Lots of Blogs

While I was away, both Fort Wayne dailies went a little blog-crazy...which isn't a bad thing, of course.

The News-Sentinel, which already had Blake Sebring blogging about the Komets, gave fellow sports writers Reggie Hayes (who you might also recognize as an ESPNEWS talking head) and Pete DiPrimio their own blogs. Hayes doesn't really have a beat -- though he's the N-S's resident Colts expert -- but DiPrimio covers the Indiana and Purdue football and basketball teams, and now that we're about to start the Big Ten basketball season, he should have plenty of Hoosier and Boilermaker fans stopping in regularly.

The News-Sentinel also put more than a hundred restaurant reviews from Carol Tannehill online. Readers are allowed to add their own reviews of the restaurants Carol has written up, creating an interactive database for local residents to peruse before or after going out to dinner.

Leo Morris, as you're well aware, also has a blog he operates through the News-Sentinel, which he started over the summer. It continues to be a hodge podge of information, much of it links to quirky national stories he finds amusing, but his best posts continue to be those where he weighs in on local or state issues.

The Journal Gazette just added a new blog by Michael Rothstein, Fiesta Forum, where he files reports from Arizona about the lead-up to the Fiesta Bowl and the game itself, which pits Notre Dame against Ohio State. Rothstein has already added photos and audio of players and coaches in the last few days.

That's in addition to the four blogs tracking the JG staffers attempting to lose weight, Justin Cohn's Ice Chips blog about the Komets, and Tracy Warner.net, the first newspaper-sanctioned blog in Fort Wayne.