Chocolate Grey, the deanguelo Chronicles: Electic and fascinating takes on news, entertainment, tech and more.
Yan's Glutter: A Hong Kong digerati's opinion journal.
Orato: New site for first person (news) stories--selected by editors and paid to be published (!)
The ColumbiaRecord.com: The State (Columbia, SC) launches community publishing web only site with local experts as bloggers. iUpload's the platform.

AOL Journals launches a Katrina photoblog(Via MagicSmoke)
Eyes on Katrina: See the power of hyperlocal citizen journalism on this informative blog from the SunHerald.