Since July 2010, Asia view has been happy to play host to a terrific miscellany of The Economist’s reporting and analysis from around this unwieldy continent, and beyond. Asia, that is—Central Asia, South Asia, South-East Asia and East Asia (though not Arabia, nor “West Asia”)—plus Australia of course, and, why not, Polynesia out to Kiribati. First we called it a continent, then we set out to “survey its many fast-changing parts, from Afghanistan to the Pacific islands, stopping at all points in between to take in politics, business, pan-Asian themes and local arcana.” This has been a group-blog, taking in the work of our staff writers based in Asia and supplemented by a club of stringers from around the region. We’ve published posts from Kyrgyzstan to Pyongyang to the Solomon Islands, plus places with better airports along the way.

So far, so good. While we’ve been group-blogging here, Banyan, our newspaper’s eponymous columnist, has been blogging away by his lonesome next door, on “Banyan’s notebook”. Banyan, the man, writes about all of Asia. In the so-called notebook, he has written sometimes in preparation for his weekly columns, sometimes to get at areas of interest that fall between those printed pages.

From today, we will be joining these two bloggy efforts into a single group-blog: Banyan. No more "notebook", no more "Asia view". The posts that once lived at Asia view are moving over to Banyan post facto. Banyan the columnist will continue to write for Banyan the blog under his own byline, while our other bloggers will be adding their own posts, using initials for bylines and adding datelines where relevant (as they did for Asia view). So the name, with the tiger’s-eye logo, is really all we’re losing. Please update your RSS feeds and bookmarks, that we do not lose any of you.

From Asia view, adieu.