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.

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.

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.