{"id":1044,"date":"2006-11-10T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/10\/buttons-buttons-which-blog-has-the-buttons\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T01:45:08","slug":"buttons-buttons-which-blog-has-the-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/buttons-buttons-which-blog-has-the-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttons, buttons, which blog has the buttons?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the profusion of little social-bookmarking buttons that I’ve been putting on the bottom of some of my more worthy posts seems to have drawn the ire <\/a>of the webcritics at Signal vs. Noise: <\/p>\n

\n

This focus on campaigning over content seems like a classic case of
\nmisplaced priorities. The reason posts wind up at Digg, Delicious, or
\nelsewhere isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t because the authors made it easier to vote for them
\n(it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already easy). A post winds up at these sites because people
\nrespond to its content and quality.<\/font><\/p>\n

So think twice before
\nbadgering readers with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vote for me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pleas. The hectoring is tiresome,
\nit results in extraneous visual noise, it makes your site look cheap,
\nand the benefits are dubious at best. Instead, focus on delivering great<\/strong> content. If you do, people will figure out how to spread the word just fine.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nInteresting take. However, reality does not work exactly like that – that this world is not a meritocracy would be evident to anyone sufficiently far removed from the cozy confines of grade-inflated academia, where every day consists of ego massages and shiny awards for showing up (all part of the soothing “self-esteem enhancement” push in the modern American educational system).  Here in Hollywood, we have a saying: it don’t matter how you got there. It just matters how you stay there. <\/p>\n

So if someone is hustling traffic for his site, more power to them.  I’m going to hustle too.  Those who do not hustle, who feel it’s all just “Beneath them, that’s for those poor souls who have to work<\/i> for a living…” Hey, fine. Whatever floats your boat.  Please take it easy. Sit back, sip a frosty cocktail and pat yourself on the back for being superior. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, some of the users that are out there working wrote back: <\/a><\/p>\n

Pete Ottery: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes, multitudes of these icons on every site everywhere
\ngets tired real quick \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but for us at news.com.au we decided to trial a
\nfew select ones at the bottom of articles (example<\/a>).
\nInformal number checking suggests there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about 10 times more stories
\nfrom news.com.au being posted on digg now since those buttons were
\nplaced there. (maybe 5 a week pre buttons, 50 a week immediately after
\nbuttons being placed.)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds pretty good to me.  While it is true that many users are quite technically savvy, the vast majority of people (read: the audience that you want to attract, should you actually want to make money) are not all that plugged in. So if you give them the option, if they want, to give your stuff a thumbs-up, well, isn’t that in keeping with the true spirit of the web?  Information wants to be free, after all… <\/p>\n

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