Marty,

You win the Most active thread communication Award for 2010!

Nice to see a Good mix of SowPubber's sharing Great information once again...

Just to add on to Margaret's ideas...

A few Excellent Local search engine related resources for Researching, Networking and Spying
on Endless other Local Blogs etc...

Creatively duplicate the Many Successful blog business models Simply by Adding a nice little “Twist” into a Fresh new idea...
http://www.placeblogger.com/
http://www.metblogs.com/
http://local.blogdigger.com/index.html
http://outside.in/
http://outside.in/cities

Phil