InBerkeley comes to an end
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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Lance and Dave-
Thanks for all you’ve brought through InBerkeley. I’ll join in at Berkleyside – and wish Dave the best.
-Zach
Is this blog going to stay up.. and just not get updated? Or will everything be removed and therefore I should copy any thing I did before it disappears?
mary
It was only about a month ago that I became aware of InBerkeley. I thought it was a good idea, and hoped it would grow. I was even mulling over some ideas for articles to share. Supporting something such as this site was, I imagine, a lot of work. Earlier today I read Dave’s post on Scripting News about some of the challenges. So good luck to each of you as you move on to new endeavors, and thank you for the site.
@mary hodder
Mary — it’s going to stay right here as-is.
@Kcecelia
It wasn’t the work — I wasn’t doing that much on the site because my attention was focused elsewhere. Other than that I don’t have anything to add beyond what’s on scripting.com today.
Ok great.. thanks Dave! I think it’s a great idea to just keep it as is. Thanks!
Is the site going to fork and rename itself every time one of the participants has a disagreement over something?
@Graham Freeman
No, it isn’t. A fork implies two paths. InBerkeley’s path has ended. I’ve started another site, Berkeleyside.
Well, I just find it annoying that the sites seem to be about the same thing (hyperlocal Berkeley). You’ve developed a cadre of authors, and InBerkeley has, as you point out, 429 posts. Why create something new that isn’t really that different? If one of the two of you has “diverged,” let that person go off and do something on their own, but let InBerkeley continue to thrive. To say “InBerkeley comes to an end” implies, at least to me, that you are NOT encouraging current authors to continue to post. Why not just let it continue to live? The cost of a web site is only a buck or two a month, so it’s clearly not fiscal.
Jeez, everyone, lay off Dave and Lance. I’m sure they’d be happy to give you your subscription fee back. Oh, wait, there wasn’t one.
Demanding that people continue doing something that they don’t want to do anymore, and they have been doing for free…that’s a pretty amazing attitude.
So long, InBerkeley, we hardly knew ye.
Thank you, Dave and Lance. Best to you both.
Wow, very sad to see InBerkeley abruptly atrophy and splinter like this. I really appreciated your efforts to provide authoritative hyperlocal coverage that none of the local MSM outlets or upstarts (like SF Appeal or SFist, which have weak East Bay coverage) could ever touch. This just seems like a huge step backwards for our civic-minded, tech-savvy community. I’m sure you had your reasons, but please reconsider a relaunch at a later date if possible, and please accept guest submissions if offered. Heck, if you added a PayPal button, I’d gladly donate to support continued publication!