directionfirst
Worth recommending broadly to anyone who reads on the topic, and a look at directionfirst only confirms that, the rare combination of accessibility and depth in this site makes it suitable for both newcomers and people who already know the area which is hard to pull off in any blog format today and rarely managed.
discoverworld
Felt the writer respected me as a reader without making a show of doing so, and a look at discoverworld continued that quiet respect, this is the kind of small but meaningful detail that separates the sites I bookmark from the ones I close after a single skim and never return to again no matter how interesting the headline.