Some new L.A. blogs

PBS Channel 28 has soft-launched KCET Local with original web stories, video, reader comments, calendar items and blogs by author D.J. Waldie, KPCC reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, former LAT columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan and others.

And: Shana Ting Lipton emails that she has launched Hindi Hollywood to cover "all news Mumbai/Hollywood related updated daily Monday through Friday."

Plus: L.A. blogger Bob Patterson got bought out of his Mar Vista apartment and has hit the road for Australia, blogging all the way at Worldslaziestjournalist.com.