThunder browser themes, there is a toolbar with links to the team and league sites, tickets, social media, headlines, etc. There doesn’t seem [...]

Yesterday, the database for this blog got corrupted. The hosting provider was able to get the database restored for the most part, but several posts from the last several days and a few hundred from summer 2004 were lost as were my drafts. A great post for tomorrow was blown away and I don’t know [...]

It happened again, somebody got the Zimmerman(n)s confused again. This time DCist:

That’s Jordan Zimmermann, a young pitcher who has not signed a six-year $100 million extension recently. He is not to be confused with Ryan Zimmerman, the third baseman who just inked that contract.
DCist corrected the image minutes after I got the screengrab. The Post [...]

This winter I discovered the Web site DCSki.com | @DCSki when I was looking for a “lost ski resort” off of I-66. It turned out to be Ski Cherokee in Linden, Va. I have since enjoyed the many reviews of mid-Atlantic resorts that DCSki.com offers. I decided to set up a Q&A with M. Scott [...]