A directory of bay area community sites and bloggers

Listings organized by category/beat

SFist

Launched in August of 2004, SFist is the most popular local blog in the Bay Area. It has posts ranging from in-depth features to insightful interviews, to bona-fide scoops. Its staff is as eclectic as the city they love. SFist has been mentioned by the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN's Wolf Blitzer, and several local media outlets. It was named the Best Local Blog by SF Weekly and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. SF Weekly said the site is "so distracting that it keeps us from doing any work," and that the site has its "nose in just about every nook and cranny of San Francisco." The Guardian said that SFist was "blog heaven" for their readers and the Chronicle is thankful for SFist and its "constant flow of information." San Francisco magazine readers picked the site as the Best Bay Area Blog.

Mission Mission

Saluting San Francisco's Mission District. Quote from the SF Bay Guardian: "Politics! Culture! Real-time crime reports! Drunken hipsters! Whether you want to immerse yourself in the gory and dramatic details of the proposed American Apparel store, suss out the latest renegade Sparks-and-empanada-flavored ice cream food cart location, revel in random pics of burnt mattresses on the sidewalk, or mock the Ritual Roasters laptop rodeo, of course you turn to the Mission Mission blog, our one-click West Coast answer to Brooklyn Vegan, Hipster Runoff, and Lookbook. "

SFGate Culture Blog

Here we go -- from our home at 5th & Mission in San Francisco, The Chronicle and SFGate.com present the Culture Blog. Written by a group of columnists, reporters and editors from both the newspaper and Web site (see Bios), we'll be posting daily items -- newsy, opinionated, critical or simply silly -- on our various arts, culture, media, and Web-related interests and obsessions. Input from you, our readers, is all important, and very soon you'll be able to post your comments directly to the Culture Blog. You can also email us your tips and comments directly. Email addresses for each author appear on every post and on the Bios page, or contact us at cultureblog@sfgate.com. If you write to recommend a blog or other online source, make sure to include the complete URL and a note explaining your recommendation. A note about group blogs (known also as collaborative blogs): we like them. Inspirations for Culture Blog include pioneering sites such as Boing Boing, MetaFilter, and in the world of mainstream journalism, Guardian Online's venerable Newsblog, started back in 2001. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/culture/about#ixzz0Sc7nITHN

Daily Nugget San Francisco

The mission of The Daily Nugget is to provide quality coverage about everything we enjoy about San Francisco culture and beyond. The goal is to provide news with sarcastic commentary and fun. The site has a focus on the events, technology, architecture and culture of San Francisco, but also makes comments on general pop culture and funny items found on the Internets. The motto for The Daily Nugget is “News sprinkled with sarcastic commentary–one nugget at a time.” Make yourself “regular” and visit often, because hey, research shows that everyone should squeeze out a nugget at least once a day. We squeeze them out so you don’t have to. Please don’t forget to read the terms of service and feel free to send email if you have any questions or concerns.

Marin County Free Library Blog

* Stay up to date on what's happening at the Library, best-selling books, great websites, book clubs, author appearances, and more!

Island-Life

We seek to promote and develop music, arts, and cultural activity in the San Francisco Bay metropolitan area with special focus upon the East Bay by reporting on selected events and activity as whim and whimsy offers.

Berkeleyside

The hyperlocal blog for Berkeley, covering news, resources, debates, the arts and anything of local interest. Berkeleyside welcomes story ideas, photos, videos and commentaries on any aspect of Berkeley. Contact us through tips@berkeleyside.com.

The Berkeley Blog: Provocative Thinking From UC Berkeley

We created this interactive site to give voice to the ideas and opinions of our professors in a forum that encourages public comment. Our authors include more than 140 UC Berkeley professors and scholars who share their thoughts on topical national and global issues. As the nation searches for answers to a litany of burning questions and issues, the site serves as a virtual blackboard for the game-changing ideas pulsing around the Berkeley campus.

Oakland Local

Oakland Local is a news & community blog for Oakland that combines reported stories, blog posts & news and events from over 35 community and nonprofit partners. Updated several times a day, OL takes a social justice approach to Oakland issues including food access, climate change, development and transportation. We are diverse and reflect many voices...and we welcome new bloggers, community members, and writers. If you are a blogger in Oaktown, list yourself in our directory--we have 186 blogs there--are you among them?

92510 East Bay Blog

If one mayor represented all of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, that person's 2.5 million constituents would live in the country's fourth-largest city. And just as these East Bay counties are very different from the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area, the East Bay Express is a very different paper. From the international populations that make Oakland and Richmond so dynamic, to the ideological diversity that separates Berkeley from Walnut Creek, our readers are united by their love of a region that is second to nowhere in beauty, livability, intellectual firepower, and cosmopolitan charm. Every week, the Express provides these well-educated world travelers the only medium dedicated exclusively to them. From our authoritative cover stories; to our in-depth local reporting, arts and dining coverage; to the area's most comprehensive weekly calendar; the East Bay Express has been this vibrant region's leading voice since 1978.

Oakland North

Oakland North is a news project of U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. With support from the Ford Foundation, graduate student reporters at the School are creating focused news outlets to concentrate on different parts of the Bay Area. Our goals are to improve local coverage, experiment with online and digital media, and listen to you–about the stories and features that most interest you, the issues that concern you, the information services you want, and the reporting you’d like to see undertaken in your own community. Oakland North is staffed this fall by the reporting students of Cynthia Gorney and Kara Platoni, both journalists who have lived in Oakland for years. You can click here for bios of all 18 students. We hope to keep Oakland North a source of news and community conversation, and we welcome all comments, corrections and suggestions. Please check out our sibling news outlet across the bay, Mission Local, covering San Francisco’s Mission district; and look for the launch this fall of the new Richmond Confidential. We all take seriously our Ford Foundation mandate, which is to explore new ways to give communities back the coverage they’re losing as regional newspapers shrink–and also to be inventive about what digital journalism can do for all of us in the future. We’re learning new ways of telling stories in sound pictures, in cellphone dispatches, and in other forms of back-and-forth still under development.

El Cerrito Focus

El Cerrito Focus is a Web site dedicated to covering local news and events which affect the community of El Cerrito, Calif. We are a group of six UC Berkeley Graduate Journalism students who will be covering your community over the next several months. We’re here to report the news that matters to you, El Cerrito, so consider yourselves in focus.

Boothism

Art-Culture-Tech-Sex-Beats-Words: Life. A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness. Heavy on the randomness.

O it was lost for ever! and we found it not

Community Weblog for art, music, writing and everything else, based in the East Bay, California. Includes reviews and local life in the bay area, as well as travel and nonsense. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE GREATER INNER ITWASLOST.ORG COMMUNITY S. Sandrigon (Berkeley, California) - Imaginary American poet & hymnist, Archpope of Transubstantiation for the Mimosas Witnesses. Beautiful Poetry Books at scribd. Grainne Proinseas (now in Oakland, California) - Politics & Fashion Consultant, Live at Gracemarlier.com Olaf Mary Mohammad (also currently in Oakland, California) - Theosophic Illuminations, Mixer of Mix Tapes Were Lost Cosmo Wernicky (recently relocated to Oakland, California) - Mycologist-in-residence & naughty illustrations Mr Quill (The Big Little, Bulgaria) - Literary Analrapy & Baseball, Special Forgotten Bulgarious Correspondent Mr Brains Aha! (Seattle, Washington) - Secretary of the Department of Nonviolent Nondriving, Soccer & Roshambo. Tomorrow Jenny Ruth (The Navigator's Islands) - Once & Future Travel Correspondent Follow @itwaslost on the twitters.

Oaklandish

Since 2000, Oaklandish has been a strong local voice promoting a positive face of Oakland. We have worked with many local artists and community groups, building a strong network of like-minded individuals working to foster groundbreaking work within the city of Oakland. Through the sales of our civic-pride apparel, we have been able to give back to our community in the form of a grant program open to all residents of Oakland. Please visit www.oaklandish.com for more information!

Alameda Free Library Blog

Alameda Free Library staff picks.

Oaktown Art

An exposé of cool public art & culture in and around Oakland, California.

The Bay Area

Welcome to The Bay Area, a new New York Times blog covering stories of interest to readers from the nine counties that embrace neighborhoods from Mountain View to Mt. Tam to Mt. Hamilton, Pleasanton to Palo Alto to Petaluma, San Jose to San Rafael to San Pablo, Fremont to Fairfield to the Farallones. You get the idea. Think of The Bay Area as a café with good coffee (or tea), comfortable armchairs and permission to talk to one’s neighbors, who are generally interesting and informed. Here, you’ll find conversations on the region’s politics, entertainment, crime, education and, of course, food. It is a discussion that is taking place in all the local micro cultures and micro climates, among neighbors, bloggers, family members, friends and co-workers. We will point to interesting stories in The New York Times, which recently launched the Bay Area Report, a section with coverage of news, arts, wining, dining and lifestyles that appears on Friday and Sunday. We will also highlight local news and information from regional media, bloggers, student publications and Twitter. We will report news live from meetings, public gatherings and other events. Join us, please, with your ideas and comments, photos and videos (bayarea@nytimes.com). The Bay Area is more than a region around the San Francisco Bay. Wallace Stegner might call it a geography of the spirit. And there are fault lines rumbling every day.

SF Bay Style

The mission of SFBayStyle is to provide quality coverage about everything we love that's unique about style found in the San Francisco Bay Area. We hope to provide something fun for those who live or visit here - fashion, arts, music, events, dining, wine, shopping, and design. SFBayStyle is an ecclectic mix of classic, vintage, trendy, techie, and eco-friendly. We believe strongly in supporting local businesses and worthy causes, so our site reflects that commitment. Run on a blogging platform, we develop our content to combine brief information like sale alerts, tips and trends, resources, and photos with detailed articles on local interest topics, special events, designer interviews and a variety of reviews, making SFBayStyle feel like a blend between an online magazine and a blog. A collaborative venture, we strive to include stories that appeal to many different groups of people and as we grow, we look forward to reaching out further. We're all grateful to live and work here and we hope that SFBayStyle will be viewed as a worthy representation of the style of people who share our home.

All Shook Down

SF Weekly's art, music and culture blog.

More Marin

We’re a fast-growing news and features website bringing our readers more interesting, more compelling and more important stories about the people, places and things in Marin County. MoreMarin.com debuted in Spring of 2008, as a small, online-only news source. Since then, we’ve added multiple sections including cultural, environmental and outdoor activities coverage, food reviews and the most comprehensive and up-to-date restaurant database in Marin. The big guys have taken notice—we’ve recently partnered with SFGate.com. Our stories now appear on their website daily, and that has boosted our traffic dramatically.

Meet Downtown Oakland!

Discover the buzz that has invigorated Oakland’s vibe. Downtown has burst onto the nightlife scene in a big way. Scores of new restaurants, clubs and venues have sprung up and more are on the way. These pages are your essential guide to downtown Oakland hot spots. 75 restaurants and cafés. 33 galleries and cultural venues. 40 clubs and bars. 32 major attractions and events. One happening downtown.

O-Scene

This is the Oakland blog for people living out loud. True to the Oakbook philosophy, we’ll tell you where to go, what to do, and what’s really going down in the town and around the Bay. From parties to films, peace protests to flag football, if there's a there there, we'll blog it. If you've got events, photos, videos, announcements or general news on all the happenings in the Bay, send 'em over to us at oscene@theoakbook.com And don't be afraid to leave a comment. Don't be shy...come over and talk to us. You just might get lucky!

Oakland Grown

Oakland Museum of California

The Oakland Museum of California is temporarily closed for the renovation and transformation. Join us in May 2010 for the grand reopening. The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) brings together collections of art, history and natural science under one roof to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people. OMCA connects collections and programs across disciplines, advancing an integrated, multilayered understanding of this ever-evolving state. With more than 1.8 million objects, OMCA is a leading cultural institution of the Bay Area and a resource for the research and understanding of California's dynamic cultural and environmental heritage.

Beyond Chron

Welcome to Beyond Chron, the Voice of the Rest. We provide coverage of political and cultural issues often distorted or ignored by the Bay Area's largest newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. Beyond Chron presents a critical look at the cutting edge issues of the day. Beyond Chron is published by the San Francisco-based Tenderloin Housing Clinic. Clinic Director Randy Shaw is the paper's editor. Shaw is a longtime San Francisco activist who has published three books on activism, The Activist's Handbook, Reclaiming America, and his new work, Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. The University of California Press published all three books. Paul Hogarth is Beyond Chron's managing editor. Hogarth is an activist and attorney who has been both a college journalist and a former elected official in Berkeley.

A Mindful Life

Kathryn Harper is a Renaissance woman; she has worked as a librarian, psychotherapist, and community advocate. She grew up in the snow belt of Syracuse, New York, and headed to Austin, Texas, in 1994 for the sunshine, job opportunities, and barbeque. In 2004 she moved further west to the scenic and culturally diverse San Francisco Bay Area. Kathryn is also a self-taught artist, poet, and an omnivorous, voracious reader. Believing passionately in the innate creativity of all humans, she dedicates her life to igniting curiosity, promoting creative and critical thinking, and inspiring enthusiasm for lifetime learning. Kathryn can always be persuaded to savor a good meal, play board games, or dance. She lives in Santa Clara, California, with her husband, her amazing daughter Claire (born 9/8/07), and Stella the cat.

Mission Loc@l

Mission Loc@l believes that by covering a neighborhood fairly and thoroughly, we can build community and a sustainable model for quality journalism. As part of that effort, we seek collaboration and experimentation that will serve the community we cover and journalism. In the Mission District that means being a bilingual site and using print, multimedia and video to deliver information that offers diverse residents a way to connect and stay informed. The site launched in October 2008, opened an office in the Mission District in January and many of us are Mission residents. The project is part of an initiative in hyper-local coverage developed by UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and supported by the school, the Ford Foundation and other donors. Our aim is to become a self-sustaining model for public private partnerships that involve journalism schools, private foundations and community supporters. This summer’s staff includes five interns from UC Berkeley, one intern from SF State and a visiting scholar from Mexico. We also participate in collaborations to mentor young journalists.

