Should you really Digg it?

1. Zach Inglis February 5, 2006 at 2:42am

   I see people upset about this a lot.

   I personally have a del.icio.us url and a digg url. It’d be great if someone thinks my posts should be seen by everyone. It’s huge to have a post dugg by loads of people, validation of your efforts.

   BUT… blog readers are generally lazy and more often than not, only lurk.
   Countering my own argument, you’ll get recognition when you get it.

   But your let something so little be so annoying.
2. Ian Forrester February 5, 2006 at 3:59pm

   I don’t know Ben. In the same way you got Email this in your RSS feeds, its not that removed from having add to del.icio.us or digg this too.
3. Ben February 5, 2006 at 4:21pm

   I don’t know Ben. In the same way you got Email this in your RSS feeds, its not that removed from having add to del.icio.us or digg this too.

   Hmmm you make an interesting point Ian.

   My thought on that has always been that email is a private one-to-one reccomendation. A ‘Digg It’ link is about getting wide-spread publicity.

   But actually my argument doesn’t stand up enough, so I’ve decided to remove the ‘email it’ link.
4. James B February 5, 2006 at 10:10pm

   blogging facilitates the most unpleasant aspect of all our characters… our ego.
5. Ben February 5, 2006 at 11:13pm

   That you for being so… subtle, James.
6. Paul Mison February 10, 2006 at 1:40pm

   Once upon a time sites had “Don’t forget to bookmark this page!” or “Make this your homepage” links. I remember not being impressed by them then, either; if you didn’t know how to set a page as your homepage you should figure it out. Similarly, if you want to Digg it! then you’re probably smart enough to have installed a bookmarklet.

   The interesting thing, I suppose, is how geeks that would have joined with me in sneering at the ‘99 dotcom idiocy of assuming being a homepage was a good thing will now pimp their site for a day’s surge in traffic. Sad really.

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