I’ve now put together a list of Rochester-area blogs for my links.

It was a harder job than I anticipated. I found myself having to balance my own taste, inclinations and, um, respect for spelling against my sense of loyalty to my community.

What I want to do is to give visitors to my blog a chance to sample what other Rochester-area bloggers are up to. But, as I’m sure is true of any city, there is a continuum in the local blogosphere. On one end you find the blogs that are so highly personal and inward-looking that they end up belonging to no community in particular. At the other end are blogs that focus almost exclusively on national stories, which is fine but face it, you have to find something original to say or you might as well just link to Kos or LGF or Instapundit & type “ditto.”

Fortunately there is also a middle, and that is where I found the sites I like best, like this one, Junk Store Cowgirl–local journalist blogging about local topics but with an eye for how it all fits into the bigger picture.

Made my hunt worthwhile :-)

As did this: a Rochester Italian Greyhound club. Not really a blog, so I didn’t put it in my links, but get a load of the pic on the home page!