Original Scraper Bikes

The Scraper Bike Movement has been around for about 5-6 years and is now starting to get exposure worldwide. We recently put a video on Youtube.com and watched it touch people all over the country as well as the world. The video is at 2.6 million views and still going. Scraper Bikes has been featured in countless events such as, The Birth of The Cool Remix (Artistic Individualism), The Black, Red and Green: Living Word Festival (Green Society/ Spare the Air) and The International Bicycle Film Festival (Health/ Motor Skills). Along with countless interviews from NPR, to The Christian Science Monitor (Stop the violence) to Current TV; Scraper Bikes have been getting a lot of positive feedback from people around the world (Communities of Unity). We have set up a lot of events over the past few years to bring awareness of this grassroots movement (Free for All). Oakland is the birth place of the Scraper Bikes. We plan on creating a bicycle shop that focuses on customizing bicycles, bicycle repair skills, and youth mentoring services. We plan on creating a sustainable, positive, educational, and "Green" way of life in the inner city.

Richmond Confidential

With a grant of $500,000 from the Ford Foundation to develop digital news sites, student reporters with the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley are covering neglected Bay Area Communities during core reporting classes. The funding also allows the school to hire two full-time multimedia instructors to teach multimedia skills during the reporting classes and oversee the development of these news websites. The Bay Area communities, increasingly ignored by the local news industry, are the focus of our “hyperlocal” websites.

San Jose Inside

The OakBook

It’s the same all over the world. Knock on a door. Pick up a phone. Stop a stranger on the street. Ask a question. You might get the brush off, or you might hear a story. Oakland and Berkeley are no different from anywhere else. Yet, in this metropolitan area of half a million people where 89 languages are spoken, tech entrepreneurs share buildings with potters, and one of the world’s great universities sits not five miles from one of the world’s great ports, too many stories are left untold. The OakBook wants to tell some of those stories. And we want to offer a place where you can tell yours. We will bring you news from the schools your children attend, the ways your neighborhood is changing, new art, new theater, and new places to eat and drink. Our website invites you to give your take, whether it’s on an old cafe, a new charter school, or some outrageous plan hatched in City Hall. We’d love for you to tell us what we should be covering. So, send us your feedback. We want to hear from you

The Public Press

Welcome to the Public Press, an emerging concept for a noncommercial daily Web/print/broadcast collaborative news service. The idea is to put journalism first -- operating as a nonprofit organization that prioritizes public service over commerce. One idea is to eliminate advertising altogether, creating a robustly independent specialized vehicle for serious news. A newspaper born in the 21st century could experiment with new forms of "reverse" publishing -- pulling commentary, blogs and alternative news perspectives into print dynamically.

Sacramento Press

The Sacramento Press will be the most comprehensive, local news source and information center for the Sacramento Metropolitan Area. We are a strictly online newspaper. Our writers are primarily volunteer Community Contributors. We combined the best tools on the web and built an outstanding platform from scratch. This platform enables people to tell stories about their neighborhoods and have thoughtful conversations about these stories. Then our editors place the best content on the front page and section pages to highlight great work.

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Bikes

Urbicifation

Walking. Bicycling. Alternatives to Driving Everywhere. Social justice. Alternatives to suburban boredom and waste. And the infrastructure and technology needed to get there.

Walk Oakland Bike Oakland

Walk Oakland Bike Oakland (WOBO), founded in 2006, is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to improving neighborhood livability, vitality, and sustainability by making Oakland a better place to walk and bike. We engage residents, workers, business owners, and commuters in education and advocacy for improving Oakland’s pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure.

Mission Loc@l

Crime

The Public Press

Oakland Crimespotting

Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland, CA, and a better way of understanding crime in cities. This project is not affiliated with the City of Oakland or the Oakland Police Department, but we do use data published on CrimeWatch, the City’s community crime mapping website. There are several things to do here: Explore maps, browse crime reports by day and by type, and sign up to receive e-mail alerts and RSS feeds for crime reports in your neighborhood. Information about site updates and new features can be found on our blog, blog.crimespotting.org.

The OakBook

Richmond Confidential

Oakland North

Protect San Jose

This site is a collaborative effort of the men and women of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association along with neighborhood and community leaders from around San Jose who care about the safety of our neighborhoods. The views expressed on this site are those of the authors and should not necessarily be construed as the opinion of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, the San Jose Police Department, or the City of San Jose. Contributors to Protect San Jose include: * George Beattie, President, SJPOA * Jerry Brown, CA Attorney General * Helen Chapman, Neighborhood leader * Jim Cogan, President, Crime Stoppers Silicon Valley * Pete Constant, San Jose City Councilmember * Christian Hemingway, Former SJ City Council chief of staff and professional mediator * Kathleen Flynn, Professional mediator and community activist * Chris Kelly, Facebook Chief Privacy Officer * Bobby Lopez, Immediate Past President, SJPOA * Joseph McNamara, Former San Jose Chief of Police * Ed Rast, Neighborhood leader * Alberto Torrico, CA Assembly Majority Leader * Jim Unland, Vice President, SJPOA * and the men and women of the San Jose Police Department

The Fault Lines Project

The Fault Lines Project is about the many people who live with violence in Oakland. They are from every walk of life - children, adults, drug addicts, drug dealers, police officers, case workers, parolees, bus drivers, teachers - All have to live with the reality that Oakland is still perceived to be one of the most violent cities in the country, and still it is home. This project aims to give voice to those people, and start a dialogue across the fault lines of this divisive issue.

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Economy

Oakland North

The Happy Capitalist

Observations and commentary from an over-fifty financial planner. The markets had a second consecutive week of gains and are showing signs that we may have the first monthly gain in stocks since August. The last two days of the trading week had investors trying to interpret the Fed's plan to buy treasuries.

The Berkeley Blog: Provocative Thinking From UC Berkeley

92510 East Bay Blog

El Cerrito Focus

Bay Area Budgeter

Cuz the rent keeps going up, the taxes keep rolling in, and the grocery store NEVER doubles your Qs! I've been online for about fourteen years now, since the days of Lynx! Ever since text-browsing my first website, I have been hooked on the internet and the vastness of its potential.

We Fight Blight

Fight Blight in South Berkeley-North Oakland BLIGHT: The state or result of being blighted or deteriorated; dilapidation; decay; urban blight. Something that impairs growth, withers hopes and ambitions, or impedes progress and prosperity. To have a deleterious effect on; ruin

Marin Retail Buzz

Think of West Marin and you think of rolling hills and wild beaches, with some farmland, a few small villages and a lot of national parkland. And while West Marin contains more than half of Marin County's land, it is home to just 3% of the county's population. The size of the retail sector is quite small. According to the West Marin Chamber of Commerce's business directory there are 14 retail stores in West Marin, with a similar number of places to eat and drink (for some reason this list doesn't include any stores in Bolinas or Stinson Beach).

Mission Loc@l

Richmond Confidential

San Jose Inside

The Bay Area

The Public Press

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Tri-Valley Biz Blog

TVBB is a business news blog focused on the businesses large and small of the Tri-Valley and how they imapct the communities, whether good or bad.

Education

The Black Hour

The Black Hour Internet Radio Show is an internet radio show based at Laney College in Oakland, CA.

Oakland North

UC Berkeley NewsCenter

News from UC Berkeley covering the full breadth of the ideas and inventions percolating up from this community of 50,000 students, professors, and staff.

Oakland Local

92510 East Bay Blog

El Cerrito Focus

Alternatives in Action

Alternatives in Action is a non-profit that works with youth who have leadership potential and prepares them for college, career and community. Many people see youth as a problem to be solved. At Alternatives in Action, youth solve problems. Through education, skills-building and real world experiences, young people, some of whom may otherwise fall through the cracks, become successful, contributing adults and leaders in their community.

Alemany Farm

Alemany Farm is a 4.5 acre working organic farm in southeastern San Francisco. The Farm is collaboratively managed by volunteers, San Francisco city officials, and residents of the Alemany community. Friends of Alemany Farm (FoAF) is a volunteer-managed project sponsored by the San Francisco Parks Trust. We are dedicated to working hand-in-hand with the surrounding community to increase food security and support environmental education for all San Francisco residents. FoAF oversees organic food production at the site, offers workshops and educational courses, coordinates the volunteer efforts, manages a free neighborhood produce delivery, and hosts field trips for children and adults.

MDUSD Parents: Get Involved for Change NOW!

Great Oakland Public Schools

Great Oakland Public Schools is a coalition of Oakland families, students, teachers, principals, nonprofit, community, and civic leaders united around a positive, student-centered, results-oriented, innovation-encouraging vision for public education in our city. Our mission is to provide leadership, advocacy, and information to continue the successful education reforms in Oakland, further empower Oaklanders to influence education policy, and ensure that all students have access to quality school options in their neighborhood and throughout the city. We are committed to continuing and deepening the successful reforms that have made OUSD the most improved school district in the State of California over the last five years with API gains of 92 points. We will make an ongoing effort to include every school community in our activities and mailing list, and will collaborate with and monitor the decisions of school board and district leaders in alignment with our vision and beliefs about Oakland public schools. During the summer of 2009, we completed the latest draft of the Declaration of Community Beliefs and Visions for Oakland Public Schools after capturing the community feedback we received from previous drafts.

The Education Report

The Education Report was born in June 2007. Ever since, people have been using it to dish, vent, debate, and muse about their experiences and impressions of Oakland’s schools. I’m always open to tips — blog ideas, especially. You can reach me most easily at kmurphy@bayareanewsgroup.com, or by calling (510) 208-6424. You can also follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/katymurphy.

The SF K Files

The SF K Files is a place for parents who are seeking a kindergarten in San Francisco. The site offers up reviews of public, private, and parochial schools, as well as lots of advice and opinions from the community of parents who frequent the blog.

The Teacher Lounge

California is crumbling. The schools are being attacked. How are we going to get out of this mess? I'm a middle school history teacher in San Leandro, California, and a Union activist. I'm fed up with political excuses for creating substandard schools that don't serve the very kids who have the greatest need. Please share your comments with me at mistermorse109@yahoo.com.

Teacher Revised

Teacher, Revised is for teachers and by teachers. It is an education grab bag of classroom reflection, a compilation of news that matters to teachers, essays, interviews with the brightest minds in pedagogy, and even the occasional book and movie review. Basically, it deals with anything that affects teachers, could make teachers’ lives better, or that we all should be very, very afraid of. But it’s also more than that. As teachers, we are in a state of perpetual revision. We revise our lesson plans, our classroom management strategies, our seating charts, and our teaching philosophy. The ability to do this with sincerity and courage—often in the moment—is essential to a teacher’s shelf life. Without that, we “go bad.” Undoubtedly you are familiar with the stench of teachers who have reached their expiration date. It ain’t pretty. To avoid this, we must make a life partner of revision. It is the natural preservative that keeps us fresh. This means looking inward and outward—reflecting on our own practice, and keeping an ear to the ground for what’s new (or old) in the world of education.

A Mindful Life

Mission Loc@l

Richmond Confidential

The Bay Area

The Island

Welcome to The Island, Alameda’s online news source. This site is written and edited by Michele (Marcucci) Ellson. Ellson’s journalism career stretches back 17 years, with her most recent gig as a staff reporter for the Bay Area News Group based in Oakland. Her work has appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times. She is the winner of several journalism awards, including a Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting, Associated Press and James Madison Freedom of Information. She was also the publisher of her own monthly ‘zine, sacred cow. Ellson has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Buffalo State College.

The Lemon Lady

I am a Mommy raising our daughter to protect and respect the environment. I wonder, what does it all mean? What can I do (what can we all do) to make our world a better place? There are so many apartments and condos throughout California and beyond that have no curbside recycling programs. Imagine the hundreds of thousands of children who attend school every day, and have no idea what this simple, common idealogy really means?

The OakBook

The Public Press

Willow Glen Extra

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Entertainment

Zennie 62

Christopher Null

Christopher Null has been an entertainment and technology writer and editor for more than 17 years. Null founded Filmcritic.com in 1995 and has worked as Editor-in-Chief of Mobile magazine, Editor-in-Chief of New Architect, Executive Editor of Smart Business (formerly PC Computing) magazine, and Managing Reviews Editor of LAN Times magazine. Today he can be found blogging daily for Yahoo! Tech. As a freelance and staff writer, Chris has penned entertainment, business, and high-tech pieces for Wired, Business 2.0, PC World, Men’s Journal, San Francisco Magazine, Yahoo! Internet Life, Working Woman, Maximum PC, The Austin Chronicle, The Austin American-Statesman, and numerous other publications.

SFGate Culture Blog

92510 East Bay Blog

The Curvy Fashionista

Fashion blog dedicated to the discerning Curvy.Confident.Chic Plus size woman, covering fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle news from a plus perspective with both a local and an international view.

Boothism

Art-Culture-Tech-Sex-Beats-Words: Life. A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness. Heavy on the randomness.

Daily Nugget San Francisco

Meet Downtown Oakland!

38th Notes

Niema "Renaissance" Jordan is an Oakland grown writer with a love for the arts and a passion for building healthy communities. A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, she did a short stint in New York after escaping Chicago winters. Now she is back in The Town and loving every minute. Constantly working towards her 10,000 hours, writing is her life. Niema's work can be found in the pages of national magazines like ESSENCE as well as renaissance20.blogspot.com. Check out her work at www.niemajordan.com.

O-Scene

Sonoma on the Cheap

Free and cheap things to do in Sonoma County, California Wine Country.

The OakBook

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Environmental

Coastsider

Coastsider covers coastal San Mateo County, from Devil's Slide to the Santa Cruz County line. We're based in Montara, and focus principally on news in Montara, Moss Beach, El Granada, and Half Moon Bay. But we're also interested in Pescadero, La Honda, and the Southcoast. The subjects we're most interested in are community, planning and development, and the coastal environment.

