The astute among you may have noticed that there haven’t been any new Spin posts this year.

The more astute perhaps remarked that there hasn’t been much of a Spin blogger recruitment effort.

And I imagine that the most astute among you made use of your Penn-honed skills of deduction and guessed that the era of the Spin is, at long length, done.

The last two and a half years have been a time of great change here at the DP. After over a hundred years in print, we’ve thrown a tremendous amount of effort into expanding our online offerings, from video to interactive features to, yes, everyone’s favorite DP blogs. The Spin began featuring long posts by “online columnists” in the fall of 2006; as of this fall, it was less a virtual opinion page and much more a distinctly “bloggy” endeavor.

But as they say, all good things must come to an end. And when the DP closes a door, it opens a window.

Thus, it is my sad duty to announce that no new posts will appear on The Spin from now on — and my happy duty to inform you that the DP will launch several new, themed blogs sometime this semester.

Newly-elected opinion blog editor Abby Schwartz officially takes charge later tonight, after the annual Daily Pennsylvanian banquet. I trust that she will guide the opinion section successfully through this transition and into a new, (even more) modern, bloghappy age.

The first DP opinion blog saw many talented writers, more than a handful of  memorable pieces, and, of course, some truly epic editing. It shall be missed.

Tonight, we bid a fond adieu to The Spin.

Here’s to bigger and better things to come.