Update: I followed this blog for about ten days, tried to post in it, but found myself getting angry being around the other angry people commenting and posting. On other blogs, most people are grateful we are seeing the world at prices we can afford with the information so freely shared by many. These readers are complaining because they can’t get more or somebody else is “in on the deal” because a blogger helped spread the word. I found out anger is contageous and I gotta stay away from it. I learned my lesson the hard way.

Our travel niche space has reached a new height, depth, dimension, absurdity… You pick the adjective. There are plenty flying around these days.

George Papadopoulos, aka gpapadop, has created the blog titled: TravelBloggerBuzz as his outlet to relieve the frustration caused by us bloggers killing his deals.

I believe  George’s has the right to inform all of us of his opinion on our current posts (heck, he took me off at the knees in his first post just two days), and it indeed gives the “angries” a place to bitch and moan about the disservice we bloggers are all committing by talking about the current deals that are so readily available on the public forum called Flyertalk. Can you imagine the audacity of running affiliate ads for credit cards that support the deals found on the publicly available information found on Flyertalk? Who do we think we are summarizing publicly available information and offering links to said mentioned deals on our blogs? I mean, don’t we realize we are living in the new America where commercial exploitation is now a forbidden form of communication? Damn those television commercials anyway. They set the precedent. Damn them!

So my question is, have we finally reached the point of saturation with the number of travel blogs hawking travel deals? Will the next move be a new category of blogs, that complain about blogs? And more importantly, when will the second generation of the complaining blogs get affiliate links so they can monetize the summarizing of publicly available information of others complaining about blogs, and can read about the complaints by the complainers?

People… We are talking about points and miles. That is all it is; points and miles. Good luck, George. Welcome to the game. You can keep the angry ones.

Footnote: I’m so glad I sold my blog to Flyertalk, so when the “angries” complain and the complainers begin to complain about the complaining blogs, my blog will be complained about and, at the same time, owned by the people where you originally all got the information from to complain about? In fact, George is already starting because we are trying out several new writers on the blog that he didn’t like. And I support his right to complain. I just won’t be a visitor after my first week visiting the blog. Everybody is so angry. I need to spend my time around grateful people.

And what cracks me up… George gets most of his material from posts from… You guessed it: Flyertalk

Did I get that right?

Deal of the Day

For today’s Deal of the Day TopCashback is donating $50 cash (to be deposited to your TopCashback.com account) for the best overall travel deal submitted. A great mileage run, mistake fare, partner promo, new card sign-up offer, or the special twist you figured out on a deal today. Add it to the comments section of this post (along with your First Name, Last Initial, and Airport Code) or this afternoon’s Deal of the Day post by TOMORROW at 11:59pm EDT to be eligible to win. That gives you two days to win!