Re: In your Copious Free Time (tm), some blogs to check out

[William_Parker@nps.gov]

evogeek@gmail.com wrote:

>>I have received a few e-mails from similar sites telling me that I made
it
onto some top 50 list or another. It's basically linkbait - they create a
list, tell you you're on it, and expect you to send your traffic their way
when you post a link saying "See? My blog is teh awesum." It's just a
devious way to get bloggers to send over their readers. (Every single one
of
these lists I have seen has been something like onlinecolleges.org or
onlineacademics.org or something like that.)<<

Yeah.  I've avoided posting links to these sites on my blog for just that
reason.  I was wondering about making an exception this time and pointing
out the blogs that are non-scientific, but really don't want to send them
the traffic.



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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
<tholtz@umd.edu>wrote:

> Hmmm... I wonder how it was composed?


I have received a few e-mails from similar sites telling me that I made it
onto some top 50 list or another. It's basically linkbait - they create a
list, tell you you're on it, and expect you to send your traffic their way
when you post a link saying "See? My blog is teh awesum." It's just a
devious way to get bloggers to send over their readers. (Every single one
of
these lists I have seen has been something like onlinecolleges.org or
onlineacademics.org or something like that.)

All the best,

Brian

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