One of the things I have been up to lately is trying to find decent bloggers in areas nearby which we might like to visit, hoping to get some ideas and a tip or two. Nothing dramatic but what I thought would be a useful and seemingly obvious use of blogs. Any mother lodes in the ore I do find get listed right or plunked into the aggregatotron depending on the unwritten shifting criteria I use as a guide for most decision making. What has amazed me, however, is how few people actually write these things compared to all the Pajamistani hype. Then, when you do find a few based on location you often find they are crap or about knitting. Apparently blogs facilitate a need amongst knitters that rivals lonely sys admins.

Being a spawn [Ed.: say it like Gollum] off the fairly active PEI hub of blogging, I am perhaps naive about the extent of the hobby...perhaps being naive is a national Pajamistanian characteristic. So here is my question - are there any tips of the trade to find other writers you like? As no one spends any time rating the blogs on blog specific indexes, they tend to be a mile wide and three inches deep. Google, as usual, is fairly useless too as there is no quality control and the best blogger in, say, Oswego New York, may not appear at all or is ranked number 247 for "blog Oswego" seach string. 

Ideas?