From MattDeLuca’s Twitter Feed: Taking over @famousdc ‘s world HQ as Foursquare mayor ranks as one of my greatest accomplishments. No. I’m not @famousdc FamousDC on FourSquare

August is so close we can smell it. Happy Monday. Let’s rock this week.

Join the fun on Facebook & Twitter H/T – Brightest Young Things   Washingtonian has good quake round up here.

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WaPo, Bloomberg get more intimate

Mad Men (yes, the TV show on AMC) has taken to Facebook to lobby against AT&T. Let’s review: a TV show is lobbying on a social network to keep a television channel on AT&T. And we still don’t have hoverboards. Mad Men AT&T customers: AT&T is threatening to drop AMC, …

POLITICO: Abused staffers net nearly $1M a year

C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman takes his morning coffee Famous. We hope Mr. Extreme continues to keep his coffee classy. We’re sure that he has no idea what we had to go through to get our gift over to C-SPAN world headquarters.

Maybe we’re all drawn to DC (and politics) because you never know what tomorrow will bring. And we all get to work and play right in the middle of it. May 18, 2009: July 11, 2010: White House: Republicans Could Win Control of House WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans could win …

Our “Day in the Life” posts took off last week and promoted one reader to ask why we left off a “Day in the Life of a Reporter … During Recess” report. If any journos out there are so inclined to shed some sunlight into their recess agendas, please email …

Eliza Krigman Tech Daily Dose:  Microsoft’s Ballmer: We’re ‘Cirrus’ About Cloud Computing’s Potential Can we use a Tech Daily Dose headline to pivot to a Big Pun video? Yes We Can!