The company you keep

While I'd still like to try a new open source model for compliance training sometime, I am going to table the idea of trying an online course in s_____ h_________ training for the present.

I find I'm put off by all the competition -- afraid of the magnitude of it, but also dismayed by the character of it. Google always provides clues to commercial oversaturation. When I blog about h_________ training the contextual ads for training and for l__ firms and even loans are eagerly and persistently present, can't seem to shake them quick enough, even with masked content. And when I research the topic in search, the results are SEO-gamed to within an inch of my propriety. Just too much noise of a type I'm not in the temper to battle or to be associated with just now.

It makes me think that online compliance training in general may be taking on a slimy pall as a consequence of the marketing practices of its purveyors, in the same way that the abundance of affiliate programs and splogs have sullied the rep of online universities.

A rotten shame. We gotta clean up this town.