Okay, I thought it was cool when the Washington Post started adding blogs like Howard Kurtz’s Media Notes Extra to its Web site. I liked it when the Post started putting Technorati windows in each of its online stories so readers could see “Who’s Blogging?” I even liked it when the Post put Andrew Sullivan’s blog on its opinion site, providing Sullivan with a new audience for his observations on the phallic shape of certain weather events.

But I think the Post is getting out of control with the reader interactivity. Now the Post is asking readers to give Dana Milbank story ideas:

What scenes of Washington politics would you like Dana Milbank to write about? E-mail your suggestions of people, places or events — along with your name and hometown to [email protected].

Was this after the editors rejected the replace-a-columnist auction, or did they pick this over letting the Nationals’ outfielders take turns writing for Dan Froomkin? And what was wrong with those ideas?