The city’s newest waste of sidewalk space, Capitol Hill rag The Politico, launched today with some heavy self-congratulation from all the Post and Time dudes they lured over there with promises of riches. What’s the verdict? It’s, uh… a website! And some blogs! It’s kind of like the Post’s politics section, except NEWER and with laxer editing in the in-house blogs: MORE »

Top political reporters Jim VandeHei and John Harris are leaving the Washington Post to act as accomplices in yet another new media bullshit show. This one’s some sort of website that will revolutionize political reporting — with VIDEO and shit. Their writing will also appear in the dead tree Capitol Leader, the upcoming daily Roll Call-but-not-quite newspaper whose launch keeps being delayed while they bleed dry The Hill (and Cap File and now the Post). MORE »

Hotsoup, the new website from former AP hotshot Ron Fournier, Mack McKinnon, Joe Lockhart, and a couple other names you see everywhere in Washington but can’t ever figure out why, launched this week. We first told you about it back in July, and we’ve been shivering with anticipation ever since. What is HotSoup? It’s this thing, see… like a message board, sorta. Or Facebook + CNN Instant Polls. And a blog. Everything’s a blog now. But it’s attracted the attention of a lot of Washington Insiders. Everyone — and we mean everyone — is on it:

So go check it out! It’s all about social networking, and the grassroots, and shit like that! With Lance Armstrong! And every single link is Javascript and they don’t work half the time! But you can use it to play awesome arcade games. MORE »