I read coin desk and follow the bitcointalk threads about Alts and slacks of coins.is there any other effective ways to do proper research on new alt currencies. Any advice would be appreciated.
in order not to be confused too much this two would serve as your basis in order to follow the alts project being active with their slacks and keep asking question to dev is the best effective ways to know how this project will be moving forward, while seeing those interested people who keeps posting from their ann page here in the forum will allow you also to verify whether support from the community will help the project to succeed.