Urbicifation

Walking. Bicycling. Alternatives to Driving Everywhere. Social justice. Alternatives to suburban boredom and waste. And the infrastructure and technology needed to get there.

Go Green Alameda

"Do more... use less." Go Green Alameda is connecting homeowner's ideas and resources for sustainable ways of living - in our homes and community. Get involved, add your input. Have a green tip, favorite business that practices green sustainable living. Send me a link or your stories.

Car-Free Outdoors

This guide will feature descriptions of outdoor adventures in the San Francisco Bay Area that are accessible without a car. It will provide ideas for enjoying outdoor exercise and experiencing nature for anyone who does not own a car or who just wants to use a car less often. My goal is to make car-free outdoor trips easy and fun by providing route descriptions and logistical details — pulling together information from maps, guide books, websites, and other resources — and by taking the trips myself and reporting on my experiences. I am approaching car-free travel not as a barrier to getting outdoors, but as a fun challenge to find routes linking mass transit with nature and an opportunity to explore the urban-nature and suburban-nature interfaces of the Bay Area.

92510 East Bay Blog

The Berkeley Blog: Provocative Thinking From UC Berkeley

Oakland Local

Oakland North

WandaLUST

In her professional life, Wanda Hennig is a writer, an editor, a photographer, a traveler and a communications consultant specializing, these days, in social media. She is also a certified life and business coach with post-graduate degrees in psychology and education (counseling and teaching). Her experience includes working in newsrooms, on magazines, and in nonprofit and corporate communications in South Africa and the Bay Area. She was previously editor of Diablo magazine, writes regularly for Oakland and Alameda magazines, and spent 18 months on the Oakland Tribune copy desk. Her intention with this Wordpress site, set up in web magazine format, was to develop and share online competencies, to write and publish, to get conversation flowing, and to offer writing and coaching services, among other things. She has a secondary site (/delicious-life) where she blogs, as time permits. She also writes for examiner.com (San Francisco Culinary Travel).

Alamedalorax Blog

Trees are some of my favorite things on earth. They are bigger than us, live longer than us, and are arguably more useful than any of us humans. And they are entirely at our mercy and whim, especially in cities where we sometimes see them as nuisance, forgetting the invaluable service they do for us–cooling our cement jungles, absorbing our car exhaust, feeding our souls with their beauty. I hope this blog will help a healthy discussion about our relationship with trees in our urban-suburban environment, and teach us how to coexist without causing harm to either species. May the wisdom of the Lorax guide us.

Alemany Farm

My Organic Day

My Organic Day is a blog that was created in 2006 by Christine (Lin) Patel with a passion for sustainable, green living with a focus on organic food and events in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have been an advisor for Om Organics, a nonprofit dedicated to local and organic products and services in the Bay Area and also a volunteer walking tourguide for Cityguides, a nonprofit dedicated to tours in San Francisco. You can contact me at christine<at>myorganicday.com. I hope you enjoy the blog!

The Green El Cerrito

Green dispatches from my little corner of the world ~ El Cerrito, Albany, Berkeley and the East Bay.

The Lemon Lady

The Bay Area

Alameda Point Community Blog

Peter Calthorpe is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and a Principal at Calthorpe Associates. He has helped solidify a growing trend towards the key principles of New Urbanism: that successful places - whether neighborhoods, villages, or urban centers - must be diverse in use and user, walkable and transit-oriented, and environmentally sustainable. His work has focused on how regional-scale planning and design can integrate urban revitalization and suburban renewal into a coherent vision of metropolitan growth. After studying at Yale's Graduate School of Architecture, Calthorpe promoted energy-efficient buildings and solar design initiatives at the Farrallones Institute, the California Office of the State Architect, and with Van der Ryn, Calthorpe and Partners. In 1983, he established Calthorpe Associates, allowing him to successfully implement his philosophies of regional design through cutting-edge projects in Portland, Salt Lake, Austin, the Twin Cities, and Los Angeles. During the Clinton Administration, Calthorpe provided guidance for HUD's Empowerment Zone and Consolidated Planning Programs as well as the HOPE VI program to rebuild failed public housing projects. His international work has demonstrated that community design with a focus on environmental sustainability and human scale can be adapted throughout the globe. Chosen by the State of Louisiana to lead long-term planning efforts following the destruction caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Calthorpe is now the Lead Planner for the "Louisiana Speaks" planning initiative, and his firm is helping advise the Louisiana Recovery Authority on how southern Louisiana can recover from Hurricane Katrina while restoring wetlands and other ecologically sensitive areas.

Alamedans for Alameda Point Revitalization

The City of Alameda should be a place where families can raise their children and enjoy our beautiful scenery along the San Francisco Bay. But an enormous piece of our island is off limits because it is a toxic mess. After more than 100 years of military and industrial use, Alameda Point sits in decay and disrepair. We believe that it is our responsibility to clean up Alameda Point to make way for outdoor recreation, schools and housing. We support the plan to revitalize Alameda Point because doing nothing is no longer an option.

Richmond Confidential

The Public Press

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Tri-Valley Biz Blog

TVBB is a business news blog focused on the businesses large and small of the Tri-Valley and how they imapct the communities, whether good or bad.

Food

Forage Oakland

Forage Oakland is a project that- at its core- works to address how we eat everyday, and how everyone can benefit from viewing their neighborhood as a veritable edible map, considering what is cultivated in any given neighborhood and why, and what histories influence those choices. The gleaning of unharvested fruits; the meeting of new neighbors; the joy of the season's first hachiya persimmon (straight from your neighbor's backyard, no less); the gathering and redistribution of fruits that would otherwise be wasted- can be powerful and can work to create a new paradigm around how we presently think about food in our collective consciousness. Imagine gathering several friends for morning, midday, evening or weekend foraged city bicycle rides through your neighborhood.

An Obsession With Food

Food and wine. I cover anything in those universes. I prefer handcrafted and artisanal foods, because those usually taste better. I'm a member of Slow Food, and The Art of Eating is my favorite food magazine. If you're familiar with either of those, you know my take on the food universe. If you're not familiar with them, you should be. I believe that our industrial agriculture system has created a wealth of problems and I figure it will in time go careening off the cliff of its own short-sightedness.

The Ethicurean

The Ethicurean was founded in May 2006 by me (Bonnie Powell) and my friends JC Costello, Erika Bodoin aka Omniwhore (who came up with our name), Kathryn aka Corn Maven, and the Butter Bitch and Miss Steak (who prefer to remain anonymous due to their corporate jobs). Since then, several more writers have joined us; we now have contributors in six states. (Meet/contact the Ethicureans.) We have more than 20,000 unique visitors a month, and over 40,000 page views.

Ghost Town Farm

A child of back-to-the-land hippies, I grew up in rural Idaho and Washington State. I went to University of Washington in Seattle where I majored in Biology and English. I’ve had many odd jobs including: assassin bug handler, book editor, media projectionist, hamster oocyte collector, and most recently, free-lance journalist. I studied under Michael Pollan at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism for two years. My journalistic work reflects my interests–in farming, food, the environment, and culture. In a nutshell, I like to tell stories about people who follow unconventional paths.

Vegansaurus

Vegansaurus is a vegan eating/living guide to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is definitive/arbitrary.

Local Lemons

When my husband, Alejandro, and I moved from Brooklyn to Berkeley, we knew we’d find warmer weather and greener pastures. We had no idea we’d be in for year-round produce, the likes of which I’ve only seen in Italy. The decision was not an easy one, with family and friends living in New York – but something about the daily subway ride into Manhattan and the supersonic speed of life told us it was time for a change. So, we quit our jobs, packed our things and set out on a two-week cross-country adventure that brought us to our new home in sunny California. One of my favorite things about Berkeley, besides the food, is the smell. Every time I walk outside I breath in citrus and roses – hence, Local Lemons. It makes sense that a place with such sweet air would produce amazing food.

Becks & Posh

The Becks & Posh food blog was started in 5 minutes on a whim. Back in May 2004 then work colleague, Tim, was perhaps a little tired of hearing Sam rattle on about food all day long. "Why don't you start a blog?" he said. "A blog?", she replied, "What's that?". Tim explained to Sam that a blog was an online diary and that perhaps she could write one with restaurant reviews. He pointed her in the direction of blogger.com and thus, with what now reads like a rather naive review of Sushi Groove South, Becks & Posh was born. Sam would like to point out that she has absolutely no particular affection for, admiration of, or affinity with Victoria Posh Spice and David Beckham after whom the blog is named. She spent about 3 nanoseconds thinking of the trivial title, never dreaming that one day people would actually read her blog. 'Becks & Posh' is extremely tenuous modern cockney rhyming slang for 'nosh', which is in itself slang for food. Hence Becks & Posh was started in a void, and it was another 3 months before Sam discovered that the were actually other food blogs in the world, and that the biggest gift that blogging would bring her would be the chance to join such an amazing and supportive community of like-minded people.

Bay Area Bites

Bay Area Bites is part of KQED's Blog Authors Collaborative. Blog contributors and commentators are solely responsible for their content. If you're interested in writing or contributing to a blog on kqed.org, email us with your idea. Bay Area Bites, KQED's aggregate food blog, is dedicated to providing a variety of food-related information from the Bay Area and beyond. BAB bloggers are culinary professionals, food writers, and cookbook editors. Many have local food blogs of their own. Blogger profiles are online so you can learn more about each BAB contributor. KQED advocates citizen media and has started aggregate blogs to provide a forum for alternative, non-mainstream points of view, including those of the user. BAB is committed to providing accurate and honest information. Posts are based on individual bloggers' opinions. These perspectives are not necessarily the opinions of KQED. KQED Interactive supports BAB bloggers' contributions and has provided ethical and stylistic guidelines for them to follow.

Cooking With Amy

Hi! I'm Amy Sherman, a San Francisco–based cookbook author, food writer and recipe developer. I launched the blog, Cooking with Amy, in 2003. Not long after it was chosen one of the top five food blogs by Forbes and also singled out by The Guardian (UK) as a top food blog. It has received over 2 million visits. On the blog I offer original recipes, reviews, commentary, news and culinary travel information. I hope you enjoy visiting as much as I enjoy writing and sharing my discoveries. I am honored that my blog is listed as a “Site we Love” by Saveur, linked to as a favorite by Cooking Light, Epicurious, Good Housekeeping and Redbook among others and was “blog of the day” on the Julie & Julia movie web site. I write for various magazines, including Cheers, where I write about food and beverage pairing. I also write about trends and culinary travel for Epicurious, write restaurant reviews for SF Station (a local city guide) and was a weekly contributor at KQED’s food blog, Bay Area Bites for over five years. I was also contributing editor at Glam and wine and spirits writer at Project Foodie. I am the author of Williams-Sonoma New Flavors for Appetizers and Wine Passport: Portugal (SmartsCo) and wrote the introduction to a recent reprint of the classic Jane Grigson’s Vegetable Book.

Funk Town Farm Blog

We are Funk Town Farm, a community garden located in the area known to locals as “funk town” in East Oakland. The garden was started in 2008 behind 219 East 15th Street at 3rd Avenue and two blocks up from Lake Merrit. We are a group of novice and experienced gardeners who want to grow our own produce (and flowers) to use and sell at a sliding scale farm stand on Sunday mornings. We also raise chickens for eggs, as well as involve the community in “sponsoring a chicken” and composting. We want to provide our neighbors with the opportunity to have fresh organic fruit, veggies and eggs no matter what their socioeconomic status may be. Unlike most community gardens we garden together on our lot and share the produce. Each hours work = one basket of produce.

Kristendish

Life Begins @ 30

This little blog turns six years old this week. I was being interviewed for a project recently and was trying to describe why I started my blog. At the time, there were very few food bloggers, and I started because I needed a creative outlet. I always thought that I didn't start with any specific purpose, but looking back at the beginning, it's obvious that I was destined to write about food and farmers and farmers markets. The most remarkable thing about starting Life Begins at 30 is how much it has infiltrated every part of my life. Even when I'm not writing here on a daily basis, things I do each day are some way related to the fact that I started this blog. When I sat down to write this post, I went through every blog post I've written to find my favorites. The posts you see quoted below may surprise you -- they are not necessarily the most popular, or the most important. But to me, they played an interesting part in the life of this blog. Thanks friends and readers. You are the reason this blog is still going.

Southern Cali-Foodie

The first time you had your shoes taken off - how surprised were you to see that you still had toes? Absolutely shocked... I was expecting something bigger ;)

Vinography

Vinography began on January 15th, 2004 as a personal project for founder and editor Alder Yarrow. The site is now a respected source for non-mainstream wine writing, and one of the most influential wine blogs on the Internet. Featuring wine and sake reviews, restaurant reviews, editorials, book reviews, wine news, and wine event coverage, Vinography publishes new content daily to a global readership. The site's contributors work hard to create an alternative to the traditional sources and styles of wine journalism, partially through its emphasis on the stories, the people, and the passion behind wine, all told from a decidedly down-to-earth perspective.

Oakland Local

Oakland North

The Bay Area

My Organic Day

WandaLUST

Alameda, CA Restaurants

The intention of this blog is for people to post their own food experiences or stories of restaurants, cafes or diners in Alameda, CA. One person could potentially eat at every single food establishment in Alameda since the city is still quite small, but I have not come across that special person just yet.

Foodie Friday

Foodie Friday started when a group of friends at Cal, jaded by the dorm food at Crossroads their freshman year, began cooking once a week in their apartments. It started off simple, with pastas and chilis, and gradually evolved into a weekly event with themes like Fondue Night and Southern Night. When a core group of them lived together in the summer of 2009, and began cooking together throughout the week, the Foodie Friday blog was born to chronicle their adventures.

Chez Pim

Pim grew up in Bangkok, was shipped off to study in other places, and somehow found herself living and loving it in the San Francisco Bay Area. She quit her Silicon Valley job in 2005 to pursue a career in food: the writing, reporting, and basically anything interesting thereof that comes her way. Her recipes, writings, and photographs have since appeared in the New York Times, Food & Wine Magazine, Bon Appétit magazine. She's also moonlighted as a judge on Iron Chef America. Chez Pim chronicles her globetrotting adventures –and misadventures- in the world of all things edible, from vibrant street-side fares in Asia to the refined world of Three Michelin Star restaurants in Europe. Pim also cooks a mean pot of curry.

