The past few days I became involved in an e-mail thread with an elementary school teacher.

The teacher contacted me via e-mail because he was appalled with a Marvel comic book that was distributed to students, and claimed that we had someting to do with it.

He said that the comic book contained some very questionable content that he felt was not suitable to children. I explained that we don't have anything to do with comic books. We don't publish them, or contribute to them, or partner with them, or anything.

He replied back that we had a large advertisement on the back page of this comic book.

I replied back that we never bought advertising on any comic book. I asked him to verify that the ad has our company name on it, "Clear Digital Media, Inc.".

He responded back that it did not. It was actually an ad for Bubblicious bubble gum. He said that he had searched for "bubblicious" on Google, and found their website and contacted them to complain. Somehow, he got me.

The only thing I can think of is that last January we published an article on Junk Food Blog, one of our websites, about a new product called, "Bubblicious Bursts". On that site, we mostly write about new candies and snack foods. What I think happened is that this teacher found our article, and though he found Bubblicious' corporate website.

If that's the case, it's not anything unfamiliar. We are often contacted by small stores wanting to purchase products from us. We tell them that we don't sell or produce these products. We simply publish product announcements.

It goes to show that there are still a lot of people who don't spend much time online, and don't even know what blogs are.