InBerkeley

When we started InBerkeley in June this year, Dave and Lance had the idea of a site where the things that puzzled us, excited us or provoked our curiosity about our city could find a home. Where our fellow Berkeleyites could also write, or send in photos, or respond to the things we wrote about.

We’ve had 429 posts since then on a bewildering variety of topics, and over 1,500 comments. Thank you to everyone who has been reading and contributing.

But our interests in the site have diverged. We’re going to leave InBerkeley exactly as it stands. Lance is starting a new site, Berkeleyside. He hopes readers, writers and commenters will follow what develops there with as much enthusiasm as they had here. You can subscribe to Berkeleyside’s feed or follow it on Twitter as well.

In a post on scripting.com, Dave said: “Other projects are consuming more of my time. And in the last couple of months, family stuff has taken me away from Berkeley, and I’m not at all sure where my attention will be drawn in the future. So a big part of my decision to move on is personal.”

He goes on to explain what he learned about hyperlocal from the InBerkeley experiment, and wishes Lance well, and may even contribute to the new site.

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