Help a mother out

I was talking to my Mom earlier this evening and she told me, rather loudly, that she was running out of blogs to read. In fact, she said that she needed me and dooce to post more often because she just didn't know where else to turn.

Well, readers, I kindly mentioned to my Mom that she should hit up some of the links in my sidebar for some quality reading material. But it got me thinking...What blogs should my Mom be reading? And where can she find them?

There are just so many out there and the Internet can be a scary and overwhelming place (and boring, too). It's not like going to a library where you can judge books by covers and make a selection by browsing the shelves. Like the world of books, in the world of blogs things are hit and miss. For every great blog there are probably fifty horrible ones. Heck, you might even think this blog right here is horrible! In which case, I bid you farewell.

I choose blogs based on links on the blogs that I already read. I'm a big fan of clicking on links and letting the Blogger that I already read and love lead me to things that they read and love and so on. Occasionally I will take a look at recommended links that pop up on my Google Reader. To me it's a bit of a connect-the-dots process. And it can sometimes become quite overwhelming.

How do you find good blogs?

Do you have a search strategy?

Where should my Mom start looking?

And am I missing out on anything?