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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1944291, member: 19065"]A lot of so-called, <i>blogs</i> are written with a commercial angle to them so while I agree with some of those listed above, the ones like MintNewsBlog and CoinUpdate or Coin Week, are also e-newsletters with many subscription based readers. Their <i>reports</i> or <i>updates</i> tend to direct people to follow whatever trend they know people are reading/curious about buying something anyway and capitalize on directing readers to sales on eBay, the US Mint's online catalog or other ways to buy in major auctions. Heritage, Stacks and others write some decent things too, but they want you to explore and buy from them so I don't consider those blogs but incentives for people to shop. The Numismatic publishers also do this with Numismaster, CoinWorld and others offering tidbits of stories hoping to get you clicking on an advertisers link or paying for a subscription.</p><p><br /></p><p>For blogs, I prefer an individual's touch, their personal insight, rather than daily/weekly news summaries or round ups, or superficial publication articles. Of course responding to what's going on is fine. I just prefer those blogs that have an experienced professionals biased insights and willingness to share stories about issues and coins that others aren't talking about because it doesn't equate to traffic getting hits and earning ad revenue. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Doug Winters' has one of the best educational blogs on his site that doesn't hit you over the head to shop on his site, though I'm sure the folks running the show would hope you'll buy or sell something to them:</p><p><a href="http://raregoldcoins.com/market-blog" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://raregoldcoins.com/market-blog" rel="nofollow">http://raregoldcoins.com/market-blog</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one goes a little quite but I have liked what I've read on it:</p><p><a href="http://www.kevinjflynn.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kevinjflynn.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kevinjflynn.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When Michael Marotta writes about coins on his blog its always very well presented:</p><p><a href="http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.jp/2014/06/the-charm-of-circulated-silver.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.jp/2014/06/the-charm-of-circulated-silver.html" rel="nofollow">necessaryfacts.blogspot.jp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Coin Show - CoinTalk members original "radio" (pod cast) is/was a nice blog.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are remarkably few that come to mind that aren't run by auction houses or dealers of some sort. Perhaps because forum boards are quite prevalent and where many go to trade news and discuss.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm looking forward to reading the list as it develops.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1944291, member: 19065"]A lot of so-called, [I]blogs[/I] are written with a commercial angle to them so while I agree with some of those listed above, the ones like MintNewsBlog and CoinUpdate or Coin Week, are also e-newsletters with many subscription based readers. Their [I]reports[/I] or [I]updates[/I] tend to direct people to follow whatever trend they know people are reading/curious about buying something anyway and capitalize on directing readers to sales on eBay, the US Mint's online catalog or other ways to buy in major auctions. Heritage, Stacks and others write some decent things too, but they want you to explore and buy from them so I don't consider those blogs but incentives for people to shop. The Numismatic publishers also do this with Numismaster, CoinWorld and others offering tidbits of stories hoping to get you clicking on an advertisers link or paying for a subscription. For blogs, I prefer an individual's touch, their personal insight, rather than daily/weekly news summaries or round ups, or superficial publication articles. Of course responding to what's going on is fine. I just prefer those blogs that have an experienced professionals biased insights and willingness to share stories about issues and coins that others aren't talking about because it doesn't equate to traffic getting hits and earning ad revenue. Doug Winters' has one of the best educational blogs on his site that doesn't hit you over the head to shop on his site, though I'm sure the folks running the show would hope you'll buy or sell something to them: [url]http://raregoldcoins.com/market-blog[/url] This one goes a little quite but I have liked what I've read on it: [url]http://www.kevinjflynn.com/[/url] When Michael Marotta writes about coins on his blog its always very well presented: [URL='http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.jp/2014/06/the-charm-of-circulated-silver.html']necessaryfacts.blogspot.jp[/URL] The Coin Show - CoinTalk members original "radio" (pod cast) is/was a nice blog. There are remarkably few that come to mind that aren't run by auction houses or dealers of some sort. Perhaps because forum boards are quite prevalent and where many go to trade news and discuss. I'm looking forward to reading the list as it develops.[/QUOTE]
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