This format really works, but I'm still looking for ways to stumble across blogs that are community oriented enough so that I can make friends

enter into google search bar: site:blogger.com

can put a key word in front of it like "lesbian"

What's really awesome is the reading list feature on blogger. You can post any url in there I think and organize who you read online from that dashboard or control pannel. I hate having to rely on google bookmarks and hopefully I won't turn my reading list into google bookmarks by having too many to surf between