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Digg Me! Oh, Please, Please, Please!
November 30th, 2007 in Web Design Culture
by: Matthew Griffin
Digg is a great concept. In my opinion, it has made the single greatest contribution to the awareness of the difference between traditional media and the web. Because of Digg, we are now able to comment and vote on just about everything.
For these things, Digg, I thank you. You have made the task of spreading the good news of the web much easier. Now, all due credit having been given, I would like to point to a little mess Digg has created.
Digg-mania has caused my favorite blogs to fill up with funny little icons. I probably can't tell you what half of these icons are. Digg has made blogging kind of like playing the lottery. If all I have is one little "Digg it!" icon at the bottom of my post, it's like buying only one lottery ticket. I might as well put icons for every social bookmarking site and Digg wannabe out there.
I'm not buying it and you shouldn't either! Successful blogging is about consistency, content, and involvement. We all know what happens to most people who with the lottery. They spend all their money as fast as they can landing them right back where they started. It's the same with Digg and Del.icio.us and all the others. They may get you a reader rush but they won't make your blog successful.
Help your readers out and try just two or three Digg-like links. Or if you must have them all, at least get creative with how you display them. The mess you create with all those icons just isn't worth it. It's time to clean up Digg's mess.
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