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Iconistan a new province on the blogsphere
Published by Esteban Glas on December 13th, 2006 | This post lacks all category except for: Blogs
Wired news article on how the “social” icons have found their way into blogs
These tiny icons encourage readers to discuss an article or blog post on the target site — thereby enriching the user experience — but they’re also crass tools of promotion. Publishers hope that a link on Digg or Newsvine will drive traffic back to the original story on their site — which is why bloggers add the buttons to their posts in the first place.
It’s funny seeing those icons reproduce as wild rabbits on a lot of blogs.
I guess I’ll have to start working on adding some of those myself. Nay… I don’t think I will…
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Krista
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