Kiplinger's Magazine Names 16 Must-Read Financial Blog Sites

Is anyone else just flummoxed by this list? Come on, a recap of an FT column, two Jim Cramer-based blogs, and three aggregators make up six of the sixteen must reads?

Note to Kiplingers, I subscribe to FT and I can watch Mad Money on TV, and I have a blogroll. That rules out over a third of the list.

Meanwhile, the Buffett blog updates once a month or less, whether it needs it or not.

Fundalarm is a neat site, but is it a blog?

Congrats to the other half of the list!

No disrepect to any of the blogs or No DooDah's but the once a month whether they need it or not is great humor. :d

Agree. This list is a joke.

The fact that it has Cramer-based blogs -- and doesn't have Bill Cara should be consideded an insult to the intelligence the financial blogging community.

I just checked the first one (the Buffet Blog) and saw the last post was dated July 23, 2006!?. This is a must-read? I follow about half of these blogs but the list has zero credibility if it includes stuff like that.

Good points everybody. I was also surprised that Barry Ritholtz wasn't on the list. It just goes to show what I always say about any of these "best of" lists -- they're just one person's opinion. Somebody else could come up with a totally different list. Howard had a good post about these best blogs lists too...

While there's always gonna be some level of arbitrary-ness, I think the lowest common denominator of a "must read" should include at least two points.

Original content, which means it's not a regurgitator or aggregator (do aggregators regurgitate?)

Updates are regular and frequent, at least twice a week and never missing a week, much less two f#$%&* months.

I think there are some good people on that list, but if someone was to put me on a list with two Cramers Clones, three aggregators, one of which is just a gd list of blogs, a column from a furrin newspaper, and a Buffett-watcher that updates less often than BRK-A has SEC filings, I would feel insulted.

But I would still be happy for the increase in traffic.

:d

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Bill,

One good thing about the article is that it states that there are many more good blogs than the ones they listed. They incuded those aggregators so people could have a starting point for discovering blogs. They also said to check the blogrolls on the blogs.

As for traffic, when my site has been mentioned in the mainstream media, espcially print magazines which don't post their articles or post the articles without actual links in them, I barely noticed a trickle in additional traffic. The one exception was Barron's, which put their article online with an actual link. (Imagine that, links on the web!)

I have no doubt that these sites will get way more traffic from Kirk's posting of the list than they'll get from actual Kiplinger's readers.

They should have had Tradermike , Maoxian and Move the Markets blogs in there. At least in my opinion.......... keep up the good work Mike. Maybe I'll catch you on your next "tour".

Thanks Quentin but I wouldn't hold my breath for Kiplinger's and most of the mainstream media to point their readers to (gasp) active traders. [-x (And especially not ones that use Technical Analysis.) Nevermind that the process of investing is exactly the same and that investors could learn a lot from traders about money and risk management...

Thanks, Quentin! I'm glad to hear you enjoy the MtM. And, really, I'm more honored to see readers like you mention me in the same sentence with Mike and the Chairman, than I would be to show up in some magazine list.

TraderMike shoulda definitely made this list. As odd as the entire list is, I did get a kick out of reading about Cramer vs Leonard, the stock-picking monkey on cramerwatch.org! :d