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Almost missed it this year, were it not for the nice mention by Duncan Riley of Inquisitr in his Blog Day 2008 list.

Blog Day is a meme that seeks to introduce readers to other blogs that they wouldn’t otherwise run into.  Here are my 5 non-China related blogs for Blog Day:

1. Les Explorers - Les Explorers is authored by Claude Benard (on Twitter) who covers the world of travel technology and new trends in travel.  Claude is based in Marseilles, France, but his coverage on Les Explorers is truly global!
2. SheGeeks - The tagline is “Feeding your Social Media and Web Addictions” and that just about describes SheGeeks.  Author Corvida (on Twitter, FriendFeed) is already well known within the social media blogger scene (and now writes for ReadWriteWeb) but probably still not that well known among CNReviews readers.
3. What A Trip - Travel blogger Nancy Brown (on Twitter) is doing some great travel blogging and travel writing at the What A Trip blog.  Her focus is Northern California but she covers Africa to Vanuatu on her blog!  She’s been very supportive my company UpTake’s efforts to provide meta-search for hotels, things-to-do, and other travel products.
4. wardrobe 911 - Are you fashion challenged?  Image consultant Teresa Morisco (on Twitter) has a blog that helps people, mostly women, “solve life’s fashion emergencies.” Disclosure: I have no equity interest in wardrobe 911 but I have paid Teresa to clean out my wardrobe and go shopping with me! Can’t tell? Imagine what I looked like before!
5. Art Observed - We recently wrote about the artwork at the new Beijing US Embassy and was linked to from Art Observed.  I don’t know the bloggers but checked out the blog and saw an inviting glimpse of the contemporary art world that I seldom see.  I hope to see more on my upcoming trip to New York.

Well there you have it.  You can find out more about the Blog Day meme here. (Technorati tag: BlogDay2008)