Alemany Farm

Cooking With the Single Guy

Single Asian male living in the SF Bay Area. Self-taught home cook, into sharing recipes and reviews. Loves traveling and discovering new food. Seeks like-minded foodies.

Cupcake Bakeshop By Chockylit

Cheryl Porro – software quality engineer by day, erstwhile baker for hire by night – stumbled upon the world of food blogs through a forwarded link, sent by a friend, admirer, and consumer of Cheryl’s baking experiments. A few hours of surfing later, the rest was history… Although a devoted baker since the age of 13, Cheryl simply wasn’t ready to abandon the reliable world of software for the high-stakes game of owning a bakery. But the creativity, the exchange, and the inspiration she found among this community of food bloggers – this was just the outlet she needed! In short order, Cheryl signed up for her very own blog, and Cupcake Bakeshop was born that fateful day in March 2005. Baking, namely cupcakes, has since taken residence in Cheryl’s day-to-day life. Cupcake Bakeshop has evolved into a place to experiment, inspire, create, and share her work with others. Cheryl continues to lead a double-life as an amateur baker and full-time professional software quality engineer, with a degree in chemical engineering. She has also become a dedicated food blogger and amateur food photographer (her main client being herself). Cheryl lives in San Francisco with her musician husband, new baby, and sensitive Boston terrier and can be found during her lunch breaks at the Ferry Building Marketplace coveting pricey ingredients. About the Blog Cupcakeblog.com is about – you guessed it – cupcakes. More specifically each post features a unique cupcake recipe created by Cheryl Porro and accompanied by her own photography. The recipes on Cupcakeblog.com reflect Cheryl’s food philosophy – think slow food meets sweets. Cupcakeblog.com has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle food section (print and web), in the San Francisco edition of The Onion (print only), in the fall 2007 edition of Adorn Magazine (print only), on Yahoo! 9 Web TV (the 9th story), as a Yahoo! Pick, in Yahoo! Buzz (the ‘cool’ link), and in the Wall Street Journal Online blog watch.

Is It Edible?

I'm just your average 30-something year old guy who likes to eat and cook (not necessarily in that order.) I currently live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my partner Dean and our two dogs. Over the years, I've amassed quite a collection of cookbooks, taken a few classes, and used many friends as guinea pigs for my culinary experiments. On this site, I'll share with you some favorite recipes and some funny stories from my numerous attempts to discover "is it ED-ible?" Contact: IsItEDible AT gmail DOT com

Yummy SF

Hi there! My name is Fanny, food writer at YummySF.com. This food blog started in 2007, after my first trip to the Winter Fancy Food Show. YummySF was a way to share my discoveries of healthy, unique, and delicious natural food products as well as favorite recipes and restaurants. In San Francisco, you can find a rich culture of restaurants that cater to vegans and raw foodists as well as almost any ethnic food you can imagine. That’s one of the reasons why San Francisco is a top destination for tourists from around the world. Whether you live in the San Francisco Bay Area or you want to visit our beautiful city, check out YummySF for my latest food adventures.

World on a Plate

Based in the Bay Area, Jeanne Brophy is a freelance writer focused on the culture and history of food. When not writing she has a career with one of the top ten travel agencies as a marketing professional. Areas of specialty range from San Francisco, regional foods, food marketing, cookbook reviewing to the history and cultural foodways around the world. She has also contributed to cookbooks as a recipe tester, written professionally for organizations such as Napa Valley Vitners Association and Pasqua Coffee. In additon Jeanne is an exhibiting photographic artist. Most recently she won the Gourmet Magazine Cook the Cover competition. World on a Plate, a writing portfolio, has been maintained since July 2004.

Vin Divine

VinDivine, what to drink, where to eat, what to buy and an all-around how-to guide for going through life, having a blast! VinDivine is a blog dedicated to food, wine, travel, gadgets and things to do, from San Francisco to New York City and beyond! email: info@vindivine.com twitter: http://twitter.com/vindivine

The Foodies Digest

For any of you readers that have been to Maverick it is very likely you have had chance to taste this high quality product which we have prepared several ways. The last time we served antelope it was ground fine with minced shallots, capers, egg yolk, cilantro and ancho chili sauce to put a Maverick twist on the classic steak tartare. Guests will be enthusiastic about our next preparation in which we cut filets out from the leg muscle, marinate it and grill it.

Burrito Justice

Burritos, taco trucks, The Mission, technology, Macs, iPhones, Canada — so much to discuss.

Fat Bottom Bakery

Fat Bottom Bakery Oakland, California, United States Fat Bottom Bakery is a project started by Carolynn and Ashley in Oakland, Ca-- the manifestation of our desire to spread delicious, cute, cruelty-free things to the world. Keep up with us through our blog and look around town-- you'll be seeing us around at shows, Pride, parks, parties, and maybe even farmer's markets!

A Mindful Life

The Oakland Berkeley Journal

When walking down the streets of Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville, I often see folks I know. Waving to the familiar faces makes me happy, as I have a home amidst the city! From my morning latte at Peet’s to my Sunday shopping at the Farmer’s market, I enjoy all the East Bay offers. Follow this real estate blog covering the beautiful cities of the East Bay!

The Oakland Garden Kitchen

This is a place where a new Oaklander shares ideas about eating local, sometimes eating from an urban garden, sometimes having noteworthy experiences in an urban garden, regular trips to the farmers market, cooking in a tiny kitchen, sometimes eating out, and the occasional great bottle of wine. The purpose is to add my voice to the many Bay Area locals who are making locavore work. I’ll warn you, I’m not a purist, and I’ll not even define local, but I hate waste and love people. I save zip lock bags, rescue lettuce from the Lucky’s dumpster, share chickens with my neighbors and love an impromptu covered dish. You’re invited to comment, dispute, approve, answer my questions and ask your own. Can’t wait to hear from you!

Oliveto Community Journal

Oliveto is a restaurant with varied interests and experiences. We opened in 1986, and are known (possibly only somewhat known) for being at or near the front of many ideas that later became more common practice (olive oil, salumi, extensive menu of quality house –made pastas, whole animals use, to name a few). We approach things with lots of energy and integrity, and we try not to take short cuts. We like to keep things fresh, and this web journal is our latest idea in that vein. It puts to use many of our interests, skills and experiences. In this new journal of stories, movies, cooking information and news we hope to give you an insider’s look at the workings of our restaurant community, of Oliveto, as a part of a larger community in which we live. We also think that we are entering a time when people want to actually know where their food comes from not just for wholesomeness and nutrition or for assigning it worth, but for the joy and satisfaction that can come of it—a fuller more connected life.

92510 East Bay Blog

Mission Loc@l

More Marin

SFoodie

SF Weekly's food blog.

The OakBook

The Public Press

Willow Glen Extra

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Gardening

Cactus Blog

Cactus Jungle, Nursery and Garden, offers many different types of cactus and succulents, low-water grasses, summer-drought bamboos, California natives and more. • Grown in Berkeley, California and around the East Bay • For San Francisco, Oakland and the SF Bay Area • From around the world Sustainable: We grow our plants using 100% Natural and Certified Organic fertilizers and ingredients in our soil mixes. Owners Hap Hollibaugh and Peter Lipson have been growing cactus and succulents for over 20 years, and since 1996 in Berkeley, California, San Francisco, and the SF Bay Area.

Ghost Town Farm

Casa Decrepit

One of the most common sorts of questions we get about this house is its history. The house was built in 1876 by a man named Robert M. Holt, and is listed in the City of Alameda historical society as the Robert M. Holt House even though he doesn't live here any more. The style is Italianate, which is said like "ital-yan-ate" rather than the "ital-ee-ahn-tay" we hear a lot of people say. 1876 is the very very tail end of the Italianate period in Victorian houses, which was centered in the 1850's, so this house was very conservative in style when it was built. It was originally, like most Italianate houses, painted entirely white to look like stonework. Robert M. Holt was an architect/builder (they were the same thing back then) and built several other houses on the island, including a bunch of identical Victorians further down the island. At the time he built this house he owned the entire block and presumably several others that he developed.

Funk Town Farm Blog

The Oakland Garden Kitchen

An Alameda Garden

I'm an Alameda native with a deep appreciation for the joys of gardening in sandy soil and a Mediterranean climate. This is where I share my gardening successes and frustrations (of which there are many), as well as news of gardening events and developments in and around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Government/Politics

San Jose Inside

Living in the O

I recently wrote a blog post listing some of what I consider to be essential Oakland experiences. I added to that original list some suggestions provided by my blog readers, and now I intend to go through the list and blog about each of these experiences. As I blog about them, I’ll update this page with links to the corresponding blog posts and it will be easy to tell what I’ve done because I’ll mark them in bold and move them to the top of the list.

The Snitch

SF Weekly's news, politics and opinion blog.

San Francisco FYI Net

Calendar of political events for San Francisco.

Action Alameda News

Shortform news items from and about the city of Alameda. "'News' is anything that anybody doesn't want somebody to know." We welcome letters from our readers. You can e-mail us at aanbletters@actionalameda.org

The Happy Capitalist

Blogging Bayport Alameda

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow

Beyond Chron

Berkeleyside

Urbicifation

Walking. Bicycling. Alternatives to Driving Everywhere. Social justice. Alternatives to suburban boredom and waste. And the infrastructure and technology needed to get there.

The Berkeley Blog: Provocative Thinking From UC Berkeley

Oakland Local

The Bay Area

Future Oakland

In the present, Oaklanders make decisions that shape the future. This blog comments on those decisions from the perspective of a real estate and marketing consultant who lives in Old Oakland and grew up in Rockridge.

El Cerrito Focus

Disinformation Rehab

Debunking politicos, spin, and propaganda since 2003.

Oakland North

BAPolitixm

I have been in love with the craft of news reporting, writing and editing for, well, let's just say a long time. While I've covered a lot of beats, I have concentrated on politics, public policy and governance. I studied at El Camino College and Long Beach State University where I was honored to serve as editor of the campus newspaper, the Daily 49er. Professionally, my journalism has graced the pages of the Los Angeles Times, the LA Daily News, the Oakland Tribune and the Sacramento Bee, among others. In recent years my reporting has increasingly appeared in the online world -- not only here on my blog but also on the (now defunct) PolitickerCA.com site as well as on the California Independent Voter Network site.

SFBG Politics Blog

Sfbg.com is one of the longest-running news-focused web sites. Our searchable archives go back to January 1995, and feature over 50,000 pages and files. Over the years we've expanded our coverage and our reach, focusing on the debate over public power, the string of wars in the Middle East, and our annual nude beach pages. We regularly cover all aspects of art, culture, and entertainment, with our Lit, Noise, Club, gift, and event guides.

East Bay Conservative

East Bay Conservative takes a look at events in Oakland and the surrounding areas from a non-Leftist viewpoint. This does not necessarily mean we’re actually conservatives, as traditionally defined across the US. We’re not evangelical Christians, we’re pro-choice, and we’re not particularly fond of guns. That being said, we stand opposed the throngs of people in the Bay Area who can properly be called Leftists — those who believe things such as: * There is no reasonable maximum tax rate. The more you tax people, the better. * Government services generally, or always, work better than those provided by private industry. * Organic food is meaningfully better for people and/or the environment than regular food. * Schools should receive as much money as possible, and no one should ever ask what they use it for. * The homeless should never be regulated or constrained in any way.

Halfway to Concord

California Political News, Contra Costa and East Bay News & Politics

Political Blotter

Josh Richman covers state and federal politics for the Bay Area News Group – East Bay. A New York City native, he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and reported for the Express-Times of Easton, Pa. for five years before coming to the Oakland Tribune and ANG Newspapers in 1997. He is a frequent guest on KQED Channel 9’s “This Week in Northern California;” a proud father; an Eagle Scout; a somewhat skilled player of low-stakes poker; a rather good cook; a firm believer in the use of semicolons; and an unabashed political junkie who will never, EVER seek elected office.

Grand Lake Neighbors

Grand Lake Neighbors is a group of volunteers working together to preserve and improve the Grand Lake district of Oakland, California. Our mission is threefold: * Communication – Sharing information and keeping each other informed about issues in our area. * Solving problems – Tapping into the incredible talent in our neighborhood to address specific problems. * Effecting change – Being an agent for improving our quality of life. We work with neighborhood groups and individuals to tackle issues such as: * Public safety * Noise * Attracting new retail merchants * Supporting existing businesses * Local cultural events * Beautification and streetscape improvements * Building Neighborhood Watch block groups * Traffic * Parking

Grand Lake Guardian

Information and analysis to support responsible participation. Serving the neighborhoods surrounding Lake Merritt in Oakland, California.

A Progressive Alamedan

I realized recently that I had neglected to post the good news here, that although I narrowly missed being elected delegate to the California Democratic Party, I managed to snag an appointment by representative Sandré Swanson. All of our local state and federal elected officials have a few slots for delegate appointments, so I'm grateful to have had this opportunity to continue my quest.

A Better Oakland

I love this city. I know that Oakland has problems, but it also has an incredible amount of potential. I hope that we can become the “model city” that Mayor Dellums has promised. Unfortunately, we have a very long way to go, and many of our most politically active residents and elected officials seem to be more interested in feel-good nonsense than real solutions. In this space, I offer my personal commentary on our progress. I used to blog with dto510 at Future Oakland. You can read some of my older posts in the archives. I also cover local politics and development for the Oakbook.

Alameda Point Info

We are an informal group of Alameda friends and neighbors who began sharing emails and links about the former Naval Air Station, the SunCal Corporation and its ballot initiative to redevelop Alameda Point. We were soon buried in information about it all. After putting in a lot of time and effort in finding answers to our questions, we decided to build a website and make it available to everyone in the community. We hope that you find it useful!

