Interested in the commentary of local New York bloggers -- but don't have the time or patience to sift through hundreds, if not thousands, of blogs to find a local New Yorker writing on a specific topic? Search Engine Watch points to the launch of a new local search function for Blogdigger, a blog search engine:

"Blogdigger local attempts to locate individual bloggers writing from specific U.S. cities or zip codes. This makes it easier to locate someone writing about beer in Boston or soccer in San Francisco than it would be using a general purpose search engine, or even another blog search service like Daypop or Feedster."