WaPo Launches Local Blog Directory

This one caught me by surprise. The Washington Post is creating a directory of local blogs. You can list yours here. Hopefully, this will help more people discover our blogs. Before the folks at the Post's Web site embarked on this project, they had a little summit with area bloggers to get their thoughts. Most people seemed pretty enthusiastic about the idea; anything that drives traffic is good, right? The home page lists hot topics and shows a sample of recent postings. There are also "picks," though I don't know who does the picking. The site also offers some Post widgets you can add to your blog to get a feed of certain content, like the politics blog The Fix (thus letting you embed a blog in a blog!). Finally, there are a few resources, such as a link to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's legal guide for bloggers.