SF Gate Politics Blog

With more than 12 million unique visitors per month as audited by the ABC, SFGate is the leading news and information Web site for the San Francisco Bay Area. Reflecting the diverse spirit of the region, SFGate delivers the most up to the minute stories, in-depth special reports, unbeatable local sports coverage, the best regional listings and cutting edge entertainment coverage. SFGate is home to the San Francisco Chronicle, plus Web-only features by SFGateÕs own editorial team - the Bay Area by the people who know it best

Defending Measure Y

I'm a Berkeley native but I have been living in Oakland for the past 10 years. This blog is devoted to informing the public and keeping those that are interested up to date on my lawsuit against the City over Measure Y. I am a lawyer and I have been representing myself in this action. I graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law (UC Berkeley) in 1992. In my day job, I represent public entities, including school districts and community college districts. However, the lawsuit I have filed has nothing to do with my job. I hate corrupt, lying and insincere politicians. I love my neighborhood and I believe Oakland has great potential. I also love fighting for things I believe in.

The Secret News

THE SECRET NEWS reflects a better vision for Emeryville, one that addresses the needs and desires of the people who live and work here. It was born out of frustration and some outrage over the direction the city is headed, and the desire for something better. Citizens are demanding better schools, quality housing and jobs, more parks, and neighborhoods safe from excessive traffic, pollution, and noise. We want a city government that is accountable to the people it serves. At a community meeting in Emeryville in June 2008, residents discussed their vision for Emeryville and what community benefits the city should provide. It was decided that a newspaper would be a great way to reinforce that vision, keep people informed and involved, and provide an alternative to the misinformation generated by the City Council and Chamber of Commerce. THE SECRET NEWS aims to provide Emeryville residents with a way to participate in shaping the future of their city.

Make Oakland Better Now!

After MOBN! had its budget meeting, took votes there and then surveyed its membership electonically, the results were clear: * Hands off the police department; * The city can’t fix this its fiscal problemswith program reductions; * City salaries and benefits are out of control; * Fixing these problem will take broad-based, across the board personnel cost reductions in every department.

Stop, Drop, and Roll

One’s inclination when ones clothing catches fire is to run around waving their arms wildly to douse the flames. By slowing down and being mindful of our actions, it’s easy to remember to stop, drop and roll. Contact me at JKWBlog@gmail.com

92510 East Bay Blog

Alamedans for Alameda Point Revitalization

Alameda Point Community Blog

Around Dublin

The Around Dublin Blog was launched on October 27, 2009 by John M. Zukoski and Jimmy Y. Huang as a resource for neighborhood information in Dublin, California. As proud new home owners who are excited about Dublin’s impressive achievements and vast potential, they started to read the Staff Reports, follow City Council meetings, and consult Dublin’s City Staff to learn more about the many exciting developments throughout this beautiful emerald city of Northern California. Once they realized that other residents would be interested in the information they have collected and digested, they started this website to share what they know, evaluate each project on its own and in the greater context of the city, and provide a forum for interested residents to contribute their perspectives.

Mission Loc@l

Richmond Confidential

SFist

The Black Hour

The Black Hour Internet Radio Show is an internet radio show based at Laney College in Oakland, CA.

The HayWord

The Island

The OakBook

The Public Press

WordYard

I'm a writer, editor and Web site builder. My new book is Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters, now available from your preferred bookseller. I was co-founder of Salon, where I served as technology editor and later managing editor and VP/editorial operations for many years. I'm also author of the book Dreaming in Code.

Sacramento Press

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Tri-Valley Biz Blog

TVBB is a business news blog focused on the businesses large and small of the Tri-Valley and how they imapct the communities, whether good or bad.

Health

WandaLUST

Oakland North

92510 East Bay Blog

The Waiting Room

THE WAITING ROOM follows the life and times of patients and staff at Highland Hospital, a county hospital in Oakland, CA. The project includes: * THIS BLOG which features waiting room stories, conversations, and behind-the-scenes information about the project. * A feature-length DOCUMENTARY FILM called The Waiting Room (now in production) that will follow several characters who pass through the waiting room. * An INTERACTIVE WEB SITE (later this year) that will feature content gathered from an INTERACTIVE STORY BOOTH that will be placed in the waiting room and will allow patients and hospital staff to view, record, and share stories.

Mission Loc@l

The Berkeley Blog: Provocative Thinking From UC Berkeley

The Public Press

History

Bay Radical

A history of radical activism in the Bay Area.

Willow Glen Extra

Spots Unkown

This site aims to explore and infiltrate histories forgotten and places unfound in the greatest American city. Those who live in San Francisco know that it has a rich history, from the original Ohlone inhabitants, to the Gold Rush, to the quake of '06, and into the modern era. It is a small city, a dense collection of hills and neighborhoods, parks and populations. It's a challenge, even for those of us who've lived here a decade or more, to fully expose ourselves to it. There are spots that remain hidden, and even the spots that we've seen and experienced are often not fully known.

Richmond Confidential

Lives of the Dead

A blog about Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.

The Public Press

Baseball Oakland

They fought their owner, and they fought each other. They wore their hair long, grew big mustaches and wore the loudest uniforms possible. Oh, yeah, they also were the greatest baseball dynasty since Casey Stengel's Yankees of the 1950s, winning the World Series in three consecutive years. We're talking, of course, about "The Mustache Gang" -- the nickname of the Oakland A's of the early 1970s. They were led by eccentric owner Charlie O. Finley and his smart, dutiful cousin Carl Finley, who ran the threadbare front office while doing the work of a dozen men. The team also featured future Hall of Famers, such as Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, Reggie Jackson and manager Dick Williams, along with legendary pitcher Vida Blue (who should be in the Hall).

92510 East Bay Blog

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Local Business

Spot.Us

We are an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting.” Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories. All donations are tax deductible and if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the content, your donation will be reimbursed. Otherwise, all content is made available to all through a Creative Commons license. It’s a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate.

Reel Change

proj-ectPRO:JECT is for everyone — artists, activists, individuals, families, organizations and businesses– yeah, we said it, as radical as we want to be, we do commercial work as long as it’s not exploiting our communities or promoting white privilege, male privilege, ablism or heterosexism in any way. proj-ectPRO:JECT provides media training, video production and distribution services, facilitated community media and more. If your project means something and you want to effect real change with new media- proj-ectPRO:JECT can help support it.

The Art of Doing Business

We are committed to providing the business resources and constant support necessary to transform great ideas into even better companies. We recognize that it takes much more than a business plan to get a company off the ground, thus we provide assistance in every aspect along the way allowing you to develop and grow a profitable business. Mike Doherty, the founder of Doherty & Associates, has a long history of business development, strategy and planning. Mike has launched and managed several ventures personally, so he understands the challenges of managing day-to-day operations while remaining focused on growth opportunities and the bottom line. He has also worked as an investor and a lender and therefore recognizes the demands and expectations these parties bring to the mix. Mike’s clients benefit from both perspectives.

Cactus Blog

Meet Downtown Oakland!

Marin Retail Buzz

Tech Liminal

We envision communities and workplaces where technology is a silent partner, boosting productivity, enhancing profitability, and enabling communication. There should be no internal barriers to the broad opportunities that are opened by the internet. Online strategies should be as straightforward to implement as sending an email. We envision that Tech Liminal can help achieve this new level of productivity and creativity by bringing business professionals, community leaders and technology experts together.

Oakland North

Tamale World

Living in a Tamale World cuz I am a Tamale Girl Tina Tamale Ramos' Life, Adventures and Projects in Oakland, CA.

El Cerrito Focus

Diary of an Oakland Shop Girl

Yeah, I said it. I'm challenging you. I'm challenging you to collect gently worn shoes from your friends, your customers (if you're a business owner), your mom, your dad, your kids, your hair stylist, your co-workers, your neighbors, etc. and then I'm challenging you to bring those gently worn shoes to my store (by February 20), or take them to your local Finish Line where they will be donated to Soles4Souls, a non-profit organization whose quest is to collect 1,000,000 pairs of shoes for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Go ahead. I dare you

WandaLUST

Fat Bottom Bakery

Actual Blog

Actual Cafe is a neighborhood coffee shop in North Oakland, located at the corner of San Pablo and Alcatraz Avenues. This blog started as a diary of the process of building the cafe, and has become a way to communicate with our friends and neighbors. Stay tuned here for ongoing news about the cafe. We're glad you stopped by.

Discover the Dimond

Nestled between Oakmore, Glenview, and Lincoln Heights neighborhoods, this district is a hidden gem. The Dimond District is conveniently located between the 580 Fwy. & the 13 Fwy., and accessible by multiple bus lines. The business district offers a variety of retail stores, restaurants and services with free public parking off Fruitvale Ave on Bienati Way, left at the Shell Station. The Dimond Branch Library is located on Fruitvale Ave. and is adjacent to Dimond Park. On leash dog walking is permitted along El Centro Trailhead, with access from Fruitvale Ave. left on Waterhouse Ave. left on El Centro Ave. Enjoy the beauty of Sausal Creek along with the recent restoration of native plants. Dimond Park provides the community with a recreational pool, picnic tables, Bar-B-Que Grills, and tennis courts. Explore all the Dimond has to offer.

Oliveto Community Journal

San Jose Inside

Sparkart

We're always looking for new ways to blend the content, community, and commerce abilities of our sites. The home page is a particularly important place, anyone passing through must be engaged, or they will leave. It's critical that anything of importance be featured, as there's no telling where any particular visitor will end up next. We recently updated the home pages for two of our longer running sites, Slipknot1.com and Criss Angel.com. On each site we've seen a spike in community involvement and merchandise sales. And we're very happy with how they look too. The extra challenge for us that many other sites don't share is translating the unique qualities of each of our clients into a visual design.

92510 East Bay Blog

Mission Loc@l

Oakland Grown

The Foodies Digest

Sacramento Press

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Tri-Valley Biz Blog

TVBB is a business news blog focused on the businesses large and small of the Tri-Valley and how they imapct the communities, whether good or bad.

Local Life

Future Oakland

Crazy in Suburbia

Scratching beneath the shiny, happy surface of a California suburb (Walnut Creek).

Pacifica Riptide

RIPTIDE GOES WITH THE FLOW Pacifica Riptide is an open forum for community news and opinion. Riptide celebrates Pacifica's green hillsides, open spaces, abundant coastal and marine life, and enterprising people, recognizing that Pacifica's environment and economy are interdependent.

Myrtle Street Review

The Myrtle Street Review is a West Oakland-based blog about slightly sideways things. Or slightly sideways reactions to things. It is written by Susanna Varestus. You can send feedback and ideas for things to write about by email.

Prescott-Oakland Point Neighborhood

This site features Neighborhood News in and around the Prescott Oakland Point neighborhood which is one of the oldest residential and commercial areas in Oakland. The Prescott-Oakland Point Neighborhood Association (POPna) community group's boundary is defined within Mandela Pkwy (East), 7th Street (South), 580(North), San Francisco Bay (West) encompassing the "Central Station" development and Oakland Army Base Area.

Richmond Confidential

Albany Today

Albany Today is a community news website dedicated to provide news and information service to residents of Albany, CA. To suggest a story or inquire about posting one, please email Barbara Grady at barbgrady@sbcglobal.net. Albany Today was started in September, 2007 by Linda (Linjun) Fan, a graduate student of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. The website has become the most reliable and respected news source in town by serving the community with timely, lively and fair coverage on all major issues.

The Island

Fragmentary Evidence

A photo blog focused on West Oakland.

The DTO

This blog provides information about Oakland’s most happening ‘hood - Downtown Oakland, colloquially known as The DTO. I don’t moderate comments but sometimes they’re caught in the spam filter; contact me if your comment hasn’t appeared within a day.

HarriOak News

A community news source for residents of the HarriOak neighborhood in Oakland, CA.

Living in the O

Today in Montclair

I’m excited to share what is happening around Montclair. We live in a place that is a “great escape,” in my humble opinion. It’s wonderful to be surrounded by peace, quiet, trees, deer, cool weather, morning fogs, and European-like vistas. Plus there are a handful of farm animals, squealing here in Oakland.Why am I blogging? Well, the opportunity caught my eye because I’m a typical dotcom executive. Also, I really enjoy the polyglot of humanity in our little neighborhood. It should be fun to share the everyday joys and woes of our community. When I think of this neighborhood, its mostly filled with people who care about what they are doing but don’t particularly care about appearances and being noticed! On the other hand, Montclair’s a place where shopkeepers recognize you and you’re easily “part of the community” whether you have kids, are single, retired, etc. So, expect to read about what really matters, like food, hiking, seeing movies, and saying hello to all the neighborhood dogs. Plus anything I overhear at the coffee shops is fair game. Cheers and welcome. -Debby (aka MontclairOak)

Our Oakland

Oakland Speaks: Eastside Stories is an integrated public art project by artist Rene Yung that will beautify the new East Oakland Community Library and create a new platform for community storytelling about East Oakland. The overall theme of the project is Mutuality + Transformation, meaning that as members of a community, each of us is interconnected and we have the power to individually an collectively take actions to make positive changes. This project consists of three parts: Public Art in the Library A Digital Archive of Community Stories about East Oakland Community building activities including forming new partnerships, hosting storytelling events and an building a new online community

Oaklander Online

news outside my glenview window

Oakland Streets

Jackson West's Obsessive Compulsion

I’m a writer and multimedia producer living and working in the Mission. You can find my work all over the place — I’ve contributed to Twitter Wit, NBC Bay Area, Penthouse, PC World, FastCompany, Hispanic Business, Valleywag, Curbed SF, SFGate, Young Manhattanite, NewTeeVee, Web Worker Daily, Other Magazine, GigaOm, Fleshbot, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, SFist, mcweeneys.net, CNet, Sams Publishing and Osborne-McGraw Hill. I’ve also turned up incidentally at Time, Metblogs San Francisco, Mediabistro, The Fart Party, Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits, Red Eye, Black Eye, KPIX, Ryan is Hungry, Slashdot, San Francisco Unscripted, the San Francisco Examiner and Grade the News. I’m not to be confused with other awesome people named Jackson West worldwide, like the home-staging professional in Vancouver or the personal mail courier in Canberra.

