I am the Sybil of Van Nuys blogging

Not counting all the other blogs to which I contribute, I am currently splitting up my Van Nuys and general-interest content among three separate blogs: the Daily News' Come on Feel the Nuys, the new ValleyNews.com's Van Nuys With the Fringe on Top and my Blogger site 2,000 Days in the Valley.

If you haven't been to the new ValleyNews.com site, I encourage you to take a look at what other people in your community are writing. Semantically, it's divided between stories, blogs and events, and if you're trying to publicize just about anything, you can do it here for free. If you have other aspirations, such as writing about the news in your neighborhood, or even your own home, this is a great place to do it.

The ValleyNews.com software is pretty slick. The only thing I had to do was download the "active X" program when prompted, and I am now able to upload photos (no other software needed -- the site takes care of sizing the photos). And in Rich Text mode, you can make links and do bold and italic formatting without needing to code the HTML.

One thing the site should be offering, as it ramps up for an official Aug. 21 launch, is a whole lot of eyeballs to read whatever it is you want to write. It's like the hometown newspapers in small communities that we in Los Angeles have pretty much never known. (Hey, when I was a kid in the '70s and '80s, you had to have a through-and-through gunshot wound to make it into the L.A. Times Metro section if you lived in the Valley... but I digress.)

And then there's ValleyNews.com's "secret weapon," which editor Annie Hundley reveals in her ValleyNews.com blog:

... starting on Oct. 5, we'll start publishing the best of what you post in seven print editions - the four San Fernando Valley editions will continue (SE, SW, NE, NW) and we'll add a Burbank and Glendale edition, a Santa Clarita Valley edition and an Antelope Valley edition.

How many other sites can do that?