BlogNetNews Colorado is one of 21 states for which BlogNetNews aggregates local blogs.

Finding political bloggers for any particular state or region can be as difficult as finding a hyperlocal placeblogger. Fortunately there's an aggregator to help find local pundits and what they're talking about.

BlogNetNews.com (BNN), a new aggregator sporting the tagline "The Blogophere's Front Page," launched last July with a fairly robust list of Virginia-base political bloggers. Since then, it's grown to include local political blogs in 21 states -- which you can find under the "select a section" pulldown menu at the top of the site's right sidebar. BNN also lists top national blogs on environmental and economic issues, parenting, automobiles, motorsports, and NCAA football.

All political blogs on the site are grouped by political viewpoint (liberal or conservative) as well as by region within a state. So if you're interested in finding a conservative political blogger in Northern Virginia (referred to as NoVa) BNN can help.

BNN's developer and editor Dave Mastio eschews automated aggregators in favor of hands-on blog scouting. Currently, his development efforts focus on states with "large, vibrant blogging communities." Once he finds local pundits, he gathers them up, then explores their blogroll to find other local connections.

"Once we build the [state or subject] site," Mastio commented via e-mail, "I send an e-mail out to all the bloggers I've aggregated so they know what's going on. I've yet to have someone say they don't want to be part of it." BNN also looks at blogs submitted by email and blogs that link to BNN.

Mastio said about which bloggers BNN selects: "We're not trying to give you everything that is being said about Virginia or parenting. We're trying to give you a snapshot of what the best bloggers in an area are saying, what news they're pointing to, where their readers are all riled up and how the bloggers are interacting with each other."

To guide readers, BNN provides sidebar links to the "hottest conversations" of the day, the "most linked" blogs, and the "most active" blogs. So the more active a blog and its community, the higher its rank on BNN.

Mastio says that by dynamically building BNN's front page based on what's going on at the aggregated blogs (not by outside measures of the blog's popularity) he is building the region's front page based on "the priorities and values of that blog community."

BNN displays only partial feeds, preferring to send traffic back to the blogs it aggregates.