42nd Street Moon

Since 1993 42nd Street Moon has been celebrating and preserving the art and spirit of the American Musical Theatre. Blogger and 42 St. Moon Founder, Greg MacKellan, and BlogMaster Elisa Camahort of Worker Bees hope to give you a backstage glimpse at the theatre and all of its activities, from putting on our staged concerts of "Lost" musicals, to our outreach programs.

Almond-Shuey Blog

The Almond-Shuey neighborhood is located in downtown Walnut Creek, just blocks from the East Bay's premiere shopping, dining and entertainment hot spot. There are 6 streets that comprise Almond-Shuey; Almond Avenue, Almond Court, Shuey Avenue, Stow Avenue, Brooks Street and Dora Avenue.

Stop Touching My food

Tales of my utterly surreal San Francisco existence.

Marin County Free Library Blog

* Stay up to date on what's happening at the Library, best-selling books, great websites, book clubs, author appearances, and more!

Berkeley Afoot

Walking can be a form of transportation, a means of meditation or exercise, or a great way to explore a community. Writer/photographer Keith Skinner offers intimate glimpses of Berkeley life, in word and image, as well as reflections on the joys and challenges of a modern urban walker.

Infospigot: The Chronicles

Dan Brekke: "In the news business since 1972, longer now than some of my colleagues have been alive, and I'm still learning." One journalist's take on everyday life in the Bay Area.

Berkeleyside

We Fight Blight

Oakland Local

UnBerkeley

Well it is unlike a blog. That’s where the “un” part comes from. A blog is the “unedited voice of a person” (someone said that). This is the voice of no one. Still unedited though. :-) The blogroll is called an “unblogroll” but unfortunately WordPress does not let you edit that so it must say it’s a blogroll, which is part of the un-ness of this thing. Don’t trust your eyes. Things are not what they seem! It seems like Berkeley would be the place where a blog is un. Hence the un-ness of it all. It’s probably being written in Albany or El Cerrito. Places that claim not to be part of Berkeley, but we know better!

West Alameda

This site is produced by Tony Daysog, a long-time West Ender. Mr. Daysog served on Alameda's City Council between 1996 and 2006, as well as on a number of other committees. He is a Senior Associate with a Walnut Creek-based economic development consulting company.

City Homestead

This blog is an attempt to chronicle our adventures living in a small 1915 bungalow in the heart of Oakland, California. We’ve got a big dog, a little garden, and a 94-year-old house about a mile from the city’s center that we’re slowly trying to restore and update. Most of the time this blog is about our house and garden, our neighborhood, and our city. Occasionally, I write about bigger picture issues and ideas, usually around urban planning and policy, food systems, or other things I think are fun and interesting.

38th Notes

Alameda Point Community Blog

Coastsider

Claycord

CLAYCORD.com is the #1 blog for local breaking news for the cities of Concord, Clayton, Pleasant Hill & Walnut Creek. Our exclusive and breaking news stories have been on every local news station, in every local newspaper, on the radio, and even on CNN! Thanks for reading! And feel free to email the Mayor of CLAYCORD anytime at mayorofclaycord@yahoo.com

N-Judah Chronicles

I run the popular "N Judah Chronicles" website, where I write about San Francisco urban life from the perspective of a daily MUNI rider. The blog was voted by San Franciscans as "Best Local Blog" in 2008, and has received recognition locally since 2005.

Burrito Justice

Burritos, taco trucks, The Mission, technology, Macs, iPhones, Canada — so much to discuss.

Oakland North

The Public Press

The Organic City

Storytelling has been used to entertain and communicate ideas for thousands of years. Throughout history, narrative has evolved in parallel with emerging technologies, such as the written alphabet, radio, film, and television. Today's new technologies, including the Internet, databases, and mobile devices, allow us to author and communicate stories faster and in more ways than ever before. The Organic City, which will emerge organically during 2005-06, will use these technologies to create a collaborative digital storyworld centered on the downtown Oakland areas surrounding Lake Merritt. The project seeks to connect with the community through this website where you can find and tell stories about local places. In addition, the project offers mobile media that can be experienced onsite with mobile media players and Pocket PC's. Ultimately, we hope the project will allow us to explore the relationships between place, story, and community; as well as the ways in which new technologies can enhance our appreciation for these important components of human identity and experience.

I Live Here: SF

i live here:SF is an open invitation to San Francisco residents to enjoy and participate in, sharing many facets of life in this city with each other and the world at large. The project was also featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. Julie Michelle is one of the founding members of the photographic collective CALIBER. Her website is femmefotographie.com. Her writing and personal blog is julieliveshere.com. Julie is also the photographer for the band Magic Christian.

Irene Walks Alameda

I fell in love with Alameda in 1974 on the first day we drove through the "Tube" on to Webster Street, and have been walking Alameda streets nearly every day since then. The city is a treat for the eyes and the imagination. Here is what I see...

Alamedans

Alamedans.com is a gateway to news, information and opinion from a variety of Alamedans with a distinctively Alameda focus. By reading this blog, you have become one of the best informed Alamedans in the history of Alameda. Never before have so many banded together to blog so much about Alameda. Posts found here are a combination of posts from a number of Alameda related blogs, as well as occasional guest-pieces written specifically for Alamedans.com

Delmundo's Isle of Style Blog - Stay Classy Alameda

Comment and content on this blog are the sole opinion of Edmundo Delmundo. Edmundo Delmundo takes all responsibility for his comments and musings. Credit is given where credit is due. Fact checking and journalistic integrity are not hallmarks of this blog. Edmundo Delmundo gives consent to aggregators (e.g. Alamedans) simply to get the word out. His association should in no way be construed to suggest any editorial collusion.

Alameda Musings

Alameda is a charming island city and sometimes confused with the name of the county to which it belongs (Alameda!). Perhaps the city/county founders were so enamored of the name, they christened it twice (along the lines of New York, NY?) But I digress … As a long time resident, I have watched the city evolve over the years in an attempt to keep pace with the ever changing times. Whilst change can be good, it has certainly not been easy for Alameda as witnessed by the passionate debates over growth vs. preservation. This blog will attempt to chronicle some facets about life in Alameda and perhaps this might help explain why there is no other place quite like it in the entire bay area. I am at: alameda.blog@gmail.com

Alameda Daily Noose

By reading this soon-to-be-award-winning daily noosepaper, you have become one of over 44,850 visitors* to Alameda Daily Noose and you have become one of the best informed Alamedans on issues that don't really matter, as we regularly publish Alameda press releases before they appear in the Journal, the Times-Star and the Sun. We also publish Alameda noose they never print.

Daily Nugget San Francisco

O-Scene

Sweeeeet Oakland

In Oakland

Oaksnap

Take a look at the photos of public places in Oakland, CA. Can you identify the location? Leave a comment with your answer. Do you have a photo you'd like to share on OakSnap? Send it over to cmn.wilson@gmail.com and you may see it up on the blog! The Oakland snapshot mystery game. 1. Check out the photos and see if you can guess where the snapshot was taken. You can identify the photo by leaving a comment listing the neighborhood and/or cross street. 2. Send in tricky shots to add more fun to the game. 3. If this game becomes a hit I will work on getting prizes for the first commenter to guess the correct location on each photo post!

Back to Oakland

When Anna and I were first dating in the mid-1970s we lived in Oakland and occasionally went dancing with friends from the theatre where we performed during the summer. (Woodminster Theatre in Joaquin Miller park.) There was a club down near the Oakland coliseum that allowed those of us who were not yet 21 to dance to the funky music that was popular in Oakland at that time. One of the groups setting the tone for the Eastbay music scene in the 1970s was Tower of Power. They released an album in 1974 called Back to Oakland, and when we decided to move back to our old stomping grounds, I thought it would be fitting to pay homage to that record by naming this humble blog after the album. There’s some good music on the disc. Check it out!

Rebuilding Oaktown

A blog about the beautification and re-redevelopment of Oaktown from the viewpoint of a downtown resident, dark greenie, new urbanist fan and world traveler. I also run a pedicab in central Oakland. It’s called “Back Seat.” Contact: k150 [at] yahoo

Bay Area Love Letters

Action Alameda News

SF Civic Center

San Francisco as seen through the Civic Center neighborhood: its politics, arts and characters.

A Mindful Life

El Cerrito Focus

East Bay Daze

An alternative to traditional coverage of the towns of Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda, California. The three greatest towns in the state!

Around Dublin

The Secret News

The HayWord

Marin Maven

Maven has more than 20 years of high tech experience from working from 976-Jeanne Dixon Horoscopes and large telecommunications projects, to computer training, to large corporate IT projects, to becoming a web designer. In the 199os, worked with an innovative interactive television project called 21st Century Vaudeville. In 1996, Denise founded T.I.E.S. Terminal Illness Emergency Search, which offered free post-adoption search services to those with terminal illness. She worked with Bastard Nation working on Adoptee Rights issues. Denise designed Filmmaker, Sheila Ganz’s website for her film, “Unlocking the Heart of Adoption”. She has also volunteered with Mid-Peninsula Support Network and worked in clinic defense for Planned Parenthood. Denise has testified before state and local government and lobbied multiple state legislatures.

Marin Mommies

Marin Mommies was developed and launched by Pamela Fox in January, 2007. A stay-at-home mom of two small children, Pamela grew up in San Rafael, and currently lives in Novato. It is her hope that Marin Mommies will be a place for moms (and dads, too) to come together to learn, advise, discuss, and share tips and resources with other parents in Marin and the San Francisco Bay Area—and anywhere else, for that matter. Much of the content in Marin Mommies is specific to the Bay Area and Marin County, but much will be of interest to parents everywhere!

Our Sausalito

About OurSausalito.com We're out to radically redefine the concept of a Guidebook. We're shredding the old assumptions of the Frommer's and Fodor's of the world, and building a new, vibrant, living online guide that constantly changes to meet readers' needs. We are the journal of a passionate love affair between a place, the people who live here and those who come from around the world to visit. Not every town can inspire passion. Sausalito can.

Sally Around the Bay

My name is Sally (if that wasn’t obvious already) and I want to thank you for following me as I tour around looking for fun things to do in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’m going to be exploring the Bay – uncovering hidden gems as I go – and using this blog to document my experience. I have so much fun bopping around from restaurants in the Bay Area to funky shops and boutiques that I decided it would be selfish of me NOT to share all of my experiences with the world. Whether you’re a bored local or are planning on visiting San Francisco, my goal is for you to discover something new, fun and maybe even thought provoking to do in the Bay Area through this collection of blog posts. Please note that I live in Marin County so I may be a little biased toward things to do in Marin and I’ll probably focus on more things to do in Marin County than anywhere else in the Bay. However, I promise I will be adventurous as I sally across the bridges and step over the county line on a regular basis. Knowing I have to document lots of lesser known fun things to do in the Bay Area will force me to try new things and get out of my comfort zone.

A Rockridge Life

Welcome to the new site. One year ago today I started a blog on a lark. There was no motivation, no purpose, no theme. The blog became a straightforward, if opinionated, record of daily life in a small neighborhood of Oakland, California. Today I’m happy to say A Rockridge Life will remain just that. The new portfolios hold photographs and writing from the blog that I’d like to return to, and you might too. Today we start with flowers and food, two of my passions. In time, more of these portfolios will be added, and the existing ones refined.

Central Station

Grand Lake Neighbors

Grand Lake Guardian

Information and analysis to support responsible participation. Serving the neighborhoods surrounding Lake Merritt in Oakland, California.

Lives of the Dead

A blog about Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.

Meet Downtown Oakland!

Mr. Oakland

I love Oakland and have loved it for as long as I can remember. As a young child living in The Haight, my fondest memories were the "trips" across The Bay to see my Aunt Carol. Ok. She wasn't my real aunt, but she and my Mom were true "sisters". Fairyland, Knowland Park, I. Magnin, Jack London Square, Doggie Diner, and Capwell's ? The only thing better was one of those sunshine-laced days to make it a perfect day. I even decided to attend high school here. I couldn't get enough! My Blog will be devoted to all things Oakland; especially the revival of Downtown. I live Downtown. I work Downtown. I love in Downtown. It is my goal to have as many Oakland Lovers live in Downtown as possible.

Oakland: Hidden Treasures

I spent the day with my friend BHboy today and we had experienced so many good sides to Oakland just this weekend alone, but the news always seems to pick up the more negative aspect. I LIVE IN WEST OAKLAND AND LOVE OAKLAND for its diversity (despite all the talk of corrupt politicians, crime and poverty) and have always tried to get people to see that it has a lot to offer. Anyway, BHboy in his youthful wisdom suggested I should blog about all the cool things this city has to do. Bare in mind that as geeky as I am, I am not into the web social scene (even my boss is dumbfounded that I don't have a F*c#book profile) and only carry around a mobile phone because I have to for work.

The Oakland Berkeley Journal

Oakland Daily Photo

When you pay attention to your surroundings, there's no end to what you can learn.

Oakland Space Academy

Oakland Space Academy features lectures and discussions on space in and around Oakland California. To suggest a topic for further study, email oakland.space.academy @gmail.com.

Oakland Warthog Rugby

Owner of Spencer Investigations, est. 1996 in Oakland, California. (510) 593-3767. Specialize in civil investigations, criminal defense,locates, taking statements, background checks, domestic cases, etc. Member, associate, Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers and Alameda Bar. Graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

Make Oakland Better Now!

Scenes From Oakland

A writer and photographer, Jennifer Inez Ward has been documenting Oakland neighborhood’s for more than 10 years. A graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism, Jennifer focuses on the uniqueness and beauty of everyday life in a city that is too often overlooked for its treasures and pleasures. Throughout the years, Jennifer has had the honor of showcasing her work at a number of venues, including a permanent loan of images that are displayed on the front wall of Barnes and Nobel in Jack London Square. Jennifer is a featured artist documented in “Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland”.

