What to do with a neighborhood blog when you move

We started this blog about our neighborhood for a few reasons:

1. To share the good stuff we found on our home turf
2. To inspire more good stuff
   
3. To call out the bad stuff in the area
   
4. To inspire changing or eliminating the bad stuff
5. To weigh in on life and issues from the neighborhood's perspective

For the most part, we've been happy with the results. While we don't presume to have been the final word on anything we've written about over the past year, we do like to think we've turned a lot of people onto the best things about Uptown while protecting a few of you from the worst.

A few hundred people drop through the blog each week so there must be some little bit of value -- though the competition from reading work e-mail isn't very significant, of course. But now we're moving to Capitol Hill. What do we with our neighborhood blog?

Pack it up and take it with us?
Moving the blog to our new neighborhood is one option. On the plus side, all the 'timeless' posts on interesting stuff (yeah, 'all' of them!) would come with us and have an attachment to our new neighboorhod. On the technical side, I don't know how easy it would be to completely move a new Blogger URL but it would likely be easy enough to simply re-name the blog. Still, moving the thing with us seems disruptive -- a future full of oddly labeled Google links and cross-links from other blogs that need to be updated with new info.

Shut it down
Another option is to stop posting and just leave the blog out there drifting in space for the occasional visitor from a Google search. This seems to be the way of the old Web, especially -- full of ghost pages that just suddenly stopped being updated.

Pass it on
Finally, we could hand off the pages and posts to a new editor so the neighborhood voice continues. If there were a more sizeable inheritance, we would be pushing more for this option but, in reality, there's not much there there. Still, if somebody's interested, you know where to find us. Until the end of this week, at least.

-- j