The next neighborhood blogging adventure

Some adventures last forever. Some last 6 months. Way back in October, I was excited to announce that I was setting out to try something new: building a national network of neighborhood blogs like CHS. I worked to take MyZip.net from an idea to a working system with three elements that still make me smile:

1. I paid people to write.
2. I talked neighborhood blogging all day long.
3. I worked with two great people to try to make it all happen. (Thanks Nate and Liz)
   

MyZip paid people to blog about their neighborhoods. But it was more than that. We turned people into neighborhood bloggers. In the process, I got a catbird seat to enjoy some of the best (and, yes, some of the not so best) place blogging... ever! The company I was working for -- Marchex -- recently made a business decision to shut down MyZip. I can't say more about the decision but I can say the end of MyZip meant my end at Marchex. The MyZip bloggers are getting paid one last time. The MyZip code of conduct is being retired. The sites like 98101.net and 89509.net are going away soon. Loose ends are being wrapped up. I'm not sure what's next for me. But I'm happy to say that neighborhood blogging lives on.