Livin int he Loin

livinintheloin is: a) a tree hugger b) an activist / volunteer in The Tenderloin c) a cartoon character d) car-free e) On the NOM/TCBD Board f) All of the above Basically, a regular guy that’s been in the area for about a decade, in SF for 6 years. Last summer, ‘07, I bought a condo in the Tenderloin — the American dream. From the perspective of a guy who had actually only been downtown a few times — the “dream” was initially more like a psycho-nightmare. Uh, what is that smell? Look at that, a guy using a car mirror to inject (I dunno) into his neck.

Noe Valley SF

A hyper-local guide to Noe Valley ... with attitude.

Richmond SF Blog

Welcome to the blog for the Richmond District of San Francisco. Managed by several residents of the Richmond District, the blog is designed to be a source for information, events and news about the neighborhood. Have an event coming up, a new restaurant or business opening, an idea for a story or something else you want to tell us about? Send us a note with all the details. We hope you enjoy the blog as much as we enjoy our Richmond District neighborhood. :)

Spots Unkown

Lincoln Ct.

Seeking to design & develop internet software, create tools & utilities for processing & presenting information, provide coding & technical support to local small businesses & other professionals. Skilled programmer in Java and PostScript; working at Database Design and Website Development using Filemaker and Dreamweaver. Currently designing electronic maps and diagrammatic forms, and writing PHP/MySQL on Mac OS X. Enjoy Hiking & Biking, Camping; play Chess; practice Oneironautics. Once enthusiastic about paragliding and aviation in general, I now dream of earning a private pilot’s license to explore North America from the air.

San Jose Inside

Willow Glen Extra

Sonoma Country Life

Sonoma Country Life from a British/American writer's perspective, covering modern community living in an evolving region best known for farming and wine making. With a home base at the gateway to wine country, people, politics, business, arts, artisan farmers and wine makers of the riverfront city of Petaluma take center stage in daily vignettes of a locavore's life.

92510 East Bay Blog

Alameda Blog Journal

Life on the Island: Politics, school, commerce and distractions. Here you’ll find posts on Alameda almost (but not quite) every day. You’l also find links to other stories about Alameda published in the Alameda Journal.

Mission Loc@l

Mission Mission

More Marin

Oakland Crimespotting

Oaklandish

SFist

The Bay Area

California Beat

California Beat is a website about the people, places and things of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Fault Lines Project

The OakBook

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Multimedia

Oakland North

Boothism

Art-Culture-Tech-Sex-Beats-Words: Life. A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness. Heavy on the randomness.

Mission Loc@l

Richmond Confidential

Music

Boothism

Art-Culture-Tech-Sex-Beats-Words: Life. A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness. Heavy on the randomness.

MOG

MOG -- www.mog.com -- is the place to get the music content you crave. With thousands of contributions from music lovers and the top 300 music blogs that make up our network, MOG generates over 6,000 music blog posts per week, all hand-curated to deliver the web's best daily music newspaper. MOG makes it easy to dig deep and find up-to-date information on your favorite artist, album, or song by searching our archive of hundreds of thousands of blog posts. Sign up for MOG and get personalized music recommendations and blog posts designed and chosen just for you. Subscribe to your favorite artist on MOG and get instant updates. And if you've got something to say, come say it where 5.5 million music lovers per month will hear you.

Beatmixed

Matt Hite is a San Francisco bay area based DJ and remixer. His work has been featured on albums and compilations including The Best Mashups in the World Ever Are From San Francisco Pt. 1 and 2, Razormaid, and Portishead Remixed. Radio mix shows across the globe have also showcased his productions, including OUIFM, DC101, Live 105, KWOD 106, and SIRIUS satellite radio. He occasionally finds his way into print, including the UK’s Guardian, Now Playing Magazine, and San Francisco Magazine. Matt has also been sighted performing behind the decks at events such as Kinky Salon, Bootie, Pop Roxx, and New Wave City. Beatmixed is his blog which covers remix culture and showcases his own work as a mashup artist and producer.

38th Notes

Ear Bud

All Shook Down

SF Weekly's art, music and culture blog.

InFestizio

So, here they are. Five life lessons that can be inferred from the guitar: 1.) Be Light As a Feather | Use the minimal amount of finger pressure while fretting to attain faster playing speed. It’s not how hard you press, it’s how efficiently you move. 2.) Find Your Balance | Relax and focus on what you’re doing now. Keep the future in mind but don’t wander too far or you might get lost. 3.) There Is No Wrong Way | Mistakes are only deviations from your desired path. Push through and don’t let these deviations bring you down or you’ll end up straying more. Don’t sweat the small stuff or you’ll end up drenched. 4.) Be Inspired | When it comes down to it, the goal of pursuing any artistic endeavor is to create something meaningful, expressive and aesthetically profound. Try and hold onto whatever it is that inspires you. 5.) Don’t Forget to Have Fun | Life is short, after all…

News

All Voices

allvoices is a global community that shares news, videos, images and opinions tied to news events and people. It is the first true people’s media. It's a place where individuals from all over the world can share what is happening where they are (location) at a particular point in time. allvoices then brings together multiple voices or points of view via news stories, videos, images and blogs from the Internet, to provide context and build momentum. The platform provides the community with the ability to search and navigate a news event by location and category, to share and to have a discussion around it, to emotionally connect with each other’s perspectives and complete the human story. allvoices is an open and highly relevant social media site "unedited by humans", where anyone can report and add their voice from anywhere.

East Bay Daze

An alternative to traditional coverage of the towns of Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda, California. The three greatest towns in the state!

Halfway to Concord

California Political News, Contra Costa and East Bay News & Politics

The Island

Living in the O

The Snitch

SF Weekly's news, politics and opinion blog.

Livin int he Loin

Willow Glen Extra

Beyond Chron

Berkeleyside

UC Berkeley NewsCenter

News from UC Berkeley covering the full breadth of the ideas and inventions percolating up from this community of 50,000 students, professors, and staff.

The Berkeley Blog: Provocative Thinking From UC Berkeley

Oakland Local

The Bay Area

Claycord

Noe Valley SF

A hyper-local guide to Noe Valley ... with attitude.

N-Judah Chronicles

Mayor of Concord

East Bay News. Focusing on Concord, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and surrounding area.

Oakland North

SF Gate Politics Blog

HarriOak News

A community news source for residents of the HarriOak neighborhood in Oakland, CA.

In Oakland

Eye on Blogs

Eye on Blogs aims to be a one-stop source for hot topics and discussions happening on Bay Area blogs. We sift through hundreds of sites on a daily basis, offering up links to and commentary on the brightest, funniest, most engaging posts made by local bloggers, while providing a place to interact and converse about the issues of the day. Brittney Gilbert has been blogging personally since 1999 and professionally since 2005. Before joining the CBS 5 team to write Eye on Blogs in 2007, she wrote a community blog for WKRN in her hometown of Nashville, TN. She now resides in the Inner Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco. She can be found hooping, watching Twin Peaks or enjoying the company of friends. Email her with news tips, photos for sharing or just to say hello at bgilbert@kpix.cbs.com.

Action Alameda News

Crazy in Suburbia

Scratching beneath the shiny, happy surface of a California suburb (Walnut Creek).

San Leandro Bytes

El Cerrito Focus

Grand Lake Guardian

Information and analysis to support responsible participation. Serving the neighborhoods surrounding Lake Merritt in Oakland, California.

San Jose Inside

Almond-Shuey Blog

Stop, Drop, and Roll

92510 East Bay Blog

Alamedans

Albany Today

Around Dublin

Mission Loc@l

More Marin

Richmond Confidential

SFist

The Black Hour

The Black Hour Internet Radio Show is an internet radio show based at Laney College in Oakland, CA.

California Beat

California Beat is a website about the people, places and things of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The HayWord

The OakBook

The Public Press

Sacramento Press

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Tri-Valley Biz Blog

TVBB is a business news blog focused on the businesses large and small of the Tri-Valley and how they imapct the communities, whether good or bad.

Outdoors

Car-Free Outdoors

Coastsider

Oakland Geology

I’m Andrew Alden. My main gig is at About.com, where I cover the Earth sciences as the Geology Guide. But my city of Oakland is full of interest too, and since I tramp around it a lot I reserved this spot to think locally. I’m also “aboutgeology” on Twitter.

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Parenting

Marin Mommies

The Lemon Lady

The SF K Files

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Personal Blog

Humorlessbitch

This is one tag-driven blog, oh yes. (492, at last count). I suppose you could say I am one tag-driven writer, but in fact there are so many fascinating associations between all these great people and moments and the vast collection of asshats, the web is really tag heaven. I write, not for a living, thank god, but for my own sanity’s sake. To think, which is to say, to write your thinking is to order it and, usually, discover something new. Truth is, the outer situation improves not one bit … but the mind loves thinking, everything feels a tad more orderly and understood after the act of writing.

UnBerkeley

Cherry City Chatter

Susan Mernit's Blog

Susan Mernit is the founder of Oakland Local, a news & community hub for Oakland, CA focused on environmental, food, development and social justice issues, and the recipient of a 2009 New Voices grant from J-Lab at American University. She is also the consulting web strategist for The Center for Investigative Reporting's California Watch project. A former VP at AOL and Netscape, and a former Yahoo Senior Director, Mernit was the consulting program manager for The Knight News Challenge in 2008-09, as well as a consultant to organizations including Salon.com & TechSoup Global, where she led the re-design of their portal.

Infospigot: The Chronicles

Dan Brekke: "In the news business since 1972, longer now than some of my colleagues have been alive, and I'm still learning." One journalist's take on everyday life in the Bay Area.

Ghost Town Farm

Local Lemons

Oaklander Online

news outside my glenview window

A Mindful Life

First and foremost, understand that this is not a psychotherapy blog. Once I was a psychotherapist with a private practice in Austin, Texas. The blog began then and focused on psychology, therapy, and general well-being. When I moved to California in 2004, I moved on from the profession, and the blog became more personal in nature (although I try to cover my diverse interests). I’ve attempted to notify sites that linked to me as a therapist, but not all may have dropped my listing. There is a rising interest in the West in mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhism. At times, people reading this blog have mistaken me for a practitioner and claimed (or inferred) that because I use the word “mindful,” what I post here represents the face of Buddhism to the world.

Jackson West's Obsessive Compulsion

All About George

I work at Bay Area News Group-East Bay’s Contra Costa Times, a 160,000-circulation newspaper that covers much of San Francisco’s East Bay. As the Times’ online coordinator, I offer best-practices advice on blogging and social media, moderate site forums, polls and reader-generated content; and create a daily “link and load” list of daily-buzz stories for budgeting awareness. I was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and earned a bachelor’s in mass communications (concentration in newspaper journalism) from Bowie State University. My first newspaper job (not counting several years as a Washington Post paperboy in Silver Spring, Md., and a year or so as editor-in-chief of Bowie State University’s Spectrum student newspaper) was a Chips Quinn Scholar internship at the Oakland Tribune. That led to schools and general-assignment/nightcops reporting stints with the Tri-Valley Herald in Pleasanton and a stint on ANG Newspapers’ universal copy desk as an editor and paginator; later came online copy-editor shifts at thestandard.com and salon.com. I joined the Times in 2001 as a copy editor and paginator and then as the paper’s first morning online reporter.

Ad Astra Per Aspera

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common -- this is my symphony. - William Henry Channing

A Stitch in Time

I am a freelance writer whose interest has always been drawn to what people do when they are not working. But really. The blog tells all.

Cyrus Farivar

Cyrus Farivar is a freelance technology journalist, a freelance radio reporter/producer, and is a wanderlust geek who lives in the city of Oakland, California. Previously, he has lived in Lyon (France), Saint-Louis (Senegal), Melbourne (Australia), and in a small village 20 km from Geneva (Switzerland). He is currently working on a book, The Internet of Elsewhere, about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea. It is due out from Rutgers University Press in 2011. He regularly reports for National Public Radio, The World (WGBH/PRI/BBC), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

City Homestead

All I Know

Richard Friedman lives in Oakland, CA, works as a tech writer in Silicon Valley, is a Director of Other Minds, wrote his first computer program in 1962 for the IBM 650. It played dice. He is also a ham radio (AG6RF) operator, and he also takes a lot of photographs, composes music, and does a weekly radio program on KALW called Music From Other Minds. He is not Kinky.

Bay Area Budgeter

The Happy Capitalist

Intellectual Poison

I used to have one of these up but it went away during one of the many redesigns over the years. So, instead of digging out the old one, I thought it would be a good exercise to revisit About Me and see if I am the same person I was when this blog coughed to life four years ago. So, what About Me? Who am I would be a good start. I'm not really a guy named Johnny Huh but he is a character I've written with for a number of years and forced anonymity gave me Johnny Huh rather than some of the other folks I've written. Anyway, the Huh part works well with my general incredulity at the never ending descent (or seeming descent) of our nation and culture. [Update: The astute will have already noted this but I thought it should be noted here as well, I'm no longer going to be blogging as Johnny Huh. I have decided that I will be blogging under my real name, which is Erik. I'm still working on adding my last name to the disclosure but this is a significant first step out behind the anonymity curtain.] Because I do believe that this nation is being poisoned from within. That it is being led by people who do not care a whit for nation or a united people, they care for themselves and their friends to our collective detriment. So I guess its fair to say that I've got a reasonably well developed sense of justice and fairness. I also tend to prefer reasonable people over raving nutfuck lunatics with nothing but axes to grind and spittle to spray. Though the nutfucks aren't so bad if you're out of range, sometimes they come up with a good line or two. I get on political tears from time to time when the incessant stream of bile posing as news from the White House just gets to be too much. But I try to not be a full-on ranting bastard without cause. I write about marketing and public relations concerns because that's what I do for a living. And I like to discuss advertising that works and advertising that does not work. I also like words, I like coming up with new ones, I put them here and on another blog called the Fictionarium. I'm sure I didn't invent that term but I like it well enough to pretend it's mine. I take a lot of photographs, some of them are pretty good. I'd like to get a nice full sized SLR someday to see what I could do with it. But portability is key to me and my SD450 fits into my pocket easily. I will try to add to this About Me as time and circumstances permit. But for now, I'm going to post it and get it added to the template to make it easier to find. Oh yeah, I'll also add pictures at some point too because photography is pretty important to me and I love to show off pics of my two beautiful boys.

