Maybe it's because I'm spending more time in the 'sell! buy! sell! buy!' space. It certainly adds up if that's the case.

Or maybe there are simply too many people in the blogging game.

Or maybe I'm simply misaligned. Maybe I'm just a little fatigued after spending weeks in the trenches.

But here's how it looks to me. It looks like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of making money out of the sweetest skill we were given at birth to share with everyone else. The skill of communication.

I remember where it all began, before the Millennium Bug threatened to lick all the world's data away with its arsenic-laden tongue. Still overjoyed to have the magic of the wonderful web under their perspiring palms, computer people would dig in, learn the ropes and then share them with others. In magazines. On IRC. Via ICQ.

Sharing was fun. The internet was a great platform on which to build friendships and forge alliances. We played the same game but we fixed each other up with shared passions and diverse skillsets.

Something clicked, somewhere, and suddenly a breed of 'entrepreneurs' decided that sharing wasn't enough. Nor was being entrepreneurial, in respect to creating new services and products.

So this beautiful symphony of writers, mentors and apprentices became disenfranchised as one camp went to win, the other went to learn.

And the tricksy thing is that with the profusion of both have-to-gives with the nearly-not-quites is you never truly know whether the hard-earned you're parting with is going to make a difference to your life, or just their bottom line.

I've always said 2010 is, for me, the year of Giving Back. Maybe that's why I view through narrowed eyes everyone's addition to profiting by lucre through capitalising on their blogging skills.

I adore the concept of society. I'm endowed by this great notion that civilisation can return to the world if we all make efforts to help each other just a little more this year.

So I won't be selling any products at DaveThackeray.com. I'll be helping, instead.

If you need me, I'll be around!