I can answer the "which method of finding feeds easiest" question by saying this: I really didn't like Topix.net. The homepage was cluttered and the feeds listed weren't interesting to me. I can see using the Google Blog Search to find blogs that don't really have to do with anything professional where as Technorati would help find more professional, established sources.
Topix.net wasn't so much confusing as... just cluttered. There was a lot going on in it. It was actually surprising that we were linked to it, I thought. I went to The Way Back Machine to see what it looked like in 2008:
As compared to what I saw today:
I like the older version better.
I looked through Google Blog Search and searched for Calvin and Hobbes (one of my favorite comic strips of all time) and found this: http://teachingwithcalvinandhobbes.blogspot.com/ , a blog dedicated to a book that does what it says (teaches with Calvin and Hobbes) and as much as I love that strip, I had never thought of using it as a teaching tool, but it makes almost immediate sense, like something I should have been doing all along.
Calvin and Hobbes is a great comic strip, after reading your post and went and searched for ways to teach English/Literary themes with comic strips--very interesting!
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