[Air-l] searching for genre-specific blogs

[Douglas Eyman]

Dear all,

A colleague of mine is interested in researching Asian-Americans' use of 
Asian imagery in blogs -- but she wants limited-circulation blogs rather 
than high-profile/high traffic ones. The question I bring to this group 
of people who are particularly smart about methodological issues 
regarding Internet research is this: are there methods/mechanisms/search 
engines that might help find such specific resources?

She has tried using Google (of course), and I have suggested using 
blogstreet to trace connections that might lead to the kinds of blogs 
she is interested, as well as searching via technorati (with which I've 
had fairly limited success in my own blog searching activities).

The trick, methodologically, is to find blogs that meet the criteria she 
is interested in -- in a way that might be considered representative of 
Asian-American blogs.

Any help or resources you can suggest would be very much appreciated, 
and I thank this community for all the interesting and useful things 
I've learned from this list in the past.

Douglas Eyman
Rhetoric and Writing,
Michigan State University