February 13th, 2009 
joel Editors Note: Danny Lucas is a extensive consumer of the new media, and a prolific commenter on blogs around Erie and beyond. Today in a guest post here on The Press and Tower, Danny sounds a warning call about the vulnerabilities in the wild, wild west world of the web. It’s best we listen.
Let’s pretend you write a blog. You enjoy the topic, post, and soon draw comments. To disperse online and draw a wider audience, you employ newer technology and actually release your blog via an RSS Feed.
Locally, Erie Blogs and Erie PA Today both provide an aggregator service to disperse your Erie blog to a wider audience faster. This is a plus for the blogger and the community at large.
But in the healthcare industry, a new trend has set in that calls into question online ethics. A group contacted health care writers and offered them an award as the best writer on a given topic in health care. It could be a doctor, a patient, a company such as pharmacy, whatever.
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