Picking up Nickles

the blogs i track are

Bankaholic.com - Bank Rates
My Money Blog - PF Blog

Latest edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance is up
at No Credit Needed
Carnival of Personal Finance 65 at No Credit Needed

not really considered a blog, but clark howard has a decent personal finance website with loads of information.

www.clarkhoward.com

Interesting -

This topic was begun over a year ago, by rhydewithdis on Nov 13, 2005. As of today at 5:41 pm ET, there were some 15634 views of this topic, with 87 posts by FW members and refreshing of the quick links. And, yet, no green for the OP for their initiative in trying to create a useful reference for financial - type blogs. Maybe, there were some greens in the past that got wiped away, somehow, but there is zero now. Some contributors have gotten green, but not the OP.

For some casual FW readers perhaps unfamiliar with Finance topics, this lack of green might be taken as a worthless topic, and not warrant further clicks. Some might have used filters to eliminate the lowly 'little or no green' finance topics.

I find it convenient that so many finance related blogs are collected in one place, and that posters (Thank You KnickFanRA) are still contributing.

The more FW readers that 'notice' this topic, I believe the more we will get posters with new blog discoveries.

So although I'm not in favor of being greedy, (in rhydewithdis' self description - hopefully just artful for the FW audience), I am giving some Green for the OP for his initiative, back there on the original OP posting in Nov 2005.

Perhaps, some other FW readers might feel similarly.

Cheers!

1ofushere said:Interesting -

This topic was begun over a year ago, by rhydewithdis on Nov 13, 2005. As of today at 5:41 pm ET, there were some 15634 views of this topic, with 87 posts by FW members and refreshing of the quick links. And, yet, no green for the OP for their initiative in trying to create a useful reference for financial - type blogs. Maybe, there were some greens in the past that got wiped away, somehow, but there is zero now. Some contributors have gotten green, but not the OP.

For some casual FW readers perhaps unfamiliar with Finance topics, this lack of green might be taken as a worthless topic, and not warrant further clicks. Some might have used filters to eliminate the lowly 'little or no green' finance topics.

I find it convenient that so many finance related blogs are collected in one place, and that posters (Thank You KnickFanRA) are still contributing.

The more FW readers that 'notice' this topic, I believe the more we will get posters with new blog discoveries.

So although I'm not in favor of being greedy, (in rhydewithdis' self description - hopefully just artful for the FW audience), I am giving some Green for the OP for his initiative, back there on the original OP posting in Nov 2005.

Perhaps, some other FW readers might feel similarly.

Cheers!

A few weeks ago, corporate FW made some updates to the forums and all prior ratings were lost. In all likelihood, this was very green before.

The last post is a duplicate (same web site) of the post of bankaholic.com made on Aug/24/2006.

dealsaver said:JayWoo55 said:Best CD Rates Banking Blog

aka Bankaholic.com as 1ofushere points out.

Some quick thoughts on this site.

1. Updated too infrequently for a rate tracking blog.
2. Posts about Millenium Bank offering the best cd rate without mentioning the lack of FDIC insurance.
3. Weak rates. You could have filled a blog with all the 6% rates that were offered this summer. Hardly any were mentioned on this blog.

Bottom line. Skip it.

No FDIC insurance??? That's ridiculous...

As for bank rate information blog sites, my vote goes to http://bankdeals.blogspot.com/

I'm a personal finance blogger, so I follow all these other blogs pretty closely, and bankdeals usually is on point with new offerings no matter how local or national the bank is.

Does anyone else find it slightly distracting that 80% of these blogs are just littered with advertisements and affiliate announcements? The designs on some of these sites are downright ugly. Anyone want to isolate some sites that don't look gross and ugly?

I haven't had time to look through them all, but these are the ones that seem even borderline un-chaotic. Any others ones that aren't eyesores would be appreciated.

Ane's Home
A Financial Revolution
All Things Financial
Free Money Finance

mrmakochan, that's definitely a good point (re: rss feeds). I just wish some of the sites would be designed a little better. It's sometimes hard to find interesting things because everything is buried behind ads and such.

Looking for opinions here: Which type of blogs do you generally like more (it obviously varies), the ones with very short and general posts every day or every other day or the long, extensive posts every week or 2?