I hadn’t blogged about the visit to Mad River in February by The Situation of MTV’s scummy series Jersey Shore yet, but decided I finally would break down and do so – with a twist.

It was tweeted all over town early last week that The Situation, a.k.a. Michael Sorrentino, would be in town at Mad River on Charles Street as a guest bartender on the evening of February 11. Sam Sessa of the Baltimore Sun wrote an article about it this week and also blogged about it.

I had heard about the douchebag badge on Foursquare awhile back but hadn’t given much thought to it. At the time I first heard of it, I thought it required a check-in at 3 venues with the douchebag tag. I’m thinking it may only take one check-in now based on recent reading.

This means a lot of people might be earning the douchebag badge on February 11 since Mad River is tagged with that term. In fact, I did a search and discovered four separate venues in Baltimore with the tag of douchebag. They are Howl at the Moon, Magerks, Mad River, and Bay Cafe.

Have you already earned that badge visiting one or multiple locations already tagged with the term here in town? If so, be sure to tell us about it in the comments.

Also, be sure to tell us what other venues think are deserving of that tag. You can also tell us if you think any of the listed places above are undeserving of that tag. Of course, now that I mentioned it, people might start adding the tag randomly or on places they don’t like. Some people have even added tags in other cities to venues to game the system to get the karaoke or gym badges. I’m not sure someone would voluntarily do that for the douchebag badge, however.

I will be giving away a Google Wave nomination (invitation) to the first 9 people to post a comment on this post. You must put the email address you want the nomination sent to in the email field on the comment. Comments will be closed after the first 9 replies.

Just a note: a nomination for Google Wave is not like a Gmail invitation. It is not always an instantaneous thing. Lately they have been going through pretty quickly, but they have been known to take a couple of days before.

We were originally inspired by this Mashable post, so we initially tried this yesterday. The first day was so successful that we’re going to keep doing it.

Click here to see our Tuesday News Wave or search for “with:public Inside Charm City” in your Google Wave search box.

You need to already have Google Wave to participate. (We don’t have any invitations to give out right now.)

Please join the discussion and let us know your opinion on today’s news items. We’ve included a handful of things to talk about but we also want the wave to take the direction you want it. So, bring up your own news topics as well.

Let us know what you think and be sure to add your friends on Wave to our public wave.

Inspired by this Mashable post, we’re trying something new today.

Click here to see our Monday Morning News Wave or search for “with:public Inside Charm City” in your Google Wave search box.

You need to already have Google Wave to participate. (We don’t have any invitations to give out right now.)

Please join the discussion and let us know your opinion on today’s news items. We’ve included a handful of things to talk about but we also want the wave to take the direction you want it. So, bring up your own news topics as well.

Let us know what you think and be sure to add your friends on Wave to our public wave.

WBAL.com reports on a Daily Record report

Reporters covering Mayor Sheila Dixon’s theft trial have been twittering away from the courtroom all week long.

But no more.

The Daily Record reports Judge Dennis Sweeney is threatening to eject any reporter who lets his fingers do the talking while court is in session.