I'm actually very new to the blogging thing myself. Take a look at the Resources page on my website to see some traditional websites and blogs that I like.
Plus, two things not on my site are
http://www.bloggingmommies.com/ and
www.blogher.org
My thought is that the people who use this site would be most interested in NY moms blogs. And there are probably many of those. I think if you created a link where people could add their blogs it might build up over time.
As a separate issues. I had to look hard to find your response to me. It seems like there should be a main page to find a response to a post. Is there and I just am clueless? Or is there any way for there to be an alert to my yahoo email when someone has responded to me? Again, I'm not a computer expert at all. So maybe this isn't possible; I just don't know.