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InBerkeley.com is an effort by Lance Knobel and Dave Winer to establish a hyperlocal site for Berkeley. We don’t aim to be comprehensive (yet), but we want to show the extraordinary diversity of people, issues, events, food and environment in our city on the Bay. You can read Dave’s initial statement of purpose.
Dave pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software. He is a former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor’s in Mathematics from Tulane University and has lived in Berkeley since 2006.
Lance has had a varied, eclectic international career at the intersection of business, geopolitics and technology. He moved to England many years ago to do graduate work at Oxford and ended up staying in Europe for 27 years. He was Editor-in-Chief of World Link, the magazine of the World Economic Forum, and he was director of the program of the Forum’s famous Davos summit meeting. He was an advisor in Tony Blair’s Strategy Unit looking at long-range challenges for the UK. Since moving to Berkeley in 2005 he has been involved in a number of strategy advisory companies.
If you want to contribute to InBerkeley.com or just have some ideas you want to share, please let us know. You can contact Dave and Lance.
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check out successful hyperlocal site http://www.baristanet.com mentioned in Jeff Jarvis’s new book WWGD
I’d love to help contribute! I recently (re)started my blog at abetriesagain.blogspot.com, but it’s not very Berkeley focused. I’ve lived in Berkeley for a little over a year, but I was also born here, so I’ve always felt a connection to the place.
I think this is a great idea!
Yes: I am also interested in supporting and contributing to this project!
I especially like the idea of “localisation”. I have said — for years already — that the world is PHLAT (pretty hyper, local and topical).
I think there are plenty of opportunities to create a large number of overlapping communities, each contributing to and supporting each other.
I look forward to building such communities that are guided by agreed upon principles (such as transparency and open participation) — and I commend you on taking a first step in this direction!
I’ve have a pent up demand for this. I learn more local news, in more detail, and quicker from talking to my neighbors than I do from the local newspapers. I hope this can magnify the neighbor news I already get.
I was looking to hyper-local sites like everyblock.com to eventually serve Berkeley, but this will get us there sooner and be a lot more focused.
Some things I’d like to see are the integration of an interactive calendar of events (upcoming + local papers’ event previews and reviews), interactive local business reviews (yelp + chowhound + local papers), classifieds (craigslist + others).
Great to see someone get this started, and I agree, there’s got to be pent up demand, as well as supply for modest contributors looking for something to aggregate localized information.
i love this website. do you have guest contributors? do you want tips/suggestions from community members? how about doing something on the new mural (and its creators) on the side of mi tierra – san pablo and addison? peace, anisha
Anisha, we love tips and suggestions. We’re also trying to expand our network of contributors. If you want to write something about the Mi Tierra mural, let me know.
I just found this blog, I just moved to Berkeley. I want to know everything about Berkeley and will be following your blog.
You mention secret paths. How can I find secret paths? I love to walk on secret paths.
Tree – Re: “secret paths”, the single, best resource is the map from the Berkeley Path Wanderer’s Assoc at http://www.berkeleypaths.org/mapsandmore/map.htm. You can also find it at many local stores.
You might want to install the Wordpress plugin: “Sociable.” It allows people to easily link to your posts from Facebook, Myspace, etc. etc. (they have about 30 different social web sites you can add), as well as icons to convert a post into PDF files, print a post, etc.
Thanks for the suggestion, Lee. I’ll look into Sociable.
My husband told me about InBerkeley. We’re thrilled that you have created local news content, reporting on issues in ways which may differ from The Planet. I am constantly trying to find news about Berkeley public schools: trends in enrollment, demographics, hirings & layoffs, school violence; coverage of pilot studies, instructional innovations, volunteerism; profiles of principals, janitors, art teachers … pretty much any topic addressing our public schools. If it’s difficult for you to develop content on this subject matter, perhaps I could contribute pieces occasionally.