First Look: Dan Gillmor and Backfence

Dan has folded Bayosphere into Backfence, a community “information network” based in DC, and moved his blog there:

[from Welcome to Backfence]

The new site will reflect Backfence’s hyperlocal style much more than mine, though as noted I’ll continue to blog here and do everything I can to make this transition a smooth one. I will offer my advice to Susan DeFife, Mark Potts and colleagues at Backfence, and I hope you will, too. But they will make the final decisions.

Backfence is about local news and information, and we hope you’ll be part of that more local conversation. For example: Post your views about local issues. Share with us your favorite place in the area to have a burger, or your tip on a good local plumber. Let everyone know about a community event you’re putting on-and then tell everybody (don’t forget photos!) how it went.

So I looked, and Backfence actuallly is up and running for Reston VA, where I “live” (I am gone a lot). Here’s a news story about the repairs going on at a footbridge near me, at Lake Anne. I posted a comment:

I am a great fan of the hyperlocal movement, and I am happy that Dan’s foray into that with Bayosphere is being consolidated into something that seems to have some real forward momentum.