Blogging – A web 2.0 term created from the words WeB LOG.

It’s supposed to be a free-formed non-conventional way of expressing one’s views, thoughts and feelings. A great way to communicate and share without the hassles of an outside entity or governing body breathing down your throat about doing it their way or following their conformities.

Instead it’s turning into a free-for-all war zone of money hungry predators with slick promotional skills and empty promised bargaining shticks that do their best to pump-up-the-volume of signal-to-noise ratios. These promoters snake-oil sales persons do a great job at hood-winking us lowly bloggers into thinking we’ve won some sort of prize when it reality we’re filling their pockets at our expense.

Yet, another Wellsphere chameleon-like scam. Yes, that baseball bat like blow suffered by many fellow med-bloggers this past spring that I was lucky enough to avoid. Well not this time.

Yep. I’m guilty. They got me.

Seems that my ‘100 Blog Posts You Should Read Before Going to Nursing School’ is nothing more than a click-bank link-baiting scam apparently. Something that other bloggers have learned about just as I did – the hard way.

I want to thank Jacqueline for kindly pointing this out to me:

I like everyone else was flattered to be part of a ‘list’. I found it odd that no one ever contacted me in regards to being included. I also found it odd to never getting a link or a trackback credit? I guess my gut was trying to tell me something.

If any of this sounds familiar… Hell.. if any of this doesn’t sound familiar, but sounds interesting, please feel free to visit the tweet Jacqueline sent and view her 2 blog posts for yourself.

For future reference I will be very, very careful about who and what recognizes my blog.

That’s all I have to say about that.