Oh, Fugoogle!
I know that I am a little late on this, but I was too scared to even check my PageRank. After all, I was only a 3 to begin with. Well, thanks to my affiliation with certain sites, Google has reduced my PR to a 0. Zero!. Nilch!
Now, I know that a lot has been written on the topic, but I feel obliged to say: screw you Google. See, while I understand the need to protect the integrity of your search results and PageRank system, I don’t understand why people whose blogs are not exploiting the use of text links are getting penalized. With all of your powers of control, can;t you devise a system where the little mom and pop blogs like mine are nut taking a hit? It’s like every tiem we find a way to earn a little extra money, we are smacked down by The Man. This sucks.