Comments on: Where’s Berkeley’s hyperlocal site?

By: Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » InBerkeley.com

Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » InBerkeley.com — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:00:55 +0000

[...] with my friend Dave Winer. It’s called InBerkeley.com, and it’s a response to the need I expressed a few weeks ago for a hyperlocal site for Berkeley. It’s very much a work in progress, but please have a look [...]

By: Mason Lee

Mason Lee — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:03:39 +0000

Hmm. If you’re not interested in the “political axe”, what is so special about the city boundaries of “Berkeley”? North Oakland at Alcatraz and Shattuck is basically Berkeley. South Albany is basically Berkeley. Or to them, the nearby parts of Berkeley are basically Oakland, Albany, respectively. Culture doesn’t need city boundaries like our current political system does. Isn’t “The City of Berkeley” arbitrary for what you want? Would we be better served using a generic solution for finding local information? Semantic search?

By: Carol Snider

Carol Snider — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:20:54 +0000

I’ve posted quite a bit about growing up in Berkeley in the 60′s… but I have a feeling that’s not what you’re looking for!

(Here’s one of them: http://northwestladybug.blogspot.com/2007/10/smattering-of-memories-of-growing-up-in.html)

Carol

By: Lance Knobel

Lance Knobel — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:00:46 +0000

Kos: Is it the platform for activism that A Better Oakland provides that you’d kill for? What are the other elements that you’d like to see in a Berkeley version?

By: Subhankar Ray

Subhankar Ray — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:59:16 +0000

Hope, it will not be a shameless ad, but it is relevant to the discussion:

AAfter.com search provides links to local news, discussions. Just try to search berkeley, ca or 94701.

By: kos

kos — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:06:10 +0000

I would kill for a Berkeley version of A Better Oakland.

By: Tracey Taylor

Tracey Taylor — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:16:59 +0000

You won’t be surprised to hear that I too have been researching current news coverage of Berkeley and, as you say, there is little out there in terms of aggregated, online news.

The same is not true of Oakland which has spawned several websites and blogs covering local news, including A Better Oakland and Living in the O. And both Montclair and Alameda have several dedicated community blogs/sites.

You can add the East Bay Express to your list as well as the City of Berkeley email newsletters (which include regular consolidated news scans).

Also, the UC Journalism School has a citizen journalism project called the 510 Report, run by Cynthia Gorney, with a Berkeley feed.