Finding blogs?

I find that pearl-growing is the best technique in this particular case -- find one blog that fits your criteria, then investigate its blogroll. There isn't a search engine that classifies blogs by theme (I hate to use "subject," as that's too limiting for a lot of blogs).

Sometimes you'll find a word coinage that will help in a search, something like "biblioblogosphere" for library blogs. In your specific case, I think "elderblogs" may be the term you want. Googling that turned up this Washington Post article that may be a good starting place for you.

I'd second Dorothea's suggestion of "pearl growing," but of course that is hard when you are starting from zero.

Technorati encourages bloggers to register their blogs with that site and assign categories for the entire blog (not just tags for individual blog posts, which is what Technorati is most associated with).

In this case, "elderblog" wasn't so helpful, so I tried "aging": http://technorati.com/blogs/aging

I don't know that this is a "great" way to find relevant blogs, but it is something. With any luck you can find a few grains of sand there to start with the pearl growing.

Another tool is LisZen though you are going to run into a similar problem as Technorati, searching content and not subject.

Shireen Deboo, Librarian

South Seattle Community College

This is the new challenge for us librarians: if there is great blog content, how do we find it, organize it and share it? I want to add good blogs to my "subject guides/weblinks" for students, but i need to find them first. I just discovered technorati this month, but some of these comments have already pointed out its limitations. This is probably a great forum for learning about other sources...

Thanks so much for all these great suggestions. I know a lot more now than I did Friday! And I'm looking forward to learning about social bookmarking.