{"id":1007,"date":"2006-07-31T00:52:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T05:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2006-07-31T00:52:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T05:52:24","slug":"bay-area-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"Bay area identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backfence.org\">Backfence<\/a> event, the Backfence people were setting up a Palo Alto focused site, but folks in attendence felt like their geographic identity spanned Palo Alto and Menlo Park.  Which set me musing on Bay Area identity. I haven&#8217;t been here that long, so this observation could be either trivially obvious or wrong. But it seems to me that Bay Area folk have an interesting composite regional identity.   There&#8217;s a part of one&#8217;s identity that&#8217;s affiliated with a town: Palo Alto, Half Moon Bay, Fremont, Berkeley.  There&#8217;s part of the identity that is regional; identifying with regional transportation, regional landmarks, other issues that might be going on across the bay. And there&#8217;s part of the local identity that is social and\/or professional &#8212; going to Barcamp in San Francisco or Blogher in San Jose.   Is this right, dead obvious, or wrong?<br \/>\nIt would be interesting to have a tagged and geocoded service that let you pick or zoom to the appropriate level of geographic and topical interest, and didn&#8217;t constrain you to one of them.  Out of the various services I&#8217;ve seen, Yelp does a pretty good job of allowing you to find things by genre, and within an x mile radius of a particular place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Backfence event, the Backfence people were setting up a Palo Alto focused site, but folks in attendence felt like their geographic identity spanned Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Which set me musing on Bay Area identity. I haven&#8217;t been here that long, so this observation could be either trivially obvious or wrong. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bay area identity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-gf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}