interesting blogs:

lady who reads the pennisula papers and comments on articles. Sounds boring, but isn't...
http://burningsquirrelreport.blogspot.com/

photoblog that hasn't been updated recently but the links to photographers are good: http://hchamp.typepad.com/bap/

got both of these from http://sf.backfence.com/local/linkslist.cfm?mycomm=PA&tid=15