The Booming Blog Says Goodbye

The Booming blog, as now configured, is coming to an end.

For the last year and a half, with lots of help from you, our readers, Booming has presented news, essays, expert advice, etiquette tips, bar and music recommendations, as well as profiles of marriages that have lasted for the long term and some that have not. While the blog has been popular, eliminating it as a daily report will allow The New York Times to free up resources for other new ventures.

But many of Booming’s most popular features will still be available elsewhere in The Times.

Joyce Wadler’s column, I Was Misinformed, will appear weekly online in Fashion and Style and monthly in the print Style section. Our feature on long-term relationships that end in divorce, Unhitched, will migrate to the Vows section. A Quiet Drink, which profiles Manhattan bars where a good cocktail can be had and conversation is easy (to make and hear), is expected to appear from time to time in Friday’s weekend section; roundups from other cities like Chicago will appear occasionally in Travel. Retro Report, a weekly documentary series that updates news stories from decades past, will continue to be posted on the home page, as well as with the National Report.

In addition, the Your Money team in Business Day is starting a feature, Retiring, that will offer advice, personal stories and strategies each Saturday.

Most of these features will be included in the Booming newsletter, which will continue to be emailed to subscribers on Tuesdays. You can sign up here.

Two of our features, Civil Behavior by Steve Petrow, an etiquette column centering on gay life, and Music Match by Val Haller, which pairs rock ‘n’ roll classics with contemporary music, will live elsewhere on the web.

A collection of Mr. Petrow’s Civil Behavior columns is to be published by The Times as an e-book later this winter. Readers can continue following his work through his newsletter.

As we said when we introduced Ms. Haller, her mission is to expose fellow boomers to the music of her 20-something sons’ generation. Music Match is one of several features that appear on her website Valslist.com.

Laura Chang, my co-editor on Booming, and I will be taking new assignments at The Times. Before signing off, we want to apologize for not being able to get to many of the hundreds of essays you submitted. It was an embarrassment of riches: so many of you and not enough of us. As alternatives to Booming, personal essays may be submitted for the Private Lives series at [email protected] or, if appropriate, for the Modern Love series at [email protected].

Most important, we’d like to thank you for shaping and enlivening the report in so many ways. One of the best things about writing for The Times is the people who read it. Through a constant flow of comments, you helped us create a spirited online community.