Looking for new blogs to read

I tried an experiment last night. I have my favourite blogs that I read, some by friends and some I've collected over the last few years, but there's this whole world of blogs out there that I feel guilty for not knowing more about. I teach writing, and since some of my students write blogs, I need to know more.

So I spent half an hour clicking "Next Blog" at the top of blog pages, and here's what I learned.

• Spammers have blogs that outwit whatever randomization algorithms Blogger has attached to the "Next Blog" function.
  
• The interweb displays text in waaaaay more languages than I thought it did, and there are more non-Roman alphabetic systems than I was aware of. This in no way helps my understanding of other cultures.
• There's vastly less teen angst in blogs than I thought -- maybe it's off in places like Facebook now? -- except among girls in English-speaking Asian countries.
• Did I mention spammers' blogs yet? And their pop-ups?
  
• I'm embarrassed by my extraordinarily low tolerance for people who don't rapidly jump off the screen at me as Smart or Interesting or Literate.
• I would rather watch Stephen Fry host QI on alloftv.net than browse through random blogs. You should, like, totally watch it.
• I'd rather spend time with an empty blog that reads well than an issue-filled or opinionated lump. Same criteria as for dinner guests.
  

I added a couple of blogs to my reading list, but ... man, I don't feel more comfortable in the world today than I did yesterday.