Little.Yellow.Different

Hi, I’m Ernie. I’ve had a blog and/or website, in one form or another, since 1997; you’re looking at the current version. Some of my blogging adventures have been featured in a book, humbly called The Very Best Weblog Writing Ever By Anyone Anywhere In The Whole Wide World, Vol. 1 along with a bunch of other bloggers. I am also the editor of 8 Asians, a collaborative blog catered to the Asian American community. I’m based in San Francisco, and you may contact me via e-mail at ernie@littleyellowdifferent.com. As there is more to anyone than just a list of bullet points, the rest you’ll just have to read for yourself. Please note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.

Berkeley Blog

Sylvia Paull entered the technology revolution when she accidentally applied for a job with Software Ventures, developers of the first commercial telecom software for the Macintosh called MicroPhone. She was soon elected to the board of BMUG, started hosting parties for Will Hearst III, John C. Dvorak, and Jerry Pournelle at Comdex (a pre-blogger event), and eventually started her own parties, known as Cybersalons (www.berkeleycybersalon.com). An independent high-tech publicist and velvet feminist, she started Gracenet, a group for women in high tech (www.gracenet.net), and various other groups revolving around her desires to eat out, take long walks, and shake things up.

Island-Life

Berkeley Afoot

Christopher Null

Tamale World

Living in a Tamale World cuz I am a Tamale Girl Tina Tamale Ramos' Life, Adventures and Projects in Oakland, CA.

Delmundo's Isle of Style Blog - Stay Classy Alameda

Myrtle Street Review

Boothism

Art-Culture-Tech-Sex-Beats-Words: Life. A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness. Heavy on the randomness.

Kristendish

Casa Decrepit

Alameda Musings

A Rockridge Life

InFestizio

Irene Walks Alameda

Le Blog de San Francisco

This used to be Unofficial Meredith Brody and Marc Sandalow Fan Club, but the SF Weekly let her go and the Chronicle bought him out. We're left reading Phil Bronstein, "American Thinker."

Is It Edible?

I Live Here: SF

MisterWriter's Extelligence

Access Contra Costa

Anna's Cool Finds

Anna lives in Mill Valley California and enjoys writing about her food and travel adventures in and out of Marin County. "...what I would like to capture aren't thoughts but the scent of my happiness!" - Jacques Henri Lartique "There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mahatma Gandhi

A Mindful Life

Diary of an Oakland Shop Girl

Ms. Q Takes on Oakland

I have been reflecting a lot on where I am now, where I have been, and where I want to go. It has been 22 weeks since I began teaching. 6 long months. 22 frustrating Sunday nights. 6 months of stress and strain. But now that the 2nd semester has started, I am able to finally look ahead: 15 more weeks of teaching (not including STAR testing, and finals week). 4 1/2 months to go until year 1 is done. I am excited to finish this roller coaster of a year, but I am terrified that my students will not have learned everything I promised that they would in the next 4 months. That is not a lot of time to re-teach new material, AND the 6 months of material that they didn't get because of poor teaching on my part. Apparently the 1st semester for new teachers is just b.s.

Stop Touching My food

Tales of my utterly surreal San Francisco existence.

Back to Oakland

Burrito Justice

Burritos, taco trucks, The Mission, technology, Macs, iPhones, Canada — so much to discuss.

Zennie 62

Oakland: Hidden Treasures

WordYard

Photography

Fragmentary Evidence

A photo blog focused on West Oakland.

Local Lemons

Life Begins @ 30

Berkeley Afoot

Oakland North

I Live Here: SF

SF Bay Daily Photo

Louis la Vache Views of an American with French ancestry about France - and the San Francisco Bay Area. Clic sur l'image pour l'agrandir

Irene Walks Alameda

Oakland Daily Photo

When you pay attention to your surroundings, there's no end to what you can learn.

A Rockridge Life

Mission Loc@l

Mission Mission

Oaksnap

Real Estate

A Piece of the Pie

This blog offers information for people who wonder how the heck they'll ever be able to buy property in the Bay Area.

Knife Catchers

A blog documenting the implosion of the largest housing bubble in US history, with a focus on Alameda real estate.

Inside San Francisco Real Estate

Tips, trends and insights on San Francisco real estate from the trenches. A great blog for buyers and sellers who appreciate a dose of transparency in their real estate information. Blogger Eileen Bermingham has been in residential real estate sales for the past 7+ years, and has plenty to say about it.

Casa Decrepit

94501 Real Estate

I am the Director of Marketing for ZipRealty, Inc. which provides home sellers and buyers with an innovative real estate solution. By using the efficiencies of the Internet, we have streamlined the real estate process and are able to pass significant savings on to our clients. Our licensed ZipAgents have years of experience in the areas they serve, allowing you to save thousands, without compromising on service.

Curbed SF

header-sf-882x112.jpg In San Francisco, it all comes back to our neighborhoods: where we live, where we work, where we eat, and where we play. First launched in 2006, Curbed has been at the center of the virtual city, covering real estate sales, rental prices, and news-making deals. We also track the newest developments in architecture and design while keeping up with the hottest restaurants, via our sister site Eater SF, and the latest neighborhood gossip—it's all on Curbed, because this is where you live. Curbed SF is the third of the Curbed sites, which also include Curbed NY and Curbed LA, and part of the Curbed Network, a collection of neighborhood blogs. Our other sites are the restaurant blog Eater, the retail and fashion blog Racked and, during the summer season, The Beach, which covers the Hamptons.

The Front Steps

With over 400,000 unique readers annually, and more than 25,000 comments to date, theFrontSteps, is one of the most popular real estate blogs in San Francisco. You are not alone when reading or participating in this site, and your presence is felt and welcomed. theFrontSteps is written primarily by me, Alexander Clark. I am, in fact, an active, licensed real estate agent in San Francisco (license #01339386), and I’d be thrilled to represent you on your home purchase or sale. If you’ve already browsed this site, you’ll see I know considerably more about San Francisco’s market than most agents, and I’m not your typical “Realtor”. I’d be honored to put my expertise to work for you, and I can guarantee it will be a pleasurable experience.

Socket Site

We currently see across the board weakness in San Francisco’s residential real estate market throughout 2009 as economic woes compound the impact of tighter credit markets and a shift in market psychology. Downturns in residential real estate have traditionally been triggered by a downturn in either the local or national economy. The reality which we’ve foreshadowed for quite some time is that the majority of the current market weakness in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and beyond has been driven by a contraction in the credit markets (the deflation of a credit bubble) and a recent shift in market psychology (the deflation of a speculative bubble). The real impact of a weakening economy is yet to come. With an economy that generally lags the financial markets by nine to twelve months, the full brunt of October’s melt-down won’t be felt for at least another six months. And we expect to see continued weakness in both consumer and corporate spending over at least the next couple of quarters which will further depress corporate earnings and likely lead to additional layoffs and stoke the real real estate killer, unemployment. With no discernable recovery in sight, we expect the financial market’s destruction of wealth both real (investments) and potential (options) to continue to drag down the San Francisco residential market throughout 2009, and to weigh particularly heavy on the luxury market.

Square Feet

Well, fewer people may be buying property in San Jose this year than last, but the number of people thinking about buying here appears to be way up, according to data about online property searches on Realtor.com. In a press release today, Realtor.com, which is the official web site of the National Association of Realtors, said searches on its site for San Jose real estate were up 73.7 percent in September, compared to September 2007. That’s a big enough increase to rank San Jose at #6 on Realtor.com’s list of metro areas with the biggest increases in “search activity.” First was Stockton/Lodi, followed by Las Vegas; Riverside/San Bernardino; Oakland; Ft. Myers/Cape Coral, Florida; and then San Jose. Realtor.com did not release the actual numbers of searches completed, just the percentage changes.

Alameda Point Info

The Oakland Berkeley Journal

Alamedans for Alameda Point Revitalization

The Island

The OakBook

Willow Glen Extra

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Tri-Valley Biz Blog

TVBB is a business news blog focused on the businesses large and small of the Tri-Valley and how they imapct the communities, whether good or bad.

Religious

92510 East Bay Blog

Shalom of Oakland

When the ancient Scriptures speak of Shalom they speak of peace and so much more. Shalom describes a wholeness and completeness in every dimension of life. Shalom is what God desires a person to experience. Shalom is what God desires for a community and a neighborhood. We live in a fragmented world, a world in which we struggle to love one another. Far too often, there is no shalom. Despite the presence of beautiful and wonderful people, East Oakland is known for violence and death. A drive down the street or a glance at the newspaper remind us of shootings, prostitution, drugs and robberies. The litter on the sidewalk leaves no doubt of the alcohol and drug abuse prevalent all around us.

A Mindful Life

Science

The Berkeley Blog: Provocative Thinking From UC Berkeley

92510 East Bay Blog

Oakland Geology

The Bay Area

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Tri-Valley Biz Blog

TVBB is a business news blog focused on the businesses large and small of the Tri-Valley and how they imapct the communities, whether good or bad.

Sports

Oakland Warthog Rugby

92510 East Bay Blog

El Cerrito Focus

Raiders Radar

A blog about the Oakland Raiders.

Baseball Oakland

The Island

The Public Press

Willow Glen Extra

Sacramento Press

Bear Insider

The Bear Inside has become the blog affiliated with ESPN for Cal sports. It provides a set of moderated forums for Cal fans to discuss all things Bears sports.

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Style

92510 East Bay Blog

Diary of an Oakland Shop Girl

The Curvy Fashionista

Fashion blog dedicated to the discerning Curvy.Confident.Chic Plus size woman, covering fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle news from a plus perspective with both a local and an international view.

Boothism

Art-Culture-Tech-Sex-Beats-Words: Life. A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness. Heavy on the randomness.

SF Bay Style

Original Scraper Bikes

Mission Loc@l

Oaklandish

The OakBook

The Oakland Berkeley Journal

Technology

WordYard

Burrito Justice

Burritos, taco trucks, The Mission, technology, Macs, iPhones, Canada — so much to discuss.

Tech Liminal

Calendar Swamp

If we're ever going to share calendars, we have to insist on interoperability between them all. Let's drain the swamp!

Cyrus Farivar

Christopher Null

Berkeley Blog

The Berkeley Blog: Provocative Thinking From UC Berkeley

The Bay Area

WandaLUST

Boothism

Art-Culture-Tech-Sex-Beats-Words: Life. A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness. Heavy on the randomness.

92510 East Bay Blog

The Public Press

Livermore Links | Livermore News

Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.

Tri-Valley Biz Blog

TVBB is a business news blog focused on the businesses large and small of the Tri-Valley and how they imapct the communities, whether good or bad.

Transportation

BART on the Record

An independent service providing podcasts of BART board meetings and bicycle accessibility task force meetings, as well as links to other recorded meetings

California Beat

California Beat is a website about the people, places and things of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Transbay Blog

This blog will attempt to chronicle the efforts in the Bay Area to improve public transit service and to embrace more sustainable growth patterns. The reason for choosing the name “Transbay” is hopefully not so mysterious. The still-evolving plans concerning the Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco are shaping up to be the single most important transit project in the Bay Area. The current bus terminal at 1st and Mission Streets is aged and depressing, but in time, it will be transformed into the “Grand Central Station of the West”, an important hub combining BART, Caltrain, Muni, and various regional bus agencies — hopefully even California High Speed Rail — all in one place. Capping it all off will be a new mixed use highrise district that may form the new focal point to the downtown area, in addition to containing the Bay Area’s tallest skyscrapers. Since this district is centered on the Transbay Terminal, these plans represent the most ambitious example of transit-oriented development in the Bay Area. (Please note, however, that this blog is no way affiliated with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority or any other agency working on the Transbay Terminal project.)

Urbicifation

Walking. Bicycling. Alternatives to Driving Everywhere. Social justice. Alternatives to suburban boredom and waste. And the infrastructure and technology needed to get there.

92510 East Bay Blog

N-Judah Chronicles

21st Century Urban Solutions

Thank you for reading my blog. My name is Daniel Jacobson and I am an undergraduate student in Urban Studies at Stanford University . I am from Richmond, California, and have closely followed Bay Area urban planning issues since 2005. I have interned the past few summers at the Port of Oakland and the San Francisco nonprofits Livable City and Urban Ecology, and spent much of high school working at the Donald P. McCullum Youth Court in Oakland. I intend to go into urban planning because I believe that it is the most effective way to tackle the issues of Climate Change, oil consumption, declining public health, and population growth, while at the same time creating more livable and enjoyable cities for all. Email me at daniel.aaron.jacobson at gmail dot com

Living in the O

Walk Oakland Bike Oakland

Beyond Chron

Stop, Drop, and Roll

Switching Modes

In light of environmental challenges facing the world switching to transit will be one of the great challenges of the 21st Century. This website promotes the idea that the best way get people of their cars is to offer something that is comparatively better than private transportation. Implementing economic measures that let the true price of driving reveal itself, for example through congestion pricing, is one way to do this. Lifting transit up – improving transit and the communities that use transit – is another way to influence the switch to transit and will be the focal point of Switching Modes. In suggesting ways to improve transit Switching Mode’s goal is to introduce new, innovative and practical ways to maximize the effectiveness of the finite amount of resources available. Multimodal terminals, transit-oriented developments (TODs), and innovative uses of IT will be key topics of discussion on this site. Additionally Switching Modes will occasionally discuss how transportation projects can be funded using Public and Private Partnerships (PPPs) and exploiting transportation and land use connections.

Bay Bridge Blog

I was frustrated that there was no place to go to find out quickly What’s going on with the Bay Bridge. It seems this question is going to keep coming up at least until the reconstruction is done, so it made sense to start a community site to share information about the bridge. I took the picture used in the banner, driving across the upper deck of the bridge on Nov 1, 2007.

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