Here are two more posts I thought were extremely helpful, at least to a newbie:

http://thepointstraveler.com/masteri...tention-bonus/

http://first2board.com/pointssummary...nnect/#respond

Again, they were clear, offered info I found useful and new, and were not cluttered with affiliate links. I think that The Points Summary could be even better if one did not need to scroll down so far to actually see some text - right now we get a lot of white space around the blog's title, and an awfully large font for the post's title, which combine to mean that the reader scrolls a lot to get to the post itself. But perhaps the re-design Very Good Points mentioned will soon be in play here.