The last time you heard from us here at the Office of the SFist Ombudsman, we noted our report was "largely uninteresting. . . . The site coughs up cool new stuff; our readers respond with wit, insight, sometimes a little love, and the occasional correction." What's become impossible to ignore over time is that this is pretty much the story every month. Which is probably as it should be, perhaps a bit to......

There's a story -- a funny accident of history, actually -- that explains why there is always a copy of the latest New York Review of Books on the shelf next to the commode here at the Office of the SFist Ombudsman, but we focus instead a bit of text that appears on the contents page of every Review (one of the most earnest content engines in the country). The text reads: "Published 20......

Last things first: When we signed off with a hearty "Happy SFisting" last month, we didn't think we were conjuring up a column, but it looks like that's what's happened. We're feeling a little amazed by our own power, and wondering if we could pull off the same trick twice... Now, what to say between here and the magical final words? Things have grown a bit dimmer here in the Office of the SFist......

It is with a sigh and a fair bit of surprise that the Office of the SFist Ombudsman reports the following: Our site has grown predictable. April was yet another month in which a MUNI post generated the most comments. April saw the continued explosion of food-related posts, reflecting our Area's preoccupation with things that go in our mouths. April brought the return of a high frequency of baseball posts. And April saw us......

Another month has come and gone, so it's time for another navel-gazing dispatch from the Office of the SFist Ombudsman. Our contributors continue to keep our job pretty simple: None of them have posted anything that's incurred serious wrath from the readership. (We dream of the day when the Ombudsman alarm sounds because we've inadvertently managed to enrage one of our fair city's various communities -- perhaps the Chinese-American community, or the LGBT community, or......

February saw a hell of a lot of hoo-haw in the newly relabeled and newly sticking-up-for-itself "mainstream media" about blogs and bloggers. The thing that struck us most here at the Office of the SFist Ombudsman is how much of the public conversation was (and continues to be) centered around blogs' intrinsic weaknesses, and whether those weaknesses are actually weaknesses. That's one way to frame the conversation, but ain't it more interesting to talk......

Here at the Office of the SFist Ombudsman, we keep charge of our readers' trust. (Stop by and we'll show you the little newspaper-lined cage we've got it in.) Thus it falls to us, when circumstances warrant, to call bullshit on one of our site contributors. And so this past weekend, following the dissolution of the first-ever SFist (Almost)-All-Staff Throwdown, we cornered the Essefficist, who spent many weeks away from his post, only to......