The Google Update? or Penalty

I have been bragging all over some of my blogs that the new Google PR update, the very first this year is actually not an update but instead, a new burst of penalty continued from the last update that happened. Google seems looking forward to let webmasters and bloggers know that blogs are very important in the web and this cannot go without giving a little more emphasis and that this cannot pass on without Google doing things to let webmasters know about it.

I guess Google's way of letting us know about this (although we already know about it all along) is to put penalties and impose them to bloggers who are breaking the simple and basic rule of linking which is " no paid links".